As I tried to exit the Soho Playhouse last night after seeing the captivating Harold Pinter Pair, an old man, gleefully oblivious to the crowd behind him, stood in the doorway and shouted to a companion, "That's what theater used to be! Mystery! Young playwrights don't know shit!" The man was like a Pinter character himself—maniacal, menacing, spiteful and passionate—or perhaps I just saw him that way, since the pair of one-acts had so affected me. In any case, I agreed with him.

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A banned book in Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA? In a move that pushes us closer to totalitarianism, Brooklyn's chief librarian condemned 'Tintin Au Congo,' one book in the nearly 80-year-old series by Georges (Herge) Remi, the Daily News reports.

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Neighbors around NYU have discovered that the university surreptitiously demolished part of a wall of the historic Provincetown Playhouse, which it was attempting to preserve while building a new structure around it. The project supervisors Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, and Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, are irate.

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It's either a godsend or a tragedy, depending on how you look at it, but Bushwick is about to get a lot more bourgie.

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Here's a bit of news that should make you violently happy: According to The Daily Swarm, Bjork has put her Snedens Landing, NY, house up for sale at $1.8 million or for lease at $7,000 a month.

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After his officers busted Clementine Lee for illegally selling lemonade, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe caved, deciding to quash the ticket and patronize the shady business.

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Morgan Freeman smiled slightly as I entered Madame Tussauds to try Screme Gelato, the Israeli-Italian gelateria that opened here in July. Freeman, though he was made of wax, had reason to be happy. The gelato is damn tasty.

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The Figure and Dr. Freud, the art show currently up at Haunch of Venison, encourages us to indulge our deepest, darkest sexual urgings, like seeing Bea Arthur topless.

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Chris Jacobson paced back and forth behind the counter at Cinema Nolita, occasionally ducking into the bathroom for sips of water. Jacobson has worked at the video rental store for over three years. He was around when the neighborhood rental shop moved from Elizabeth Street to its current Mulberry Street location last year. And now he’s trying to prevent Cinema Nolita from going under.

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Heeb tells us that Quentin Tarantino's advance screening of Inglourious Basterds last night at the Museum of Jewish Heritage went over surprisingly well.

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