During their acclaimed production of As You Like It two years ago, the Royal Shakespeare Company had an actor skin and behead a dead rabbit on stage, reportedly getting big laughs and applause from Brits who were thrilled to watch him tossing rabbit pieces into a bucket. Show biz! But while those kinds of gross-out theatrics may tickle the punters across the pond, in America rabbit advocates are up in arms about the production, which opens tonight in a full-size replica of their theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, assembled in the Park Avenue Armory's massive Drill Hall. more ›

About those rabbits in the Greenpoint liquor store window display? They allegedly belong to a friend of the owner, and will return back home after Easter... but the chicks, they can be yours! In a disturbing update, Miss Heather says the proprietor "has changed his plan" (which was to slaughter them at a farm in six weeks) and that "anyone who wants a chick after Easter can have one." Which means there will be lots of abandoned chicks around town in about one week from now. Unless Farm Sanctuary saves the day! Spokesperson Meredith Turner told us this morning: more ›

When's the last time you saw a rabbit in Central Park? According to the Daily News, you'd be a liar if you said anytime after 2006. The paper reports that the last wild rabbit was spotted around four years ago in the north end of the park; since then, real rabbits have become as mythical as the Easter Bunny. more ›

Yesterday Miss Heather came across this sad sight, the latest window display at T & N Wine and Liquor store on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. The establishment’s proprietor, Chris, told her he ordered 25 chicks from a hatchery, which were delivered via the USPS. They're currently being held hostage in the liquor store display window until just after Easter, when they will be promptly moved to a farm upstate, and killed six weeks later. Allegedly they were bred for body mass, and after that amount of time their legs will no longer be able to support their weight. more ›

Have you seen any creepy rabbits in suits walking around town? It seems Twitter is abuzz with sightings. We've deduced that there's not a Furry Convention in town, and neither Donnie Darko or Inland Empire are getting released on Blu-Ray this weekend... so our guess is that they're here to promote SyFy's Alice in Wonderland (which premieres this Sunday). That, or just to scare the hell out of us. more ›