House Speaker Mike Johnson told student protesters at Columbia University on Wednesday to “enjoy” their free speech before declaring that he would urge President Joe Biden to deploy the National Guard to universities and colleges across the country — where students are being arrested en masse in an increasingly violent …
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Melissa Barrera seems remarkably composed for someone navigating one of the most trying periods of their personal and professional lives. You’ve probably seen the headlines: The rising star of Vida, In the Heights, and the Scream films was fired from the horror franchise and falsely branded antisemitic for a series …
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Over the past three decades, sketch comedy group The State has created an MTV series, a comedy album, a book, and a CBS special in addition to several spinoff projects like Reno 911!, Viva Variety, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer, RISK!, and Children’s Hospital. But the logistics of bringing the …
Read More »We Got NYU to Divest From Fossil Fuels — And That's Just the Start
This summer, we faced unbearable heat waves, we breathed in thick, dark wildfire smoke, and we saw homes and cars be swallowed up by mass floods. We are up against a ticking time bomb, pushing us to cut down emissions as fast as possible. From our cities and towns, to …
Read More »Everything Ayo All at Once
W hether we like it or not, comedian Ayo Edebiri and I are both about to learn a lesson. For Edebiri, a California resident who’s in New York for a few whirlwind days of press, she’s about to find out that our interview is taking place at a Brooklyn pottery …
Read More »NYU Tisch Experts on Post Production and the Production Business
Rolling Stonejoined forces withIndieWire, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and the online-education platformYellowbrickto launch“Film and TV Industry Essentials” last year. The program began enrolling students earlier this fall, and the curriculum is composed of five easily digestible course modules. Each of the concise lessons lasts between three …
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