For baseball fans, mid-September usually marks tight division races and teams battling for a postseason berth. Unlike previous years, many of the divisions have already been decided. After a weekend of sweeps by the Tampa Bay Rays over the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals over the Atlanta Braves, the wild card picture…
Michael Phelps’ eight gold medals. Natalie Coughlin’s evolution into an international superstar. Record-breaking performances and thrilling finishes. The 2008 Beijing Olympics brought swimming to the American sporting culture forefront and finally, one of CUNY’s most anticipated seasons is upon us. As we prepare for the 2012 London Olympics, the CUNYAC women’s swimming and diving season…
Based on the wildly successful book by Kathryn Stockett, set in Jackson, Mississippi during the height of the Jim Crow laws, The Help tells the enthralling story of the lives of African-American serving women and their bratty, young, Caucasian socialite employees. When bookish Skeeter Phelan (played by the spunky Emma Stone) returns home from college,…
Julia Gorbach, a Macaulay Honors/Hunter junior, is in the running for Miss New York 2012. She is representing Macaulay Honors College in the competition. Born in Ukraine, Gorbach and her family moved to Brooklyn in 1997 and now resides in Staten Island. Gorbach is a media major and political science minor at Hunter College. Q:…
With rising fuel costs, increasingly polluted air, and depleting natural resources, scientists are researching more ways to conserve and find energy resources. Here are a few of the interesting and unusual possibilities that have been investigated during the summer: 1) Diamonds: A durable, stable, shiny, and coveted symbol of glamour and status for centuries, diamonds…
I recently heard on the radio how the Japanese industry minister resigned over his inappropriate “town of death” comment. That was the first time in months I had heard any slight mention of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. What was regaled as the worst nuclear fallout since Chernobyl seemed to fizz in away in the Western…
Whether people were lining up for autographs from Glee’s Darren Criss and Lea Michele at Saks Fifth Avenue, waiting to be served ice cream from Vera Wang in an ice cream truck, or getting a makeover at one of Manhattan’s many Sephora stores, everyone in New York City on the night of September 8th, 2011…
As residents of New York City, we are, quite luckily, surrounded by food. No matter where you go or what you do, there is always a place to eat. Sometimes good, sometimes bad; but in the end, we are still able to find sustenance. The important question is: where is the really good food? On…
As September rolls in, and we welcome back the NFL, we send our best wishes to the NBA as it enters into a coma. The NBA, after wrapping up one of its most memorable seasons ever, is in limbo for the 2011-2012 season as players and owners stand divided in negotiations over a new collective…
This past summer, I attended the Brooklyn Short Film Festival and had the privilege to see the animated short film “8Bits,” directed by Valerie Amirault, Jean Delaunay, Sarah Laufer, and Benjamin Mattem. A vivid take on early forms of video games, the film centers on an average Joe main character clad in underwear, pistol in…
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