Nassau Weekly

Evan Larson

  • Gymtopia

    Gymtopia

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    Students are immersed in yellow-orange light, treadmills and Precor machines hum, and light rock plays quietly in the background. There is constant movement. An older man, probably a professor emeritus, shifts from one weight machine to another. A girl with a blond ponytail starts a plank, holding it until she starts to shake from exertion.…

  • Georgia Explorer

    Georgia Explorer

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    We woke up at 6 AM, painfully early for the start of Spring Break, and filed down to the well-loved minivan that would carry us on our fourteen hour journey to Georgia. A green glass mineral water bottle filled with black coffee lay next to the driver’s seat during the entire drive. Almost all six…

  • The Yoga Elite

    The Yoga Elite

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    Yoga Above feels like a perfect reflection of Princeton’s unique character: the blending of college town taste with the style and exclusivity of affluence. The result is a donation yoga studio with deluxe décor and an amazing location that serves a clientele that is stunningly homogeneous.

  • Princewatch

    Princewatch

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    A simple question: is it worth reading _The Daily Princetonian_ to keep up on the ways in which it has embarrassed itself? A simple answer: probably not. Welcome to PrinceWatch. Welcome to _The Daily Princetonian_ of November 12, 2010. __Terrace may open doors to graduate students__ by Molly Brean As one becomes familiar with _The…

  • The Desert of the Meal

    The Desert of the Meal

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    Slavoj Žižek seems like he is on the brink of a nervous breakdown when he lectures. He waves his arms wildly. He pulls at the front of his unassuming gray T-shirt. He grabs at the hair on his forehead. He even scratches at the sides of his thickly bearded face. Žižek’s anxious mannerisms give his…

  • Hotel for Dogs

    Hotel for Dogs

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    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.

  • A Case Against Legalization

    A Case Against Legalization

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    The drug policies of the United States are horrifically backwards. They promote the incarceration of people guilty of soft drug possession, people who likely pose no threat to themselves or others. They cost countless billions of dollars each year as money is siphoned into enforcement, prisons, and drug “education.” They are even patently hypocritical, protecting…