It’s been a good year to be Beyoncé. The secret release of a “visual album,” a daring move deemed revolutionary, calculated to send the world into an online media frenzy—and succeeding. A much-loved performance at the Grammys brought up residual praise of from last years Super Bowl performance as compared to Bruno Mars and the […]
UPDATE: An agreement has been reached and the student will be receiving Semikha. The Jewish Week published a story yesterday entitled “Your Semicha or Your Wife,” a write-up on the latest YU scandal. The piece explained that RIETS is withholding rabbinical ordination from a student who held a partnership minyan in his home. The student explained […]
Stern College Dramatics Society’s fall production of “The Wizard of Oz” proved to be magical in more ways than one. With an impressive cast, clever choreography, and bright costuming, SCDS brought an optimistic classic to life, proving itself capable of tackling a larger production. The well-executed show diverted attention from – but didn’t quite conceal […]
Ever since I was twelve, I had dreamed of going to New York Fashion Week. In my young, out-of-town naïveté, I imagined myself as a plucky Lucky intern, darting in between taxis just in time to slide into a front-row seat at Cynthia Steffe, or, as I got older and more ambitious, comparing notes with […]
Fashion is a curious thing. To many, the cycle of styles and never-ending shuffling of silhouettes is entirely disparate from reality, buoyed not by the people and their interests but by the whims of designers more concerned with beauty and luxury than cultural relevance. In actuality, fashion is heavily influenced by social movements and political […]
I didn’t wait in line for hours to buy the book. I didn’t preorder it months in advance. I wasn’t even determined to be the first to read the entire thing as I was with J.K. Rowling’s other novels. The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s first novel outside of the wildly popular Harry Potter series, was […]
World renowned show, Cirque de Soleil: Zarkana tagline, “A fantastically twisted acrobatic extravaganza,” already alludes to its premise of getting lost in a darkly magical, uniquely-Soleil wonderland. The basic premise of the show’s story is entertaining—a charismatic but temperamental magician on a musical quest. The music is catchy, separating the storyline from the circus and […]
Stern Dramatics Society Triumphs in The Tempest
For the Stern College Dramatics Society, art imitated life with their exceptional performance of The Tempest, and not only because it ended, like a CJF trip to a distant land, with an engagement. Just as the protagonist Prospero was ejected from duke ship in Milan and exiled to a distant isle, SCDS has been recovering from […]