Take a long drag of your Warm Mocha Mint Cigar - it might be the last you buy in the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the ban on flavored tobacco into law yesterday. But before you hyperventilate, read the fine print: the ban doesn’t include clove or menthol cigarettes or even flavored hookah.

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As the roller derby season winds down, interest in the sport has just sparked. The crowd at Saturday’s double-header game was chock full of newbies, tweens, and kids. You could just see images of Ellen Page in their young, innocent eyes. While the games weren’t nearly as violent as the ones in “Whip It,” the visiting team, Sockit Wenches, gave our gals a run for the money and went home with the prize.

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The Queens’ reign is over. As they chanted “We’re number four! We’re number four!” after the end of Saturday’s game (albeit channeling the film Whip It), the Brooklyn Bombshells celebrated their first victory of the season. Neither one of these teams made it to the championship, but hey, they still put on a hell of a game.

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Forgot to vote in today's primary runoff this morning? Umm. We did too. Well, you know, it was all windy and blustery and we were on the way to the subway and then...it was too late. But of course the polls remain open well past sundown and there are no more Jewish holidays, so really those excuses are getting weaker. The NYTimes is reporting that voter turnout out for the runoff is just a trickle. And since this vote will most likely determine who the next Comptroller (David Yassky or John Liu) and Public Advocate (Bill de Blasio or Mark Green) will be for the city, it's kinda important that you go and vote.

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Tell us what you think! What do you think the best "Hotel Experience" is? Have a favorite place to take a date? It's your chance to make your opinion count. Take the 2009 Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) Readers' Poll available here. 

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The love-hate-mainly-hate relationship between pedestrians and cars in this city plays out on corners and in cross-walks on a daily basis and it ain't exactly a fair fight. In all realness, a head-to-head battle between a person on the street and a car in NYC has the same expected outcome as my third-grade self and the sixth-grade bully that used to hustle me for my milk money (let's just say I grew up calcium deficient).  But tomorrow marks a little victory for the walking man, when he gets to flip his nemesis the proverbial finger and steal his parking spot.

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Over at the Times, there's a long, strange story about how—get this—men are now being adventurous with their hairstyles. Maybe it's because of Robert Pattinson or Simon LeBon or Malcolm Gladwell; everyone seems to have a different idea of what he wants his hair to look like!

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A Mister Softee truck driver was arrested yesterday for trying to score some elicit toppings for himself. After Kenneth Leiton parked his ice cream truck on a residential street on Long Island he was not greeted by children, but by police officers. Two plainclothes officers had seen Leiton make the deal and found him in possession of cocaine and marijuana. Maybe he’s been putting the drugs in the ice cream for years and that’s why everyone is literally “addicted” to Mister Softee. Quick, someone check Pinkberry.  

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From Brooklyn to Queens, from Staten Island to Manhattan, from the Bronx and beyond, New Yorkers are spreading the news that might launch New York City into the most exciting race for the mayor’s office of all time: According to People.com, Times Square’s famous Naked Cowboy is planning on running for mayor against incumbent Mayor Mike!

The Naked Cowboy, aka Robert Burck, is a 38-year-old guy from Ohio who has been playing his guitar and posing for pictures with tourists in NYC for 11 years, qualities that obviously qualify him to be mayor. "No one knows how to do more with less than yours truly, and that's the kind of thinking I plan on sharing with my fellow New Yorkers when you elect me,” he said.

Mr. Naked Cowboy (a slightly more official name to put on the ballot), who plans to announce his candidacy on Wednesday, is going to run a campaign with a platform that will concentrate on “innovation on tax breaks, tourism, gay marriage, transit and homeland security,” and "bringing transparency to a whole new level."  Tony Avella? Bill Thompson? Michael Bloomberg? These names are fading under the huge spotlight of THE NAKED COWBOY. Of course, he still has the crazed panache of Rev. Billy to deal with. New Yorkers, buckle your seat belts.

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Pitchfork says that Sufjan Stevens is planning to finally put out some new music. The BQE will be his first follow-up project to 2005's freaking awesome album, Illinoise.

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