Late Wednesday night, Felicity star Keri Russell's Brooklyn brownstone was broken into while the actress was home alone, sleeping. Russell was unharmed, but the thieves made off with her laptop, some jewelry, and a fancy Filson bag. Scary!

With less than a month before New York City chooses its next mayor, Republican candidate and non-frontrunner Joe Lhota has begun airing attack ads portraying opponent (and Democrat) Bill de Blasio as so soft on crime—indeed, very possibly pro-crime, because why not?—that his election would deliver Gotham to its dark, stormy, vaguely apocalyptic perdition. Case in point:

In The New York Times’s study of Bill de Blasio’s upbringing—which culminated, at the age of 18, with his father’s violent suicide—the paper reveals that the parents of the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor came under suspicion of sympathizing with Communists:

In a speech this morning at the Association for a Better New York, Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota outlined a bold plan to prevent what he perceives as a (very) recent rise in crime.

In a feat of either unbending loyalty or quiet ratfucking, today's New York Post allowed doomed Republican mayoral nominee Joe Lhota to comment on the recent acts of lurid violence on the West Side:

With one month left before New York City elects its next mayor, Democrat Bill de Blasio has achieved a fifty-point lead over Republican Joe Lhota. As the pollsters at Quinnipiac University put it: “Bill de Blasio's landslide is picking up speed in the New York City mayoral race and threatens to bury Republican Joseph Lhota 71 - 21 percent among likely voters.”

Republican New York mayoral nominee Joe Lhota has brought a new, urgent issue to the fore in the race to be the next chief executive of the city: Where do the candidates stand on the Nicaraguan civil war of the 1980s?

Though the possibility of a runoff remains, it looks very likely that the New York City mayoral race will pit Bill de Blasio, a progressive, tax-the-rich liberal, against Joe Lhota, a Republican seen as the "last, best hope for salvaging the business-friendly government of the Bloomberg era." Are you ready for a real live class war? Now, we get one.