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Last Sunday and Monday a collective of activists, journalists, retired government officials and theater makers gathered at The Culture Project to begin mock impeachment proceedings against President Bush. The “trial by theater” arose in part out of frustration with Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s pledge to leave impeachment “off the table” when her party seized the House majority. The month long series, called A Question of Impeachment, is intended to spark debate and, participants hope,...

We can't help agreeing with some people that something seems slightly off in the tone of the Times's "Class Matters" series. Maybe it should be ascribed to the paper's status as one of the American elite's most important organs; maybe it's because the paper is an exemplar of that peculiar New York parochialism that views most people and things west of the Hudson with surprise and/or wonder. Class plays itself out differently in New York than elsewhere. There's something heartening about a place so densely populated that almost everyone ends up rubbing shoulders, but that also means that everyone is regularly confronted with stomach-turning displays of wealth and poverty.

Last night Gothamist waited an hour in the rain at Tribeca Film Festival, as only a few volunteers handled the long lines for ticket pick up. Although we were drenched and missed our movie, we did get to see Kermit the Frog dressed in a suit (hugging Robert Deniro) as well as Stella's Michael Showalter (we held back from screaming Wet Hot American Summer lines) before presenting his romantic comedy The Baxter, which you can preview here.

Tamar Adler, Editor at Harper's

kicks off with a traditional anti-administration rant by Lewis Lapham. In case you weren't already concerned with Bush's record on the environment, get a load of this: in February, Lapham tells us, the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a report stating concerns that these days, if scientific research generates results that are at odds with the government, the government will censor or distort the data. Examples range from stonewalling honest conversations about climate change, lead poisoning and nuclear weapons, to demanding the CDC suggest "a link between abortion and breast cancer on the National Cancer Institute website despite objections from CDC staff."