Yale Daily News

Aki Sasamoto has the kind of easy charisma to which we all aspire, as warm as her signature email signoff — “sincere cappuccino” — would […]

October 14, 2016

Q: When and why did you decide to become a writer? A: Well, I don’t know if I decided to become a writer. My first […]

October 7, 2016

Q: Why is Indonesian life and culture so important to you? A: It was a mixture of academic and personal involvement. Once I moved there, […]

September 30, 2016

Former television host Dick Cavett ’58 appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television from the 1960s through the early 2000s.  Cavett is perhaps best known for his […]

September 23, 2016

There is a moment in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2013 video “I, You, We: Art & AIDS” when Sue Coe almost cries. Coe […]

September 16, 2016

WKND: How’s your transition to Yale been going? EJVP: It’s been just splendiferous, it really has. Smoother than I might have imagined. I suppose that’s […]

September 9, 2016

Pavo Pavo, an experimental pop band with sounds both retro-futuristic and ethereal, features not one but three Yalies — all of whom met while studying […]

September 2, 2016

Saskia Stolz is the Dutch artist behind the “Moving People,” small figurines installed in Bass Library to honor the millions of refugees currently fleeing their […]

April 22, 2016

Dispel any doubt that Mina Kimes ’07 was a true-blue Yalie: upon being informed that Gourmet Heaven — known to Yale faithful as GHeav — was now […]

April 15, 2016

The founder of Deborah Berke Partners, a New York-based design firm, Deborah Berke is a lecturer across the United States and a professor at the […]

April 8, 2016

Last year, Matt Jaffe — who would now be a junior film studies major in Calhoun — chose to drop out of Yale to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a full-fledged musician. Mentored by Jerry Harrison, the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the Talking Heads, Jaffe seeks to carve his own musical path. He’s the lead singer of Matt Jaffe and the Distractions, a rock ’n’ roll band that also includes Paul Paldino on bass, Adam Nash on guitar and Thomas Yopes on drums. Jaffe spoke to WKND about his songwriting process, how his time at Yale influenced his music and his expectations for the future.

March 11, 2016