2009-04-17

Fri, Apr 17, 2009, 12:21am
After last weekend’s triumphs at the University of North Carolina and Arizona State University, the Columbia track and field team will travel to Princeton on Friday to compete in the Larry Ellis Invitational. This meet marks the team’s return to competition with Ivy League opponents.
Fri, Apr 17, 2009, 12:19am
The women’s tennis team will enter its final weekend of Ivy play still searching for its first league win this season when it takes on Penn and No. 46 Princeton.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:20pm
Despite its chic shine, the UES has a few reasonably priced restaurants where students can dine on a dime.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:19pm
The New York Society Library fulfills every expectation one might have for an Upper East Side library. Hushed, exclusive, and rich in history and artifacts, it sits proudly in the center of the block (on 79th Street, between Madison and Park avenues).
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:17pm
The Upper East Side has long been overshadowed by downtown neighborhoods known for exciting nightlife and edgy art galleries. Incentives to visit this part of town are a little less hip. Fifth Avenue is the home of Museum Mile, which includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim, and...
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:15pm
Welcome to the Upper East Side: home of Museum Mile, Millionaires’ Row, Madison Avenue Boutiques, and of course, Gossip Girl. What do all of these things have in common? They all portray the finer things in life: high art, high prices, high fashion, and high drama.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:14pm
New Yorkers are, by and large, not morning people. I think that’s why we invented brunch, or at least act like we did.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:11pm
Ptolemy placed the Earth at the center of the universe, while Copernicus substituted the sun as the pivot point of our solar system. Astrophysicist Sasha Greenberg, Perestroika’s protagonist played by Sam Robards, suggests that it is not where we live, but how, that is supreme.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:08pm
A forest path lined with scattered wooden objects that appear—on closer inspection—to be dramatically enlarged pills, might not be the most likely display one without knowledge of Martin Kippenberger would expect to see.
Thu, Apr 16, 2009, 11:06pm
There is nothing funny about a cheap night out in New York. Fortunately, at the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy club in downtown Manhattan, the $5 ticket price is the only thing that doesn’t have audience members laughing in the aisles.

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