Katerina Karatzia
Contributing Reporter
Katerina Karatzia
Contributing Reporter
Recent Stories
Akkadian prof. likes his few, exceptional students
Back in the day, the PamAm Guide to America described the Yale Babylonian Collection as the only thing worth seeing in New Haven (no, not Sally’s).
Festival brings Ecuadorian film talent to New Haven
On Monday night, Ecuadorian filmmaker Fernando Mieles brought his perspective on the unfair detainment of passport-carrying travelers to a film screening co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center and New Haven’s Ecuadorian consulate.
Of hitchhiking and gypsies: a trip to the Faire
Every year the The Connecticut Renaissance Faire (a.k.a. King Arthur’s Fall Harvest Faire) is held on the “Lions Fairground” in this place called “Hebron,” Conn., which is 20 miles outside of Hartford and doesn’t even have a public transportation system.
Yalie wins Emmy
Garth Neustadter MUS ’12 won an Emmy earlier this month for the score he composed for “John Muir in the New World,” a PBS documentary.
Q&A: Eager Beaver shows off his Strad
WEEKEND catches up with Tokyo String Quartet’s first violinist Martin Beaver and discusses the joys of playing a Stradivarius, Japanese (the language) and Sesame Street a year before his diamond anniversary (which means 10 years?) with the group.
Rap star K’naan waves a flag for humanity
A panel discussion hoped to highlight how some big names can really make a difference.
YUAG shows America’s birth
It is often said that a picture can tell a thousand words. By that measure, the exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery recounts a lengthy, detailed history of America’s early development.
Big Gigantic: Loud, Boring
When I bought my first CD player (you know, back in the day), I was seduced by one seemingly trivial function: I could listen to Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” again, and again, and again — with minimum effort on my part. It beautifully complemented my perpetual laziness and made me feel like the pudgy Augustus Gloop; but instead of a jumping into a flowing chocolate waterfall, I “plunged” into unlimited runs of my favorite song.
Alcauskas brings Evans’s photographs to light
For a moment nearly as brief as the production of a Polaroid photograph, the works of American photographer Walker Evans were brought out on display yesterday at the Yale university Art Gallery.
WEEKEND | Examining the ordinary through performance art
Inside 36 Edgewood, Charlie Kelly ’14 steps into a bathtub full of milk à la Claudette Colbert in "The Sign of the Cross." The lights are dimmed and a semicircle of onlookers gathers around the spectacle. Food coloring drips from a bunch of hollow eggs that hang above the tub as Kelly watches television, washes himself and has a “routine” nervous breakdown.
