Three nights a week for the past two months, the Forbes dining hall has been home to more than rowdy freshman and broccoli stuffed chicken.
Upon stepping into McCarter, I felt the butterflies hit my stomach as I realized Brad Mehldau would be playing a solo concert.
A few weeks ago someone mentioned to me the exact number of days until English theses are due. After doing some quick mental calculations I read a book a day for the next few weeks and decided it was wisest to spend my intersession in charming Princeton, New Jersey.There were so many joys to anticipate: the panorama of gray skies out of the Trustees Room window, or the inevitable conversations ("I got nothing done on my thesis today!"). Not to mention my bank account rapidly dwindling as I sampled every "You-Pick-Two" combination Panera has to offer.Unable to remedy the weather and the monotony, I decided to take the matter of funding meals into my own hands and offer to write a food review for the Prince.
A collection of high school jazz bands and the Mingus Big Band will join the Jazz Ensemble for the first Princeton University Jazz Winter Weekend.This event will feature performances by the jazz groups, a lecture with Phil Schaap and the Invitational High School Jazz Festival, a collection of high school jazz bands.
You have a choice. You can take the blue pill, and watch "The Matrix" as a simple sci-fi action flick.Or you can take the red pill, and let Princeton philosophy professor James Pryor GS '97 and his colleagues show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.Viewers of the film face a choice similar to that faced by Neo (played by Keanu Reeves) within the film: to seek a deeper truth (the red pill) or to remain unaware (the blue pill).Having taken the red pill with enthusiasm, Pryor has authored an essay entitled "What's So Bad About Living in the Matrix?" which will be posted to the "Philosophy Section" of www.thematrix.com, the official Warner Brothers website for the film.Philosophy professor Christopher Grau of Brooklyn College edits the site's collection of essays.According to Pryor, important issues in the film include "whether there is reality beyond what you can see, how you know what's going on beyond, and whether you should care."This assessment is perhaps a reflection of his areas of specialization: the philosophy of the mind and epistemology, the study or theory of knowledge, not just an A.B.
John Guare first heard of David Hampton in 1983. At the time Guare was a playwright best known for his award-winning play "House of Blue Leaves," and David Hampton was a young con man best known for passing himself off to Manhattan elite as the son of Sydney Poitier in order to burglarize them.Guare learned of Hampton's scams through Osborne Elliot, the dean of Columbia's graduate school of journalism and a close friend of Guare's, and thus Guare's award winning play "Six Degrees of Separation" was born.This weekend, "Six Degrees of Separation," based on Hampton's exploits, comes to Theatre Intime under the direction of Noah Burger '04.The show features Khalil Sullivan '04 as Paul, the suave con man, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins '06 as Geoffrey the South African millionaire and Ted Hall '05 and Bibiane Choi '03 as the duped couple, Flan and Ouisa Kittredge.Paul charms the Kittredges by pretending to know their children at Harvard and by promising them roles in his father's production of "Cats."The Kittredges open their home up to Paul only to find him in bed with another man later that evening.
Although you may not know about 185 Nassau, the old, gray schoolhouse located at the edge of campus and next to T-Sweets is Princeton's main source of artistic creativity.At 185, students taking visual arts classes can be found at all hours drawing, painting, working in the sculpture shop or engaged in some type of creative activity.In addition to periodic exhibitions of student work in the galleries upstairs, the hallways at 185 are always decorated with original artwork created exclusively by Princeton students.The fourth floor of 185, which can be accessed only by those privileged enough to know the secret code, is the creative nucleus of the building, where students majoring or getting a certificate in the visual arts pursue and experiment with individually designed projects in their own personal studios.With skylit ceilings, movable walls and an abundance of truly experimental artwork, the fourth floor of 185 is like no other place on campus.Unfortunately, though, few students ever get a chance to visit the unique fourth floor or even make it to 185 at all.
The holidays are always a great time for moviegoers, who are free to chose between big budget spectacles or future Oscar contenders.
For someone who is so self-assured on stage, Tom Crowley is strangely at a loss for words. Head bent to block out the surrounding din of Caf
The third annual Freshman One-Act Festival, a showcase of up-and-coming theatrical talent, is coming to Theatre~Intime Dec.
"The Talented Tenth of the Negro Race must be made missionaries of thought and culture among their people . . . the Negro race, like all races, will be saved by its exceptional."So said W.E.B DuBois, the African American leader who started the NAACP and coined the now-famous phrase "the talented tenth" as a label for the intellectual minority within a race whose job it was to elevate their peers.Echoing the words of DuBois, The Black Arts Company, an artistic forum for minorities at Princeton, will be presenting a play by Yves Lola St.
Light reflects eerily off the transparent walls of chain link wire that enclose the stark stage of the Wilson Black Box while a row of televisions emits a blank blue stare out into the audience.
The laughter of children fills the corridors and song radiates from every dressing room as actors hum vocal warm ups.
Like most cartoonists, Alex Kazazis '04 can't keep his hands still. They're constantly doodling ? on scratch paper, napkins, paper tablecloths at restaurants, in notebook margins.
For diSiac company members, the theme of their upcoming show, "Becoming," means more than just being a takeoff of the popular MTV series.Since this year will be diSiac's first without any of their six founding members, the new company leadership has been stepping up to fill the void created by their absence.
Blues, ballads, work songs, fiddle tunes, spirituals, Cajun, zydeco, field hollers, cowboy songs, gospel and bluegrass.
When "Spider-Man" debuted in theaters nationwide in May, the movie shattered box office records, taking in more than $114 million in one weekend and reaching the $200 million mark in nine days."Batman & Robin," the fourth in a series of contemporary films focusing on the Dark Knight of comic books, has not come close to that number since its opening in 1997, earning roughly $130 million over the last five years.Despite the seemingly successful total, which is not as impressive when the budget for such an action movie is taken into account, "Batman & Robin" is usually talked about as one of the most infamously unwatchable movies in years."They just tried to make it way too campy," said Daniel Johnson, a store clerk at the comic book shop Comic Relief in Lawrenceville.
"Melancholy Play" was written by an American who has seen far too many subtitled films from unspecified European countries.
On my eighteenth birthday, I was feeling rebellious. My traditional, drill-sergeant father immediately saw that defiant twinkle in my eye.
Descending the murky staircase of 1938 Hall, one would expect to find nothing more than an electrical room or storage area.
