Arts & Culture

A Late Night with Seth Meyers

By Chaviva Friedman • Published: November 13, 2014 • Comment ()

When I was a freshman in high school, I started to watch the television show Saturday Night Live. Although aware of the basis of the show, I found myself drawn each week to one segment – the Weekend Update, starring Seth Meyers. From that point on, all I wanted to do was see Seth Meyers […]

A Night at Cinema Village: The Green Prince

By Abigail Bachrach • Published: November 13, 2014 • Comment ()

When the movie you’re seeing is at Cinema Village, you know it’s not going to be the blockbuster, Oscar-winning, Disney-approved type. The Greenwich Village locale is known for its choice of foreign and indie films, the Sundance winners, and the odd ones you’re just not gonna get at the AMC down the block. When a […]

Prepare to Have Your Stockings Blown off Your Feet

By Chevi Friedman • Published: November 13, 2014 • Comment ()

Walking into The Bitter End, New York’s oldest rock and roll club, the first things I heard were strains of the violin and some soulful “ay nay nays.” Halloween decorations, including a giant fake spider and skeleton, hung on all the walls, setting the stage nicely for the seeming paradox that is Bulletproof Stockings. Formed […]

It’s Late Night New York with Jimmy Fallon

By Zahava Lieberman • Published: October 1, 2014 • Comment ()

Late night television is not actually filmed at midnight. In fact, the process to attend a taping of any late night show can begin up to three months prior to its filming. Luckily, living in New York City makes it almost too easy to catch at least one late night host live. Whether you prefer […]

The Giver vs The Giver

By Sarah Katz • Published: October 1, 2014 • Comment ()

As soon as I heard there was going to be a film adaptation of the beloved novel, The Giver, two thoughts popped in my mind. The optimistic side of me was excited and thrilled. Twenty-one years after the John Newberry Medal winning book was published, Hollywood was finally going to make a movie adaptation that […]

Jeff Koons: Just Another Art Exhibit

By Shira Huberfeld • Published: October 1, 2014 • Comment ()

As the Whitney Museum closes its Madison Avenue doors and moves downtown, it ends with Jeff Koons. How appropriate, as the contemporary artist attempts to herald in the end of art. Koons, in his kitsch engagement with the readymade, conflates skill with substance as is apparent in his highly technically skilled works. But while he […]

Mon Voyage à Paris

By Sarah Mandelbaum • Published: August 19, 2014 • Comment ()

What a whirlwind my ten-day trip to Paris was! Let me rewind. Having never been to Paris before, I was eager to sign up to take a course there when Stern offered its students a once in a lifetime chance to go. To be honest, it didn’t matter to me what the course was, even […]

Get Tanked: NYC’s Water Tanks Get a Meaningful Makeover

By Makena Owens • Published: August 19, 2014 • Comment ()

On a trip to Ethiopia in 2007, filmmaker Mary Jordan got sick.  She had traveled to a remote village to shoot an ethnographic documentary and was struck with an illness that debilitated her and her filming process. Fortunately, caring and hospitable locals nursed Jordan back to health and in return asked her to make them […]

My Birth Right

By Miriam Herst • Published: August 19, 2014 • Comment ()

I found myself walking the streets of Tzfat a few weeks ago, trying my best to taste the spirituality I had been promised; looking for shadows of lost prophecies, promises of the path Messiah will one day walk, faded footprints of rabbis whose teachings I’ve long studied. Instead there was blended iced coffee, thick summer […]

Finding Art in Unexpected Places

By Emily Chase • Published: August 19, 2014 • Comment ()

The ocean shore, with its crystal blue sky, deep waves, and smooth sand, has often been a place of fascination and inspiration for art. Many people like to bring its beauty home and arrange shells over mirrors, picture frames, lamps, and other objects to remind them of the ocean. From photographs, paintings and drawings of […]