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Not your typical gap year …
We all know Yale’s student body comprises a diverse and interesting array of people, but meet those students you might overlook on campus. Some of them have been to Iraq and back, and one of them even pulled a stint as a used car salesman for a time. Let us introduce you to some of Yale’s most alternative students, who might just pop up in your next seminar.
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Not your typical gap year …
We all know Yale’s student body comprises a diverse and interesting array of people, but meet those students you might overlook on campus. Some of them have been to Iraq and back, and one of them even pulled a stint as a used car salesman for a time. Let us introduce you to some of Yale’s most alternative students, who might just pop up in your next seminar.
Theater
This ain’t your usual “Chorus Line”
If there’s one takeaway from “A Chorus Line,” it is best summed up by Cassie when she describes her fellow dancers to their director, exclaiming, “They’re all special!” The classic musical — set during an unusually personal audition for the chorus line of an unnamed show — reveals that even seemingly interchangeable members of a chorus line are actually unique as each...
Theater
Burrows improvises her latest
A few months ago, a student production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was only the tiny seed of an idea in the mind of Maggie Burrows ’10. But the path from the thought to the theater — “Spelling Bee” premiers this weekend — has been fraught with difficulties.
Music
A collective groove
On Saturday night a handful of New Haven musicians took the stage at Firehouse 12 on 45 Crown St. with little knowledge of where the night would take them. For most people, this would mean chaos. But for the New Haven Improvisers Collective, or NHIC, this is how they perform.
Music
Bang tape great
Afrika Bambaataa said, “How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of hip-hop culture. And the music is colorless.” But did Dick Van Dyke fit in too?
Music
The club banger’s guide to breaking music
Ever wonder what you’re going to hear at Toad’s on a Saturday night? Probably not. In any case here are four songs that you should expect to hear in the coming weeks, based on the number of radio stations that have picked them up over the past week.
Art
This be art: Nathan Azhderian ART ’10
Q: Where did you grow up? A: A town called Sebastopol, California — Like an hour north of San Francisco.
Art
Where in the world was Ms. Socik?
Don’t ask. She won’t tell you what they’re about. “Tunisia and Libya: What Lies Beyond Scarcity” is the most recent Sudler Fund visual arts exhibition on photography, open to the public on November 5th in the Swing Space Activities Room.
Film
Oscar season roundup– Get thee to a theater
It’s the same every year: there are only a handful of quality films released all fall, and then suddenly, in the last six weeks of the year, there simply isn’t enough time for all the Oscar-caliber movies you want to see.
Film
The diplomat’s documentarian brother
A diplomat and an independent documentary filmmaker: the two Negroponte brothers could not have followed more divergent paths to fame.
Interview
Backstage: Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman:
Recent graduates Ilan Zechory ’06 and Tom Lehman ’06 are on their grind. They’ve made Facebook apps to count friend’s debts, and a Web site to buy sheets. Like, white linen sheets. But Ivy League educations also prepare you for over-analyzing rap music. RapExegesis.com’s mission statement: “A semi-decent rap song is better than 1,000 Bibles combined. So why does the Bible...
Living
Ambiance and service undermine “Caseus”
First, let me say that Caseus is probably one of the best restaurants in New Haven, based both on the inventiveness of its culinary ambition as well as the sheer mastery of execution.
Living
Potato gratin for the people
This summer, in anticipation of the foodie film “Julie and Julia”, I revisited my copy of Julia Child’s iconic cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”.
Living
A million options at Mandala
With a chalkboard outside its entrance reading “A Melting Pot of Mixed Cuisines,” the newly opened Mandala Bistro prides itself in a menu that incorporates cuisines from around the world. Indeed, this new Indian/Italian/American/Everything spot on Temple Street tries its hardest to back up that claim.
Scenic Views
Kuperberg: Detective Kuperberg and the Laundry Basket Bandit
In this cold wash of a world, you can be a criminal or you can be anything else. Sometimes the line between the two is as plain as a separation of light and dark clothes. And sometimes the line is as thin as a strip of lint pulled out from the dryer. The latter is what I’m referring to right now.
Scenic Views
Biondo: Where’s the power in photography?
Has a medium become the ultimate cliché of art? What was once a craft of daunting physicality and psychology can now neatly fit into your pocket.
Scenic Views
Bijan: Hot/Not
NOT: Frumpy Vegetarianism (AKA Claire’s Corner Copia) Vegetarianism has come a long way since when it was mostly a lifestyle reserved for those who listened to Ani DiFranco. Claire’s Corner Copia, however, clings to hemp as if it were gold in a recession. The overall ambiance is one of a judgmental, iron-deprived vegetarian that parades around as a doting earth mother....
Scenic Views
In memoriam
This week, scene was having dinner with a friend at Thai Taste, enjoying a spring roll before a heavy night’s editing. “You know that Claude Levi-Strauss died a couple of days ago,” the friend said.
This Week
Tear down this wall …
When I was growing up, one of my dad’s only steadfast rules was that no one could throw away Time Magazine. It was a point of contention between my parents — limited attic space — but my father eventually acquiesced when we moved six years ago.
This Week
Rise of the Right
The first two weeks of November are rich in remembrance. On November 5th, 1605 Guy Fawkes’ attempt to assassinate James I by destroying Parliament was discovered and thwarted; the Berlin Wall came down on November 9th, 1989; and at “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918, WWI hostilities ceased on the Western Front.
This Week
Negroponte Remembers
scene caught up with former United States ambassador to the United Nations, Director of National Intelligence and Cold Warrior John Negroponte ’60. After spending nearly 40 years in foreign service in countries such as Iraq, the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Vietnam and Hong Kong, Negroponte returned to Yale in September in order to teach.
