For a Columbia team that’s mostly suffered tough loss after tough loss, a weekend road split has to be a positive outcome. In a season where few bounces have gone Columbia’s way, the Lions engineered enough overtime luck to walk out of the famed Penn Palestra with a 79-77 win before running out of good fortune in a disheartening 79-61 loss at Princeton.
Read MoreWe have more power than we know. With every taco we eat, every manicure we get, and every space heater we buy, we have the chance to either create or destroy. I’m talking, of course, about the postmortem that comes after so many capitalist exchanges. I’m talking about online reviews.
Read MoreFrom New York City to Arizona, I explore the interactions between environment and the individual. I found we often rely on atmosphere and dress to differentiate individuals, not their own individual characteristics.
Read MoreWiden the frame and the screaming only increases in volume, hitting a fever pitch and coalescing into what sounds like thousands of voices. Refocus, and it becomes clear that it was never the artist screaming at all, but everyone else at them.
Read MoreInstead, I reminded myself that her parents paid $20 per hour plus fare for a cab back to school, that her mom didn’t care how much YouTube she watched, that they were my friend’s primary babysitting gig and for her sake I couldn’t piss them off. And so I kept watching a six-year-old who had more toys than most people have skin cells watch other people unwrap cheap gifts. She had the glazed eyes of an addict numbed by her latest fix.
Read MoreWith just six games remaining in the 2019 Ivy League men’s basketball season, Columbia needs its performance down the stretch to be much stronger than it has been thus far this year.
Read MoreThere is nothing quite like finally learning how to play that one guitar solo, or figuring out the time signature a song should be in and rushing back to your computer to hastily record a take on it. For young artists, this near-instant actualization of original music is entirely new.
Read MoreNew semester, new tunes. This is the first edition of The Up & Up's editors’ picks of the week's best new music. The playlist includes hits and slow jams from a multitude of genres, including hip-hop, pop, alternative, R&B and more.
Read MoreDespite the disheartening stretch of poor play and bad luck, there remain reasons to be optimistic about head coach Jim Engles’ young squad. While the basketball gods aren’t smiling on Columbia just yet, let’s take a look at five things that still provide some hope for the Lions.
Read MoreIn two places—an off-grid RV site outside Questa, New Mexico and a Benedictine Monastery called Our Lady of the Desert—I looked around for something worth worshipping.
Read MoreIf we imagine the rest of the men’s basketball season playing out in one million separate worlds, is there a world where Columbia qualifies for the Ivy League Tournament? That’s the question behind The Change-Up’s statistical strategy of forecasting this year’s Ivy season, and the short answer is: yes, but don’t count on it.
Read MoreFor the next thirty minutes, she is in complete control of her audience, moving from one side of the small stage to the other with alluring grace. When watching her it becomes clear she is a seasoned performer, though she has only been performing for a little over two years. At her shows bay b. Bop is always witty, vulnerable, and utterly self-aware.
Read MoreOn any given day, Lewisohn Hall is full of former ballerinas and motocross racers, single parents wrangling children, and Navy SEALS. But it also houses a community of international military veterans who served their home countries due to mandatory conscription. You have undoubtedly sat next to these students in your classes and had no idea.
Read MoreHe weaves tales of pain, blood, and loss into an atmosphere of acoustic guitars, distorted 808s and blaring, high-frequency hi-hats à la Tay Keith. This combination frames the experimental Wicca Phase Springs Eternal as a shepherd of the burgeoning emo-rap movement, a founding father of a genre still in its infancy.
Read More45 seconds into the contest, Columbia has the ball on offense. The Lions snatch an offensive rebound and Casey bolts to the three-point line before commanding the ball from her teammate. She gets the ball, shoots, and swishes a three—Columbia’s first basket of the day.
Read MoreWhen I was little, I wanted to be like Angela Ruggiero.
Read MoreIn a world where you can order food at the tap of a button, more and more restaurants find that food deliveries account for most of their revenue, according to conversations with local restaurant owners. With rent skyrocketing every year, these places find it harder and harder to keep up, as the number of diners willing to eat-in decreases.
Read MoreThis may not seem like much, but in a sport that can often seem solitary, Columbia fencing makes it seem anything but.
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