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College Confidential: One Prefrosh’s Burning Questions
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
by Vivienne Chen
Filed under the header “Social Questions” on the endless source of high school angst known as College Confidential, one prospective member of the class of 2016 is dying to understand the complex social fabric and intersectional identities at Princeton. Sorry, what I meant to say was this: Yes, I believe he identified himself as of the
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The Great Gatsby: Now in 3D!
Tuesday, 22 February 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Following its appearance as an 8-bit video game, Princeton alum F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby is once again being adapted for the big screen — this time starring Leonardo Di Caprio as Gatsby. To make things better(?), director Baz Luhrmann (of flamboyant Moulin Rouge! and Australia fame) has decided that Fitzgerald’s Great American
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The Great Gatsby – the Video Game?
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
by Spencer Gaffney
Certain books lend themselves to video game adaptation. (Lord of the Rings? Hell yes! Who doesn’t want to tromp around Middle Earth slaying orcs and what not?) Other literary classics? Like, say, The Great Gatsby? Not so much. Or so we thought. Turns out someone decided F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of high society in the
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Anonymous Internet flirting less awkward again
Friday, 04 February 2011
by Vivienne Chen
Remember GoodCrush? Well, newcomer LikeALittle.com bears a striking resemblance to Princeton’s last “missed connections” website. Started by students at Stanford and expanding to schools across the country, LikeALittle combines ease of use, anonymity, and mild stalker tendencies into one Internet platform, making compliments to that cute girl in Frist much easier to make. (We all
Princeton’s F. Scott Fitzgerald Takes the Stage
Saturday, 02 October 2010
by Julia Bumke
Attention, all Princeton literature geeks! Our favorite literary Tiger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, is getting some serious time in the limelight lately, as two separate New York Times articles over the past two days can attest. The occasion? The Public Theater in Manhattan just opened a new, eight-hour dramatic reading of The Great Gatsby, called Gatz, and
- Published in Arts, Princeton in the News
This Side of Paradise: The Musical!
Monday, 12 April 2010
by Spencer Gaffney
Bummed about the Street shutting down? Looking to escape the prefrosh? Really, really bored? Then the new musical version of This Side of Paradise might be just the thing for you! The show goes up this Wednesday a quick train ride away, at the (Off-Broadway) Theatre at St. Clements. Will it be any good? Who
Slate.com: “Harvard, Yale, or Princeton?”
Sunday, 22 February 2009
by Brian No
On the occasion of tonight’s Oscars, here’s a December piece from Slate.com that looks at “how F. Scott Fitzgerald decided where to send his characters to college.” The impetus for the article stems from the omission of Harvard references in the Best Picture nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based off of
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