The Arts Staff of The Cornell Daily Sun has voted. Here are the Top 10 albums of the year.

James Rainis '14 runs down the trends, trials, tribulations and thinkpieces that defined a fairly mediocre year in music.

With winter break nearly here, reading can once again be a leisurely pastime. The Arts Staff for The Cornell Daily Sun selects eight books from the past year that are worth your time.

Peter Jacobs '13 finds some use in those useless "Best of" music lists, after all.

Here’s a goodie bag of my favorite European desserts in no particular order. Bon Appetite!

I arrived in Sevilla dazed and confused. But this incredible Mediteranean city, with its Andalucian culture intact, delectable frybread and zest for the “good life,” quickly became my favorite place I’ve been.

I feel like I constantly hear the phrase, “That WOULD happen to you” from my most intimate friends. Is it my generally naïve demeanor, or am I just a magnet for quasi-unfortunate events? I like to think that it is neither of these things and that I have been chosen to serve honorably as an example to my luckier counterparts, a how-to manual in reverse, if you will. Here are the best of my failures while traveling abroad.

From my very first minutes in Lisbon, my conception of true kindness was altered. Yes, Sally from Illinois might say a friendly “hello” to strangers, but Hugo from Lisbon goes in for a bear hug and then invites everyone to dinner.

Five minutes into a business model presentation and a slew of Irish slang and f-bombs later, it was clear that Ryanair's CEO conducts himself by nobody’s rules but his own.