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How to Dine Like a Professional Restaurant Critic
Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Bao Ong with a bowl of ramen
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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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Pat 'n Leather
Illustration by Craig Larotonda of Pat Boone performing metal music
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Pat 'n Leather

Pat Boone '58GS talks about his music career

The Great Debaters
Malcolm X photographed by Robert Parent
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The Great Debaters

As a professor at Rutgers, champion debater William Neal Brown '50SW would face his most daunting opponent — Malcolm X

Sound Stages
Taylor Brodsky with child, photographed by Chris Ho
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Sound Stages

Irene Taylor Brodsky '97JRN made an award-winning documentary about her deaf parents. Now, as a mother, she is gaining a new understanding of the subject

Firebird Rising
Illustration of a sound engineer working behind the scenes at a concert hall, by Philippe Lechien
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Firebird Rising

In the bowels of Philosophy Hall, a shocking sound

Simple and Direct
Jacques Barzun in 1947 (Richard Rutledge / Condé Nast Archive)
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Simple and Direct

A former student recalls Jacques Barzun's clarity of mind and pen

One-Shot Guy
Les Halles, Paris, circa 1970, by Al Mercado
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One-Shot Guy

Photographer Al Mercado lost a lot of pictures, but those he saved are gems

The Road Not Taken
Illustration by Michael Witte of Jack Kerouac presenting a book typed on a scroll of paper to his editor
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The Road Not Taken

Jack Kerouac's On the Road turns 50

The Fixer
Columbia Magazine Logo
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The Fixer

Can editor Franklin Foer rescue the New Republic?

Working Skiffs
People building a boat in a workshop, photographed by Vernon Doucette
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Working Skiffs

Against the tide, the kids in Joe Youcha's workshop are carving out their futures

Executor Privilege
W.H. Auden in 1939
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Executor Privilege

Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden

Moving Picture
"Hartley and Andrew" by Alice Neel
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Moving Picture

Alice Neel made art on her own terms; but as a new film by her grandson Andrew Neel '01CC suggests, her family paid a price

Learning to Truss
A partial building design pictured in Low Library was created by architecture students and now is displayed on the lower level of Avery Hall through the end of April (Mark Bearak '08GSAPP).
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Learning to Truss

As part of the architecture school’s 125th anniversary, graduate students created two structures in Low Library to demonstrate a novel building approach

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