City - Wednesday, December 3, 2008 16:57 - 1 Comment
Upcoming Free Burritos at Chipotle!
Gothamist listed three opportunities in the next couple weeks for you to get your favorite pound of tortilla and beans in tinfoil for free or cheap.
- Tomorrow from 5 to 9 pm at the new Chipotle on 23rd St and Lexington: $5 for any menu item, along with chips and a drink, and all proceeds are going to the American Cancer Society
- December 9 and 16 from 5 to 7 pm at the West 45th St and 5th Ave Chipotle: Free burritos given during performances by local singers
- Wednesday December 10th, 11 am to 8 pm: Free burritos at another new Chipotle on Madison Ave and 39th St
City - Tuesday, December 2, 2008 14:03 - 0 Comments
NYTimes Building Climber Sentenced to…Community Service
Alain Robert, who scaled the New York Times Building with two other men in June, pleaded guilty to charges of disorderly conduct and was sentenced this morning to three days of community service, the Times reported. Because the French stuntman climbed the building to raise awareness about global warming, he was barred from completing the community service with an environmental organization. Though Robert was only charged with disorderly conduct, his co-climbers both face more serious charges with the possibility of jail time. Too bad, since we think that climbing up the 52 floors of the Times building for an environmental cause is way cooler than, say, hanging upside down for 60 hours to get people to look at you.
Photo: Flickr courtesy Awe_some_man
City - Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:56 - 0 Comments
Europeans Are Taking Over Williamsburg
Williamsburg is attracting a growing number of Western Europeans, the New York Times reported yesterday. Apparently, there are Brits, Swedes, French and Spanish are here with us, though they’re sometimes hard to spot among all the plaid shirts and big glasses. The Times said that Williamsburg is responding to its new clientele, with fresh baguettes for the French at Urban Rustic and soccer for the Brits at Spike Hill. The Swedes, however, still have to travel down to Red Hook’s IKEA for their delicious lingonberries.
City - Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:30 - 0 Comments
Flying Out of LaGuardia This Holiday? 10,000 Fliers Say: Sucks For You
LaGuardia was just ranked the worst of the country’s 27 biggest airports in a Zagat’s survey, the Daily News reported. The main complaints included long delays, lack of places to sit down and few shops and restaurants. Ha, you may laugh with schadenfreude, I’m flying out of JFK. But it turns out that JFK didn’t do much better, with a ranking fourth from the bottom.
On Campus - Thursday, November 13, 2008 15:45 - 7 Comments
Was Bernard Goldberg Biased, or Are We?
Editor’s Note: This is a different look at an event previously covered here.
The 340 students of Mitchell Stephens’ Foundations of Journalism Class were visited Tuesday by a spectral, otherworldly voice – a voice that they never thought they’d hear in safe, enlightened Manhattan. It was the voice of Bernard Goldberg, writer of the controversial 2001 book Bias that detailed the liberal bias that Goldberg saw in most mainstream media. The students knew that there were people who thought that way, but for many, this was the first time they’d talked to one – even if it was just over the phone. Continue…
City - Tuesday, November 11, 2008 14:39 - 6 Comments
Taxi TVs Force Us To Watch
New Yorkers are complaining about taxi TVs – those screens on the back of the drivers seat that blare commercials at you – that supposedly can’t be turned off, according to Gothamist. A spokesperson from the Taxi and Limousine Service said that the screens weren’t being designed that way, they were just malfunctioning. But could this really be part of a massive public transportation plot, along with those changing bus ads, to make us watch commercials all the time?
City - Tuesday, November 4, 2008 15:00 - 0 Comments
Where Are All The “I Voted” Stickers?
Not in New York, apparently. I’ve heard all sorts of theories: that so many people voted before 10 am today that they ran out of stickers, that their disappearance is somehow related to the Republicans, etc. But it turns out that New York City has never given voters stickers, according to Gothamist. Luckily, you don’t need any stickers to get your free Starbucks or Ben & Jerry’s, since it turns out that it’s illegal to compensate you for voting anyway.
City - Tuesday, October 28, 2008 13:52 - 0 Comments
Help Redesign Coney Island!
The Municipal Art Society is leading an effort to come up with a plan for the entertainment section of Coney Island, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported. Although plans have already been submitted by the city and by Thor Equities, the new owner of a large part of Coney Island, the Art Society has brought together designers from around the world to brainstorm their own plan. They’ll also be creating a “global web-based call for ideas and concepts for the entertainment area.” So start thinking of ideas!
Photo: Flickr courtesy of Joe_Shlabotnik
City - Wednesday, October 22, 2008 15:58 - 5 Comments
New Bus Ads Change By Neighborhood – One Step Closer to Big Brother!
Whoa, did you just see the picture on the side of that bus turn from a Coke bottle into an Oreo? Don’t worry, it’s not the acid. Gothamist reported that the MTA is replacing the ads on the sides of its buses with GPS-controlled screens that change with each neighborhood’s demographic. You know, so that every bus starts flashing its American Apparel signs as it passes by Washington Square Park. Right now, MTA is testing out the technology on the M23 route, which runs East-West in Manhattan on 23rd street.
Featured, On Campus - Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:46 - 5 Comments
Covering the Campaign of a Lifetime Panel: Journalists Are Crack Addicts…
…for campaign news this year, according to Katty Kay of BBC.
Kay was a panelist on yesterday morning’s discussion of the press and the 2008 campaign, called “Covering the Campaign of a Lifetime,” which was held in NYU’s Foundations of Journalism class. Along with Kay sat Howard Goldberg of the Associated Press, Abderrahim Foukara of Al-Jazeera, Patrick Healy of the New York Times and Jay Rosen, an NYU faculty member and founder of the media-criticism blog PressThink. Topics of discussion ranged from McCain’s treatment of foreign media (“at one point, he did say [the BBC] were communists,” said Kay) to whether the candidates are going to follow in the press relations traditions of President Bush (who has mounted a “very aggressive reality-replacement program,” according to Rosen).
