Fri, Feb 28, 2003, 12:00am
We at Et Cetera were reminded of our childhoods this week--specifically the parts of our childhoods that involved running to the tops of jungle gyms and shouting things along the lines of "you can't get me, nanny nanny boo boo."
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
Ever since Sep. 11, everyone seems to have gone out and found an opinion on the war, especially the media. "We should ... we shouldn't ... it's because ... no it isn't": the teeming masses turned on and tuned in, gobbling up every new revelation.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
Beneath the doldrums of intemperate winter weather and the anxiety of encroaching midterms, there burns a hot artistic fire. In the coming months, Columbia's various on-campus theater groups will begin to unveil their 2003 spring season.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
The Chinese Students Club is an extremely organized and well-run association on campus.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
The Pearl Theater Company's latest production, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, is a classic example of a hardworking theater company working hard but producing little more than its own sweat.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
What do inflated balloon phalluses, pro-peace activism, and next Monday's lunchtime all have in common?
The Lysistrata Project: It's the largest theatre activism project for peace ever undertaken, and it's coming to campus.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
The Metropolitan Opera's new mounting of Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens ("The Trojans"), the first since 1983 and only the third in the company's history, is breathtaking.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
For the first time ever, the Royal Ballet Upper School has come to the United States to present a performance as well as to hold auditions for the upper school's summer program. Graduate students of the Royal Ballet School held three performances in Hunter College's Kay Playhouse.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
Anxious first-years who have had one too many cups of coffee may not be the only small jittery creatures in Butler this midterm season. While most students need an ID to get into Columbia buildings, certain uninvited guests have found other ways to enter.
Thu, Feb 27, 2003, 12:00am
Felix Rohatyn is widely credited with saving the City of New York from bankruptcy in 1975. Now, Rohatyn says, he can help do it again.