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Five food-inspired Halloween outfits

Diamond Naga Siu, Contributing Writer October 29, 2015
There's still time to whip up these food-related Halloween costumes.
“Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition” runs through January 2016 at Premiere Exhibitions at 417 Fifth Ave and features memorabilia from the show.

This place has everything: SNL memorabilia, history and Stefon

Lily Dolin, Staff Writer October 29, 2015
Walk through a week of production at SNL, sit on Wayne's couch and stand on the legendary Studio 8H stage at "SNL: The Exhibition."
Sleepwalk With Us is a BFA group exhibition featuring the work of Aidan Romick, Jack Johnson, and Eleanor Gollin, is on view in The Commons at NYU Steinhardt’s Barney Building

Ambiguous appeal of ‘Sleepwalk With Us’

Daria Butler, Staff Writer October 29, 2015
Ambiguous creativity clouds Steinhardt's undergraduate Studio Art gallery "Sleepwalk with Us" at the Barney Building.
Staff Recs: Spooky Halloween movies to binge-watch

Staff Recs: Spooky Halloween movies to binge-watch

Celebrate Halloween with a seasonal movie binge with staff-recommended movies. The list includes the musical "Hocus Pocus," the nostalgic "Halloweentown" and the racy "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
“The Wonders”, a film on an eleven-year-old girl’s coming-of-age, is well worth its Cannes Grand Prix Prize.

The birds and the beekeepers star in Italian coming of age film

Natalie Whalen, Staff Writer October 29, 2015
A small-town family of beekeepers in Italy confronts the lure of reality television when a production crew rolls into town. Alice Rohrwacher's film "The Wonders" tells the charming coming-of-age story of a young teenage girl who must face the changes coming over her town and herself.
The recently-renamed indie-pop band, JR JR will be in town next Wednesday at Webster Hall.

Epstein of band JR JR talks New York, Detroit music scene

Audrey Deng, Arts Editor October 28, 2015
JR JR's latest album "JR JR" marks a minimalist watershed in the indie-pop band's career. Band member Joshua Epstein talks about Dale Earnhardt Jr., Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. and the band's upcoming performance at Webster Hall on Nov. 4.
The Beastie Boys have signed a deal with the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts allowing senior Clive Davis students to produce in their East Village studio.

Beastie Boys now letting NYU students to use their recording studios

Kieran Graulich, Music Editor October 28, 2015
The Beastie Boys will open their recording studio to NYU students so seniors at Clive Davis can share the recording experience of the Grammy Award-winning rock band.
The Eye of the Shar: Qajar Court Photography and the Persian Past exhibition is showing at the New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World from October 22nd, 2015 to January 17th, 2016.

Photography exhibit captures Iran in the 19th century

Anthony Schwab, Staff Writer October 28, 2015
"Eye of the Shah" points the camera to Iranian history in the latest exhibit at NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. These 19th century photographers managed to capture Iran's ancient history as well as their present in this doubly-retrospective gallery.
Pharrell Williams is elusive campus icon

Pharrell Williams is elusive campus icon

Audrey Deng, Arts Editor October 27, 2015
NYU Tisch Artist-in-Residence Pharrell Williams participated in a retrospective discussion with NYU Clive David Professor Jason King about his prolific career in the music industry, from the 2003 hit "Milkshake" to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky." Despite all these hits, Williams revealed that he never viewed himself as an artist.
Betsy Morgan, Barbara Walsh, and Caissie Levy in First Daughter Suite, a new musical by Michael John LaChiusa, directed by Kirsten Sanderson, running at The Public Theater.

‘First Daughter’ pretty but problematic

Joseph Myers, Theater/Books Editor October 26, 2015
The daughters of presidents sing about living under the scrutiny of the public eye in the highly creative musical "The First Daughter Suite." Daughters of Bush, Carter, Ford join together to save American hostages from Iran.
Netflix paid nearly $12 million for worldwide rights to Cary Fukunaga’s African war drama Beasts of No Nation.

Netflix is no place for new films

Ethan Sapienza, Staff Writer October 26, 2015
The growing trend of debuting feature films on streaming services like Netflix is creating an irrevocable change in movie-watching practices that isn't all bad.
“Celebrating the Art of Japan” brings together a massive collection of Japanese art, covering many statues, paintings and poems that span centuries of Japanese history.

Two worlds meet at Met

Carter Glace, Staff Writer October 26, 2015
Two vastly different exhibits find common artistic ground in the Met's "Fashion and Virtue" and "Celebrating the Art of Japan." Explore how textiles changed from housework to hate-couture in this expansive gallery.