A Rutgers University study just released in the journal, Sex Roles, shows that feminists and their lucky men experience more romance and better sex.  Whew!  Just when I was beginning to think that my strong will and independent mind would render me a serial single …

[Burp Castle, Photo via NY Mag]

Kan ik de kamer zien? Nee…Yesterday, DBTH informed us that Belgium Room’s underage brew crew is currently in need of a new dive in which to guzzle those Delirium Tremens. Tragedy? Nous pensons que non. While we’re certainly in favor of lax doors, and like our bière et frites as much as the next semi Flemish/Francophile, we prefer cette expérience sans an NYU frat-tinged soundtrack. We suggest those displaced FIJI’s head over to Burp Castle. They have potent suds and spuds aplenty (from the très authentiquely greasy Pomme Frites) plus the mash-up of Gregorian chants and gratuitous innuendo –shall we call it The Greg Album?, could be the next grand chose. Dangermouse, watch yo’back.

Last night Gawker writer Richard Lawson posted about “overhearing” news of Mischa Barton being offered a recurring role on Gossip Girl (the better done, East coast version of the O.C.) Shit! Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. SHIT! One of the main reasons I fell in love with Gossip Girl in the beginning (besides the sex scene in the back kitchen at Gilt, the devirginization scene in the limo after a night at the Box, and the dramatization of Marquee), was that Mischa Barton WASN’T in it! If this rumor proves to be true, the show will loose some DRAMATIC points. This is an official plea to the CW: please come back in all your glory, and if you feel that you MUST include Mischa (for the irony reasoning), keep it to a couple scenes in ONE episode. Thanks. Oh, and keep her away from Taylor Momsen!

[My New Guilty Pleasure]
[Embracing Your Inner Serena Van der Woodsen]
[Gossip Girl On Stage At The Box]
[Our Southern Crush]
[14 Isn't What It Used To Be!]

[Photo from itsmejulia.com]

Anybody else catch Leven Rambin in last night’s Lipstick Jungle? I taped it and, though a little out of it while watching late last night, will have to say that #1 the show isn’t entirely shit (I had never seen an episode before) and #2 Leven wasn’t a horrible actress, (this being the first time I’ve seen her on screen as well). It really is too bad that popular Julia Allison’s Bday fell on the very same day that Leven made her debut on primetime TV….for it meant that her very own sister couldn’t even watch it as she had best friend commitments at Julia’s party. Thank god for DVR huh? Anyway, from the picture above, it’s apparent that Julia got to celebrate her day with all things PINK. Really, whoever the PR team is for this vodka line should get some props…those cups have been showing up all over the place lately.

[Happy Birthday Julia Allison!]
[What Do Moe Bags, Leven Rambin, And Julia Allison Have In Common?]
[Drop.io Launch Party]

WOW. [NY Times]

“It is not good publicpolicy to take all of these taxpayer dollas at a very tough time, and invest it in the prison system when we ought to be investing it in the things that are going to transform the economy, like education and diversifying the economy.”-MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm (DP), December, 2007

This was a complete shock to me actually (The number of American adults is about 230 million, meaning that one in every 99.1 adults is behind bars), and will now be another thing that my presidential pick will have to address….add it to the list!

[Crystal Dombrowski]

The pen is mightier than the sword, especially when the ink’s homegrown. In 2004, currently attending NYUs Gallatin School for Individualized Study, Crystal Dombrowski decided to create her own language, a mosh of tongues Elven and Romantic. As of yet unnamed-Crystal, a Taoist, says the name will come to her, and will mean “earth”, the language boasts a grammar system similar to ours but with attached pronoun; its characters are “flowy…with a lot of circular motions.” When she’s not penning Tolkien 2.0, Crystal flirts with French, Spanish, and Italian, preferably in hipster coffee havens. Crystal’s long-term aspirations include a book, which hopefully will “bridge the gap of misunderstanding between languages.” The U wishes her luck –Esperanto didn’t quite catch on, but was it sprinkled with elf dust?

[Photo via DBTH]

We often wonder the same thing Chef Pants….
(On the coverings of what will soon be the new Pinkberry on St. Marks)

The above photo turned up in our inbox today. The wrists are from 3 highly social, highly talked about, spotlight divas. We know who they belong to, but do you?

Here’s some hints:
One is making a cameo on tonight’s episode of Lipstick Jungle,
One plays our favorite character on the best show ever created,
and one belongs to a special Warholianesque-society member.

[Hanging Out With Levin Rambin...]
[Ms. Waldorf Has Her First Party Foul]
[The Factory 2.0 Without Warhol]

Normally I delete school-wide emails, but when they come from the head honcho himself, and have the subject line “Administrative Efficiencies and University Resources,” I can’t help but be a bit intrigued. In a very lengthy email, NYU President John Sexton frets ad infinitum over the university’s economic state. Our Contingency Reserve Fund can only stanch the hemorrhage for so long –especially when battling “numerous capital projects that will require many billions of dollars to complete.” Projects such as NYU- Abu Dhabi, perchance? Was the Abu Dhabi government’s $50 million not enough? So stingy, those emirates. John-John’s solution: “A multiyear restructuring of the University’s administration.” All potential expenditures must meet several criteria, among them “Is it required by law, regulatory, safety or accounting standards?”. What apparently isn’t required by law is a transparent budget. Where goes our 50K, good sir?

There is no greater pleasure in this world than late night bodega runs and street meat binges. However, our livers (and abs) are not always quite as thrilled as our tastebuds to worship at the altar of Ben and Jerry. Our beloved mayor, Bloomie, wants to call a truce. Remember when we told you about the bill his is office is trying to push through that would license 1,000 mobile green grocers stocked with a farm’s worth of veggies and fruit to be dispersed throughout neighborhoods that see more hostess cupcakes than harvested produce.

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Teacher to student: Do ur homework. Remember the kid that used to text message his or her friends under the desk in flagrant disregard of cell phone bans at school? Remember how that kid was a little bit bad-ass, with a dash of devil-may-care attitude? Now, I regret to inform you, that kid might be a straight-A student.

Our fair city is test-driving a new experiment to try to motivate student achievement that was dreamed up by Harvard economist and the city’s chief quality officer Roland G. Fryer. For the bargain price of $2 million dollars raised from private donors, School Chancellor Joe I. Klein had to cut the original target sample group from 10,000 to 15,000 students to just 2,500 lucky Brooklyn middle schoolers. More»