A Ukrainian tourist pleaded guilty yesterday to sexually assaulting a flight attendant during a flight from London to JFK. 53-year-old Iurii Chumak, who as you can see here was sent over straight from Central Casting, was drinking straight from a bottle of Dewar's on the April 28th flight when the unidentified flight attendant bent over to pour coffee for another passenger near him. That's when Chumak seized the opportunity to slide his hand up her skirt, “grabbed her genital area” and “began to run his fingers back and forth." That Chumak—what a charmer! more ›

Cooper Union has taken down the giant Stalin banner that went up this week following pressure from the Dept. of Buildings, which had received complaints. The banner was part of Lene Berg's installation, “Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache.” The school recognized that it may be particularly sensitive circumstances to have it up--with a large nearby Ukranin community keenly aware that it is the 75th anniversary of a famine imposed by Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians. Jaroslaw Leshko, the president of the board of trustees at the Ukrainian Museum, did not want to kibosh the installation and suggested it be put up somewhere indoors. But Berg was more than unhappy with the move, saying, “In a sense, I think it’s self-censorship...They ruined my show, my work.” more ›