vol. 10, issue 11

Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 3:02am
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 2:58am
The New York Times recently published an article about the fashionable rudeness of smartphone addiction, prompting us to dole out some advice on how to be an extra-awesome, tech-friendly socialite in this day and age. See our post on Spectrum for an in-depth list.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 2:38am
Last Thursday, Joel Gombiner, a senior in CC, woke up at 6 a.m., like he has every Thursday since early March, to sell mushrooms all morning at the Madura Farm stand in the Greenmarket on Broadway.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:51am
It’s weird when things cross over from the virtual world into the physical one. Stranger still that my friend Jules hadn’t ever been on the Internet before now. He wasn’t a new born baby or a really old man or anything. He was a young man, in his twenties. A contributor to society.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:48am
It’s been a long time for CAKE: since the members founded the band in 1991, since “The Distance” ruled the alternative charts (1996), and since they last released an album (2004’s Pressure Chief).
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:39am
It’s an age-old trope: the struggling artist desperately seeking to be heard. It’s not hard to imagine the poor genius painter stuck in his studio—skinny, bearded, anemic—deliriously committed to his canvas.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:33am
“He has to have the newest Jordans when they come out,” says Ayelén Rodriguez, a freshman in CC, about a friend of hers from home. “He will look up online when they are coming out, and then go to a Foot Locker or anywhere that they sell them. Sometimes he will wait on line.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:29am
I had never been to The Heights, so I had never met their infamous bouncer Anna. But I had heard her described as a “sassy bitch” and a “real genuine lady” in the same sentence by students who frequented the bar.
Thu, Apr 21, 2011, 1:25am
A young girl, collapsed, with bones jutting and a vulture looming in the distance: everyone knows the iconic, Pullitzer-prize winning photograph taken by Kevin Carter of a starving Sudanese girl. It is an image that clearly demonstrates the power of photography.