Like this, but a magazine

Personally, we think it’s better when college magazines start blogs. But you know those NYU kids.

From the Observer:

NYU Young Media War Rages On: The young folk of NYU Local—the pirate NYU news publication/blog, as opposed to the officially-mandated NYU publication, Washington Square News—is going to wage further war on its rival by putting out its own print publication. It’s going to be called NYU Local Magazine. The scrappy youths at NYU Local have sold us on it as follows:

It’s going to be a mix of guides to life at NYU (A guide to smoking pot in your dorm room written by a former R.A.), some long profiles of NYU students and New Yorkers (Rapper Cakes Da Killa), and there’s some servicey content of stuff that we think NYU students need to know (Where you can drink with and without a fake id). Essentially, now we’re the most exciting print publication at NYU too.

So head on down to Bobst (that’s their Butler, which we are apparently allowed into) and pick up a copy. Or just get your fill of NYU hate from celebrated New Yorker Fran Lebowitz:

I don’t love NYU. I didn’t hate it before. I just never thought about it. It’s not of interest to me. And it really should be stopped from being called NYU, because it really has nothing to do with New York…The worst thing about being around these people, about these students, is overhearing their conversation. For that alone, I walk around my neighborhood in a constant rage, thinking I want to say to them: No, no you’re not. NYU should move out of New York.

The reach of Bwog’s tipsters knows no bounds. By that we mean that one of them occasionally musters the energy to venture below 110th St. for something other than an Absolute Bagel, and supplies us with such linguistic coincidences as this photo.

For some future generation of Columbians, perhaps this four letter combination will conjure memories not of that one night in Carman freshman year but instead of “Farro risotto with sage, Parmesan cheese, and wild mushrooms.”

Alternate reality

Seems as if things having been quiet on the Roa-llie front since their last encounter, and Bwog can only conclude that they’ve decided to part ways. While our favorite cub seems content with bachelorhood, Millie, heading out for a night on the town in this picture, seems determined to start over.

It might just be the way her lids make her seem that extra smidge happy, but could she have set her sights on someone new?

Spotted by Hannah Goldstein

It has a sign!

There are few things worse than mustering up the courage to spend a Saturday evening downtown, only to be punished by the shockingly slow arrival of the 1 train. As if the shiny new 96th Street station wasn’t enough to placate us (it isn’t!), enter Two Boots! The delicious NY (and Connecticut and LA?) pizza chain will open on Broadway between 95th and 96th. No word on when opening day will be, but construction started in late April, so the beginning of the year should bring another reason to cross the formidable 110th Street threshold. And let us say: omnom!