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This year’s Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) saw the rise of ticket prices to $12 from $18 and the premieres of chick flicks like “Lucky You” and blockbusters like “Spider-man 3.” For anyone who missed Spidey’s web-slinging adventures or just didn’t want to shell out so much money, the free short films festival Tropfest@Tribeca offers [...]

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Before Starbucks, cafés used to be places where you could watch the world rush by through the window, shrouded in the warm mist of a cup of coffee. Here are places that can offer you a place to relax and enjoy life—and won’t kick you out the second your cup is empty.
Columbus Bakery
“We’ll never frown [...]

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When you think of a stereotypical “nerd,” you probably don’t think of someone like MC Lars. MC Lars is the self-proclaimed creator of “post-punk laptop rap.” The Stanford graduate’s 2006 release, “The Graduate,” is perhaps the most prominent example of the nerdcore genre.
The term nerdcore was first used by MC Frontalot in his 2000 single [...]

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For some, purchasing back-to-school supplies is the highlight of September.  Many revel at the moment when a weary parent hands over a credit card, and they can scamper off to the local stationery store completely free of financial worries, to invest in a season’s worth of academic necessities. Whether or not the following supplies will [...]

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The sixth period end bell rings. You’re walking down the music hallway and you’re trampled. The chorus has started filing out, and you’re surrounded by big, buff basses and high-voiced sopranos, all chatting about the new piece they’ve just sight-read to death. Soon, [...]

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It’s not enough that we have to take SATs. It’s not enough that we are forced to categorize our extracurricular activities. We are required to do more than actually apply to a college:
We have to sit through information sessions as well.
The information session [...]

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The Lady Knights of John F. Kennedy (JFK) High School have knocked the Stuyvesant Vixens, the girls’ varsity volleyball team, out of the playoffs for the last two seasons. In 2005, Stuyvesant lost to Kennedy in the semifinals of the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) playoffs. A year later, Kennedy eliminated Stuyvesant in the quarterfinals [...]

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We see them every day: serving us pizza, ices and pastries; selling us books; handing us pamphlets on the street; lending us games and Frisbees in the park. And they see us too. These are the very people with which we share an ever-changing community. But what do they think of us? What do they [...]

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The 2,911 lockers at Stuyvesant were assigned to students without any major problems, though it is too early to tell whether the new system will achieve its goal of reducing theft in school.
Over the summer, administrators had locks placed on every locker. Students had until the end of the first week of school to [...]

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