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'Passage to India's' glimpse of Indian cuisine is clear portrait

In an area filled with Indian restaurants, most of them mediocre, Passage to India stands out as the best by far, with the most freshly prepared food and the largest variety.Unlike the other Indian restaurants in the Princeton area, Passage to India offers a menu that features both northern and southern Indian cuisine in addition to buffet options.The restaurant serves complimentary papadum ? large, circular chips that resemble tortilla chips ? to start every meal.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

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With a classic rock influence Madcap climbs a stairway to SoHo and heaven

Face cold, feet numb, relaxing in a bar called La Margarita. That is where I and the members of an up and coming rock band named Madcap spent the happy hours of our intersession Thursday.After wandering the city streets of Soho for almost five hours, we figured that there was no better way to warm up than with a table full of buy one get one free margaritas.

NEWS | 02/21/2001

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Dance program steps up for festival

Michael Chokr '01 came to the dance department at Princeton to search for the real meaning of dance."I felt that dance was so much more than looking pretty and entertaining people through a story," he recalls.His search led him to the work of modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, who inspired Chokr in his most recent composition ? one of seven student works to be performed when the Program in Theater and Dance presents its annual Spring Dance Festival Feb.

NEWS | 02/14/2001

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Jazz things up with a little Fourplay

Fourplay "Yes, Please" Warner Brothers Records, 2000. www.fourplayjazz.comNominated for a Grammy Award, "Yes, Please" ? Fourplay's seventh album on the Warner Brothers label ? has remained number one for three weeks on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz chart.The group's current members are Bob James on piano, Nathan East on bass and vocals, Larry Carlton on guitar and Harvey Mason on drums.Overall, this is an excellent album.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

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Theater~Intime's Festival of One-Acts gives freshmen rare leading roles

In the first ever Freshman One-Act Festival, the Class of 2004 has the unique opportunity to steal the limelight of Theatre~Intime from older thespians.An idea brought to light last year, the festival boasts three one-act plays that will be produced and performed solely by the members of the Class of 2004."Its objective is to get freshmen interested in theater and give them an opportunity to try something new now.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

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The War of the Words

Though the U-Store and Micawber Books stock dozens of books by William Wordsworth and Dylan Thomas, those by Godiva, Transit Thought and Talaam Acey are nowhere to be found.These poets are the stars of the area's slam poetry scene, a little-known circle that is quickly leaving trails in cafes and bars throughout the world.The poetry slam is the literary equivalent of a home run derby, in which poetic heavy hitters step up to the mic to demonstrate their lexiconic prowess and impress the audience.And every Thursday night at the Urban Word Cafe in Trenton, they do."Poetry has as much energy as a movie," said Bob Salup, the organizer of the Urban Word poetry slams.Hundreds of customers crowd Urban Word's intimate salon for the slams, in which about a dozen poets deliver original verse without the use of background music or props.

NEWS | 02/07/2001

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Abel Bagel

With last year's closing of Einstein's Bagels and the Chesapeake Bagel Company's reincarnation into the Nassau Bagel Bakery, there was some concern that Abel Bagel would be the next victim of Princeton's competitive bagel scene.

NEWS | 01/21/2001