A poignant week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

Broken English (directed by Zoe Cassavetes) The pressure on a first time director is steep enough as it is, but if you're the daughter of celebrated '70s auteur John Cassavetes it's got to be extra tough. Unfortunately for the naysayers, Cassavetes delivered an intriguing character study wrapped inside a fluffy romantic comedy for her first feature film, Broken English, which comes out on DVD this week. Long time indie muse Parker Posey stars as Nora,......

- Jersey is open! - Spitzer thinks that Bloomberg is lowballing the MTA with the city's $500 million offer for the West Side Railyards. - The 34-year-old president of LIC bed-behemoth 1-800-MATTRESS has passed on. - Alleged Halloween psycho-rapist Peter Braunstein has reconciled with his father. And now he "just wants to die." - You gotta love the NYPD Bomb Squad logo. - Inside a New York-based Spyware firm. - Only one more month......

Another week, another slew of choices for New York film lovers. We reach the half-way point of the 43rd New York Film Festival this weekend. We've already presented some coverage from the fest, and there will be more to come tomorrow, and through the very busy weekend and next week at Alice Tully Hall, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual celebration of the best of world cinema will continue to dominate the attention of......

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon answered Times readers' questions about the show, which wraps up its seven season tomorrow night on the UPN. Gothamist got a little misty-eyed, as we have loved watching the Scooby Gang fight vampires, growing up, and Evil, especially when reading Joss' intelligent ideas about character development on the show. Andrew directed us to Eric Wight's portfolio of Buffy Animated drawings. They are awesome, especially the character sketch of......

Adam Buckman of the Post has seen the Buffy finale and say it's awesome. But Gothamist did not realize there was talk of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer cartoon - Joss Whedon wanted it to be on par with "Animaniacs or Batman: The Animated Series." [ Read more in The Hollywood Reporter interview with Joss.] But, to recap the Dawson's Creek series finale: - Dawson is a TV writer who has created a show -......

Even USA Today gets into the "We'll Miss You Buffy" fever. A lament about the forthcoming loss of Buffy leads the all-Buffy coverage. The apocalypses that traditionally end each season are rated, and Joss Whedon discusses the series finale. Whedon also lists his top ten Buffy episodes. Hush, with the creepy Gentlemen and one of Gothamist's favorite Buffy episodes, is one of them. The finale will be in keeping with the universe the show has......

More of Joss Whedon's nattering? It makes some sense, given the fact that Sarah Michelle Gellar's contract is up at the end of the year. Unless the UPN is willing to pay through the nose.......