Rebecca Pattiz

Frustrating music critics since 2002, RjD2 is nearly impossible to place neatly within a genre. His cut-and-paste masterpieces leap quickly from hip-hop to electronic to soul and back again. Nonetheless, RjD2 has become a superstar DJ with one of music’s most diverse fan-bases.

All baggy-jeans-wearing, boom-box-toting, hip-hop-loving suburban kids owe both their fashion and their attitude to Run-DMC.

Although New York City is expensive and Columbia University is stressful, the Music at St. Paul's Tuesday concerts are neither.

Each Friday, I wake up to host my radio show on WBAR. We play songs that we like, talk about whatever we deem relevant, and we do it all for an audience of about nine people.

The many health benefits of carrots have been lauded by mothers for centuries. From improving eyesight to curing digestive problems, carrots are nature’s super food.

Feb. 29 - One Step Beyond: Jazzy Jeff and DJ Dirty Finger
One Step Beyond: Jazzy Jeff and DJ Dirty Finger at the Rose Center for Earth and Space (at the American Museum of Natural History)
Jazzy Jeff, best known as the Fresh Prince’s lovable sidekick, is actually one of the most legendary and prolific hip-hop DJs. Along with Brooklyn’s Dirty Finger, he’ll help you get your groove on in outer space. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased through the museum’s Web site.

If you are starting to feel guilty about your failure to recycle or your occasional failure to turn off the lights, there is an easy and surprising way to appease your conscience—pastries.

It was a motley assortment at Highline Ballroom on Saturday: a red-eyed albino rapper onstage with two rotund jokers, a pretty raunchy woman and a recently-minted solo artist with a vengeance. It was also one of the best hip-hop shows I’ve seen in a long time.

With the whole country getting an unusually early start on the 2008 presidential race, Columbia students are working hard to keep up with the action.