Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:59pm
Lincoln Center, located on 66th Street and Broadway and just off the 1 train, is one of the most famous performing arts centers in the world, and the New York City Ballet is its crown jewel.
With the spring season starting on April 28th, the full-length classics Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer’s...
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:57pm
If you’ve been following my surveys of various New York neighborhoods and their gaming scenes over the past few weeks, you know that the best places in the city for constant gaming competition are downtown. But if you’re stuck uptown in Morningside Heights and the Upper West Side, you’ve still got...
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:56pm
Manhattan is an island of choices, and the daily decisions inherent to living here are often followed by regret. Eating out means $50 no longer in the bank. Seeing a new borough or neighborhood means 45 wasted minutes on the subway.
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:54pm
Zabar’s, H&H Bagels, The American Museum of Natural History, and Lincoln Center are just a few things that automatically come to mind when thinking of the Upper West Side. Yet within the intellectual, baby-stroller-filled streets of this neighborhood, inhabitants can find exciting and...
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:52pm
About 50 faculty members shuffled into 428 Pupin Thursday for a meeting open exclusively to faculty in the Arts and Sciences to probe Columbia’s role in the debate on academic freedom in Palestine, and to do what academics do best: talk about talking.
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:52pm
By the time Harry stabs a deformed alien baby in the lung in director David Lynch’s Eraserhead, viewers will probably have already given up trying to understand the plot. Maybe that’s why the IFC Center has chosen Lynch’s 1977 cult classic for their midnight movie this Friday and Saturday. Before...
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:51pm
“I wake up every morning to this,” said Marion Billings, a resident of newly constructed properties comprising the Columbus Village development, which began in the fall of 2006.
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:50pm
I never really bought into the phrase “you are what you eat.” My 12-year-old self always thought it was pretty clear that I was not human compost.
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:48pm
In the made for TV movie Life-Size, Tyra Banks plays a glamorous doll who transforms from toy to human. Much like her character, Banks comes to life on the set of her daytime talk show, somehow managing to be even more beautiful, entertaining, and likable in person than on TV.
Thu, Apr 23, 2009, 9:46pm
An exciting presentation of experimental, fresh choreography will be on display this weekend during The Barnard Project. A collaboration between new age choreographers and Barnard/Columbia dancers, the show will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in Chelsea.