Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
After winning a Pulitzer, it's not uncommon for a playwright to go through a period of stagnation. Many lay low for a while, like Tony Kushner, who wrote 13 plays in 11 years before winning the prize for Angels in America, and then was off the radar for three years afterward.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
In recent years, comics have come to pervade college campuses all over the country. Here at Columbia, Art Spiegelman, the great advocate for the medium of comic books, teaches a seminar called "Comics Marching Into the Canon" and recently gave a talk under the same title.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
Inevitably, anyone who has traveled to China finds upon his return to America that Chinese food has mysteriously gone from flavorful to criminally tasteless.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
Imagine bringing Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Marilynne Robinson, and eight other writers together for an hour and a half in front of a full house.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
"People expect a spectacle," said Ben Isham, SEAS '08 and assistant art director of the 113th Varsity Show.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
"The first poem is about conception," Pia Tafdrup explained timidly during her allotted time on the Town Hall stage last Wednesday night, delving immediately and passionately into a first-person poetic narrative of what life was like before it began.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
At the end of this year, a cinematic work of art will be released that has a multi-million dollar production value, an all-star cast, and a director with over two decades of experience in the industry. But you won't see Lost Odyssey in a movie theater. You'll play it on your Xbox 360.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
Paroled Convict Mugs Professor, Stabs Man
A Baruch College professor was mugged and her boyfriend stabbed by a parolee, the New York Post reported.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
About 15 people marched from Lerner Hall to the Office of the Secretary yesterday to present the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Bill Campbell, with a petition to protest the unclean environmental practices of Apple Computers.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007, 12:00am
Correction appended.
Professors at Brown, Princeton, the University of California-Berkeley, and Dartmouth have joined students who authored a report on the state of ethnic studies at Columbia report in emphasizing the importance of the discipline in a liberal arts education.
