Author Archives: Scene

Thumbs up why? The Nancy Pelosi of Indian soft drinks, this dark cola-beverage is both delicious and as ubiquitous as stray dogs on the streets of Delhi — also available at Sitar on Grove! Slow dancing why? Gone are the nights of hands-to-hip, endless swaying most romantic. Gone is the dream once true, the sententious »

GET THEE TO A HAIRCUTTERY…AND HAVE A SUBLIME WEEKEND (NOTICE: YOUR BREAK AND CHILDHOOD MAY BE OVER (THANKS Monsiuer Rudnick ’09), BUT YOUR DISCERNING FACULTIES REQUIRE ATTENDING—Consider the QU WISELY, AND UNPACK JORDAN’S ARTICLE WITH CARE.) ALL LOVE AND WARMTH, YOUR BUDDIES AT SCENE

Nicaragua in Four (okay, three) Hotel Shampoos Hotel Shalom, Managua $55/Night scene didn’t use shampoo here, because you don’t provide any. You ripped us off for a hundred Cordobas and your overflowing toilet — it covered scene’s bags in chlorine-smelling water. Little wonder scene didn’t inform you “Es un gran problem con la toileta” until »

Staying in New Haven over spring break why? The chill and gloom are ideal conditions for getting work done, breaking spirit. Nicaragua why? This guerilla Central American state is a sweet hotbed of Left Wing politics: a veritable Spring Break haven!!! Holi, the festival of colors why? This Indian festival took place last week, but »

Glitter why? Not the Mariah Carey sludgebomb but the tiny iridescent aluminum flecks of joy. Throw it into faces. Dating service: How about we … why? Never have a bad date again. Meet matches by suggesting your ideal date. The possibilities are endless. Making this book why? Because you’ll thank us afterward. Make a poster! »

1. There’s nothing more repulsive than needless waste. And it is scene’s opinion that University dining hall workers should be allowed to take and consume the food they produce daily. Stomachs full, minds abuzz, Yalies might not realize that after a heavy chow-down in their residential college dining hall or Commons, the food they do »

Liane Membis highlights all the big stories from this week’s scene.

Stirrings of Snooki’s first landing on collegiate soil launch a THOUSAND racist comments! Will you be pissed if the bronze bombshell materializes at this year’s Spring Fling? From the Huffington Post:

Get ready for an incredible weekend of student-written plays. Not only is Matthew George’s ’11 “Commandments” being produced by the Yale Dramat at the Iseman Theater, but the Theater Studies department is hosting readings of six new student-written plays, as part of the annual Yale Playwrights Festival. Stop making excuses and go see some incredible »

Liane Membis highlights all the big stories from this week’s scene.

Isabelle Adjani is in this horrid scene from Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 film Possession. Doesn’t it look terrible?

This afternoon, Ms. Grey spoke to a crowded Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall auditorium and answered scene’s questions about nuclear proliferation and hardcore movie stars. The young woman’s candidness and ability to regard problems from a different viewpoint were refreshing in a world where pornography is a subject either vehemently decried or defended in absolutist terms. She spoke »