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Ariel Karlin
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After Weeks of Suffering, TV Strikes Back with Plenty of Content to Fill Out Its Season
| Apr 17With the re-emergence of a throwaway joke from months past, Tina Fey’s brilliant showbiz satire and all-around absurdist lark returned last week with an episode titled “MILF Island”—a tribute to trashy reality shows that makes exploitative dribble like The Moment of Truth look like... well, nothing can make The Moment of Truth look good.
TV Guilty Pleasures: Greek
The premise of Greek is simple: Awkward engineering student Rusty Cartwright wants to break into the Greek system of a traditional Southern university in order to attain the notorious “real college experience.”
They Might Be the Next Giant of Comedy
“They say the hardest part of rollerblading,” explains a sweatband-clad skater in last year’s season finale of the MTV sketch comedy series Human Giant, “is telling your parents you’re gay.”
Ten Items or Less Rings Up One Sandwich Short of a Picnic
A creative process does not necessarily make for a creative product, as is the case with the half-hour comedy series 10 Items or Less.
Captain Goes Down With Its Legendary Ship
Welcome to the Captain, the new series debuting tonight on CBS, is a sitcom about the Columbia student’s worst fear: peaking too soon. As a young New Yorker, the bright Josh Flum (Fran Kranz) was destined for success.
Unpleasant Fumes in The Air I Breathe
Like a good music video, The Air I Breathe opens with an intense combination of cityscape graphics, thumping music, and flashing names of famous people.
Fracture Makes Blood and Guts Look Pretty In Red
Fracture, the new thriller from Primal Fear director Gregory Hoblit, is exactly what it seems.
Ow Ow, I'm Turning Into a Cockroach
More than one hundred years after its initial founding, CU Players is gearing up for what President Sam Packard, CC '09, calls the group's "breakout onto Columbia stages."
For the Sake of Bengali Love, Kumar Ditches the Burgers
autiful novel doesn't quite mesh with their now iconic, greedy consumption of piles of miniature White Castle hamburgers. Nonetheless, it was John Cho (Harold), who originally recommended The Namesake to co-star and friend Kal Penn (Kumar), star of the book's new screen adaptation.
Postcrypt Gallery Promises Fun this Semester
Members of Postcrypt Art Gallery build huts as cathartic exercises, drink seltzer everyday, and are self-admittedly not robots.







