As an inhabitant of New Jersey for four years now, I've often had to stand up for this state and claim that it really isn't as bad as its reputation implies.
The dizzying array of colors and costumes, cakes and chandeliers and astonishingly baroque backdrops in "Marie Antoinette" could easily fill 10 issues of Vogue.
When I interviewed Doug McGrath '80 for The Daily Princetonian in the fall of 2000, he described himself as temperamentally unsuited for his first job writing for "Saturday Night Live," where work on one show flows right into work on the next.
Classy may not be my middle name, but I was still quite pleased to note the opening of the upscale PF Chang's China Bistro at the Market Fair shopping center on Route 1.
The good news is that "Translations" closes at McCarter on Oct. 29. The bad news is that it's headed for Broadway.Brian Friel's play, directed by Garry Hynes, takes place in rural Ireland in 1833, in the Irish-speaking town of Baile Beag.
Goodbye, midterms. Hello, freedom! As campus starts to empty out, students are heading in all different directions in search of Fall Break fun: Hurricane relief in Lousiana, club hopping along the coast of Ibiza, quick trip to Malawi to pick up a new friend ... This week Jean Beebe '10 and Isia Jasiewicz '10 ask, "You've got a week ... now what are you gonna do with it?" Kate Benedict '10"I'll be in Princeton, rehearsing 12 hours a day for Triangle." Matthew Isakowitz '09"I'm going to Yellowstone with my astrobiology class." Dominique Salerno '10"I'm going to Ireland with Katzenjammers." Christine and Jennifer Schoppe '10"We're going home to our native country: Texas." Cindy Organ '10"I'm going home to San Diego to get some sun, then shopping in New York to get some snow clothes." Meredith Thompson '08 and James Thomas '08Meredith: "I'm doing some studio work."James: "I'm going to take a Greyhound to Kingston, Ontario, for Canadian Halloween." Pete Hand '09"I don't know.
One of the best parts of vacation is getting to catch up on your reading?for fun! Here are some books, recommended to us by peers, family and our favorite reviewers, that we at Street plan on checking out over vacation. Letter to a Christian Nation, by Sam HarrisBoth controversial and compelling, this New York Times bestseller explores Harris' desire for the eradication of religion.
We've all seen "The Last King of Scotland" before. We've seen it in a dozen other films released at this time every year, for which critics reserve words like "brutal" and "powerful." Like so many others before it, the film is a direct appeal to Oscar voters, but it comes up dry.
Are you looking closely?" asks the devious magician Alfred Borden of a stunned audience. "The Prestige" derives its title from the third act of a magic trick "where lives hang in the balance, and you see something shocking you've never seen before." Thanks to Christopher Nolan's masterful direction, the film becomes a conjurer's trick itself and ultimately leaves the audience in awe.The film takes place in London where two magicians, Hugh Jackman's charismatic but untalented Rupert Angier and Christian Bale's charmless but truly gifted Borden, battle for supremacy.
Worst answers from this year's midterms1. Pelvic inflammatory disease is a bacterial infection caused by multiple orgasms.2.
As students at Princeton, we are constantly told that we will become the leaders of the world, the movers and shakers of society and the privileged few who can make a difference.
We'd like to start bread-and-butter campaigns for...(Admittedly, our problems are small)1.
It was April 20, 2006, the sort of day when I was not surprised that only five out of 10 students decided to show up to my morning precept.
I am a longtime Robin Williams fan, so I jumped at the chance to see "Man of the Year." What could be better than seeing a movie whose plot centers on Williams as a comedian-turned-politician?
Anyone who's been reading the papers lately knows that this election could be a watershed in U.S.
"The Last Five Years" by Jason Robert Brown, on stage this weekend at the Matthews Theatre at 185 Nassau St., is an innovative piece of musical theater, and a small cast of Princeton students does it justice.
As an undergraduate, Sally Frank '80 took politics to the street, campaigning door-to-door for Democratic candidates.
When I sat down in the center of the very spacious theater at the 44th Annual New York Film Festival with a complimentary muffin and a chocolate chip Danish, I knew that the critic's life was the life for me.
Dear Sexpert,My significant other has genital herpes. We are not sexually active yet, but are planning to be soon.
