You remember Doc Brown's trusty "Sleep-Inducing Alpha Rhythm Generator" from Back to the Future, Part II?
"Writing at any level is an amateur activity," according to professor James Richardson '71, the author of seven books and former director of the University's Program in Creative Writing from 1981 until 1990.At Princeton, creative writing can be as serious as composing poetry for an official workshop with a prizewinning author or as informal as writing unofficially for a publication.These official and unofficial arenas frequently overlap.
Valentine's Day ? cheesy cards, frantic guys darting between class with flowers, awkward serenades in McCosh 50 ? has faded quickly in our memories, yet many of us are still puzzled by the significance of the holiday.
Black North Face fleece, check. New Balance running shoes, check. Collared polo shirt, check. If you've begun to think an unwritten dress code exists at Princeton, take a closer look.
It may be only a matter of convenience, but for many students, the shops on Nassau Street will define their spring wardrobe.
I couldn't give a damn about fashion. Most guys on campus would say the same. Bruce Oldfield, one of the preeminent British fashion designers of the 1950s, once said, "When someone says that lime green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life." But the fact that I can quote Oldfield shows that there's at least a certain lack of truth to what I just said.
A major in molecular biology doesn't seem like a surefire way to get into the entertainment and fashion publishing industry, but it's worked out quite well for Samantha Miller '95.
Princeton may never be the next fashion Mecca. Long before entering FitzRandolph Gate, we knew that ivory towers don't have walk-in-closets filled with Yves Saint Laurent Rives Gauche pumps or Marc Jacobs frocks.
Black Arts CompanyCelebrating 15 years of existence, the Black Arts Company's (BAC) upcoming spring performance promises to be hot!
SCOOP NYC Third & 73rdFor women: Scoop offers a mix of uber-trendy, ubiquitous labels like Juicy Couture and Seven jeans with a few eclectic brands thrown into the mix.
By Christine Murphy princetonian contributorAfter months of bundling up against the winter weather, a warm breeze has arrived with the Burberry Spring 2005 collection.The presentation on the catwalk in late September of 2004 promised an elegant but carefree season within the folds of Burberry's latest collection from its Prorsum couture division.
Flashes of pink, Sarah Jessica Parker's glowing smile and the catchphrase "Enjoy being a girl" make the Gap a great place to be in the springtime.
Kate Betts '86, editor of the quarterly publication "TIME 'Style & Design,'" must blend high fashion with high journalism.
Every Princeton student knows somebody in at least one of them, even though members comprise less than 1.5 percent of the undergraduate student population.
The actors mill around the foyer in their dance shoes, forming nervous cliques. "Are you here for the audition?" they ask each other archly.
As Hollywood perfects its formula for high-grossing, high-profile and high-budget movies geared toward audiences with ever-decreasing attention spans, the college-cult DVD has emerged as a niche for innovative films and TV shows ? even those doomed to poor ticket sales and a limited audience.
January 25 was a big day for music: in a fantastic display of versatility and young talent, Conor Oberst and his outfit, Bright Eyes, unveiled "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn," an album released concurrently with "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" but very much a reflection of its creator's "other" side.This side departs from the folk simplicity of "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning," (see 'Street,' Feb.
"The muses love the morning," said Robert Fagles, a recently retired comparative literature professor who rises at five every morning to work on his current project, a translation of Virgil's "Aeneid." He drew his muse quote from Benjamin Franklin, appropriate for a man who looks for inspiration in human voices past and present as he crafts living speech from words of a dead tongue.
"Roll right," one member shouts, and the entire crew of Princeton's newest improvisational comedy troupe, Fuzzy Dice, sprints to its next position in the Rockefeller common room.
"The Gates" in Central Park has been in the works for longer than most of Princeton's undergraduates have been alive.
