Firstly, an apology is in order. In the weeks since it was published, the previous column in this series has elicited a considerable response from the student community…
Category: Columns
A Word to the Wise: Subtitles, Please
Tuesday night had become a fixed habit. Promptly at 9 pm in the Barnes & Noble café I was sitting opposite Carlo. He had arrived earlier and reserved…
Snark Attack
The Revolution Will be Televised: How the Internet has transformed the TV Thing First, a brief biographical note that will make me seem tragically old and hopelessly unsexy:…
Fifty Shades of Rey: The Trappings of Cultural Sophistication (Or why I’ve Sworn Off Hipster Girls)
Not long ago, I spent a pleasant evening in the East Village with a lovely young woman who I’d known, in one capacity or another, for several…
Fifty Shades of Rey: Learning Not to Love, Or: How Things Are Just the Way They Are Sometimes
The Brooklyn Lager was flowing and the tequila shots were being thrown back at Greenwich Treehouse on a mild spring evening. Several journalistic colleagues and I were celebrating…
Earth’s the Right Place
I had not met Selina for weeks. It was odd since she lived one floor above me. Our synchronized work day meant we often found ourselves in the…