SMALL TALK
Winterfest

A chain of three ducks waddles across the pen as a boy reaches out his hands to touch one and narrowly dodges a group of […]

Pasta Amore

The first thing that greets me upon entering Mama Del’s of East Haven is a group of several large refrigerators that hold nothing but pasta. […]

Religion and Ecology

I eye the calamari that I’ve dumped on my plate, but when I point my fork toward my lunch, I can’t bring myself to actually […]

Singular Twins

When Elena Light ’13 first visited Yale, she ran into a different kind of competition than the typical applicant. “I came to Yale and my […]

Boulevard Flea Market

Every Saturday and Sunday before dawn, white, red, and gray vans slouch into a parking lot off E. T. Grasso Boulevard. Cars skimming past can […]

Quidditch for Muggles

Ever since I read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at the age of six, I’ve dreamed of zooming around on a broom in front […]

The Kettle Corn Man

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”231″ ] Seven years ago, Newton Carroll had never tasted kettle corn. “Never had kettle corn before, never seen it in my life,” he […]

Open Drawing

Art has never been my thing. I enter the dimly lit basement studio of Green Hall at the Yale School of Art, feeling out of […]

Book of Quotes

‘Get a life.’ We say it all the time. But who said it first? Easy: The Washington Post on January 23, 1983. Before The Yale […]

The Costume Bazaar

‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.’ So instructs the sign tacked to a strip of canvas hanging from the basement ceiling. Too […]

Boys and Men

It is a mediocre book. The language is affected. The characters, flat. The plot, contrived. But what could be better for some light summer reading […]