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Dec 2, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees
Many students might feel the need to put away their belongings before having company in their dorm room. But Alejandro Borge Osorio, CC ’26, transformed the books, papers, photos, and everyday objects in their room into an art exhibit. Visitors explored the exhibit between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. and were encouraged to interact with the artworks and materials. The first work, titled “A Landscape,” encompassed the overall exhibit and the miscellaneous objects within it.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees |Sarah Huddleston |Esha Karam |Shea Vance
How should any rendition of the play sink its teeth into the unsettling nature of the material without repulsing the audience with grotesquery? How can it bring the audience to empathize with the main character’s deep psychological trauma without acquitting him of his repugnant crimes against nature? How should it probe the moral complexities of psychiatry, sexuality, and religion without coming off as if on too high a horse?
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees
Even if you haven’t heard of Allee Willis, you’ve certainly heard her songwriting. A new documentary paints a portrait of the artist—best known for writing the “Friends” theme song and the hits “September” and “Boogie Wonderland”—and argues that she was a creative genius who never got her flowers.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kelsea Petersen |Kristin Merrilees
Ni aims to add more tools in the future in order to keep up with ever-evolving Internet trends and language. Ni aims to add more tools in the future in order to keep up with ever-evolving Internet trends and language. “It was something for fun. It was kind of gimmicky at this point,” Ni said, adding that he didn’t then realize the tool’s educational applications.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees |Anat Liwerant
Fiores and Liwerant hope to bring the project to other places, like the New York University area. Fiores and Liwerant hope to bring the project to other places, like the New York University area. Students and community members stopped by a “feminist clothesline” in Riverside Park on Sunday, anonymously sharing experiences and thoughts about the election, sexism, and the University’s response to protests.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees
The book presents a chronicle of the tabloid from the mid-1970s to today, covering sections such as Page Six and Sports as well as a long line of controversies. The book presents a chronicle of the tabloid from the mid-1970s to today, covering sections such as Page Six and Sports as well as a long line of controversies. Salacious headlines, a no-holds-barred approach to subject matter, and distinct cover pages—if you know New York City, then you know the New York Post.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Asha Ahn |Kristin Merrilees
The exhibition featured five different sections, including garments showcasing women’s clothing at home, at work, and as part of fighting against gender roles and for social change. The exhibition featured five different sections, including garments showcasing women’s clothing at home, at work, and as part of fighting against gender roles and for social change.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Matthew Murphy |Evan Zimmerman |Kristin Merrilees
Downey Jr. is captivating as McNeal from the very first scene, in which we learn that in all the novelist’s brilliance, he is a classic tortured genius archetype managing worsening alcoholism. In between a testy exchange with his doctor Sahra Grewal (Ruthie Ann Miles), who warns him he is going to go into liver failure within four months, McNeal waits for a call from Sweden to tell him if he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
columbiaspectator.com | Kristin Merrilees
The documentary explores Stewart’s life, chronicling her time at Barnard to the infamous trial that sent her to federal prison. The documentary explores Stewart’s life, chronicling her time at Barnard to the infamous trial that sent her to federal prison. Before the short-form baking, gardening, and crafting content of blogs and social media, there was Martha Stewart, BC ’63.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
defector.com | Kristin Merrilees
In early October, ugly and mysterious posters began popping up around New York City, declaring that a Timothée Chalamet lookalike competition would be taking place on Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. by the Washington Square Arch. A QR code on the posters linked to an event hosted by Partiful, a digital invitation platform which the New York Times has described as “vibey and very Gen-Z coded.” On the morning of the competition, there were well over 2500 RSVPs on the invitation.
