Author Archives: Caroline Tracey

The Game has never interested me — in four years, I’ve never been. But while taking this semester off, I unexpectedly found a rivalry I could get behind. When I got to California this August I stayed at first on a grass-fed cattle ranch, a small, family-run operation 50 miles south of San Francisco. Its »

Jarvis Cocker, frontman of the Britpop band Pulp, willed himself to come to Yale in order to see the dinosaur mural at the Peabody. He has a song about dinosaurs (“I met her in the Museum of Paleontology / And I make no bones about it / I said, ‘If you wish to study dinosaurs »

Just before the lights were turned down at the “talk” by the late photographer Diane Arbus this Wednesday at the Yale University Art Gallery, History of Art Department chair Alexander Nemerov GRD ’92 turned his audience’s attention to what would be the most salient variable of the presentation. “Some of you may know that I »

On Feb. 25, I went to the Slifka Center for “Slavs, Klez, and Friends,” a joint concert by the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus, the Yale Klezmer Band, the Yale Russian Chorus and no fewer than 40 (FORTY) of their friends, who were all dressed in white peasant blouses and red sashes. “The wildest concert of »

According to the flyers, here is what you should bring to New Haven Bike Polo: 1) a bike. 2) a helmet. 3) a mallet (if you have one). 4) a good attitude. That’s all you need. But if you have them, also useful are: 1) tattoos. 2) vegan baking skills. 3) past membership in a »

Sam Bendinelli ’13 didn’t expect levitation when he went to a public hearing last February. But then again, he had never been at a public hearing with CJ May FES ’89, Yale’s recycling coordinator. Bendinelli had been working with Alderman Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 on a bill that would prohibit New Haven tax »

As a Caroline, I have an affinity for things that sound like “Caroline.” I audited the Western art history survey last year starting at the Carolingian period; I identify in general as “sanguine.” So on Saturday evening after listening to Minneapolis band Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps, who shared the stage with Yale’s own »

Severine von Tscharner Fleming showed up to the screening of her documentary, “The Greenhorns,” shown last Thursday at the Saybrook Underbrook, wearing an ankle-length denim skirt and a thick wool sweater that kept rolling itself up while she spoke to the audience. Her curly dirty-blond hair was pinned back, and she contorted her tall body »