On Campus - Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:30 - 0 Comments
New Media Incarnate to Discuss New Media at the J School
Few people embody the internet more than NYU Professors Jay Rosen and Jeff Jarvis Clay Shirky. Rosen, who is basically NYU Local’s professorial mascot, is an unabashed Twitter enthusiast, going so far as to coin the term “mindcasting” and functioning as a New Media King in his own right. Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody tackles grassroots organizing and social media. Together, the two are really an unstoppable force of new media, and–lucky for us–they’re teaming up for a discussion at the J school at 20 Cooper Square. According to the press release, “They will discuss the latest ideas in new media: what’s working, what’s dead, and where the medium is headed.” The event will take place Thursday December 3rd from 6-7pm and is free and open to the public. You can call 212.998.8044 for more info.
UPDATE: Original post accidentally interchanged Jarvis and Shirky because I was reading Buzzmachine while I was writing it. Apologies! Luckily, all three are awesome new media gurus.
On Campus - Thursday, November 5, 2009 8:30 - 1 Comment
Matt Damon and Howard Zinn Coming to NYU
In an effort to drum up publicity for their joint-film venture The People Speak, Matt Damon and Howard Zinn are coming to speak at NYU on November 12th at 2pm at the Cooper Union Great Hall. The film is a dramatic and musical reenactment of historical US documents and speeches of “Americans who spoke up for social change throughout US history,” and is based on Zinn’s widely-acclaimed The People’s History of the United States (a book a high school history teacher of mine once deemed “too liberal” to include on a source list). For US history nerds, it’s a dream come true, but for those of you who didn’t spend your junior year in grueling study sessions striving for a 5 on the APUSH exam, several celebrities (aside from Damon) are also affiliated with the project–Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Josh Brolin, to name a few. The event will consist of live performances, audience discussions and preview clips of the film. Registration is free, but you have to RSVP here, so make sure you do it soon since space is limited. The People Speak premieres on The History Channel on December 13th at 8pm.
On Campus - Tuesday, January 27, 2009 12:19 - 0 Comments
Watch NYU Grad Students’ Documentaries This Weekend
The NewDocs 2009 Film Festival, a collection of eleven documentary films created by NYU graduate students studying “News and Documentary” filmmaking, is taking place 12pm to 6 pm, on Saturday, January 31st, at 19 University Place. The films deal with a variety of issues from the rise of teenage stabbings in London and young musicians studying classical music to the migration of army deserters into Canada. A schedule of the film screenings is available on the website.
Photo by NYU Journalism
Entertainment, Featured - Thursday, November 6, 2008 12:07 - 2 Comments
Recommended Concerts Courtesy of a WNYU DJ
Thursday, November 6 / Friday, November 7
The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers @ Terminal 5
The co-headliners on this bill hail from disparate parts—the Hold Steady from Brooklyn-by-way-of-Minneapolis, Drive-By Truckers from Athens, Georgia. But they both arrive at beer-soaked catharsis with guitar-heavy slices of Americana, complementing without overlapping.
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Entertainment, On-Campus Developing - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 17:17 - 1 Comment
High Places, Best Fwends To Play NYU
As part of this year’s CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival, which runs from Oct. 21-15, the E&L Auditorium (4th floor of Kimmel) will be hosting the Nu Music Show featuring indie duos High Places and Best Fwends with openers Totally Michael. Hipsters rejoice.
Entertainment - Monday, October 6, 2008 12:22 - 8 Comments
Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady Ain’t Noise Pollution
Keep in mind that even Paul Simon, a man known for his inability to connect with the subjects of his liberalism, hit on the tenderness and implicit understanding thematically inherent in songs about patres familias with chemical dependencies. I think it’s safe to say that the great judgmental drinking song isn’t going to come from a band that has taken it upon itself to be the weathered voice of wisdom for this generation of chemical dependents. Continue…
Entertainment - Thursday, September 18, 2008 17:20 - 2 Comments
This Weekend’s Rock Shows and Sideshows
This weekend is the last chance this year to see the country’s only “ten-in-one” circus full of “freaks, wonders and human curiosities”, as described on the Coney Island website. Admission is a paltry $7.50 and features such performers as Insectavora, Donny Vomit, and Scott Baker the Twisted Shockmeister. What better way to bid the summer of 2008 goodbye than with a stroll through this collection of living oddities? It’s potentially thrilling… and definitely cheap! Continue…
Entertainment, Upcoming - Monday, September 15, 2008 0:10 - 1 Comment
Help Solve Amanda Palmer’s Murder
For a mere $10, decide for yourself Who Killed Amanda Palmer? at the New York screening premiere of six music videos directed by Michael Pope. The videos weave a mystery surrounding the fictional death of—you guessed it—Amanda Palmer, whose solo album of the same name also debuts on Tuesday. Continue…
