Sat, Oct 29, 2005, 12:00am
Head Coach Bob Shoop sat in his office Thursday and thought about how his offense was due for a breakout game. Yale, he said, ran a basic defense that would give Columbia's younger players a chance to make plays.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Columbia University is haunted. Well, just barely. The Morningside campus was formerly the home of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (La Maison Française and a few tunnels are the only remaining evidence).
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
"Your life will never be the same again." That, ladies and gentlemen, is the guarantee from none other than the legendary Trick Daddy about the opportunity of participating in his upcoming VH1 reality series: Thug My Guy.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Anyone convinced that socially aware cinema is necessarily artless altruism has yet to encounter the work of Laurent Cantet. The same goes for those who find minimalist film to be all form and no content.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
New York has historically been one of the major centers of the avant-garde. Artists gather here, movements start here, and work that is impossible to find anywhere else is shown here.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Shopgirl is the surprisingly intelligent, sophisticated new comedy based on the Steve Martin novella of the same title.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a happy little enigma-at once a stock action film, steeped in all the genre's tedious formulas and cliches, and a vibrant re-envisioning of classic adventure movies, a loving homage to noir that succeeds in its own right.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
The Shining (1980) is Stanley Kubrick's intense, gothic horror film and haunted house masterpiece. The stylish film distances itself from the Stephen King novel on which it is based and in the process creates a whole new genre of horror.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Matt Pryor is all grown up. The New Amsterdams front-man has to pause during his interview to talk to his two children as they walk to the hardware store near their home in Lawrence, Kansas. "No, we can't walk on the wall now," he says gently.
Fri, Oct 28, 2005, 12:00am
Oxford Collapse is the kind of band that Mrs. Cleaver would call "a ruckus." They sound delightfully disobedient-catchy and caustic and almost always on the verge of, well, collapse. Their songs are full of nervous energy, the sort that you can not just dance to but shout along with.
