The body of a 50-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in Prospect Park early Monday morning.

University philosophy departments, like the rest of our society, have a reputation for sexism. One university with a bad reputation is turning a harsh eye on itself. The findings are not very encouraging.

When Mark Blitch's four-year-old son Jackson heard "Say Something" by A Great Big World on the radio last week, he burst into tears. Concerned, Blitch offered to change the radio station, but Jackson wasn't upset; instead, he'd been moved by the "sad song" and let his dad know that he was okay by giving two thumbs up.

The Super Bowl was a disaster. The game was shitty, the ads sucked, and the halftime show was a let down compared to last year's. All of that was to be expected, though; more surprising (or maybe not, considering the New Jersey governor's recent history) was the awful transportation to and from the "'Mass-Transit Super Bowl," as organizers deemed it before the game.

The Friday Night Lights movie may never happen, but tonight Aziz Ansari wrote the second-best thing — Friday Night Lights: The Super Bowl Edition.

Tens of thousands of starfish in the Pacific are dying from a mysterious illness that causes their arms to walk away from them until they rip out.

Time Warner Cable: not just screwing over New Yorkers anymore. TWC subscribers in Southern California lost as much as an hour of the Super Bowl tonight after the cable company's live feed froze in the middle of an ad during the second quarter.

The Seahawks won by a landslide: 43-8.

Last week, Jerry Seinfeld went on a sports show to tease his big, secret Seinfeld reunion project. When asked if it was a Super Bowl ad, he first said, "It's not," but later added, "[But] it's not-not." Well, it was.

An ABC reporter thought he was driving out to Siesta Key, Florida to cover a story about rental fraud. But when he confronted a woman at the property, the story's focus quickly shifted to grand theft auto.

And people were worried the Super Bowl might be too cold.

Our attention has been brought to the fact that the Puppy Bowl was filmed in October. Everything good in life continues to be a lie. Enjoy the Super Bowl!

Bruce the yak is a 3-year-old yak from Boonton, NJ who fell through the ice into a duck pond on Wednesday. Tina Krawczyk, manager of Brookhollow's Barnyard (where Bruce lives), noticed his horns sticking up amongst the ducks.

Today Woody Allen's lawyer and publicist released separate statements responding to his adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow's claims of sexual abuse. The statements — which, in a sure coincidence, were sent out as the world mourned Philip Seymour Hoffman — lays the blame for Farrow's trauma at the feet of her mother, Allen's estranged ex-partner Mia Farrow.

"For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, That's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great — well, that's absolutely torturous."

Philip Seymour Hoffman is considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, a fact that is sadly confirmed by the outpouring of responses from his peers and admirers in the entertainment community in the wake of his death. After the news broke, they took (where else?) to Twitter to express their thoughts, which range from denial to sadness, and, of source, sympathy to problems with addiction.

Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead today in his Manhattan apartment. He was 46 years old and a father of three. The story was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.

Merlin's beard! J.K. Rowling has admitted regret over forcing her character Hermione Granger to wed troubled ginger Ron Weasley in the little-known Harry Potter books.

Last night while the Internet was poring over Dylan Farrow's letter detailing years of abuse by her adoptive father Woody Allen, the director was at Madison Square Garden watching the New York Knicks lose to the Miami Heat.