For two nights, the underworld teemed with song and complicated relationship dynamics beneath the feet of students, faculty, and all those who love dinners at Ferris Booth Commons. Columbia’s Black Theatre Ensemble staged its medley rendition of Anaïs Mitchell’s Tony-winning musical “Hadestown” on Thursday and Friday in the Wang Pavilion.

In his new memoir, “No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention,” Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, grapples with the labels imposed on him after he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2025. The dominant forces are the government’s designation of him as a national security threat and his widespread public branding as an activist. While the former drives the memoir’s key events, the latter creates the work’s central tension: Can Khalil escape being “flattened” as a symbol of collective resistance, or is that a burden the systemically oppressed must bear?

From painting creeping plants consuming desolate cities to depicting crawling critters curled up in corners, Adib Rabbani, CC ’27, blends his love for art and science into a style both eerie and tranquil.

With custom tasting passports in hand, guests stamped their way through Morningside Heights’ culinary scene at the seventh annual Taste W111th restaurant showcase Friday.

Born in the shadow of the Holocaust, history professor Simon Schama has spent the majority of his career intimately exploring history’s complex relationship with collective memory in both the classroom and on the screen.

Sporting graphic eyeliner and bold outfits, Dani Rivera, BC ’25, transforms into their alter ego, Grunge Mum, using their DJ sets to redefine nightlife’s soundscape and promote inclusivity.

The Adam J. Elkhadem Foundation was founded in memory of Adam Elkhadem, CC ’18. Reporters Melina Nath and Ian Romero spoke to friends and family about Elkhadem’s life, the foundation, and the collective effort to finish his sophomore comic book, “Gluck,” in his honor.

Within a series of white partitioned rooms along the McCagg Gallery, Barnard’s visual arts department spotlighted students’ work—ranging from creations made of human hair to close-up photos of deer—for its opening of the undergraduate visual arts senior thesis exhibition on April 23.

If you ever fell victim to believing that a cappella is a true part of the college experience after watching the cult classic “Pitch Perfect” trilogy, the Columbia University Performing Arts League’s “Pitch Perfect Live” might be just for you.

Amid an ongoing legal battle over her childhood home, third-generation Morningside Heights resident Kristina Maria Lopez transformed the window where her late grandmother once watched over their neighborhood into an exhibition advocating for rent stabilized succession rights.