On Campus - Tuesday, September 29, 2009 13:17 - 9 Comments
NYU Seniors Tell NYMag What’s [Sort Of] Cool
New York Magazine and a few NYU seniors are very concerned for the social well-being of this year’s freshman class. I mean, god forbid the youngins still find themselves smoking hookah at Horace on Laguardia in November. So, in an attempt to shepherd the confused New York implants towards less embarrassing hangouts in a timely fashion, the magazine and three choice seniors you’ve probably never heard of have compiled a list of options to keep the new kids entertained on the cheap.
A few of their choices make the cut while a handful make us wonder how they’ve been in New York this long without learning anything. (Like The Blind Tiger on Bleecker. That place is right near me and always smells vaguely of fart and frat, artisanal beers be damned.)
Full list with our commentary after the jump. (With their commentary here.) Continue…
Entertainment - Thursday, September 17, 2009 14:30 - 3 Comments
Selling Stories to Strangers in Finland
Emilia Brock, CAS senior, supported herself this summer by getting a part time job. What’s so cool about that? Well, she was in Finland on a whim, her job title is a synonym for street performer, and she got tipped in “booze and food.” Over the course of the summer Emilia kept a blog, met a couchsurfer and a millionaire, appeared in a Finnish newspaper, and wrote countless poems and short stories for appreciative customers. She says busking is one of the best things that has ever happened to her, and was kind enough to sit down with me in Tompkins Square Park to talk about it.
Entertainment - Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:23 - 9 Comments
The Very Last Thing You’ll Ever Need to Read About Hipsters
This AdBusters article from July—signifying hipsters as “the dead end of Western civilization”—apparently still resonates with The Youth of Today, because college kids keep writing about it. Like this Smith College student who entitled her piece “Pop Rocks and Coke,” which is either an allusion to the explosive fashions at Urban Outfitters or, you know, a reference to cocaine. Because that’s what hipsters do! Cocaine and fashion.
I’m not picking on the author, and I agree that it’s time for all of us to officially retire the keffiyeh (except for Justin Timberlake, who inexplicably pulls it off really well). What I am arguing is that condemning “hipsters” and their lifestyle choices is just as big an oversimplification that ignores the subtleties of the culture as, say, wearing a symbol of Palestinian solidarity as a fashion accessory. Continue…
