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It’s finally time to buy an apartment in Manhattan! (NY Mag) MTV is letting people like you choose where to send season 2 of Jersey Shore. Giants Stadium is being demolished. (Daily News) Strippers (including an NYU student) pick the Saints to win the Super Bowl. (Post)

Columbia beats Yale and NYU, placing sixth on the list of top fundraising American universities for 2009. (CAE) Don’t like the fowl new Barnard meal plan? Now’s your chance to grouse! Attend the open discussion today at 5pm hosted by Dean Denburg in the Vag’s 2nd flood dining space on the first floor Diana Event […]

Columbia Alum finds success in direction of Hurt Locker (BBC) Academy award nominations are out, including 9 for above-mentioned Hurt Locker (NY Daily) Director of Avatar and director of Hurt Locker were once married! (NY Daily) Joe Biden reviews Hurt Locker rival, Avatar (Jezebel) Hurt Locker producers challenge Academy’s rules (NYT)

It’s Groundhog Day, and Punxsutawney Phil thinks there’s more winter coming. Staten Island Chuck, though, forecasts an early spring.  In any case, if you see Ned Ryerson, run. Or start ice sculpting. (Gothamist) From our comments: reader Pantsless sent in this awesome time-shifting map of New York. (Kottke) Firefighters rescued a man and a woman […]

What’s that smell taking over your dorm? Probably stink bugs. (Gothamist) Where can you find information about the best ramen in Tokyo? Start by reading Ramenate!, started by a Columbia grad student. (NYT) How can New Yorkers communicate without actually talking to each other? Through the use of Wi-Fi network names. (NYDaily) Who impregnated Padma […]

People taking cars that don’t belong to them. (NY Daily News) People taking children that don’t belong to them. (Yahoo! News) Strange people doing strange things. (Gothamist) “Jobs and industries of tomorrow taking root beyond our borders.” (NYT) Colors you’ve never heard of before. (Jezebel) Reality stars who just won’t go away. (Entertainment Weekly) Columbia […]

Harlem vs. Columbia University (BookTV) Gov. Paterson’s love of Ultimate Fighting vs. New York State voters (Gothamist) Men’s basketball: Columbia vs. Harvard (Spec) Cabbies vs. Taxi and Limousine Commission 9/11 Trial: Guantanamo Bay vs. Manhattan– Manhattan definitely loses! (NY Post)

The economy grew at the fastest rate since you’ve been in college last quarter. (NYT) Sophomore basketball star Noruwa Agho is leading the NCAA in 3-point shooting percentage, and he’s from Jersey. (NJ.com) The White House requests that the 9/11 trial be moved out of Manhattan. (Daily News) Urban Outfitters is still not moving in […]

Mochas at MacDonalds (Recession Diary) Marijuana (NYT) Mutations (Flickr) Michelle Obama (Gothamist) Mars! (Wired)

In the Bronx, as part of a gun buyback program, people got cash for turning in their guns… even BB guns. (Gothamist) In Manhattan, there are so many transgender name change requests that its Civil Court could be one of the nation’s leading name-changing institutions. How topical! (NYT) In Stuyvesant Town, all is not well. […]

The term “Old Master” encompasses a lot more tacky artwork than you would have guessed. (NY1) Remember that time over the summer when Republicans took control of the state Senate? Yeah, well, it might happen again. (LI Press) Another attorney general wants to run for governor, hopefully with better results. (Daily News) Speaking of infidelity, […]

William S. Burroughs has risen from the dead and is holding up Greenwich Village’s frozen yogurt and sex-toy joints. (NYT) Sitting down will kill you. (Gothamist) Snacks are mandatory. (NYT) Despite the devastation in Haiti, cruise ships are still docking on the island, depositing tourists at private beaches 60 miles from Port-au-Prince. (Gothamist) Two lap […]

In a party-line vote, Democrats broke a Republican filibuster to pass an overhaul of the health care system. (Times) Actress Brittany Murphy died yesterday of “natural causes” at the age of 32. (Post) A cool time-lapse video of the snowfall in Brooklyn. (Gothamist) Off-duty Washington D.C. cop has his Hummer pelted by snowballs, decides to […]

JTS held a screening and panel discussion of “Inglourious Basterds” yesterday. Sample quote: “Wow, that was fun…I’m not supposed to feel that way, I know — I’m Jewish.” (Times) Three family members were killed by a career criminal in an Upper West Side apartment; the attacker then fell to his death while trying to escape. […]