Much like many Columbia filmmaking students, director Rian Johnson knew from a young age he was destined to make films.
Ahead of his latest movie—"Knives Out," a whodunit mystery—Johnson visited Col...
After a nine-year absence from Columbia, Jo Cates returned as the library director in July with much more on her desk than just book orders and budget concerns.
During a time when college libraries ac...
Director Jason Reitman has been around the block a couple times.A four-time Academy Award nominee for his work on “Juno” and “Up in the Air,” Reitman has explored the stories of misfits and ch...
Audiences, prepare to be challenged with the Chicago premiere of “Women Laughing Alone with Salad,” a feminist deconstruction of a popular internet meme put to stage. The play began previews March 9 wit...
As the 90th annual Academy Awards ceremony is right around the corner, Timothée Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Margot Robbie and Fionn Whitehead will prepare to walk down the iconic red carpet March 4. But The Chronicle is gettin...
The anticipated Red Line Extension project route proposed by the Chicago Transit Authority promises minimal community damage during construction and thousands of new jobs. But questions about how it will...
As a kid who frequented the local movie theater on Saturday afternoons, Ron Campbell grew up fascinated by cartoons. At the time, Campbell did not understand what exactly cartoons were before having an epiph...
In the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion, two people are covering all the work that used to be handled by up to five employees. Of these two people in what was previously the Office of Multicultural Affairs, only one can be co...
Painter Dena Peterson was one of 125 selected artists out of 5,000 applicants to animate "Loving Vincent," the world's first oil-painted feature film, which explores the life and death of Vincent Van ...
Corruption, extortion and exploitation are nothing new to the competitive world of sports, but the big money in college-level sports has created an environment and culture that damages students’ educa...
I was hiding under my blankets on my new, wobbly dorm room bed when I called my mom two weeks into freshman year—on the verge of leaving Columbia.
I felt like a fraud. Without any high school jour...
Christopher Wayne was eating fish tacos at a restaurant in Worcester, Massachusetts when a group of older women stopped to give him and Mike Tyler a slice of their birthday cake. The duo from Brisbane,...
