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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So a guy wakes up in the morning, gets out of bed, and maybe brushes his teeth before going downstairs to make himself a cup of coffee. Sounds like a regular, uneventful morning—except for the fact that this guy happens to do his morning routine naked. Whatever, what you do in your own home is your own business, right? Apparently not in Springfield, VA, where the man in question was arrested because someone happened to see him through his window.

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What kind of a world do we live in where a man can't sit on his stoop with fake sticks of dynamite without getting arrested, especially when all said man wants to do is turn them into a piggy bank?

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Neighborhood warriors are flexing their muscles and voicing their frustrations with the influx of nightlife hotspots they see as pure nuisances. Recently several have successfully silenced their sleep competition and forced bars to change their hard-partying ways—do the Jane Hotel and Hotel Le Bleu ring any bells? But in the face of all this unneighborly hostility, one bar owner took a stand in a reversal of roles that has some residential neighbors of bar 1Oak on the wrong side of a $2 million lawsuit.

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Just in time for the Grateful Dead light show at the Empire State Building, the Justice Department has decided that it's uncool to harsh the mellows of people using marijuana for medical purposes.

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What’s in a name? Apparently $19 million if it happens to be Tavern on the Green. 

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“I think it may have something to do with the joint I smoked…” Madonna said on Late Night with David Letterman, when confronted about her behavior from a prior interview and now coming out about smoking pot is trendy.

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When I saw Brooke Shields on the streets of Soho last weekend, she was fully clothed. In fact, the only thing she was exposing was her pretty Colgate smile. Apparently, to see a little less teeth and a little more skin from the actress, you have to go to the Tate Modern, or at least that was the case before the gallery threw some proverbial clothes on the girl and yanked her naked photo from their exhibit. Now this is not a case of discriminating against a forty-something woman getting naked...it's a little more legal than that. The photo in question was of a naked Shields at 10 years old!

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The mayor is continuing his crusade to ban smoking in parks and on beachs—but how long will the folks who live alongside city parks put up with smokers standing across from or outside of their buildings to get a fix? Then what? [via Daily News]

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We've never been the wake and bake type, but this morning's AM New York has an interesting weed-related cover story that has us thinking about pot already. Why, it asks, are marijuana arrests skyrocketing when it's been decided that pretty much everyone—including the mayor—has enjoyed a puff now and again?

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