Chicago, Spider-Man's second city

Most commuters didn’t care to notice the peculiar New York City subway cars careening accross Chicago’s elevated train lines or the network of camera cables hovering above Wabash Avenue.
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Prime time for comic movies

With Marvel Studios and Universal Studios recently announcing plans to bring two Marvel comic book characters to the screen, Columbia instructor Len Strazewski stands to see some of the profits.
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Gravity geared toward graduates

As a promotional tool for Columbia, Gravity magazine has produced two issues, both in May and November 2002. The publication targets alumni and the Columbia community, something that Norman Alexandroff, editor-in-chief, believed was missing from the school.
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Two takes on Stephen Elliott
What it means to love you, boredom

As with his second novel, A Life Without Consequences, writer Stephen Elliott draws on material from his life and uses this slightly gritty Chicago backdrop as the setting for his third novel, What It Means to Love You.
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All encompassing DVD is

In Attack of the Clones and all of the Star Wars movies for that matter, Jedi patriarch Yoda speaks in terrible passive voice, making comments like "Begun the Clone War has," and "The Dark Side I sense in you." In fact, none of the dialogue in any of the Star Wars movies is very good—the screenplays are written like overly sentimental after-school specials with complex multiple-world economic morals. But that’s hardly the point.
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Columbia actors say ‘Goodnight’

A family meets after five years of separation to reconnect the ties so brutally unbound by the events taking place in Europe. The initial exhilaration is soon replaced by the awkward feeling that time lost is gone forever.
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SquarePants, Shortcake round out parade

What signifies the launch of another Yuletide season more than the edifying ritual of the Thanksgiving holiday? From the baking of a plucked fowl (Meleagris gallopavo) and a scrumptious dessert of pumpkin pie (actually a fruit), no Thanksgiving morn is complete without the time-honored viewing of a holiday parade. And there are few parades steeped in more tradition than Chicago’s, which celebrates its 69th Thanksgiving lumbering down State Street this year.
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Spy plane artwork removed from exhibit

BEIJING—It was plane, but it wasn’t quite so simple.

Chinese officials wouldn’t explain why they removed Huang Yongping’s work, which already had been installed for the "Guangzhou Triennial" at the Guangdong Province Art Museum. Huang accused officials of acting under U.S. pressure; the U.S. Embassy in Beijing denied any involvement.
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Columbia, Second City Team Up

Columbia’s Theater Department, in collaboration with Second City, performed an improv set "Al Queda, El Quida, Let’s Blow the Whole Thing Up!" at Columbia’s Studio Theater from Nov. 12—16.
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In The Loop

It was a magical time, some 14 years ago: Reagan’s second term was ending, Billy Ocean’s "Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" was topping the charts and the bloody Iran-Iraq war was over. And on television screens across the country, children "including this author— would discover their avant-garde icon. Who knew?
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