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vol. 7, issue 8
Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 2:16am
“We’re all very happy you’re here. Because this is where the show is.” Columbia College junior Ben Weiner pauses, inviting the crowd gathered before him to chuckle. Though it’s 9 on a rainy Saturday night, the folding chairs that have been lined up in Lerner 555 are filled with people.
Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 1:35am
“We learn about the big names—Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso. But we just don’t know the others because it’s not what we’re taught,” a friend of mine told me a few weeks ago.
Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 1:28am
For my Hungarian cinema class, I had hoped to write a paper on the films of Miklos Jancso, an influential New Wave director of movies like “The Red and the White.” Not wanting to shell out a large amount of cash for imported DVDs—not to mention a region-specific DVD player—I turned to Butler.
Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 12:59am
In the introduction to the “cerebral” side of his 1972 double LP “Something/Anything?,” Todd Rundgren greets listeners with a tongue-in-cheek paean—now quietly quaint—to the gramophone record:
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 11:54pm
How does a simple petri dish of DNA constitute the identity of a complex human being—from the way she laughs to her love of Cocoa Krispies?
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 11:38pm
We’ve all had one of those nights. You’re at a party, having a beer or a mixed drink. Later, you do a shot with an old friend from your freshman floor, then you have another beer—maybe two—you don’t really remember.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 10:20pm
1. Eating at Ninja New York for Halloween: If you haven’t had a silver platter set on fire and then turned into a chocolate cake with a ninja star on top, you have not truly lived.
-Melanie Jones, managing editor, features
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 10:03pm
There’s a crystal clear sky above, a perfectly manicured field below. I am surrounded by thousands of people packed together in a sea of red and white clothing and banners.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 9:52pm
Professor Randall Balmer is no stranger to religious diversity. Raised by evangelists, he left his fundamentalist background when he became a liberal in the 1970s. Then he joined the Episcopal Church and became ordained in 2006.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 9:24pm
We got Election Day off this Tuesday, but how many Columbians actually used the break to fulfill their civic duties? We took a very unscientific poll to find out.
