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LCD Soundsystem at their last show on April 2 at New York City's Madison Square Garden

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK

Madden NFL 12

The hit video game now prevents concussed players from re-entering game play.

Madden NFL

A programmer on the very first Madden has filed a suit asking for royalties from every version since.

CELEBRITY

Tweet No More

A mere two months was all it took for notorious multitasker James Franco to get bored with Twitter. After criticism of his live-tweeting the Oscars and an uploaded picture of himself surrounded by naked women, Franco deleted his account in early April and cryptically declared, "Social media is over. Still up there. Going down."

MOVIES

The Smith Twist

M. Night Shyamalan, the much disparaged director of The Happening and The Last Airbender, doesn't seem to be taking chances with his next project. Not only will the untitled sci-fi flick from Columbia Pictures star the enormously popular father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith (last seen together in The Pursuit of Happyness), but papa Smith is set to co-produce alongside wife Jada Pinkett Smith. No word yet on daughter Willow's cameo.

ART

23 Feet Tall. 20 Tons. Cuddly as Hell

A giant bronze sculpture of a teddy bear slumped under a bedside lamp will take up residence at New York City's Park Avenue Plaza before auction house Christie's puts it up for sale in May. When Untitled (Lamp/Bear) hits the block, the 23-ft.-high creation by Swiss artist Urs Fischer is expected to go for about $10 million. That is going to make some freakishly huge rich kid very happy.

STUNTS

PETA: Still Reasonable

News that PETA wants to rename San Francisco's Tenderloin district the "Tempeh" district--even though the name has nothing to do with meat--reminded us of the animal-rights group's other wacky campaigns. Here are our top five:

• In 1996 a PETA supporter dropped a dead raccoon on Vogue editor Anna Wintour's plate as she dined at New York City's Four Seasons hotel

• Protesters outside the 2009 West-minster Dog Show wore hooded robes and claimed that the American Kennel Club prizes "pure bloodlines" just like the Ku Klux Klan

• In Pamplona, Spain, to protest the running of the bulls, PETA hosts an annual "Running of the Nudes"

• In 2008 the group mailed a letter to Ben & Jerry's, asking the company to save cows by making its ice cream with human breast milk

• A 2009 campaign sought to rebrand fish as "sea kittens" in an attempt to guilt-trip fish lovers. Instead it just made them want to pet fish

VERBATIM

'If some stupid fans don't ... appreciate such a gift, they can go to hell.'

MOHAMED AL FAYED, chairman of England's Fulham soccer club, to critics of a Michael Jackson statue that he ordered to be installed outside Craven Cottage stadium despite the lack of a connection between Jackson and soccer. Al Fayed, owner of the West London club since 1997, seemed genuinely baffled by opposition to the figure. "Why is it bizarre?" he asked.

THEATER

A Frightening Duo