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It’s hot. Between global warming and inoperable air conditioners, even the shortest short shorts can’t combat the stifling heat. Now, with the APs behind us and summer beckoning with every warm breeze, it is the perfect time to indulge in our favorite mood-lifting, heat-combating, sugar rush-inducing treat: ice cream. So, when you grow tired of [...]
Ice Cream Chronicles: Defeating a Different Kind of Ice Monster
Our world’s history has shown us events that have made gods out of men, and times when the unthinkable was done and the darkest hour was illuminated by the valor and spirit of heroes. Like the Battle of Thermopylae, when 300 Spartans raised hell against a considerably stronger force, the date Tuesday, July 28, 2009, will go down in [...]
Tribeca Tastes Success
A crowd of curious bystanders watched impatiently as a young chef carried three plates of exotic fried shrimp dumplings to the judges’ table, while another chef passed a plate of steamed lobster dumplings forth. The three food connoisseurs, kings of the culinary arts, slowly evaluated the appeasing dish, jotting down grades onto charts. They whispered [...]
Summer Book Recommendations: Teachers’ Picks
Don’t want to read these Spectator articles? Here are some interesting books to contemplate reading instead: “Anything” by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist. With regards to music, he wrote a book called “Music Ophelia,” which is about damage to the brain causing problems with perception. “Reviving Ophelia” is about what happens to adolescent girls when they [...]
Rooftops worth the Climb
After climbing up six straight flights of stairs and having the lactic acid accumulate in your calves and thighs, you’ll be compelled to stop dead in your tracks when you walk onto this rooftop. Enthusiastic volunteers ensure that you’re on the right path as you enter the screening area. Only it’s not your normal screening. There is [...]
Drama, Laughs and Kung Fu in One Acts Festival
On Wednesday, May 26, and Thursday, May 27, in the tenth floor black box theater, the One Acts Festival presented five great short plays. The festival, produced by junior Shelley Li, featured “Family 2.0” by Walter Wykes, “Transience” by senior Emma Dries, “Boom Boom Pow” by Wes Schierenbeck, “Words, Words, Words” by David Ives and [...]
A Walk to Uncover
From skylight lit rooms adorned with leather covered spiral staircases to bare studios behind nondescript doors, galleries throughout New York City feature works by artists ranging from Andy Warhol to local high school students. However, despite the aesthetic and monetary value that many of these pieces hold, great art is often left hidden in the [...]
Bambú As Big As a World of Its Own
First impressions of Big Bambú are awe inspiring—as if a thousand bamboo beams from some far away East Asian forest were suddenly spirited away and bolted onto the rooftop garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .The result is a giant 3-dimensional crosshatching that seems to take no particular pattern or rhythm. And while this [...]
Marina Abramović: Performance Art Revolutionary
Instead of just passively watching a performance, imagine being a part of it and altering what the performer does. Performance art is a whole different realm of avant-garde, conceptually driven, sometimes extreme and often unknown performances. Unlike in sculpting and painting, when objects become the artistic work, or in dance, when the work is primarily [...]
And the Winner Is… “When We Leave” Garners Top Tribeca Fest Honors
All eloquent diction aside, “When We Leave,” which premiered at the 9th annual Tribeca Film Festival, is very simple and familiar. It is a universal story about the need to love and be loved. “When We Leave” is a thoughtful and heartbreaking film about a woman who must free herself from an abusive relationship, as [...]
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