Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:49am
The first weeks of classes are always eventful—you’re catching up with friends, making impressions on professors, doing the prove-yourself-but-don’t-look-like-a-smartass dance… It’s a turbulent time.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:40am
On Jan. 2, Tao Lin uploaded a home video titled “wedding | 27 nov 2010,” shot entirely on a handheld MacBook Pro, to his Vimeo account.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:39am
Where to find your zone this semester.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:38am
It’s been almost 200 years since the first photograph was taken, but it was only a little over 20 years ago that the first digital camera saw light. Now people trade in Polaroids, dark rooms, and photographic film for the convenience of the click of a button and a two-minute computer upload.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:37am
Remember over the summer, when you weaned yourself off caffeine and woke up every morning bright and fresh as a drug-free daisy? No? We don’t either. Now that we’re back to school and back to Starbucks, here are some warnings they don’t include on the mermaid label.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:33am
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist and atheist icon best known for titles The Selfish Gene (1976) and The God Delusion (2006), will soon add another line to his resume: children’s author.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:29am
If you have never heard of Tao Lin, it’s really quite OK. I’m actually still sort of wondering why I know his name.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:27am
Smoking, the great American pastime of Mad Men and housewives alike, has fallen into disfavor.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 2:22am
Once called “the brightest star in New York’s choral world” by the New York Times, Kent Tritle is starting a Morningside Heights residency as St. John the Divine's newest director of cathedral music.
Thu, Sep 22, 2011, 12:19am
The kitchen of 14 Robbey Lane had not changed much from its original Levittown arrangement and aesthetic: tiled eggshell-white with linoleum and papered with a black-and-silver print borrowed from a mid-century modern thrust to catch light and split it open.