We always assumed that people were still smoking inside because the places we tend to hang out are less than savory, but according to Eater, it's happening all over.

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Artist Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who is best known for her collaborative environmental arts installations with husband Christo Javacheff, died today in Manhattan of complications stemming from a brain aneurysm. Jeanne-Claude, 74, is survived by her husband and son Cyril Christo.

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Helmer Toro, owner of H&H Bagels, was indicted for tax fraud yesterday. He pled not guilty to charges of withholding over $360,000 in payroll taxes. Surely the owner of the self-described “largest bagel manufacturer in the world” wouldn’t risk an enterprise that promising just to get out of paying some taxes?

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Superdive opened its doors this summer just in time to earn its place in our Best Of Issue infamy as this year’s Best Bar Idea With the Worst Execution, but unfortunately the execution was worse than even we projected because the frat-boy frequented space on Avenue A just went up on the auction block.

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Looks like the aged forces of Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein have punk’d us all. After days of cluttering in-boxes with emails taking pokes at one another’s competing All About Me Broadway shows this spring, they’ve “suddenly” decided to join forces (along with playwright Christopher Durang) for a single show sure to appeal to Broadway’s tastemakers. You know, the ones who never remember to turn their hearing aids down before a show and then keep you stuck in the aisle for 10 minutes while they’re trying to leave. Congratulations, you wily performers. You’ve already wasted my time, and I haven’t even sat through your show yet!

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Have you ever overheard people in the next room getting some while you lay there alone in your cold, baron bed? It's happened to the best of us. Usually the reaction is a pair of headphones, a polite bang on the wall or perhaps a passive-aggressive note taped to the offender’s door. How does a filing for a noise abatement order to legally stop your neighbors from ever ''shouting, screaming or (making a) vocalization at such a level as to be a statutory nuisance” sound? One British couple is facing the possibility of arrest if they should get too passionate in their own bedroom.

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They’re still creepy and they’re still kooky. The upcoming Addams Family musical shared backstage interviews and a cast photo with Vanity Fair, proving that the actors will stay true to the undead hilarity of Charles Addams’s original New Yorker cartoons.

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Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna Everage have been conducting a good-natured feud via their publicists over the last few days, ever since the announcement that Dame Edna will be returning to Broadway this March in a one-woman show titled Dame Edna: It’s All About Me. Unfortunately, pianist and singer Michael Feinstein is also returning to Broadway with a one-person show in March, titled All About Me.

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On Friday we reported about a male erotic massage demonstration in the windows of The Chelsea Blue we knew would surely draw a crowd. Well we were right—though it doesn’t take a genius to figure out nearly naked men massaging each other in a store front might catch an eye or two. Not only did the event attract the attention of passersby, but also that of the boys in blue, who shut down the man-on-man masseuse show!

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The Library's lion is getting a haircut! The Times is reporting that the New York Public Library is unveiling a new logo which is designed to look better online when shrunk—the old one was too detailed and wouldn’t translate digitally. Also Patience, the lion who is featured in the logo, just really wanted to try something new, you know? It was time! Too bad the king of the jungle ended up with an 80s blowout.

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