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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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Colonel of Truth
Illustration of André Malraux
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Colonel of Truth

André Malraux at Columbia

Blonde Knockout
Illustration by Mark Steele of a game show
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Blonde Knockout

Dr. Joyce Brothers '53GSAS wins big

A Museum Grows in Chinatown
Photo by Paul Calhoun of Chinese laundry workers in Chinatown on lunch break in the 1980s
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A Museum Grows in Chinatown

Columbians tap their roots to bring a community’s history to the world

A Brush With the Past
Painter Jacob Collins in studio, photographed by Sarah Shatz for Columbia Magazine
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A Brush With the Past

Painter and teacher Jacob Collins '86CC steps outside the art establishment to give a lesson in reality

Bob the Builder
Young Robert Moses standing in front of a map of New York City
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Bob the Builder

A series of exhibitions and symposia offers new perspectives on the city that Robert Moses built

A Proud Inheritance
Kiran Desai
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A Proud Inheritance

With storytelling in her blood, novelist Kiran Desai '99SOA wins the Man Booker Prize

Brooklyn Beat
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Brooklyn Beat

Bergdoll Named MoMA’s Curator for Architecture and Design
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Bergdoll Named MoMA’s Curator for Architecture and Design

Walk the Line
The high line in 2000, photographed by Joel Sternfeld
Arts & Humanities

Walk the Line

The fight to put Manhattan’s High Line on a whole new track

Shoot the Piano Player
Illustration of Dick Hyman with a keyboard, by PJ Loughran
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Shoot the Piano Player

Has the ultimate Dick Hyman movie already been made?

Pointe Taken
Alicia Graf Mack photographed in 2006 by Lois Greenfield for Columbia Magazine
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Pointe Taken

After a knee injury nearly ended her career, Alicia Graf '03GS is back on her toes

The Artist as Citizen
Vaclav Havel in the Kremlin shortly before meeting with President Boris Yeltsin in April 1992
Arts & Humanities

The Artist as Citizen

An up-close view of playwright and former Czech president Václav Havel

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