Amanda Glassman
Amanda Glassman
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Coco ain’t pretty “before Chanel”
The name Coco Chanel is synonymous with understated glamour and elegance in today’s fashion world. Gabrielle Bonheur, however, is a name few recognize.
‘Grand’ Opening
“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian,” a collection of large-format woodcut prints from the late 15th century through the 1630s, brings works together in a way that is both magnificent and informative. Backed by gray walls that underscore the prints’ blacks and whites, and arranged chronologically by year, the collection highlights developments in woodcut printing techniques, as well as the artistic evolution of the time period.
China protests descend on Green
Police up security as student response to Human Rights Torch relay draws hundreds
The New Haven Green played host to a face-off between supporters of the Chinese government and opponents of its human-rights record.
At Mitchell tea, porn, drag all in a day’s work
Branford College on Friday afternoon hosted John Cameron Mitchell, an actor and director best known for his film and Broadway musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a rock story about a transsexual, and “Shortbus,” a film controversial for its use of real sex.
Fashionista works it on Church
Standing on Church Street below the enticing facade of Fashionista, I felt how Rapunzel’s prince must have felt — glancing upward with longing at the ivory tower, wondering how I would ever find my way to that second story.
‘Science of Sleep’ director is less ‘Kind’ to latest film
“Be Kind Rewind” is not worth the time it takes to rewind it.
Heigl emerges from fat closet ‘27’ times
Like the variety of overly-frilled bridesmaid dresses jostling for space in Jane’s (Katherine Heigl) closet, “27 Dresses” takes its place among the multitudes of cheesy romantic comedies geared at girly teenagers and their unfortunate boyfriends.
7: Ted Gordon
Ted Gordon’s ’08 future in music seemed inevitable from the start.
Trachtenberg personalizes past with photos
An antiquated photo of a nineteenth-century American soldier clad in gray has the power to breathe new life into a long-gone era by personalizing the past, Civil War photography scholar Alan Trachtenberg said in a workshop at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Tuesday. Trachtenberg, professor emeritus of English and American studies, explored the very nature of historical photographs, which he said exist as relics that shed light on the past.
Dramat ventures “Into the (dark, twisted) Woods”
In “Into the Woods,” Sondheim — along with the wit and talent of the Yale Dramatic Association — twists our expectations of “happily ever after” into a musical that dispels previous notions of what a fairy tale should be.