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Yes, You Can Get Busted For Underage Drinking Based Off Your Facebook Photos

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Leaf Me Alone


Hello readers. Enjoy your weekend. I think the final post of the week here on NYU Local should be some fun, mindless video entertainment—the perfect antidote to hellish schoolwork. So before you go, let’s enjoy these two videos, together, about leaves. They are both masterpieces. 

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Friday, November 20, 2009 17:35 - by Josh Becker

NYU Student to Perform at the New Museum


Campus spitfire and famously proud Jew Mallory Blair stars alongside cultural icons like porn star (dubbed “actress” in the event’s description) Sasha Grey in the reading of Case, an 80s “cyberpunk” novel by Brody Condon. 

If this sounds like something you’d care to see, then head over to the New Museum anytime between noon and 6pm this Sunday. Tickets cost twelve dollars. Act now; your next chance to see it will be “at a small outdoor community theater in rural Missouri in summer 2010.” I don’t know how ironic that’s supposed to be.

Friday, November 20, 2009 17:03 - by Josh Becker

Let’s Chuckle Over On-Campus Crime


8719_838070073699_838207_48373493_3560213_nI have a new favorite thing. It’s called the ccampus police blotter, and it is just fantastic.

Now, I’m not trying to make light out of all on-campus crime—certain kinds of crime aren’t funny at all, obviously—but some of these cases are begging for more coverage. Why, just yesterday, “two NYU students were arrested by the NYPD for disorderly conduct on the corner of 8th Street and MacDougall [sic] Street.” What could they possibly have been doing that was more disorderly than every other student’s behavior on MacDougal on Thirsty Thursday?

Also, drugs: a student on the 6th floor of Rubin was caught possessing “what is believed to be cocaine.” I’m glad our city police force can only maybe guess that something is an illicit substance.

In Florence, meanwhile, public safety learned that “an NYU student had been threatened with bodily harm by her roommate on November 14th.” What the hell were they fighting about? The weather’s been sunny in the sixties over there! Settle down, ladies.

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Friday, November 20, 2009 15:50 - by Josh Becker

Twilight: New Moon Makes Us Wish For an Eclipse



My predictions about the demographic make-up of the Twilight fan base turned out to be eerily accurate. Forever drawn in by the campiness of teenage zeitgeists (Miley Cyrus! Taylor Swift! HSM!), I bought New Moon tickets for midnight on opening night only half out of irony. I was out of the country when the first movie opened and the craze hit: I remember coming back from Paris and asking our old Entertainment Editor, Joe Coscarelli, “So… what the hell is Twilight?” I believe his response was along the lines of, “Dude, where have you BEEN?”

Well, I had been abroad where vampires were only slightly cool, but once back I got down to plugging into the psyche of high school girls, something I am scarily good at (perhaps because I used to be one, or perhaps because I genuinely adore Taylor Swift). The first Twilight’s overwrought love arcs and sweeping side-glances were a welcome departure from the “serious” cinematic endeavors that made up my Netflix queue. Twilight is good in the same way that Gossip Girl is: because its enjoyment hinges wholly on your ability to suspend disbelief and just not think.

But you see, the thing about New Moon is that, despite the hype and the trend pieces and the okay-ness of the first movie, it pretty much… sucked. Spoilers after the jump.

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Friday, November 20, 2009 15:02 - by Jessica Roy

Yes, You Can Get Busted For Underage Drinking Based Off Your Facebook Photos


310673-6-20091119181117.imageWell here we go: we fought the law, so the law decided to go on Facebook and browse random teenagers’ photos. The latest case in point: a 19-year-old University of Wisconsin student (that’s his profile picture, to the left, and no I don’t know which one he is specifically) accepted a friend request from a “good-looking” but unfamiliar girl. Shortly thereafter, the police contacted him and told him to come to the station, where they charged him with underage drinking. Great!

Eight students from the University of Wisconsin have now been charged with underage drinking based off Facebook photos. And you don’t even have to have uploaded the incriminating photo yourself! According to the article, “Someone else posted photos on a Facebook site of UW-L sophomores Brianna Niesen and Cassie Stenholt holding beer, but they still ended up in court Wednesday pleading no contest and getting fined.”
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Friday, November 20, 2009 13:58 - by Josh Becker

Yo Dawg, We Heard You Like Bad Lieutenant!


Those who have seen the original Bad Lieutenant may be understandably skeptical of the idea that anyone could truly remake a cinematic experience which features Harvey Keitel’s penis onscreen for twenty minutes. But I aim to assuage your fears with factoids, anecdotes, and perhaps even datums. It’s easy to imagine how this movie could go wrong. It stars Nicholas Cage, so that is reason alone to go see Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, but that’s not the only dubious casting choice made by this new version. I assume you all know Xzibit from the MTV show Pimp My Ride, right? Well he’s in it. I know, I’m as confused as you are, but in any case it means you’ll have to hear people say things like this at the theaters: Yo Dawg, we heard you like Xzibit, so we put an Xzibit in yo movie so you can watch while you watch!

First of all, this movie isn’t being remade by Roland Emmerich or someone like that. No, this is being done by the man I often refer to as “the most badass filmmaker of our time,” Werner Herzog. When this guy makes documentaries, he goes to Antarctica with just a cameraman or hangs out with freaking bears. It’s safe to say that with a history of casting ensembles for his narratives consisting entirely of dwarfs, or the famous mental institution patient Bruno S. (who supposedly needed several hours of screaming before he could do a scene), working with Nicholas Cage should not have been an issue for Herzog. Well…maybe still a little bit of a challenge, honestly.

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Friday, November 20, 2009 12:00 - by Dan Rickmers

Thanksgiving Cider


3112809423_d2960d6fe3I’m not going to lie: the cider cocktail requires time and effort. However, next week is Thanksgiving and this drink is made in batches, which I guess implies sharing. I think it’s a pretty insidious way to contribute to a holiday about goodwill and gratitude, plus it is a great holdover while you wait for the damn turkey to roast. The weather has been pretty mild recently, but it’s useful to have a couple of winter cocktails like this one in your arsenal to help you (and those you love) keep warm.

Ingredients (serves six)

  • 1 cup of whiskey
  • 5 cups of apple cider
  • 2 apples
  • 3 tablespoons of sugar
  • Holiday spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, etc.)
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    Friday, November 20, 2009 10:30 - by Surekha Ratnatunga

    Jude Law Versus Freshmen


    Jude Law moved onto Washington Square Park. NYU freshmen live on Washington Square Park. As you might imagine, students go crazy when they spot him. Sometimes, Jude throws fruit back at them.

    My questions include: why would Jude Law be so stupid as to hurl citrus at students? That’s bad press, dude! (Dude, Jude.) Why did Jude Law move to the park in the first place? And from the looks of that picture, Law wears yoga pants tucked into tube socks. Did he have to fire his stylist or something?! 

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    Friday, November 20, 2009 10:27 - by Josh Becker

    Senator Rudy Guiliani?


    Former New York City mayor and professor of 9/11 studies Rudy Guiliani will not run for Governor of New York against either David Paterson or Andrew Cuomo, according to The New York Times. But fear not! Rudy will not leave New Yorkers to the sanity of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

    The AP reports that Guiliani is “seriously considering” challenging Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand was appointed to the seat only last year, so Guiliani’s OCD (btw, 9/11) might not be as heavy a burden as it would be against Schumer.
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    Friday, November 20, 2009 9:30 - by Rob Stengel

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