Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 11:28pm
When Rebecca Greenstein, BC ’10, and Daniel Mitura, CC ’09, began talking about the recent discovery of a new ridiculous use for hadrons—a bound state of quarks known only to physics majors—neither of them expected that their conversation would eventually lead to the Off-Off-Broadway production
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 11:00pm
On Tuesday evening at Low Library, Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library began its Bibliography Week, an annual conference for book history scholars, with Robert Bringhurst’s lecture “The Book Before Writing.”
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:58pm
As an unfortunate consequence of having grown up in Honolulu, I was long convinced that all art galleries were variations on the tacky Wyland showrooms I often passed in Waikiki.
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:54pm
Even without prior knowledge of restaurateur Jean Georges Vongerichten’s enormously successful empire, it is apparent upon entry that his sleek West Village venture, Perry St., is the brainchild of a refined and creative professional.
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:52pm
The classical music community increasingly has been striving to demystify what has become an overly-canonized and esoteric art form, and to make it as creative and mainstream as it was in the time of Mozart and Beethoven.
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:45pm
Forty-two years is a long time to spend affiliated with one institution and to have lived within its shadow for all that time. Fortunately Columbia and New York City have always brought the world to me and me to the world.
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:41pm
Who the hell knew who Barack Obama was before July 27, 2004? Certainly not my co-worker this summer. She asked me: “Isn’t he some sort of ghetto guy?”
“About as much as Lil Jon,” I responded.
Wed, Jan 21, 2009, 10:34pm
What was once traditional has now become a radical proposition: that Columbia College students be required to take Latin or ancient Greek, rather than a modern language.
