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How to Dine Like a Professional Restaurant Critic
Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Bao Ong with a bowl of ramen
Arts & Humanities

How to Dine Like a Professional Restaurant Critic

Bao Ong ’10JRN spent over a decade as a New York food columnist before relocating to Texas. Earlier this year, he became the Houston Chronicle’s restaurant critic

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Blonde Knockout
Illustration by Mark Steele of a game show

Blonde Knockout

Dr. Joyce Brothers '53GSAS wins big

Columbia in the Movies
Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand on Columbia University campus in The Mirror Has Two Faces

Columbia in the Movies

21 films in which Columbia makes a cameo

32 Movie and TV Stars who Graduated from Columbia
Collage of celebrities who graduated from Columbia: Jacques Pépin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jenny Slate, Kate McKinnon, Matthew Fox, Amanda Seales, George Segal, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Jesse Bradford, Judy Joo

32 Movie and TV Stars who Graduated from Columbia

These actors, comedians, and TV personalities have all called Morningside Heights home

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To Capture A King: A Short Story
Illustration of men playing chess in a bar
Arts & Humanities

To Capture A King: A Short Story

By Norbert Ehrenfreund '50GSAS

Bookmakers
Illustration of horse jockeys riding books
Arts & Humanities

Bookmakers

A literary Run for the Roses at the New School

History in the Making
Valerie Paley in gallery
Arts & Humanities

History in the Making

Historian Valerie Paley '11GSAS gives a heads-up on her makeover of the New-York Historical Society's permanent exhibit

Fiction: "Half of All of What Was True"
Abstract painting of woman swimming by Vivienne Flesher
Arts & Humanities

Fiction: "Half of All of What Was True"

By Josh Weil '04SOA

Tell It on the Mountain
Katori Hall
Arts & Humanities

Tell It on the Mountain

The young playwright Katori Hall '03CC unlocks her voice in a controversial play about Martin Luther King Jr.

Poem: "Light Snow"
Photo of snow on branches
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Light Snow"

By Jeffrey Harrison '80CC

Poem: "Me and Kenneth"
Hamilton Hall at Columbia photographed by Eileen Barroso
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Me and Kenneth"

By J. D. Scrimgeour '86CC, '87GSAS

Why We (Should) Read Trilling
Lionel Trilling
Arts & Humanities

Why We (Should) Read Trilling

Literary critic Lionel Trilling ’25CC, ’38GSAS been written off as out of date. Here's why he matters more than ever

The Looming Towers
View of the Twin Towers from Brooklyn in 1977
Arts & Humanities

The Looming Towers

Urban photographer Camilo José Vergara '77GSAS documented the Twin Towers as they rose and became pillars of the city below them

Of Snakes and Butterflies
Zhou Long with accordion
Arts & Humanities

Of Snakes and Butterflies

When Zhou Long won the 2011 Pulitzer for Music, he gained something more than artistic laurels

A Message for the World
Illustration of Manning Marable by David Hollenbach
Arts & Humanities

A Message for the World

Manning Marable believed that Black history and scholarship should be a means for changing the world

Poem: "Feeding a Poem to a Horse"
Horse
Arts & Humanities

Poem: "Feeding a Poem to a Horse"

By Alan Michael Parker ’87SOA

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