On Campus - Friday, November 13, 2009 7:00 - 0 Comments
Stay Away From Broken Mirrors This Friday the 13th
Hey! I’m editing Fridays now, and it’s a great day to start because there is actually so much to do today, besides make lame references to Friday the 13th (like I did in the title.) Avoid bad luck, thanks to our fine university!
The finals of the 6th Annual Cyber Securities Challenge will be taking place at the NYU-Poly school in Brooklyn. Events start at 1:30. Bring your own Mountain Dew and Cheetos.
For 12 bucks, come witness Talk Like Singing, billed as the “first-ever original Japanese musical to premiere in the U.S.” It’s at Skirball, at 8pm. I don’t understand why this didn’t premiere in Japan, but good for us, I guess.
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On Campus - Tuesday, November 3, 2009 14:30 - 0 Comments
Philosopher Peter Singer Thinks You’re All Unethical
If you were part of that not-so-exclusive fraternity of students chosen to make up the final class of NYU’s former General Studies Program, than you probably spent August of 2007 immersed in either one of two activities: deciding whether it was finally time to post the standard “Hey Roomie!” message on your new suitemate’s Facebook wall after the awkward round of pokes, or resisting the urge to hurl the required summer reading—Peter Singer’s How Are We To Live?—at the nearest household pet when you got to the chapter concerning speciesism, a theory that equates eating meat with being a Nazi, among other things.
Singer was back at NYU, and considerably more down to earth, yesterday for the Sharp Lecture Series in Kimmel to promote his 30th book, The Life You Can Save. While the Australian philosopher’s bold opinion that most Americans need to lead more ethical lives can be mildly condescending (if not accurate) when read in his books, listening to him speak is a far less irritating experience.
Though idealistic for sure, the former professor seemed entirely genuine in his call for society to develop an “ethical standard that people would feel is obtainable.”
City - Friday, September 11, 2009 15:05 - 1 Comment
New York Craft Beer Week Is Here
Speaking of heavy drinking, Decider tells us that today is the start of the magical festival of lights known as New York Craft Beer Week. They’ve also got a rundown of some of the events happening around the city, so if you’re a beer connoisseur, I’d advise giving it a look. Here’s a sample of what some of the festivities are going to look like:
-Gotham Cask Ale Festival: Cask beer—the kind that’s barely carbonated, sort of warm, and way more complex that that which comes in pressurized kegs—gets play from some of the bigger bars, but most beer drinkers aren’t as familiar as they should be. This festival-within-a-festival takes place at three bars simultaneously (Jimmy’s No. 43, Swift Hibernian Lounge, and Rattle N Hum), and features a total of 60 cask ales, most of which you’ve probably never heard of. (Sept. 11-13)
But it’s not all just drinking–there are also going to be some lectures on topics such as “Deconstructing Beer” and “Women in the Beer Industry.” And if the audiences for both aren’t much more emotionally invested and belligerent than anyone has any right to be, then the drinking portion Beer Week hasn’t done its job.
City - Friday, September 11, 2009 10:15 - 5 Comments
This Weekend: The Brooklyn Book Festival
For all of you bibliophiles out there, this Sunday Brooklyn Borough Hall is going to be the site of a huge, free event that can only be probably described as a bookanalia. Attending writers include NYU Local favorite Tao Lin, leading postmodernist Paul Auster, Shock Doctrinaire Naomi Klein, and New Yorker writer James Surowiecki.
At this point, your enthusiasm is probably less than palpable, but for the book nerds among you this looks like a must-see. Here’s more info at the official site, and some suggested events courtesy of Decider*
Bonus NYU connection: If you do end up going, my creative writing professor from last year, Fiona Maazel, is on an interesting-looking panel at 3 PM called “Doubt, Faith & Monsters.” So maybe go say hi, and buy a book or four.
*One of these events is tribute to John Updike and David Foster Wallace, hence the David Foster Wallace picture at the top of the post, and also the footnote that probably didn’t need to be a footnote.
Photo by Flickr user Steve Rhodes used under a Creative Commons license.
On Campus - Tuesday, March 3, 2009 16:04 - 0 Comments
“Inside-Out” : Mouth Wired Shut, We Swear
What do you get when you mix a cognitive neuroscientist, senior editor for Wired magazine, and science columnist for the Wall Street Journal? Answer: last night’s “Inside-Out” talk, which took place in the Journalism building and provided plenty of any NYU student’s favorite things: free wine, secrecy, and encouragement to be bitchy.
This talk consisted of Robert Lee Hotz, distinguished writer in residence at the Carter Institute and science columnist for the Wall Street Journal, interviewing Nicholas Thompson, senior editor at Wired, on his process of editing stories for the magazine. Also joining them on stage was NYU psychology professor, Gary Marcus, whose story Thompson is currently editing.
Campus Events, On Campus - Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:07 - 1 Comment
“Making it in Media” at Noon Will Tell You How To Be Famous
In about an hour, the journalism department will be hosting a Q&A session called “Making it in Media” in the 7th floor of 20 Cooper Square, from noon to 1:30. Besides tips about how not to die in the street after graduating with your j-degree, it sounds like free food is provided too. Not sure whether going to this or sitting around, blogging for NYU Local all day will be ultimately more beneficial, but the description is after the jump anyway.
On Campus - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 13:11 - 3 Comments
Tonight, NYTimes’ Managing Editor Will Tell Us Why Quality Journalism Matters
Why Quality Journalism Matters? from Indistew on Vimeo.
The Albert Gallatin Lecture Series is hosting Jill Abramson, Managing Editor of The New York Times, who will come in to talk today about “why, with a 24/7 news cycle and more media sites than ever, quality journalism that is rigorously reported is crucial to the maintenance of an informed, civil society.” The event is from 6:30 – 8:30 pm in the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre at 715 Broadway. You should go if only because of the video they made above.
City - Friday, September 12, 2008 10:51 - 1 Comment
The Price is Right, Striptease, and Free Alcohol on 9/11
It was September 11, 2008…and I was in a basement on Saint Marks’ Place, hugging a woman in underwear and tassels. Before a live audience.
It was Anita’s Underground Game Show, a corrupted version of The Price is Right that costs $10 to attend and runs at 11 pm every second Thursday of the month at 94 St. Marks Place. It’s half comedy-show, half-burlesque, and a whole lot better if you’re really drunk (and 21, of course).
