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If graduating from Columbia was like winning an Oscar
Oh my god, this is unbelievable! Honestly, I never expected this. Oh, and I have nothing prepared!
Well, first I need to thank Dianne Erpenbach, former director of the Fashion/Retail Management Program, ...
Everyone needs some alone time
I don’t mean to alarm you, but there are zombies among us. You see them everywhere—on the train, in the streets and climbing the stairs, albeit slowly. They are silent, plodding and ...
New age for Local Historians
Acoustic folk musician and Columbia senior Zach Harris, 22, knows how to make music with limited resources. In 2009 and 2010, he used borrowed microphones and his laptop to record two ...
A closer look at Christmas trees
A look at the “ugly Christmas sweater” phenomenon
Columbia alumna performs at Steppenwolf
As the casting associate at the Goodman Theatre, Columbia alumna Logan Vaughn is responsible for making actors’ dreams come true. Now, the 27-year-old is herself taking center stage, playing the title role ...
The art of ink: local tatoo parlor holds art show
For many years, getting a tattoo meant going to a parlor, flipping through pages of standardized designs and letting some guy named T-Bone stick a needle in your arm. Now it involves ...
Where to go if you can’t go home for Thanksgiving
Not everyone is able to go home for Thanksgiving. Work commitments, the rising cost of travel or the fact you can’t stand your relatives may mean many students are left searching for ...
Chicago Food Film Festival returns
Local theater stages ‘Star Wars’-inspired panto play
A look inside Chicago’s leather museum and community
Chicago’s many museums contain countless historic and cultural artifacts, allowing residents and visitors to view numerous works of art, a World War II submarine and—for the slightly more daring—a custom-made red spanking ...
Fashion Focus Chicago Returns
Creators of Grindr launch an app for everyone
The Arrowsics fly free
Trevor Geiger, 29, graduated from Columbia in May 2011 with a degree in music business. He plays rhythm guitar and bass for his band, The Arrowsics, which also includes his sister Molly, ...
‘Thinspiration’ not just women’s disease
On the crowded catwalks of Milan Fashion Week, one model in particular captured attention for the wrong reasons. After appearing on the runway wearing a plunging Gianfranco Ferré dress, Canadian model Alana ...
Chicago architecture opens up
Chicagoans will soon be able to get a firsthand look inside some of the city’s famous and obscure architectural treasures.
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