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WASHINGTON SQUARE NEWS Vol. 41, No. 77
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013
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nyunews.com From Oct. 9 to 12, New York Comic Con played host to a number of panels covering the latest movies, television shows and more. For WSN’s coverage of this year’s show, visit nyunews.com.
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University hosts disaster preparedness design competition By MIMI MCCANN
The Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU is sponsoring Rebuild by Design, a multistep design competition that allows teams to design projects that increase resilience against disasters in regions affected by Hurricane Sandy and aims to understand the impact Sandy has had on the community. Selected proposals will receive funding from the congressional Sandy relief bill. IPK is working on this project in col-
laboration with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the president’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force. Representatives from the task force reached out to Eric Klinenberg, the director of IPK, to see if IPK could provide institutional support for the initiative. Stage one of Rebuild by Design began in June with an application process that sought professionals with experience in landscape design, urban design, archi-
tecture, land-use planning, industrial design and communications. “148 international teams from 40 countries applied to be considered for the competition, [and] 10 were chosen by the Sandy task force in Washington, D.C.,” Klinenberg said. Those 10 teams are now nearing the end of stage two, which began in August and runs through the end of October. This stage, which is supported by a staff hired by Klinenberg and IPK, analyzes the region’s
needs and vulnerabilities after Sandy as a basis for identifying design opportunities. Rae Zimmerman, a professor of planning and public administration at NYU, emphasized the need to approach disaster preparedness on a regional scale. “We need to look at a site-specific geographic scale when we do disaster preparedness, [and we] shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that we need a citywide and
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‘Darlings’ taps into history of Beat Generation By JEREMY PICK
It’s 1944 and things are changing in New York City. A group of young men are tearing down the normal conventions of poetry, forming what they call the Beat Generation and they are starting to take the city by storm. “Kill Your Darlings,” the first feature film from director John Krokidas, explores this transformation from the perspective of some of the poets involved, but the film spins the story in an unexpectedly darker direction based on true events. The film follows a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) as he is accepted into Columbia University and relocates to the Upper West Side. He doesn’t fit in right away, but things become more comfortable when he meets Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan), an eccentric student
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Humans of New York photographer hosts book signing at Barnes & Noble Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the blog Humans of New York, spoke at Barnes & Noble on the night of Tuesday, October 15, for the release of his book, also titled “Humans of New York”. Stanton discussed the motivation behind the photo collection. He told attendees, “My goal, when I talk to these people, is that I want to learn something about each person I’ve never heard before.”
Diverse New York perfumeries offer personalized fragrances By DANA RESZUTEK
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The city’s perfumeries provide variety of customizable scents.
When preparing to go out, perfume is generally the last thing applied — the final touch that perfects your image. What you smell like can convey how you feel. But despite the variety of scents available in stores, not everyone will find a predesigned match in the fragrance aisle. With perfumeries that offer custom fragrances, there’s a simple alternative to finding a scent that’s guaranteed to match your body chemistry. Through a process that typi-
cally involves selecting from a wide range of oils and testing them to form your own scent, a custom fragrance may open the door for originality while insuring, with the help of perfume experts, that the combination will prove cohesive. A variety of perfumeries in New York City offer this process. The Fragrance Shop New York, located in the East Village, offers hundreds of scents and in an attainable price range between $28 and $67. Owner of the New York shop Lalita Kamut explained the process of how to choose the right
scents in a custom fragrance. “Your nose will tell you what’s right,” she said. “When we make the custom fragrances, you choose about three to six scents. We process by testing, and you’ll always know when the scent is right because it’ll feel the best on you.” Although the Fragrance Shop New York offers a walk-in environment, many other custom perfumeries such as Upper East Side’s Scenterprises LTD and Brooklyn’s Herbal Alchemy, further personalize the cus-
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