Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 3:18am
"The Kool-Aid flavor of the day is grape.” At Amy Ruth’s, serving Kool-Aid with dinner seems as natural as eating fried chicken piled over waffles, an admittedly strange prospect for my Midwestern parents.
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 3:11am
It’s a question we’ve all been asked by distant aunts, awkward new acquaintances, and advisors: What’s your major?
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 2:48am
Boys play with trucks, girls play with dolls. Boys like sports, girls like playing house. While at a liberal arts college this sounds naïve to almost everyone, the science behind sex differences has historically been viewed in such black and white terms.
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 2:11am
From February 10 to 13, Barnard’s Athena Center for Leadership Studies and the group Women in Hollywood will collaborate to create the first annual Athena Film Festival.
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 12:58am
The distinguished older gentleman sitting in the front row of your philosophy lecture. The woman with the soccer-mom haircut who orders her coffee every day at the same time you do. The veteran in your poli sci class, fresh from the regions you’re discussing.
Thu, Feb 3, 2011, 12:46am
Over a year ago, I was spending another Friday night of debauchery in gay West Hollywood. A club was promoting a somewhat-new social networking application released for iPhones and iPod Touch, akin to other recent social networking “dating” apps.
Wed, Feb 2, 2011, 11:46pm
I love making New Year’s resolutions—they have always been my favorite annual tradition. Nothing gives me more pleasure than promising to go to the gym or finally getting around to reading that book I said I would.
Wed, Feb 2, 2011, 11:33pm
It’s morning and the sound of accessible jazz plays softly yet audibly. The music is just loud enough to hold its own among the soft, and not-so-soft, tapping of keyboards and the squealing, steaming spouts of the cappuccino machine. A lone voice pours over the cacophony, or melts really.