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Frog Meets Pig

A review of the Muppets movie.

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Mischief Keef

Chief Keef is an 18 year old (though his age often contested) rapper from Chicago. He is best known for his songs “I Don’t Like”—with the notorious refrain “that’s that shit I don’t like”—and “Love Sosa”; these two songs respectively have 25 and 30 million views on YouTube; many of his other songs, like “3Hunna” and “Bang,” have millions of views as well.

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A Banlieue Dance

A portrait of the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris, as told through a pickpocketing.

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Thanks, Obama

Last week President Obama released a Buzzfeed video called “Things Everybody Does But Doesn’t Talk About” to tell people that February 15th deadline for enrolling for health care. I saw the link on my Facebook wall on Thursday and, in … Read More

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Summer Postmodern

The boy has black hair that’s clipped to be unkempt. From a mall bench, he eyes two girls, who wander past in the distraction of gossip and pre-ripped jeans. He wonders which he would prefer. But he stops himself, in … Read More

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Smashing Success

The mastery of Master Hand.

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“Art Comes From Art”

Morton Feldman was, it could be fairly said, the twentieth century’s most talkative composer.

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Gibraltar, an odd dream

For one last time during my two-month stay in Spain, I arrived at the Estepona bus station and sat on the metal bench outside with holes that always leave a circle mark on the back of my thighs. As I … Read More

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If a Princeton Student Transferred Schools but Kept the Princeton Ego

Speculative fiction with a dash of entitlement.

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Telescoping Rhythm

In the succeeding entries, we telescope “rhythm.” Sonically evocative and personally connotative, we examine the word in its multiplicity of meanings.

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A People’s History of the Sex Issue

Celebrating 35 years of journalistic perversion.

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Eschatological Rock

“What’s the point of instruments?/Words are a sawed off shotgun,” cries Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the band’s newest studio album, (In Rainbows). How true those words are. It’s not that the music on the band’s newest disc isn’t worth listening to.

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