Wendy Wang
Wendy Wang
Recent Stories
“Here and There” neither here nor there
On Whitney Avenue, directly across from Fashionista, is a museum I had never heard of, nor noticed, during my three years living in New Haven.
Fuzzy ferns, like mom used to make
Stepping into Elm City Handmade is like stepping into someone’s semi-curated, semi-organized attic.
Holmes hits hard
Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” is Conan Doyle’s sleuth on steroids — literally. No longer the iconic brainiac, the new Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) is just as much action hero as detective, with a penchant for flashy Hollywood displays of violence and explosions unimaginable to the original 19th century audience.
Davey, what’s in your pocket
I love mountain men. This was a summer revelation, though perhaps foreshadowed by my weird predilection for hairy-ish men with a significant amount of facial scruff. I like it rough. Unfortunately, it took me a long nineteen years to discover this new breed of man, mostly because I rarely venture out west where the real mountains (and men) are.
Symposium explores East Asian art
In a world that grows more connected each day, traditional national and academic boundaries are becoming more inter-disciplinary, speakers at the symposium on East Asian scholarship in the arts said.
Producer talks profanity, poetry
“Ask me anything,” David Milch ’66, award-winning screenwriter and television producer, said at the opening of a Davenport College Master’s Tea on Thursday.
Himes takes District 4
NORWALK, Conn. — New England lost its last Republican congressman Tuesday, as Democrat Jim Himes unseated incumbent Rep. Chris Shays in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District.
YSEC plays candidates
Although it’s still another week until Halloween, students donned their best Obama and McCain get-ups outside Commons on Wednesday.
Restaurant week boasts steep discounts
From Nov. 9–14, New Haven will host its first-ever Restaurant Week, a city promotion to provide “award-winning” cuisine at reduced prices. Prix fixe lunch and dinner menus will be featured at 18 of the city’s most notable award-winning restaurants, from Zinc, which features modern American cuisine, to Bentara, which showcases spicy Malaysian. Although restaurant owners said they look forward to new customers, some students said they are unsure whether the promotion will inspire them to forsake the dining halls.