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The Daily Princetonian

Local food tempts more than taste buds

"What are you doing on Valentine's Day?" Depending on one's current romantic status, the answer to this question will involve one of several different possibilities.For the single woman such as myself, there's the probable scenario of hanging out with girlfriends, eating fro-yo, and watching empowering chick flicks (recommended: last summer's blockbuster "Legally Blonde") in celebration of female independence.Many single men will forget that this is even a holiday.

NEWS | 02/13/2002

The Daily Princetonian

'Let's get it on:' How to make the music of the night

"Okay, so I was hookin' up with a girl last night, which is kind of a rare occasion for me, and I see this Billy Joel CD laying right by the CD player, swear to God, and so I decided to put on 'Uptown Girl.' But my friend says I shoulda put on 'She's Always a Woman.' What do you think, Billy?"While Richardson Auditorium burst into laughter, Billy Joel calmly contemplated the question and proceeded to give a truly great answer: "What would I have put on?

NEWS | 02/13/2002

The Daily Princetonian

Love takes on new meaning in 'Medea'

Year after year, people celebrate Valentine's Day by organizing some sort of schmaltzy candlelit dinner date, or even worse, unfortunate singles often drown their suppressed bitterness in a Blockbuster five-night-rental syrupy love story marathon.This Valentine's Day, dare to break with tradition.

NEWS | 02/13/2002

The Daily Princetonian

Irish dancer finds own niche at Princeton

Irish dancer Bridget Nolan's '02 diary looks a little different from the Bridget's we saw on the big screen last year.She has danced at Radio City and Carnegie Hall, performed for local and state legislatures, been featured on televised parades, qualified for World Championships five times, and represented the United States at the 1998 World Scholar-Athlete games in Belfast.It all started with Bridget's casual decision to take ballet with her best friend.

NEWS | 02/06/2002

The Daily Princetonian

Author-turned-character questions nature of sanity in 'Man of La Mancha'

"Too much sanity is madness."So declares Miguel de Cervantes, renowned 16th-century Spanish author and a character in Dale Wasserman's "Man of La Mancha," a musical presented jointly by the Princeton University Players and Theat-re~Intime.The statement summarizes one of the central ideas of the play: that an excessively sober and boringly realistic view of the world is demoralizing and that a little delusional insanity isn't necessarily a bad thing.In this play-within-a-play, Cervantes portrays his most famous character, Don Quixote, while he and others are locked up during the Inquisition."Since the idea of the play is something that is pulled out of Cervantes's imagination, I have tried very hard to make the show feel spontaneous," said director Sarah Rodriguez '03.

NEWS | 02/06/2002

The Daily Princetonian

Overlooked female body part makes for one powerful play

"I was worried about vaginas. I was worried about what we think about vaginas, and even more worried that we don't think about them," Eve Ensler, author of 1996's award-winning "The Vagina Monologues," writes of her motivation to create the play.Capitalizing upon her concern for the often-overlooked body part, Ensler began writing by interviewing hundreds of women of all ages, races, and careers ? from college students to phone-sex operators to corporate professionals.

NEWS | 02/06/2002