Lakhsmi Chatterjee
Arts & Culture Editor
lchatte1@binghamton.edu
76 Articles
Off-Campus Events
Restaurant Week returns amid COVID-19 pandemic
Every Binghamton foodie’s favorite time of the year is here again. Restaurant Week is a biannual event where restaurants in Binghamton offer discounts and special menus for lunch and dinner. The event...
Community
Kopernik Science Park opens to general public
After six years of planning, funding and community effort, the Kopernik Observatory & Science Center opened the Kopernik Science Park on the grounds of the observatory on Oct. 22. The science park...
Music
Politics and protest through music
Music has been an active form of protest for centuries. Since the beginning of American history, songs have signaled times of revolution and political change. The classic children’s song “Yankee Doodle” itself...
On-Campus Events
Steve Aoki to perform at first virtual fall concert
Get ready to attend a rave in the comfort of your own home on Oct. 23 as DJ Steve Aoki takes the virtual stage for this year’s fall concert. In response to...
Feature
I-GMAP webinar discusses United States-Mexico border situation through atrocity prevention lens
“The U.S. Border as an Atrocity Prevention Site,” a webinar hosted by the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), analyzed how American laws and the actions of U.S. Immigration and...
On-Campus Events
Hostile Terrain brings attention to migrant deaths while crossing the border in the Sonoran Desert
Since the 1990s, over 3,200 people have died while crossing the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and Arizona. On Oct. 5, a participatory art display debuted in the Grand Corridor of the Fine...
Campus News
BU Libraries release anti-racism statement
In wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests going on across the nation, the Binghamton University Libraries released an anti-racism statement last Wednesday. The statement starts by saying that the...
News
TEDxBinghamtonUniversity 2020: Abby Govindan
Pipe Dream interviewed Abby Govindan, a comedian and aspiring television writer who has been performing stand-up since 2017. Govindan’s TEDxBinghamtonUniversity talk focused on how media representation affects self-perception. This interview has been...
Features
Poet Laureate of Brooklyn Tina Chang named director of creative writing
Binghamton University is welcoming back an award-winning alumna this semester as the new director of creative writing in the English department. Tina Chang, ‘91, is a poet who was the first woman...
Features
Black Lives Matter mural painted in Downtown Binghamton
Over the last weekend of July, at least 30 volunteers joined artist Kristen Mann, 30, of Binghamton, to create a street mural in Downtown Binghamton to commemorate the Black Lives Matter (BLM)...