The New York Philharmonic, Live in Rehearsal
| May 15, 2012 | Posted by Stav under Music |
I ♥ NY: SiCa Arts Immersion Trip Series BY JARED POELMAN The anticipation is tangible as the audience fills the seats in midtown Manhattan’s Avery Fisher Hall. On today’s program is a monument of the Romantic Era, Tchaikovsky’s exalted Sixth Symphony, one of the few works in the planet in which beauty and technical brilliance… more
Restaurant Review: The Mountain House
| May 15, 2012 | Uncategorized |
BY TYLER DOYLE Price: Have your parents take you. Location: Tucked away in the foothills of Woodside on Skyline Boulevard. Cuisine: “Original fusion of California and American cuisine,” including “coast-fresh seafood, steak, pasta, venison and other game specials.” Drinks: Strong and well-made cocktails, great wine list. Disturbing lack of beer. Rules number one and… more
Fashion for Dummies
| May 14, 2012 | Culture |
I ♥ NY: SiCa Arts Immersion Trip Series BY KAREN LADENHEIM I usually dread shopping for clothes –for me the process is painstakingly slow and laborious. What color? Which print? What size? Will I really wear this? Does it even look stylish? Ughh… In light of all this, it is safe to say I felt… more
The Missing Links: 5/6-5/13
| May 14, 2012 | Design, Film, Visual Arts |
BY OLLIE KHAKWANI A weekly collection of the strangest and/or coolest things spotted on the web and in other places in the past week. We have some real treats this week. Above is an image of Anthony Gormley’s new sculpture on a rooftop in São Paulo Brazil. Apparently a lot of concerned passersby… more
The Steins Revealed
| May 11, 2012 | Visual Arts |
I ♥ NY: SiCa Arts Immersion Trip Series BY HEMING YIP Review of The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Life for Paris’s community of American expatriates in the early 1900s has long stirred the imaginations of literary and art enthusiasts. Perhaps no image of… more
New York on the Subway
| May 10, 2012 | Culture |
I ♥ NY: SiCa Arts Immersion Trip Series BY ALEXIS LUSCUTOFF At one o’clock on a Thursday afternoon I sat on the New York City Subway and watched the guy sitting across from me roll a joint nonchalantly and take a drink from his flask-sized bottle of whiskey. I’m pretty sure he hadn’t showered in… more
Ken Auletta’s Stahn-furd: A Response to the New Yorker’s “Get Rich U.”
| May 9, 2012 | Culture |
Musings of a Non-English Major Majoring in English BY CD. For MJ3. You, Mr. Auletta, have written an eloquent but structurally flawed New Yorker piece about my university, the place where I’ve been spending the four seminal years of my life, and I must say that one of the central ideas in the piece is… more
Postcards from Italy: Face Paint and the Beatles
| May 9, 2012 | Culture, Music, Theater |
by SABRINA BEDFORD A few weeks ago, on April 25, Florence hosted a free concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra in Palazzo Vecchio. The Palazzo was full of people watching the orchestra. There weren’t that many members of the orchestra there, but they did marvelous renditions of the Beatles in an epic medley. While the orchestra… more
Should Writers Worry About Symbolism? Let’s Ask Ayn Rand.
| May 8, 2012 | Literature |
By MOHINI BANERJEE Some of us dream of sitting down our literary heroes and asking them about their writing process. We could imagine that these authors labor over their writing and that some are creative geniuses, but very few of us formalize our own curiosity. One way we could is to send out a questionnaire… more
Glitter as Sport: An Inside Look at the Life of a Ballroom Dancer
| May 7, 2012 | Dance |
BY JESSICA A. LEE “Oh, just like on Dancing with the Stars!” That’s always the first reaction, when I tell someone that I do competitive ballroom dance. “Yup, just like it!” I say and wag my head up and down, but it’s not really like Dancing with the Stars at all. We don’t get… more
How To Get a Marketable Education
| May 7, 2012 | Culture |
Walking the tightrope between acquiring skills and the pursuit of truth BY KELLY LACOB Last week, prominent New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta published an expose into Stanford’s culture of learning, suggesting that the University’s atmosphere had become too focused on wealth and commercial success rather than intellectual and personal growth for its own, unadulterated, sake.… more
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