Hometown: Columbia, S.C.
Residential College: Silliman
Ivy Noodle or Yorkside: Neither — my recent acquisition of a fully functioning kitchen provides a delicious alternative to walking to Yorkside at 2 a.m. and getting mugged
Superpower of Choice: Pausing time (I am a particularly bad procrastinator)
Q: How did you discover your interest...
My friends, you have been deceived. You may not realize it; in fact, I’m sure you haven’t. But that red stuff that the dining hall workers have placed next to the bowtie pasta is nothing more than a bowl of lies, a concoction of criminality. Tomato sauce? Please. Tell it to your jar of Ragu, sweetie. Okay, so I’m exaggerating. But anyone who knows me well knows...
For centuries, the cigar has been the mark of the refined, worldly and well-heeled tobacco smoker. Even if you are none of these things, though, you can still enjoy a cigar. Smoking a good cigar can be an extremely relaxing and rewarding experience if done properly. It’s not easy for an absolute layman to fully appreciate the full varieties and complexities of cigar...
Night Out Every Yale girl knows that sometimes the men folk around here can get a little much and it’s time to speed dial the girlfriends and get your estrogen fix. But that’s no reason to sacrifice a potentially fabulous night out — blow off some steam and give yourself a well-deserved break from cockiness and courtship with an evening of running around...
Yale Retro Style Not retro like acid and “All Along the Watchtower” on the roof of SSS. I mean old-school retro. Start your night at a Duke’s or Whiff’s concert (preferably donning that new J. Press blazer), make your way over to Chapel Street for some good American eats (try Union League or Zinc on daddy’s Visa) or maybe even to the Owl Shop on College...
As college students, our social lives tend to be accompanied by beers and grain alcohol — wine makes little or no appearance in most of our weekends. It is a misconception, however, to think that wine is only for the pretentious and snooty. Wine and beer serve very different functions. I enjoy a beer, or hell, even a cup of jungle juice, as much as the next girl when...
Only three days back at Yale, driving up Hillhouse Avenue headed towards Ikea, I spotted The Cupcake Truck. On a whim, I parked my car and frantically ran across the street and up to the window, where I breathlessly announced to the woman in the truck that she’d made me the happiest girl in New Haven. “I hear that a lot,” she answered. “That’s why I love this...
Marco Polo Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant, located on Crown Street in the heart of New Haven’s Ninth Square, is a quaint eatery noticeably removed from the bustle of Yale’s central campus. Average food is accentuated by a comfortable atmosphere, and although the restaurant is only a five-minute walk from Old Campus, the laid-back feel makes it seem worlds apart. Marco...
Hometown: Wilmette, Ill. Most Prized Possession: Her lucky charm Funniest thing she can remember her daughter saying: “I need poetry to poop.” if not a playwright, she would be: A portrait painter Q:Where did you get the inspiration for “Passion Play”? Did you think at all about Virginia Woolf? A: I had been traveling in England my junior year of college...
In high school, aimless excursions to satiate late-night adolescent wanderlust always morphed into quests for blueberry muffins, a blaring Emo soundtrack in the background and miles of black road racing beneath our wheels. Maybe it was because Dunkin Donuts was the only place open past midnight within a 15-mile radius. But maybe — more likely — it was the sublime...
In this world, there are two types of restaurants: college-geared and real life. A restaurant is deemed “college-appropriate” if the food is oversized and underpriced and the alcohol is cheap and plentiful. A real life restaurant is defined by its atmosphere, quality of food and service. But on the corner of Elm and State Streets, Kumo — a new Japanese Hibachi...
