Imperial State of Mind

Joel Newberger

"When you’re famous and say you’re writing a book, people assume that it’s an autobiography—I was born here, raised there, suffered this, loved that, lost it all, got it back, the end. But that’s not what this is. I’ve never been a linear thinker, which is something you can see in my rhymes. They follow the jumpy logic of poetry and emotion, not the straight line of careful prose. My book is like that, too.”

Hotel for Dogs

Evan Larson

Doug Aitken's installation Migration (Empire), which is on view in front of the University Art Museum until November 14, has two very different faces.

No Love

Joel Newberger

Eminem, for all his lyrical violence—threatened and skillful (i.e. killin’ y’all fools on this lyrical shit)—is not a bully. He is the bullied, the victim. He is the wee scrawny white kid from a predominantly black part of Detroit, rescued from peer and parental abuse by ...

It's Just College

Andy Martens

The life a young adult is all about finding the next something. The next great TV series, the next hilarious party game, the next unsigned indie rock band.

A Physicist in the Kitchen

Laura Hamm

Most can agree that eating on a daily basis is pretty damn important. And aside from an ever-growing contingent of foodies who want their leafy greens local, chemical-free, and cooked very slowly, that’s about the extent of the collective awareness (look no further than the recent Double Down from ...

Wet Hot Hetero Summer

Lauren Brachman

If anybody has ever seen Wet Hot American Summer, then ze knows what my camp and most other non-specialized camps are like. Sleepaway camp is a hyper-sexualized environment in which children are encouraged to explore their sexuality beyond the leering gaze of their legal guardians. But my camp differed from ...

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 ...