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Too Much Drama?
They had already traveled from across the country, spent a night in New Haven and braved the Activities Fair, but for some dramatically inclined prefrosh, Tuesday afternoon’s theater information session, coordinated by the Yale Drama Coalition...
Scenic Views
2 Zach 2 Fuhrious: The Spring Fling edition
The YCC was given $140,000 dollars for Spring Fling; Wesleyan was given $56,000 for theirs. But Wesleyan is getting a lot more with their dirty liberal arts dollar. Instead of trying to check a whole lot of boxes – like our mix of pop-punk bullshit (Jimmy Eat World), legitimate hip-hop (The Roots), and unattractive/untalented crooning (Sean Kingston) – Wesleyan...
Scenic Views
The gay days of spring demand babies galore
I would like to submit an official request for the shitty version of New Haven to come back. The gray skies heavy with depression, the iced sidewalks claiming victims right and left, the wind that makes me bitch. I would even settle for the urain. I call it urain because isn’t dry but it isn’t cathartic thunderstorm rain either; it just goes on and on, peeing on us...
Scenic Views
Leave the teens to their eyeliner and angst
“I WANT TO WATCH SOME PORN!” declared Kathryn Olivarius, Women’s Center board member and porn virgin. “Google it,” I said. “Google what?” she replied. “Porn,” I told her. Kathryn giddily selected “18 year old French-Canadian slut.” “This is ridiculous,” she laughed. Thirty seconds later she stopped the clip. “I’m not old enough for...
Scenic Views
Looking back on Madisons past, and contemplating gross dudes at A1
I’m waiting in line at A1 and I’m ordering my usual chicken fingers and fries. Want to know how I stay so skinny? I eat chicken fingers and fries, with BBQ sauce, as often as possible. Everything is fine and it’s loud because it’s College Night on Broadway, and all the stores are packed and I’m annoyed because I don’t like large crowds of people. I’m...
Performance
ADD is so into ‘Pants’
Despite members being afflicted by illness and horrific physical injuries, A Different Drum’s spring show will have you jumpin’ an ’a-jivin’ in your seats. With the number of injuries inflicted upon the lovely performers (including Michelle Coquelin ’10, who popped her knee at Wednesday night’s dress rehearsal) now at five, it is surprising there even is a...
Theater
‘Othello’ opens mouth, says words that matter
“Men should be what they seem,” Iago says in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and in the audience we feel we could prematurely strangle him for saying so. He is, after all, one of the great deceivers of dramatic literature — a man nothing like what he seems. With little more than the precision of his irony, he engenders lust, wrath and murder. And that’s before he...
Theater
Cabaret’s cartoon canine barks ‘Out Loud’
“One day, fat families and skinny families alike will read my poetry,” predicts Max Stravinsky (Bryce Pinkham DRA ’08), the lead canine character in the Yale Cabaret’s “Max Out Loud.” “Max” was adapted for the stage by Mattie Brickman DRA ’09 from three children’s books written by Maira Kalman, a famous New Yorker cover illustrator. Because it copies...
Theater
Outdoor ‘Dancing’ could use a Meryl
Only a handful of plays have ever been produced outdoors at Yale. This week, Erin Cawley ’08 brings Yale undergraduate theatre back to the open air with “Dancing at Lughnasa,” an Irish tale that will be showing in Davenport’s lower courtyard. “Dancing at Lughnasa,” a semi-autobiographical play by Brian Friel, presents the story of an Irish family near the...
Living
JoJo’s java joint an off-campus haven for coffee aficionados
As I made the short trek to JoJo’s Coffee & Tea, a recently opened coffee shop on the corner of Park and Chapel streets, I wondered: Does the Yale campus really have room for another coffee shop? With Koffee Too (fine … The Publick Cup), Starbucks and the Thain Family Cafe either on or just a few steps from campus, is anyone really going to go the extra block for a...
Living
C is for cookie: That’s good enough for scene
There are a couple of questions in the world for which there is only one right — and by right I mean socially, morally and logically acceptable — answer. What’s two plus two? Four. Did you file your taxes? Yes. What’s north of the North Pole? Shut up. Do you like cookies? Yes. That last question is the vital one. Have you ever met a (sane) person who, at the...
Living
Macho chefs chop just like Ahhhhhnold
I’m not a very manly man. I don’t pump iron, I don’t leave the seat up and I don’t know who is in the playoffs, ever. In the kitchen, though, things are a bit different. When I’ve got my chef’s knife in my right hand and my honing steel in my left, I feel like Schwarzenegger from the original “Terminator,” after his skin has been blasted away and all that...
Living
Sushi on Chapel does raw fish right
Spring, it would seem, has brought rebirth to University Properties as well as the trees. For more than a year, the space that once held Rainbow Café lay vacant and barren. Last night, however, that finally changed. A new sushi restaurant, the...
Living
Denzel: 'Sometimes it takes a little time to find your way'
Two-time Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington sits down with scene before his Master’s Tea yesterday in Silliman College. Q: Finals are coming up in about a week. Do you remember your last exams at Fordham [University]? A: My last two years at Fordham, I had already transferred within the university [to the theater program], and I had started working in the...
