Author Archives: Chase Niesner

What often distracts me these days as I sit in the library staring at my computer screen isn’t the river of headlines or the steady stream of noise collecting on the next tab, but rather some unseen soundboard of springtime emanating from without.

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When asked what she values most about her 72-acre parcel of land in northern Connecticut, Daryl Basch gives a moment’s pause before answering. She appreciates the historical narrative of her land’s agricultural past, but she also appreciates how secluded she feels from civilization. She appreciates the wildlife thriving in her woods, but she also appreciates »

This past Tuesday a tide long overdue swept up New Haven in a not-so-subtle sea change. It was not a violent revolution if you could call it a revolution, but a pure triumph of democracy. And although it may be hyperbolic to say the tide was “red,” New Haven’s workers rode high upon the cyclical »

To put it simply, Third Eye Blind is a band you know very little about. Most people are unable to name more than three of their songs. If you can, that is quite impressive. But what is undeniable is that most everyone knows more than three of their songs by ear. If you don’t, that »

The monolithic sculpture building located at 36 Edgewood Ave. is not only home to Yale’s most tactile of art students, but also its most secretive (and unofficial) dining destination. The blaring red neon sign atop the fourth story window of Kit Yi Wong’s ART ’12 sculpture studio reads “Kityi Authentic Chinese Food / Free Sunday »

Ben Conniff ’07 is bold. For two years following graduation, he was a freelance journalist with a passion for great food. Eventually tiring of the typewriter, Ben yearned for a more hands-on experience, and a serendipitous cyber encounter with lobster enthusiast Luke Holden was the spark. Two years later, Ben is the Vice President of »

It’s easy to empathize with the land of the rising sun. Horrific images of rubble, videos of cars afloat in city centers and tales of refugees displaced from their homes are just a mouse click away. But our captivation with natural disasters in foreign lands goes beyond shock and awe. Maybe we watch to learn »

In her talk at the Hall of Graduate Studies Tuesday night, author Sharon J. Smith FES ’12 told inspirational tales from the front lines of environmental activism — and offered advice for aspiring young authors. In her first book, “The Young Activist’s Guide to Building A Green Movement and Changing the World,” Smith chronicles the »

It’s been a while since the world of cinema has been shaken to its core. Every few years, critics everywhere will hail a filmmaker’s work as “groundbreaking,” or perhaps even “wildly original”⎯— but rarely is a filmmaker able to package the history of experimental cinema and re-gift it in such a way that it changes »

A quick perusal of the Internet, and one can learn a lot about existential crises. They may be provoked by any number of earth-shattering events in a person’s life — a separation, a major loss, a death of a loved one, a life-threatening experience, a new love partner, psychoactive drug use or adult children leaving »

From New Haven to Stratford, from Old Greenwich to New Rochelle, the Metro North railway rambles along the Connecticut coast before bidding adieu to the desolate winter landscape and descending into the depths of Midtown Manhattan and Grand Central Terminal. At the center of the city, Grand Central is a nexus of travel flowing with »