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Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That
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Alumni

Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That

With her “Garbage and Rats” walking tour, Suzanne Reisman ’00SIPA showcases the city that always squeaks

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Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival
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Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival

Forty years ago, Barry Rosen ’74GSAS was one of fifty-two Americans released from Iranian captivity

5 True-Crime and Investigative Podcasts Worth Bingeing
Podcasts Wind of Change, The Radio Murders, Welcome to Your Fantasy, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Mother Country Radicals

5 True-Crime and Investigative Podcasts Worth Bingeing

These gripping series from Columbia alumni broadcasters will keep you hitting the play button

The Columbia-Educated Priest Fighting Peru’s AIDS Epidemic
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The Columbia-Educated Priest Fighting Peru’s AIDS Epidemic

Father Joseph Fedora ’96JRN offers hope, prayers, and healing for Lima’s most vulnerable citizens

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Alisa Weilerstein, Howard W. Buffett, and Other Alumni in the News
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Alisa Weilerstein, Howard W. Buffett, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Long Night
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The Long Night

With her debut feature, The Whistleblower, director Larysa Kondracki '01GS has sparked a worldwide discussion on human trafficking

The Spokes-Man of New York
Ken Podziba
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The Spokes-Man of New York

Can Ken Podziba '91GSAPP make New York the next great biking city?

Cracking Wise
Bel Kaufman
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Cracking Wise

Bel Kaufman '36GSAS, ninety-nine, on the importance of humor in dark times 

They Shot it Their Way
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They Shot it Their Way

Columbia filmmakers collect prizes for some of 2010’s most daring and original films

Shadows on the Boardwalk
Design rendering for "Fractured Landscapes" Holocaust memorial in Atlantic City
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Shadows on the Boardwalk

Architects Patrick Lausell '09GSAPP and Paola Marquez '09GSAPP win competition to design Atlantic City Holocaust memorial

Letter from Brisbane
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Alumni

Letter from Brisbane

Recalling Australia's worst-ever natural disaster

Xue Hanqin, Howard Slatkin, and Other Alumni in the News
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Alumni

Xue Hanqin, Howard Slatkin, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

The Art of Pleasing
Arlene Shuler and Alvin Ailey dancers
Alumni

The Art of Pleasing

How Arlene Shuler ’77GS, ’78LAW, president and CEO of New York City Center, transformed herself — and the stage on which she once danced

City of Schwartz
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City of Schwartz

Apartment hunting with historic preservationist Andrew Dolkart

A Midterm Examination
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Alumni

A Midterm Examination

The voters have spoken, but what did they say? Columbia political scientist Lincoln Mitchell '96GSAS assesses the 2010 elections

Angelheaded Hipsters
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Angelheaded Hipsters

James Franco becomes Allen Ginsberg ’48CC

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