Basement Drones

Tom Ledford

I met Rachel Razza of Ultra Dome, Jeffrey Roman of Sky Stadium, and Dan Svizeny of Cough Cool (and others), in the Terrace parking lot on a sunny afternoon.

The Decisive Moment

Greer Hanshaw

What realizations, I wondered, were the museum’s visitors making as they wove through the halls of the MOMA. Like myself, they had come to see The Modern Century, a collection of 300 works by famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. While I went the first day, April 11th, his work will ...

Marijuana, Maybe Wanna?

Anonymous

If you are reading this article, you are surely already aware that April 20 marks the annual celebration of cannabis. In the spirit of the holiday, I would like to offer a little tribute to this strange plant that has enhanced our lives in such wonderful ways.

Every Little Thing He Does is Magic

Laura Hamm

_Graham Jones is a social anthropologist with a background in linguistic anthropology who received his PhD in anthropology from New York University in 2007. A Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow here at Princeton, Jones currently teaches ANT 433: Initiation, Education and Apprenticeship, and will be starting work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

After the Grub Street Fiasco

Thúy-Lan Võ Lite

On March 25, Jason Bell—Columbia University freshman, gastronome-in-training, and editor of the Columbia Spectator's "Food & Drink" section—published a scathing review of Coliccio & Sons...

The Movies, Today

Dan Abromowitz

Jesse meets Ethan. Ethan’s a little geeky, but luckily he’s the cute kind of geeky where he’s all “aw shucks” and witty and goofy...

Robot Unicorn Attacked

Tom Ledford

In the last 30 days, the town of Princeton has searched for “robot unicorn attack” on average (that is as percentage of total traffic) 25 times as much as Seattle, 30 times as much as Boston and Los Angeles, and 50 times as much as New York and Chicago. For ...

The True is the Hole

Nick Cox

Last year, the unlikely phrase "Hegel's Bagels" appeared in this newspaper on two separate (although not unrelated) occasions: first, in the cover illustration; and second, as the title of an article. The article reported that the Princeton German Department had opened a bagel shop called "Hegel's Bagels," and ...

Human-Bone Scythes, Poleaxes, Death and Boobs

Dan Abromowitz

As you might have guessed, the Nassau Weekly is full of a bunch of super-nerds who are really into books and junk. To give you an indication of how into books they are, consider this: Every week, they have their meeting in a library. Also, once, no lie, I saw ...

Getting In, Selling Out

Minqi Jiang

Since the turn of the twentieth century, admission into America’s most elite colleges has always been a straightforward matter of selling out. The days when pure wit garnered fresh high school graduates passage into the academic aristocracy have faded like an aged daguerreotype. Our places of higher learning say ...

On "Girl Pain"

Felipe Cabrera

Almost four years ago I attended a symposium featuring rapper Talib Kweli that focused on hip-hop’s responsibility to the community at large. What sticks out in my mind is a joke told by Mr. Talib (lyrics stick to your ribs). When asked about his thoughts on Cam’ron’s ...

Can You Make Friends on the Internet?

Jack Hutton

You: Hey
You: How’s it going?
You: Oh...that’s your penis.
> You disconnected.

Politics and Street Art

Felipe Cabrera

The following was adapted from an excerpt of a Word document that may one day, by the grace of David Simon and the Holy Ghost, become a thesis. Amen.

Telephonic Relations

Minqi Jiang

I remember being told as a kid that whales could speak to one another from across the planet. They could do this by singing in a very deep voice whose immense vibrations were strong enough to push past the deep ocean currents. No ordinary fish could hear them, because they ...