Low Library at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus.
NATIONAL ARTS JOURNALISM PROGRAM: 2002-03
A year in New York:
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Above, Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall teaching their Tuesday class in Cultural Criticism, which Anya and I joined for the semester. Above left, Meg James, visiting from Los Angeles, in front of her old Columbia apartment.
Left, my Murphy bed all tucked away. Above, the Metropolitan Opera, where I saw 16 productions. Below, the view from a Queens subway station.
Clockwise from top: watching "The Sopranos" in Josh's apartment; more birthday festivities; Rockefeller Center at Christmas; a Halloween sunflower at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens; Margo for the first time discovers the wonders of a portable MP3 player.
Left, Scott Lacy rides the Roosevelt Island tram. Above, Anya and Susan on the way to Ellis Island. Below, Kristin and I tramp it up in Connecticut.
Top left, a grand lunch with Todd Lenz, visiting from California, at Tavern on the Green. Top right, with David Kligman in front of the famed Seinfeld's restaurant on Broadway just a few blocks from campus. Left, Susan does her best hip-hop impression in front of the marquee for "Def Poetry Jam" on Broadway.
All good things must come to an end: Our final party at Andras Szanto's apartment. I brought all my Playbills and programs from the year for a last group photo.Top row,  Robert Campbell (Boston Globe), Kristin Tillotson (Minneapolis Star-Tribune), Allan Jalon (Los Angeles Times), Robert Christgau (Village Voice), Margo Jefferson (New York Times), Sasha Frere-Jones (just appointed pop culture critic for The New Yorker -- go Sasha), Carole Carmichael (Seattle Times), Michael Wise (Architecture magazine), M.J. Andersen (Providence Journal). Second row, Douglas Wolk and Elizabeth Kendall (free-lance), Anya Grundmann (National Public Radio), and last but not least, Joshua Seftel (documentary filmmaker and "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" diorector). Here's to the NAJP, guys.
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