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Living the beautiful life
Thursday was a beautiful day. The sun shone brightly, a single glowing sphere dotting the cloudless blue sky. “La Vie en Rose” continuing to set the scene, it became blindingly clear — Yale is a beautiful place.
Scenic Views
scene's view
In history, moments repeat themselves on a blueprint of blurry facts and images. Tragedies of the past come back again and again, cloaked in different guises, but the message remains the same: we are trapped in a web from which we cannot extricate ourselves.
Scenic Views
Tech support
It happened two nights before my final final last semester. Late into the night, in the middle of a penultimate essay spell-check, my laptop paused, sputtered and promptly froze.
Scenic Views
Game: Hedonism 4 poverty
I have compiled a list of both real and imagined Hedonism for Poverty events. Ridiculous? Maybe. Effective? Perhaps, but probably not. Real? See if you can tell.
Art
THIS BE ART: Cheon Pyo Lee ART ’10 (vis-a-vis his surrogate)
I didn’t interview Cheon Pyo Lee. He wasn’t available. Fortunately, his replacement was.
Scenic Views
Our polyester future awaits us in our Plexi-crystal dome
Lately there’s been a lot of hating on plastic, especially in all that recent fuss about the danger of plastic bottles. Just as supple polymers continue to reify male desire in breasts and lips, men now face the threat of rising estrogen levels wrought by the same chemical compounds that once fulfilled sexual fantasies.
Living
BEER
Long before Tucker Max hoped beer would be sold in hell, a slightly more learned Benjamin Franklin declared beer was “proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Whether or you find the existence of beer to be proof of divine providence or the existence of Tucker Max to be proof of a lack thereof, the fact remains that beer has been on human minds for millennia —...
Living
BUFFALO WINGS
Tangy, meaty and messy — of all the late-night munchies, one stands above the rest. Hot wings are a snack that gives us a deep, primal satisfaction. This week I visited three of New Haven’s favorite casual dining destinations in search of the perfect wing experience.
Living
ICE CREAM
With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, I felt that it was important to compliment the ungodly number of Russell Stover chocolates that are sure to be consumed with a brief sampling of New Haven’s ice cream offerings. Though the number of ice cream stores in New Haven pales in comparison to say, pizza parlors, what the city lacks in quantity it certainly makes up for in...
Music
Owl City gets lost in the dark
Owl City, the synthpop soloist, dropped a deluxe edition of his “Ocean Eyes” summer album this week. The album included three new songs: “Rugs from Me to You,” “Butterfly Wings,” and “Fireflies (Adam Young Remix).”
Living
WINE
In New Haven, the idea of Dionysian delight comes in plastic bottles and boxes. But in this little Elm City, there’s a beacon of hope for the fading sommelier creeping underneath the salacious beer-craving post-adolescent in all of us.
Living
CHEESE
There is cheese everywhere. In the little refrigerator to the right, sprawling within the counter refrigerator, all over the counter to the right: everywhere. Where to begin?
Music
“Real Life Color” // the magic man named Sam
Every so often a Yalie pulls back a curtain on the singular kind of human potential that shakes up the way we see those around us, providing a glimpse of those talents that tend to remain hidden and futures that may unfold. This time, it’s Sam Lee ’12, who, along with childhood friend Alex Caplow, has released an album called “Real Life Color” under the moniker Magic Man.
Music
Magnetic Fields repel listeners
Do you like acoustic guitars, soft-spoken vocals, baroque stylings and lilting melodies? Then listen to Fleet Foxes. If you ever get sick of that and you are looking for a cheap indie folk imitation, then you could try “Realism,” the newest album by The Magnetic Fields.
Interview
Backstage: Meet Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham has written four novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winning “The Hours,” which was made into the 2003 Oscar-winning movie of the same name. Cunningham was recently hired by Yale to teach writing courses for the next three years. Yesterday, scene sat down with him to discuss Walgreens, the pleasures of eucalyptus and the guest list for the perfect hot...
Interview
Navy SEAL dives into DKE
Desert Storm seems hazy nowadays. But not to Joe Metzger ’11, a newly initiated brother of Delta Kappa Epsilon. “I had just turned 20. It was 3 a.m. and they were launching missiles at us,” he said. “Saddam Hussein was launching missiles at us.”
Living
“Lil’s 90th” lives for today
Did you know that as soon as you hit 25 you officially start aging? Growth stops and body processes start to slow down. Short-term memory degrades, synapses don’t fire as fast and you get fat. Your body will never work as well again as it does now — you’ll never be as energetic, as athletic, as sexually active. You turn 26 and your youth is scientifically over, gone,...
Performance
Tap where no one has before
Tap dancer Leah Itagaki ’11 describes the Taps winter show as “eclectic and weird and happy.” I can’t say I was surprised to hear this of a show entitled EnTAPrise: Tap Long and Prosper, and after seeing the hour-long tap dance extravaganza, I heartily agree on all three counts.
Theater
Anne Frank on strings
When the lights come up on an eerily-lit Anne Frank marionette dictating from her diary on a bare stage, we knows we’re in trouble. What kind of perverse mind would dream up this utterly creepy creature?
Living
Transcend electric smokes
Smoking is cool. To intentionally ingest toxins that will likely lead to your early demise is to reject this world and its temporal, material pleasures.
Living
Landscaping your secret garden
Maintaining your nether regions can be quite a hairy endeavor. With so many options and so many preferences, how is one to choose? For those of you unsure of how to style the hair down there, read on for pointers of pubic proportions.
