Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
He said that if he could make it there, then he could make it anywhere. He didn't say how, or why, but Frank Sinatra was sure that this was the case in his New York, New York.
Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
I write this article in the back row of class in the Mudd building. I've eaten my lunch and drunk my soda. I finished the crossword puzzle (hooray Monday!). I've crossed and uncrossed my legs enough times to sprain my ankles. The last piece of gum I chewed loosened a filling.
Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
If Columbia exposed its own defensive weakness in last week's win over Georgetown, Princeton either ignored it or had trouble catching on.
Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
Playing in the Eastern College Athletic Conference tournament this past weekend, Columbia made it as far as the final match, but a loss to Penn closed the door on a postseason bid.
Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
The men's golf team had a rough start to the 2006 Joe Agee Invitational, hosted by William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va. The team shot a cumulative 307 (+27), putting the Lions one spot above last place in the field of 18 teams after one day of competition.
Tue, Oct 3, 2006, 12:00am
Suicide, they told me.
Challenging Columbia's best football player was pure suicide. Outlandish. Psychotic. I didn't have a prayer, everyone claimed.
But I didn't care.
"He's just a kicker," I said.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
It seems that the surest way to achieve immortality in the art world is to become the subject of a great work or the artist who produced it.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
At the risk of sounding like a sycophantic Sufjan Stevens devotee, describing Sufjan Stevens' Friday night performance at Town Hall has proved to be unbelievably difficult.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
The bright-eyed and bushy-haired Regina Spektor took the stage of New York's Town Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 27, returning to her native city and continuing her ambitious tour with as big a smile as ever.
Mon, Oct 2, 2006, 12:00am
The Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai
Anyone starting Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss should be aware that, wrapped in flowing prose and colorful, visceral imagery, is a story that is essentially about solitude and disappointment.
