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American Music

Listening to The Band, I sometimes imagine myself walking through wild cornfields on a cool summer’s night, across ivy lanes, past broken baseball fields and mom-and-pop diners, trying to find my way home.

by Jacob Savage on February 4, 2004March 17, 2013

The Twenty Years War

Duncan Nussbaum always had a feeling God was out to get him. When he was six years old, he was eating a cheese sandwich – this was back when his parents still kept kosher – and snatched a piece of … Read More

by Jacob Savage on March 24, 2004March 17, 2013

Watching Movies with… David Brundige

Senior David Brundige has written and directed two hit shows at Princeton, “Bums and Monkeys” (2003), and “PigTails” (2004). He has won awards for his writing, been jetted out to Hollywood to meet with studio executives, and has had many beautiful women beg him for roles in his future films.

by Jacob Savage on April 21, 2004March 17, 2013

“Cabaret” at Theatre Intime

I’ve been wondering recently why the most popular cultural events on campus involve chants like “Yeah Disiac!” and “Yeah BodyHype!.”

by Jacob Savage on April 21, 2004March 17, 2013

On Unpacking My Record Collection

One of the most important things my father taught me was how to handle a record.

by Jacob Savage on September 22, 2004March 17, 2013

Bob Ross Turns 80

Bob Ross, perhaps the most important mainstream American artist of the 1980s, is undergoing a resurgence of late.

by Jacob Savage on September 29, 2004March 17, 2013

Winter in America

Thirty years ago, Gil Scott-Heron, a black poet and songwriter, wrote the song “Winter in America.”

by Jacob Savage on November 10, 2004March 17, 2013

Extremely Literary and Incredibly Alumni

About ten days ago, the Nassau Weekly’s editor in chief Jacob Savage interviewed (via telephone) Princeton’s most recent wunderkind, Jonathan Safran Foer ’99, author of the critically acclaimed best-seller Everything is Illuminated, and the recently published Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

by Jacob Savage on March 30, 2005March 17, 2013

The Way Things Might Have Been

In autumn (or fall, as we sometimes called it) we wore woolen sweaters, checkered corduroy, held hands tightly, snuggled for warmth against brisk north winds; We went apple-picking, fell down laughing on yellowed orange leaves, talked of favorite authors, of … Read More

by Jacob Savage on April 27, 2005March 17, 2013

Commercial Christianity

Toward the end of June, as the dog-days of summer fell upon New York City suddenly and definitely, I made a religious pilgrimage to Corona Park, Queens, to see Billy Graham’s supposedly Last Crusade. Riding a crowded 7 train out to Queens I felt a palpable sense of excitement….It was like going to a Mets game, only more diverse.

by Jacob Savage on November 9, 2005March 17, 2013

Donde Esta Journalism?

Dear Readers, Last month, to the consternation of our “reporter” friends upstairs, we inaugurated the Princewatch column. This new feature severely weakened the Daily Princetonian’s morale; we received several outraged emails to that effect. To right their sinking ship, in … Read More

by Jacob Savage on November 9, 2005March 17, 2013

Read Slowly and See

In 1968 John Sinclair of the band DC5 wrote that “rock and roll music is a weapon of cultural revolution.” But this overtly political attitude – emblematic of 1960’s music, or at least of the retelling of the story of … Read More

by Jacob Savage on February 8, 2006March 17, 2013


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