The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, The people ride in a hole in the ground, New York, New York, It’s a helluva town. - Lyrics from "On the Town" Betty Comden, who co-wrote lyrics to some of the most famous musicals, died yesterday at age 89 in Manhattan. The cause was heart failure. Comden and partner Adolph Green worked together for more than 60 years on musicals for both the stage and the......

Tonight, the 92nd Street Y has a screening of the documentary, The Party's Over, which follows Philip Seymour Hoffman as he looks inside the political process during the 2000 Republican and Democratic conventions, with a post-screening question & answer session with Hoffman as well. The film was directed by Donovan Leitch and Rebecca Chaiklin, (produced by Robert Downey Sr., Stanley Buchtal, Robert Downey Jr. and Leitch) and features Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Raitt, Eddie Vedder,......