Street's Top Ten — Feb. 12, 2009
1. Bring candle centerpieces to late meal, and pretend it's a restaurant. 2. Give your lover a tin of cookies from Murray-Dodge Cafe.
1. Bring candle centerpieces to late meal, and pretend it's a restaurant. 2. Give your lover a tin of cookies from Murray-Dodge Cafe.
When tensions around the Gaza Strip were beginning to ignite in late December, I was safely following the conflict from my television screen, thousands of miles away in New Jersey.
When the script to George Bernard Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was first released in 1893, it was quickly banned.
Dillon Gymnasium closes at 1 a.m. The gym employee at the front desk, the unlucky one stuck with the Wednesday night shift, notes that it is now 12:24 a.m.
Last week, Kanye West posted the video for the Animal Collective single "My Girls" to his blog, kanyeuniversecity.com.
1) Gain back all that last-minute weight you lost by eating 10 pounds of chocolate fudge brownies.2) Have a dance party in your room to Cher's "This Is a Song for the Lonely."3) Start chain smoking, wear all black and declare that you don't care about your rejection because life is a meaningless collection of abstractions that will end just in death and emptiness.
Dear Sexpert, I'm in an awkward predicament: I made out with two people recently, and I really like the second one.
With its slew of Oscar nominations, Ron Howard's latest film, "Frost/Nixon," runs the risk of disappointing audiences.
Intermittently throughout "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an elderly man recounts in a worn and quivering voice, "Did I tell you how I was struck by lightning seven times?" Cut to a silent-film-era shot: A younger version of the man walks down a street and is suddenly hit by a spotlight.
Were you always interested in music? Oh yes. I started playing violin when I was four.
It's hard out here for the ladies. We want to look sexy when we hit the Street, but we don't want to risk hypothermia on the way there.
Leonardo da Vinci. Jesus Christ. Elvis Presley. There are plenty of historical figures we'd like to ask questions.
Baz Luhrmann has amazing theatrical visions. Though he has directed only four films, he garnered quite a cult following with "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996) and singlehandedly initiated the return of the musical genre in film with "Moulin Rouge!" (2001). His direction reflects a hopelessly romantic mind obsessed with highly choreographed, self-indulgent imagery that can produce beautiful and astounding results.
1. Braeden Kepner-Kraus '10: Stay far, far away from elections. 2. Paul Krugman: Get to work on the next Nobel Prize 3.
On an international scale, September 1905 was not a particularly historic month. The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, signaling the end of the Russo-Japanese War, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were officially named provinces of Canada, but the world at large did not experience a revolution anything like the one then occurring here at Princeton.
For some, as my colleague's review attests, Baz Luhrmann's lushly conceived visuals mask a fundamental emptiness at the heart of his maudlin tales of love.