Dear-Evan-Hansen

As Mallory Bechtel, GS ’24, sits in her childhood bedroom, I see four posters from musical theater productions behind her: Les Misérables, White Christmas, Bring it On!, and Whistle Down the Wind. The last, she tells me, was her first professional show—at the ripe age of seven, she was pulled from the training program to join the ensemble for the Houston leg of the 2007 U.S. tour.

This school year saw a handful of new restaurants and eateries opening in the Morningside Heights neighborhood that were instant hits among students.

Coffee shop and art space Dear Mama Coffee will open as one of the first retail tenants at Columbia’s Manhattanville campus on 130th Street and Broadway in September. The coffee shop has another location in East Harlem, which opened in the summer of 2016.

In March, a paper that was authored by an all-star cast of scientists and predicted dangerous superstorms and accelerated rises in sea level was published in the European journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. But for many observers, the paper was old news—an earlier version of the article had been released to the web in July 2015.

There's a Viner named Jus Reign who makes videos in which he fakes an obnoxiously bro-y American accent and asks the kind of accidentally offensive questions a clueless white person might ask. Jus Reign responds to the questions wearily, throwing a pointed, Jim Halpert-esque look at the camera. It's simple and gets straight to the point: Uneducated questions designed to somehow separate you from the person whom you're asking on the basis of skin color or cultural practice are annoying, tiring, and, worst of all, racist. The comments in response to these videos are, for the most part, standard. They include people laughing, people tagging their friends, and, most damagingly, people claiming the vine videos are racist or ignorant. "If I wrote 'black people questions,'" one commenter says, "I'd get so much hate."

According to the flyer below, "Elementary"—aka the superior Sherlock Holmes TV adaptation—is filming in the area of 116th Street and Morningside Avenue.