Entertainment - Friday, November 20, 2009 17:35 - 0 Comments
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.
City - Friday, November 20, 2009 17:03 - 0 Comments
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.
On Campus - Friday, November 20, 2009 15:50 - 7 Comments
Let’s Chuckle Over On-Campus Crime
I 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.
Featured, National - Friday, November 20, 2009 13:58 - 7 Comments
Yes, You Can Get Busted For Underage Drinking Based Off Your Facebook Photos
Well 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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On Campus - Friday, November 20, 2009 10:27 - 7 Comments
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?!
National - Friday, November 20, 2009 8:00 - 0 Comments
Your Early-Morning Gay News Roundup
- If you’re a gay couple living in New York state that got legally married outside New York state, you can still be considered married here. But if you want to get married within New York state, you still have to wait for the Senate to actually, you know, vote on the issue. (Will hopefully happen by the end of 2009.)
City - Monday, November 16, 2009 13:05 - 9 Comments
Smoking Ban Expanding to Include Some NYC Apartments
Remember how you can’t smoke in NYU dorms anymore? Well, moving off-campus may not be a solution for much longer!
Because some landlords are banning smoking in their buildings. It is their property, so they have the right to decide what to do with it, but come on! If a neighbor’s smoking is so bad that it’s really stinking up the hallway and/or adjacent apartments, then it’s definitely time to say something.
But is this really happening so often as to require a ban? I just find that hard to believe. And yes, I still notice the lingering smell of cigarette smoke, even in dorms when I knew I lived next to people who smoked inside (and, ya know, I did too), but the hallways never smelled! Is Febreze not an option?
And I know, secondhand smoke is dangerous and it’s unfair for us blacklungs (a word I just made up) to subject nonsmokers to the health hazard. But I remain incredulous that my having a cigarette in my bedroom is causing a neighbor to develop a lung disease. Not being able to smoke on terraces also seems a bit ridiculous to me. But hey, I’m not the one being cruelly poisoned by my neighbors; I’m curious as to whether any nonsmoking readers have been bothered by smoking neighbors.
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National - Monday, November 16, 2009 11:50 - 3 Comments
Return Your Plastic Shower Curtain, It’s Turning Your Son Into A Girl
Phthalates are chemicals that “have the ability to disrupt hormones [...] by blocking out the action of the male hormone testosterone.” This means that “males exposed to high doses” of the chemicals in the womb “went on to be less likely to play with boys’ toys like cars or to join in rough and tumble games.” Phthalates are evil chemicals, because they do not conform to our society’s notions of a rigid and stereotypical gender binary!
Seriously, abstaining from wrestling and playing with “cars, trains and guns” makes you less of a man? What, did Hasbro fund this study? Why is any of this “worrying”? A century ago, not playing with a hoop and stick meant you were an antisocial loser stuck with antebellum ideals. Ten years ago, we all loved Warheads; they weren’t just candy—they were a test of endurance. Kids change! They lose interest in cars and toy guns and “play-fighting,” though that’s not even true for every boy–many retain their love of silly “masculine” activities through adolescence.
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Entertainment - Friday, November 13, 2009 15:11 - 0 Comments
Lucky Rabbit’s Playlist
It’s Friday the 13th. I’ve been referencing it all day because, ha, topical humor! So I thought it might be nice to relive some “(un)lucky” musical moments. And one very special treat, at the end. For your entertainment, after the jump:
On Campus - Friday, November 13, 2009 13:54 - 4 Comments
Only One More Week to View the Tisch Photography Exhibit
Tisch: it’s not all about choral harmonies and dress rehearsals, you know? There are photographers too, and they’re really good. Their work has been on display at 721 Broadway since October 23rd, were you aware? And they’re only gonna stay up until November 21st. Take a look before they’re gone! Also: the picture you see now is a recreation of that famous Ingres painting. It was taken by friend of the site Meredith Rom. See what you’ll be missing, people?
After the jump is a relevant music video, because it’s Friday and we’ve all kind of checked out anyway. (Kidding, Lily!)
