William Alden
William Alden
Recent Stories
SCENE COVER | Buying from the farm
Yale Dining, recently restructured, has changed how the University conceives of sustainable food. With a different labeling system in the dining halls, do students know what they’re eating? Is the food still “sustainable”? What exactly does that word mean?
A poetic look back at the aughts
The Internet. Love. Talk about the loss of values, talk about the crisis. Do we make good movies anymore? Has Britney Spears been in anything since “Crossroads”? How do you know it when you see it — the 2000s? Political views: Very conservative Interested in: Men Women Networking
Head to head(stone)
Joan and Bill Cameron, co-superintendents of the Grove Street Cemetery, live among ghosts. After almost 56 years of marriage and 35 years at the cemetery (25 years as co-superintendents), they have seen, heard and tape-recorded the spirits of the dead. In their bustling office near the cemetery gate, the couple sat down for a rare interview with scene.
Meet Passion Play’s Sarah Ruhl: Playwright, Healer, Theatrical Animal
Meet Passion Play’s Sarah Ruhl: Playwright, Healer, Theatrical Animal
… a bookstore by its cover: THE NOBLE TRUTH
When it comes to ordering coursebooks, professors like to think they’re the best judge of where you buy them. What do you think?
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.
‘Yale Show’ shows Yale a new tradition
Among Yale students, the only university that’s more fun to ridicule than Harvard is, of course, Yale.
And now, the other senior projects
Aliza Shvarts’ ’08 controversial senior art project may have dominated talk about the Art Department this past week. But today, 20 other senior art majors will unveil their final projects — with or without her.
Remix it yourself: Thom Yorke’s ‘Nude’ in the nude
After marketing their album “In Rainbows” in October as a payment-optional (or, free) release, Radiohead have once again proved that they can basically do whatever they want and only increase their enormous popularity.
One-Act Play Festival probes shopping mall
It’s unclear whether springtime has come yet to New Haven, but just as flowers bloom and eggs hatch under the warm sun, three one-act plays written by the three first-year playwrights in the Yale School of Drama are now exploding into full, pulsating life at the Studio Theatre.