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BACKSTAGE | Judge a book by his cover
Meet Chip Kidd, Novelist Vocalist Book cover designer
Backstage: John Lehr
meet John Lehr, Artist Visionary Professor Favorite Camera? Toyo view camera. Favorite Book? “White Noise” by Don DeLillo. Right now I’m reading “Sut tree” by Cormac McCarthy. Favorite Snack? Pretzels Hometown? Baltimore, Md.
BACK STAGE | Young-Hae Chang and Marc Voge
“dead” artists corporate managers internet gardeners hometown Seoul, Korea (Young-hae Chang); Ann Arbor, Michigan (Marc Voge) favorite beatle Yoko Ono favorite late-night snack They are trying not to eat after dinner. favorite word in the english language “the”/“duh” (one and the same, depending on one’s native language)
Unusual Suspects forge prisoner understanding
I worked this summer in Chino with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, which runs 12-week playwriting and performance programs for incarcerated and at-risk youth in various detention facilities in the Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
R.L. Stine: Bone-chilling and brilliant
An interview with R.L. Stine, known as the “Stephen King of children’s literature,” who spoke at the master’s tea on Tuesday sponsored by the Yale Undergraduate Magazine.
Even without Cameron Crowe or boomboxes, Say Anything still says something
“Our new record is about becoming proud of it,” Max Bemis explains to me before hitting the stage at Toad’s last Thursday. “Musically, it shows the development of our band, and I think it was very important for us to embrace the genre. I grew up listening to Sunny Day Real Estate and the Getup Kids, and there’s been a huge backlash against that type of music. People won’t...
scene & Wes Anderson get ‘personal’
Q: The aesthetic of your film “Darjeeling Limited” is quite vibrant. Where do you get these ideas? A: Well, I think with this movie, all the visuals come from India.
Mmmbaby: Zac chats with scene
Last night, we fulfilled our fifth-grade dreams: Zac Hanson now has our cell phone numbers. But our attempt to return to the simpler days of crushes, curfews and spelling tests has been made more complicated: Hanson hit puberty, all three brothers married, and the group committed itself to fighting AIDS. Though Hanson will release “The Walk,” their latest album, on May...
Writer of ‘fava beans’ line remembers ‘unreal’ Oscars
Anyone who’s seen “The Silence of the Lambs” (and many who haven’t) remember Hannibal Lecter’s most delicious line: “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” What you may not remember is that the man responsible for bringing that and other equally quotable lines (“It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the...
Oscar script’s Eli fodder
The character of Sarah Pierce — the protagonist of “Little Children,” played by Kate Winslet — epitomizes the dysfunction, frustration and obsession at the heart of suburban domesticity. And Sarah, it turns out, is an Eli at heart. Created by alum Tom Perrotta ’83, Sarah is a composite of several of Perrotta’s Eli acquaintances, a specimen of the ultimate unfulfillment...
Back in Black: The Yalie show edition
Lewis Black DRA ’77 answers.
LB: Hello… hello…helloo…
YDN: Mr. Black… Hello… Mr. Black… Lewis?
LB: Yeah.
YDN: It’s Justin from the Yale Daily News.
LB: Call me back at another number. This phone is a piece of shit.
Culture writer makes an Elm City appearance
On the front cover of his fourth book, pop culture journalist Chuck Klosterman looks lost. He’s little more than a face, barely visible as he peeks over a milling crowd of pedestrians in the middle of what could be any New York City crosswalk.
