Author Archives: Joy Shan

In “A Skull in Connemara,” main character Mick (Peter Kaufman ’12) instructs Mairtin (Charlie Kelly ’14) in his Irish brogue, “Don’t be cursin’ … not when you’re handling the departed now,” promptly before crushing a pile of bones with his shoe. Such is the dark, ironic humor this play shoulders from the beginning: a morbid »

For those of us who already consider our Smartphone an extension of our being, Google will by year’s end release a product that can only render us more in tune with today’s watershed of information. But rather than having us retrieve a small screen from our pockets to access all the data in the world, »

Viewers tune in to entire TV networks dedicated to the consumption and creation of food. Cooks at carnivals are always finding new treats to deep-fry, and novelty themed restaurants are popping up in big cities weekly. All the evidence points to one fact: human beings are always seeking exciting new ways to stimulate our palates »

WEEKEND sits down with painter Evan Nesbit ART ’12 to talk about process, symbols and Northern California attitudes. Q. First of all, what exactly is the Painting and Printmaking program at Yale’s School of Art, and how did you end up there? A. The School [of Art] is kind of unique in that it differentiates »

The concept of a “pop-up” store no longer implies a flimsy cardboard booth selling T-shirts on the sidewalk. “Pop-up” designers today are getting serious. Nightclubs, bars and gadget stores are appearing all over the country — and then, true to their name, folding back up and moving on. The Aqua by Grandstand in Singapore is »

“It is clear that I must find my other half. But is it a he or a she? … Can two people actually become one again?” Fifteen minutes into the titular character’s monologue in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” it becomes clear that this punk-rock musical is much more than just a bawdy, sensationalist show »

Only Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel, knows how to turn boarding an airplane into a feat that is glamorous, innovative and chic. Normally, upon boarding a flight, you are barraged with gray sweats, flannel pajamas, ragged hoodies and unkempt hair. Passengers are annoyed, frazzled — wishing to be anywhere but squeezed between two strangers »

Facebook is like a parallel universe. Our 3-dimensional world is chronicled through tangible occurrences of people doing tangible things. But then there’s the online world that serves as a time-delayed Looking Glass to the real world — Facebook confirms the occurrences of our actual world. Did you go out on New Year’s? You basically didn’t, »

David Edwards wants to change the way we eat, clean, and — recently — caff up. A Harvard professor and founder of the ArtScience labs, Edwards concocts devices that combine art and engineering to rethink some of America’s most mundane practices. AeroShot, his latest innovation, targets a species we are all quite familiar with: the »