By Drew Grant 6/18 4:44pm

girls

Photo via Tina Wargo

Girls Fan Enlists Lena Dunham for STD-Inspired Tattoo

This is way better than that time Mick Jagger signed your aunt’s chest in Sharpie and she didn’t take a shower until 1988: On June 8th, Tina Wargo took to Twitter asking for help getting Girls creator Lena Dunham to handwrite the phrase “All adventurous women do,” for a tattoo.

Not only did Ms. Dunham comply, but she sent several samples of her script, neatly drawn in cursive on a napkin, to Ms. Wargo via Instagram. Ms. Wargo, who apparently had no qualms about spending her life with a reference to contracting HPV on her ankle, uploaded her new ink last week. Read More

By Elaina Plott 6/03 12:09pm

Rejected

Geoffrey Miller (via Twitter)

NYU Prof: Obese PhD Candidates Need Not Apply

It seems that for NYU’s PhD programs, fat people need not apply.

Geoffrey Miller, a visiting evolutionary psychology professor at NYU, is under fire for divulging his distasteful feelings yesterday on the PhD application process.

The since-deleted tweet read: “Dear obese PhD applicants: If you don’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, Read More

By Rebecca Hiscott 5/29 3:21pm

#WTF

This is P-Stew's hangover face. (Twitter)

Patrick Stewart Spent 72 Years Without Pizza?!

Patrick Stewart has boldly gone where every other New Yorker has already gone before.

This afternoon, the 72-year-old Park Slope resident and X-Men alum ate his first ever slice of pizza, according to his Twitter. He flawlessly implemented the famous New York fold.

Responses on Twitter range from “WTF?!” to “What’s with Montreal Canadiens cap?” Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 5/01 3:26pm

Job Openings

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Twitter Wants To Get More Journalists On Twitter

Although many journalists are on Twitter and use the social network on an almost obsessive basis, they want to take it official. To use the parlance of another social network, they want to go from “It’s Complicated” to “In a Relationship.” And how better to do that than to create a  position? Today, Twitter posted a link to a new job description: “Head of News and Journalism.”  Read More

By Drew Grant 4/23 7:01pm

Retail Therapy

Duane Reade at 40 Wall Street. (Photo via Shao-yu Liu.)

The Re-Education of Duane Reade: A Drugstore as Retail, Therapy

It’s not every weekend that Kerri Gristina, a schoolteacher living in the Bronx, manages to round up her three daughters and load them into the car for a Manhattan outing. When she does, she’ll take them to a Broadway play, to a museum or just to frolic around Central Park. But no matter what else they do that day, the busy mom always manages to carve out some time for one special stop along the way.

“They have natural options, organic options,” Ms. Gristina, who writes a blog called Raising Three Savvy Ladies, told The New York Observer of her favorite place to buy beauty products in NYC. “It’s like a designer store. Maybe it costs more, but having more variety is worth it.”

No, it’s not the Laura Mercier or Bobbi Brown counter at Bergdorf’s. Ms. Gristina’s guilty primping pleasure is Duane Reade.

Seriously. Read More