Columbia’s very own Vampire Weekend nabbed the top spot on the charts today with their new album “Contra,” according to The New York Times. Somewhere SuBo is wishing she had taken the Core.

The trials take place in the open air, as the prominent villagers sit in the paltry shade of a shack and crowds of children move about the hillside. The alleged crimes are incomprehensible; a man quietly states how he and his community brutally massacred his neighbors over the course of weeks. The backdrop is lush with vegetation, and the villagers survive through subsistence farming.

My Neighbor, My Killer takes place in Rwanda, following the procedures of the Gacaca court, an informal system of justice established in 2001—seven years after approximately 75% of the Tutsi population was murdered, often by neighbors who had known their victims all their lives. (more…)

Liz: Did you dye your hair?

Jack: No.

And just like Jack’s hair, “30 Rock” hasn’t changed one bit over the holiday hiatus. Continuing to provide quick, sharp, and intriguing television, Thursday’s “Klaus and Greta” episode features Columbia’s own James Franco convincingly playing a slightly more troubled version of himself.

Plagued by a Japanese newspaper’s “rumor” that he is in love with Kimiko, a body pillow bearing the image of a bikini-clad Asian woman, Franco and his agent approach attention-craving Jenna to arrange a faux relationship in the hopes of dispelling the “myth.” In a scene poking fun at Hollywood’s contrived relationships, Franco stipulates the terms of the contract: “five dates a week, one fight a month, and because of product placement agreements with Jamba Juice, the fight will take place in a Jamba Juice.”

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