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We may have mentioned that the occupation of NYU's student center ended with a whimper, but after watching this 9:22 minute video of NYU security daring to enter the barricaded cafeteria occupied by student protesters last week, we're worried our faces are now permanently frozen in deep cringe. According to NYU Local, the footage was recorded not by an NYU student but by a strident young man from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA., who seems truly appalled that officials have violated their inner sanctum, "making everyone very upset," while also deliberately ignoring his orders: "You may not detain us, you are on camera!"

In a world torn by war, with an economy in ruins, it's nice to know we've still got Jeremy Piven's antics to take our minds off things—his abrupt departure from the modestly successful Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow has outraged the show's producers and cast members.Yesterday Piven's doctor, Carlon Colker, said he ordered Piven to withdraw from the production because of "elevated levels of mercury" in his blood, ostensibly caused by the hard-partying actor's penchant for sushi and Chinese herbs, which can contain heavy metals.

[CASTING UPDATE BELOW] Entourage star Jeremy Piven has gone from calling out sick to simply quitting his current gig on Broadway in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Mamet tells Variety: "I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." (Promises, promises.)

According to TMZ, actor Jeremy Piven (Entourage) has missed several recent performances of the Broadway revival of Speed-the-Plow due to an unspecified illness. No one knows what happened! Why, just last Saturday the Grosse Pointe Blank star was angrily stalling the show as audience members straggled in late! Now he'll be missing tonight's performance, too; his rep tells TMZ, "Jeremy has not been feeling well and the doctors have advised him that he should end his run in Speed-the-Plow immediately." But anyone with tickets shouldn't be too upset; the star of this revival is really Raúl Esparza, and the show will go on just fine with him and Elisabeth Moss. The show's publicist confirmed the illness but had no further details, adding only that (for now) the production is still scheduled to run through February 22nd.

This weekend marks the end of a turbulent season for the Latin food vendors at the Red Hook ball fields. First the Health Department shut them down entirely, then the Parks Department opened up the vending contracts to outside competition. After considerable public outcry, the beloved vendors were allowed to return, but only after spending close to $50,000 each to purchase new stands. What used to be a festive cluster of open-air grills was turned into a homogeneous row of food carts moved outside the park, powered by loud generators. In short, the city sucked the soul out of scene. Marcos Lainez, who sells Salvadoran food, tells the Brooklyn Paper, "We lost that friendly relationship with the customers and it will never come back." And organizer Cesar Fuentes says the vendors also lost money; because they weren't permitted back until July, none of them "were fully able to recuperate from the financial blow of the season."

A reader sent in this photo of the imminent dismantling of artist Olafur Eliasson's Lower East Side waterfall at Pier 35. Within weeks, the scaffolding at all four locations will be but a distant memory, and in spring the leaves will (hopefully!) return to the trees without that salty East River mist to turn them freakishly brown for the sake of conceptual art.

Artist Olafur Eliasson's ambitious and controversial waterfall installation ends today after a 15-week run, leaving sick trees, irritated residents, and a collective 'meh,' in its wake. Last week tests conducted by Cornell University concluded that the soil at the River Café, just downwind from the Brooklyn Bridge waterfall, had salt levels almost 10 times higher than normal. “Those levels are amazingly high, and if that level of salt was in the soil for a long period of time, the plants wouldn’t survive,” soil expert John Ameroso tells Brooklyn Paper.

According to a letter from an editor to freelancers obtained by Gawker, today's issue of neoconservative newspaper The New York Sun will be the last. At the beginning of the month, editor Seth Lipsky announced that the paper, which has never made a profit since it began in 2002, was in serious financial trouble and actively seeking investors. The Post reports that owners had gotten some help from venture capitalist Tom Tisch, but given the current financial crisis, hopes of interesting other investors dimmed. The Sun had been estimated to be losing about $1 million a month. Though its right-wing editorial slant initially made The Sun stand out in liberal New York City, the broadsheet distinguished itself over the years with excellent arts and culture coverage.