BY Noah Levinson | Friday, Mar 25, 2011 3:49pm | COMMENTS (0)
Maura McFadden, a senior at Glen Ridge High School, walked into an auditorium yesterday holding a grocery bag. She looked up at her classmate Rene Francolini, also a senior.
“Rene, I need you to eat some sorbet.”
“Huh?”
“Your choices are pineapple, strawberry, or coconut.”
It wasn’t a request.
BY Noah Levinson | Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 6:37pm | COMMENTS (0)
“Hola, ¿como esta?”
A man walked into Seton Hall’s Jubilee Auditorium wearing a big poncho and an even bigger smile. “Hola, ¿como esta? Hola, ¿como esta?” He greeted each individual member of the press as they undoubtedly thought back to their high school Spanish days and mumbled an answer back, not sure if the correct reply was “muy bien” or “muy bueno.” The man greeting them was Mario Sepulveda—often referred to by colleagues as Super Mario—one of the 33 Chilean miners trapped in the San Jose mine in Copiapo last year.
BY Noah Levinson | Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 9:00am | COMMENTS (1)
Let go of the foregone conclusion that funeral services are only for the recently dead and the reasonably close. Rosedale Cemetery, whose chapel holds memorial services and final services, announced this week that they will be giving families the option to stream ceremonies over the internet for a $120 surcharge. The option is intended for friends and family for whom health, cost, or distance prohibits their physical presence at the memorial.
BY Noah Levinson | Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 10:34am | COMMENTS (2)
Normally, when you see the Columbia High School Ultimate Frisbee Team play, you will see them looking like any other high school team–playing their games on proper fields, in proper lighting, and in the proper conditions. Unless, of course, you see them on what some consider to be their most important game of the year.
On Thanksgiving night, after the seemingly endless supply of turkey and stuffing has left the rest of us slothlike and motionless at the dinner table, the Varsity Ultimate players at CHS will face their greatest rivals–former Varsity Ultimate players from CHS. But they’ll be playing minus the frills and trappings of a normal game of ultimate frisbee. In fact, as they have for decades, they’ll be playing in the dim parking lot in which the sport was invented.
