Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 4:15am
As a recently decided film major midway through the fall of my sophomore year, I was sitting in the back of 511 Dodge Hall, idly doodling in the minutes before my Script Analysis class, when our professor cut through the ambient murmur with an announcement.
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 3:28am
As central as they are to our daily lives, arts and culture are all too easily dismissed as trivial distractions or wastes of our time.
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 3:13am
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 2:10am
You’re not the only one who thinks of Wonder Woman as more than a novelty Halloween costume. In fact, she was featured in last week’s Athena Film Festival at Barnard. Wonder Women!
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 2:05am
On the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 6, the United States Postal Service announced that, this coming August, it would stop delivering mail on Saturdays. I was sitting at the help desk in the Diana Center, where I work, when I heard the news. I felt close to tears—I love the USPS.
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 1:58am
If there is one way to make Quentin Tarantino defensive, it’s to question the violence in his films.
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 1:11am
As a college student in New York, it’s easy to feel like you’re surrounded by thousands of beautiful forks when all you can use is a spoon.
Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 1:00am
Was that a Broadway show or a rock concert? With electric guitars and amplifiers onstage and actors shouting (or screaming) lyrics, there’s an increasingly fine line between musicals and high-caliber jam sessions.
Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 11:23pm
Priscilla Becker would self-publish her work if she had the choice.
“Your work may be more accessible if you’re published by a major publishing house,” says Becker, a creative writing professor at Columbia and published poet. “But you don’t get paid anything.”
Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 11:11pm
Like most college students, I spent my winter break recuperating from months of productivity by spending four weeks doing, well, nothing. I hung out with a few friends. I ate a few burritos.