Category: Features

  • Warehouse 421 Season Expands the Definition of Art

    A performer strode to the front of the wooden stage and asked the people sitting before him, “Are you coming from home? Are you coming from a place that you are living, but is not home? How many of you have a scent or taste that reminds you of home?” The 35 people in the …

  • The Fading Hues of the Rainbow in Paris’s Marais

    Despite the low temperatures typical of a late February night, the atmosphere inside Le Tango Paris was hot and sweaty as the crowd, drowned in dim red lights, danced to the booming music of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever”. When the lyrics “we’re meant to be together” played, same sex couples inched closer together under the disco…

  • Students Adjust to Semester Abroad

    By Savannah Prager January 1, 2023 NYU junior Leah El-Ouazzane is a born traveler, growing up in Paris, Texas and San Francisco. So it seemed likely that a study abroad semester would enhance her college experience. She spent a semester in Tel Aviv, followed by another this fall in  Buenos Aires, even planning on a…

    An intersection in an old European city. The sky is pinking like the sun is setting, and there is a palace-looking apartment block in the center.
  • Passion to Profession: UAE Women Entrepreneurs

    By Mariam Khan January 1, 2023 When UAE-born Shehzeen Jamil moved abroad to pursue a master’s in finance, she got much more than a degree. The coffee fanatic began an Instagram account reviewing cafes around London, a pastime she soon realized could be morphed into a business. In 2019, she launched a startup called SIPPY…

    Photo of a woman working at a computer superimosed over a photo of a city.