O Large Branch of Human Knowledge

Sean Emmer

Songs like “Crying” and “Love Dog” are the highlights of the album, fusing the classic feel of TVOTR with innovations that are simple, yet foreign enough to excite the listener.

Dickfang

Emily Rutherford

Having set out this week to write an article about Stephenie [sic] Meyer's Twilight series of young adult vampire novels, I was determined to, for once in my life, do a legitimate reporting job and read at least one of the books. However, my foray into the teen section ...

Odd-yssey

Russell O'Rourke

Things I Discovered in Princeton, Episode I

...One More Time

Patricia Valderrama

Many Britney Spears fans have similar, and often slightly incomprehensible reactions to the pop idol’s new single, such as, “this song is real catchy lol stuck in my head so often. in a way soem of the things she pronounces like madonna lmao i don’t know why,” and ...

American Goth

Tina Kim

The fact that I even own more than one article of lamé from American Apparel is pathetic. Wearing them all in one outfit was basically just a masturbatory statement of my “hipness.”

Killa Cam’Ron Digs Deep

Sarah Williams

In the sultry, slow, even-toned raps his fans have come to love, Cam tells the story of his escapades with a fine young piece and how he changed her life by hitting the bottom of her punani. His voice rides cleanly over the lyrics he spits, even when they somehow don’t actually rhyme.

Newman's Day D-Ball

Zebadiah Blackwell

We here at the Nass have more experience with our own balls than the kind you play sports with (sometimes the fine line between intellectual masturbation and actual masturbation sort of disappears).

Blazin' for Buckley

Cristina Luzarraga

Thirty-seven years ago a group of stoners at a California high school had a dream that they could smoke weed every day after school at a regular time. With the precision and commitment rare to their kind, they carved out a slice of late afternoon (and probably beyond), dedicating it to the illegal indulgence they share with an estimated 100 million Americans. If Wikipedia is to be believed (and really, for the scholarly subject of stoner cultural history, why shouldn’t it be?), this 1971 San Rafael High School tradition was the bong that launched a thousand hits. 4:20 P.M. daily outside the cafeteria evolved into the ‘High Holiday’ of 4/20.

Porn for the Blind

Tina Kim

In our modern age, technology has made it so that the visually impaired are able to partake in many of the same activities as anyone else. Text-to-speech programs, which narrate a website, make it easy to browse the web. There are even screen-readers that can “intelligently” interpret structures and frames ...

Gleefully Mendelssohn

Russell O'Rourke

The Princeton Glee Club has been around since 1874, and it shows. This past weekend, while students flocked to productions such as “Clue” (the Musical?!) and “Arabian Nights,” the Glee Club performed Felix Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio, Elijah, in Richardson Auditorium, to an audience of senior citizens and music majors.

Gingerism on the Princeton Campus?

Patricia Valderrama

According to the Malleus Maleficarum, a treatise on the hunting and killing of witches, "Those whose hair is red, of a certain peculiar shade, are unmistakably vampires." While prejudices such as these have mostly faded since the treatise was published in 1486, two Princeton students still found the need to create the Redhead Society in 2004.

In Vino Vitriol

Gregory Burnham

I'm sure I'm not alone in suspecting that, on occasion, those perfectly-overheard quotes reported in the “Verbatim” column of this paper are fabricated. It’s easy to imagine the editors sitting around a table, perhaps aided by humor-inducing beverages, cracking jokes until the quotes have written themselves.

Curry and Camp

Cristina Luzarraga

This past Friday Whitman Theater filled with the South Asians, the gays and lesbians, the prefrosh, and the otherwise unaffiliated for the stand-up performance of Vidur Kapur.

One-Man Projector

Russell O'Rourke

Two bands performed at Terrace Club last Saturday night in an unusual show.

Mex-Emo (Get It?)

Tina Kim

What do you get when you take a group of gangly teenagers with teased-out hair and black eyeliner? Emo kids who let out their emotions through Good Charlotte? Well, yes – but that’s not all.

The Revolution Will Be Advertised

Gregory Burnham

Jews don’t often miss opportunities to talk up past injustices and Princeton literature doesn’t often miss opportunities to talk up Fitzgerald.

Silly Season

Charles Straut

Americans enjoy politics-as-spectacle— this is news to no one.

Requiem for a Dream

Gregory Burnham

Given that “human,” in a biological sense, is just one step in some grander evolutionary process, Arthur C. Clarke wondered whether we might one day ditch our corporeal forms entirely and “live” forever as non-physical entities. One day, maybe, but not soon enough for the idea’s originator - Clarke is dead at the age of ninety.

'Wnna' Do It?

Russell O'Rourke

Although some adults (my parents) don’t even know how to send text messages, it seems that the Finnish foreign minister, Ilkka Kanerva, has become quite the textpert.

Tiger Foods

Stephan Crown-Weber

If you’re like me, you didn’t have high expectations for the first annual Iron Tigers Showdown at High Noon, the chef’s competition and inaugural Frist Fest 2008 event based on the Iron Chef television franchise

Here We Go Again

Connor Gannon

You might have heard that a half-black man named Barack Obama is running for President. This sounds ridiculous, but the last few weeks have revealed that some have not.

Greece Lightning

Sarah Silvergleid

My gut reaction was that I missed out on something historic and big and violent. But the riot wasn’t any of those. Apparently, protests and riots in Greece are somewhat pedestrian – almost every time there is something to be upset about – there is a protest.

Meccas in the Gulf

Sean Emmer

In Doha and Dubai we have two vastly different cities. While it is difficult to simply declare one superior and the other inferior, different values are clearly present in the directions these hubs are moving. While Doha’s may seem more thought-out for the long term, Dubai’s stunning present development is a compelling counter-argument.

The Opportunity of Crisis

Anthony Audi

On February 29, Princeton commemorated the struggle for Civil Rights with an event titled "The Opportunity of Crisis: Integrating the University of Alabama."

Harry Hazards

Charles Straut

The news that the British media—perhaps the world’s most ferociously unscrupulous—kept Prince Harry’s presence in Afghanistan a secret for ten weeks shocked the world. But as soon as the story broke, he was pulled off the front lines and sent home.

Recalled

Raymond Zhong

The increasing frequency and surprising breadth of product recalls in recent memory—spanning decapitating child seats, exploding laptop batteries, self-strangling cribs, fecal spinach, undeclared peanut butter cup candies in “Homestyle” ice cream, lead-laden Chinese Barbies, and “My First Kenmore” Play Stoves with “tip-over hazard”—makes it easy to forget or overlook the actual societal machinery that whirs into action whenever and only if a mass-consumed product is recalled.

White Stuff

Sarah Williams

What do Asian girls, Barack Obama, divorce, and expensive sandwiches all have in common? No, not a White House scandal waiting to happen. You wish, Hillary supporters. All of the things listed are inexplicably loved by white people and detailed on the self-explanatory blog “Stuff White People Like.”