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New York University's independent student newspaper, established in 1973.

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Poster for Bushwick's upcoming Fox Fest music event. (Courtesy of Mir Huang)

NYU Psych Lab Launches Its Own Fyre Festival

NYU’s Fox Lab will highlight the intersection of music and psychopathy in a music festival set to be the first of its kind.
February 22, 2019

Taking inspiration from the ill-fated Fyre Festival, the NYU Psych Lab is now hosting a music festival of their own, FoxFest, that is the first of its kind. It will feature a slew...

Cover art for "Fyre" on Netflix (Courtesy of Netflix).

Fyre Festival Scam Continues

The music festival scandal that led to a social media riot culminated in two competing documentaries, but even they were unable to escape ethical issues in their production.
Dante Sacco, Staff Writer February 11, 2019

Fyre Festival, the brainchild of practiced millennial manipulator Billy McFarland, was a 2017 ultra-luxe music festival in the Bahamas imagined to appeal to the basest desires...