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SCENE COVER | LANDLORDS: School’s out
When Yalies move off campus, they lose the basic support network that Yale’s residential college system provides. So, who do they turn to? As this point, students trade masters and deans for landlords and property managers. These are relationships that can turn sour at the flip of the switch or the breaking of a pipe.
Scenic Views
Gordon: GLORIOUS CONSENSUAL SEX IS REAL?
Last Friday the student body received the usual don’t-rape-someone-this-weekend e-mail from Dr. Carole Goldberg, which accompanies such rape-likely occasions as Halloween and the Freshman Screw.
Scenic Views
George: The importance of honest evenings
What do you think a play called “A School for Greybeards or The Mourning Bride” could be about?
Scenic Views
Living
Beards less than world class
The Yankees don’t have a lot of hair. The official policy, since the dawn of the Steinbrenner era, has been that only neatly trimmed mustaches are permitted. And while this is not the only reason for my conversion to Yankees super-fandom in the past few months, I’m not counting it out as a factor.
Living
A Eulogy for Knees
I always have to explain my knees. There’s a keloid on my left, an irregular pink mound that started as an angry scar and just kept growing, the last evidence of my fall from a bike at age 13 (that, and the fact that I haven’t successfully ridden a bike in the six years since then). Skinny Asian female, about five feet three inches, has a birthmark on her smallest toe and...
Living
The body electric
Size matters, and Yalies think big! From the giant inflatable Handsome Dan to the enormous phallus known as Harkness Tower, big means beautiful at Yale. But when it comes to carbon footprints, smaller is better.
Theater
It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s “a Dream”
An overly-pensive prince and a tempest-tossed, cross-dressing maiden currently share the stage at the Whitney Theater, but their names are not Hamlet or Viola.
Theater
Department Revives Playwright Cowley, For a Day
It is rare at Yale to see the “revival” of a play that means just that— a new life for an underperformed work. Most revivals here lay claim to the obviously undead; Shakespeare and Shepard, Wilder and Wilde, are the favored corpses of campus theater. But a performance on Wednesday afternoon was a clear exception.
Theater
Revolution at the Cabaret
The Yale Cabaret’s mission statement this year is “a gauntlet thrown in the face of our future.” But its current production, “The Surrender Tree,” more aptly portrays the gauntlet thrown in the face of our past. The play is a staged-adaptation of a Spanish and English children’s book by Margarita Engle about the Cuban War of Independence.
Music
IS THIS A CONSPIRACY?
This week Julian Casablancas dropped “Phrazes for the Young,” Casablancas’s first solo album and one of the best debuts I’ve heard.
Music
Let Tegan and Sara love you
The spring of my junior year of high school was the time when my musical sensibilities began to take shape. I started attending noise shows, downloading album upon album of math rock and ambient drone and exhibiting a condescending lack of interest anytime my friends tried to talk to me about music.
Music
Erol takes on Dlugosch
It all started with Trash. And by Trash, think nightclub night. No really, it was a night started by Turkish electro DJ Erol Alkan in 1997 at The End, a club in London.
Art
Yale’s latest art acquisitions
Last February, feet of snow obscured Yale’s walkways. But thousands of miles south, beneath ancient blankets of ice, Professor Thomas Near braved the Antarctic chill in pursuit of rarely-seen sea creatures — dead or alive.
This Week
No ketchup, no problem late night
Louis’ Lunch. You’ve all heard the stories. The birthplace of the hamburger. No ketchup allowed. A late night eatery? Maybe not.
Film
King of Pop’s personal library is ‘It’
The final curtain call. $21.3 million in sales. Top of the box office.
Film
A “Co-op” for student film
“Co-op,”a student film written and directed by Max Barbakow ’11 and Jacob Albert ’11, dares you to pigeonhole it. Its cast of grotesque characters evokes Darren Aronofsky’s breakout hit, “Requiem for a Dream,” and its strange, living spaces and dark humor are reminiscent of the Coen brothers’ masterpiece, “Barton Fink.”
Film
‘Still Walking’ stops to smell the radishes
For the miniaturist, the labored observation of detail is essential to unlocking the grandest secrets of humanity.
Film
Friends, interrupted
On the American poster for Karin Albou’s new film, “Le chant des mariées,” the tag line reads something like “a friendship nothing could destroy” (or some- thing like that). It’s a clichéd line that sells short this thematically bold and visually striking second feature by the director of “Little Jerusalem.”
