Abu Dhabi

Expansion Questions Arise Over NYU's Dismissal of Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng

Last year, Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York to take a teaching position at New York University. He'd just escaped house arrest in his native country of China after being prosecuted for representing thousands of women in a class-action lawsuit against the Communist government. Now, more than a yea ... More >>

As Growth Shifts Into Overdrive, NYU Faces a Rebellion From Within

NYU As Parliament: Professors Debate A No-Confidence Vote Against Pres. John Sexton

Unlike federalism, Parliamentary systems have this strange dose of symbolic gestures that underlie the relationship between the legislature and the executive. An example of this is the no-confidence vote: if Parliament is fed up with the Prime Minister's actions, its members can hold this vote that ... More >>

The 'Scream' Scheme

Money and masses munch on Munch at MOMA

NYU Censors Its Arabian Campus

How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

NYU Students: Debt and Debtor

NYU is number one in student debt. But is it really worth it?

The 'Stephen Aspirinio Brand' Wins Over CB1, Fails to Impress Florida

stephenasprinio.comThis man wants you to swallow his dough.​In June, former Top Chef repeat offender Stephen Aspirinio announced his plans to open Pizza Vino Teca, a pizzeria in the Financial District. Thanks to the whims of CB1, he's now one step closer to his goal.

Online Education's Net Worth

E-Learning is starting to take off at NYC universities, but are all the bugs worked out?

Benihana Sues Over Crap Review

BenihanaGet out the knives! It's fight time!​It's a good thing Yelp isn't popular in Kuwait. Because that would mean a lot of lawsuits would be coming up. Yes, Mark Makhou, a blogger in Kuwait, has been sued for $18,000 for writing a negative review of chain restaurant Benihana on his blog ... More >>

Magnolia Sets Up Mission Control in Harlem, Readies for World Domination

Then one day, the cupcakes started eating us.​The cupcake cartel that is Magnolia isn't just opening five new locations around the country. It's priming itself for world domination with a new 5,200-square-foot production facility in Harlem, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new factory ... More >>

Kanye West Cancels On The Today Show: "I Accept Ya'll Future Apology In Advance"

And can you blame him? The performance, set to take place on November 26th, was meant to follow this awful interview that Matt Lauer recently conducted with the rapper ("I want you to just look at his face..."), also on The Today Show. But if Kanye West has proved anything in 2010, it's that he do ... More >>

In America, the ATMS Will Soon Spew Gold

​Suddenly out of gold, and out of reach of your trusty gold bullion dealer? In America, these problems get fixed once they get realized. And apparently the problem has been realized. Las Vegas and Florida will get these awesome, or awesomely terrifying, ATMs that dispense gold bars ranging in ... More >>

I Met With a Reality Show Producer

​ A TV producer recently contacted me because he's supposedly a big fan and thought I'd be great to pitch a show with. He warned me that I wouldn't make that much money directly off the show. But, obviously, he'd do much better than that or he wouldn't have been suggesting it. After a phone ... More >>

You Pretty Much Have to Be a Genius to Go to NYU Abu Dhabi

via The New York Times​New York University's Abu Dhabi satellite campus accepted just 2.1 percent of applicants for its inaugural class of 2014, compared to Harvard, which admitted 6.9 percent. Yep, these kids could probably kick ass at any spelling bee in any language in any country in the ev ... More >>

A Spoiler-Laden Review of Sex and the City 2

​The Sex and the City 2 gals couldn't exactly be made to romp around the economic ravages of America. That wouldn't be all that appealing. So the sequel sends them to Abu Dhabi! In a feverish stretch of the imagination, Samantha manages to get a job there and arranges to have all her friend ... More >>

Rightbloggers on Sex and the City: Still Hate Sex, and City, But Love That Anti-Muslim Angle

The reviews are in, and Sex and the City 2 looks like the season's biggest critical bomb. Though the film drew a decent crowd in its opening weekend, it was lambasted by critics both highbrow ("almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness" -- Wall Street Journal) and low ("Sucks in the city" -- New ... More >>

Rag on My Sex and the City, Fine, But Let's Leave Friendship Out of It

​As we wade through the shitstorm of negativity about the out-in-theaters-now Sex and the City 2 (Full disclosure, no, we have not seen it yet, but we will, and we will be similarly tortured, we are certain), we just have to say one thing: There is one tried and true principle, one facet of th ... More >>

Morning Links: Fergie's Out of Cash, BP Spill Estimate at 85.3 Million Gallons, Make Way for Sailors

​• Poor Fergie gets only $21K a year from her ex husband Prince Andrew and really may not have a "bean to her name." Not that that excuses anything.

Sex and the City Vs. Nature

Aging disgracefully, the franchise struggles to stay forever young

'Sex and the City 2' Gay Dish!

At newest Chelsea gay bar, baseball and beer. Plus: Broadway and bears

Sex and The City 2 Spoiler: Carrie's Jihad on Islam?

​For years, HBO's Sex and the City made New York City an excitable frontier of moneyed men, inexplicably well-off women (despite shitty writing jobs that realistically pay nothing), and a world where everyone is someone else's plus-one. And that frontier was then seized upon by basically every ... More >>

Scientists Still Plugging Away at Contraception for Dudes; Meanwhile, 1 in 5 Men Have "Abnormal Sperm Counts"

​How do we not want to have a baby? Let us count the ways. If you're a woman, you've got that female condom horror, the sponge, a host of different hormone therapies from pills to injectables, implantables, diaphragms, even emergency contraception, not to mention swearing off men altogether .. ... More >>

Kerry Washington: No Slouch in Mamet's Race

Plus dancing stars, live mullets, and midlife lesbians.

Magnolia Set to Sugarcoat Dubai

Flirty Kitty/flickr​Dubai is starting to resemble a New York dentist's worst nightmare: The Chocolate Bar is already there, the Shake Shack is on its way, and now, it appears, Magnolia is about to follow. According to the cupcake capo Steve Abrams, the bakery will open a store there inside the ... More >>

What is the Tribeca Film Fest?

Staffers flee. New blood moves in. And still the question remains.

ND/NF: Sophie Barthes Has a Chickpea For Your Soul

New Voice Funny Money Blog Debuts

Just because we're all going broke doesn't mean we can't get some laughs out of it. That's the idea behind the Voice's new blog, The Smart Asset, which regards the downfall of our economy as the ultimate banana-peel gag. In recent items Smart Asset considers the superiority of the Madoff non-investm ... More >>

Arab Government Bites Off a Big Chunk of G.E.

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Fight Them Over There

Peter Berg turns Jamie Foxx loose in Saudi Arabia; things blow up

Ports: All 'Bout a Dealer Named Bout

A Russian arms merchant funnels money, guns, and dope through the United Arab Emirates

Seeing Double

A Room with a different view: Digging through the trenches of the image war at Al Jazeera

Cleaning Up at Ground Zero

A Billion-Dollar Award Looms for GOP Ally

The Mayor of Little Afghanistan

A Local Face in the Effort to Form an Interim Government in Afghanistan

Follow the Money

Dance in a Global Economy