Yale Daily News

I have always found professional classical musicians an intriguing breed. Quite unlike pop stars and media icons, such musicians usually provide us rather narrow means […]

April 13, 2012

To say that I love television is a serious understatement, but I’ve recently wondered how much of my love for television is for the actual […]

April 13, 2012

I really want to keep this point direct and clear: “The Hunger Games” is not the new Harry Potter franchise. This shouldn’t become a rant. […]

April 7, 2012

Some of my friends/housemates/musical cognoscenti (who for the purposes of this column, I will collectively refer to as Latrice Royale) accuse me of liking and […]

April 7, 2012

Much of what I learned about love, heartbreak and the sex appeal of nerdy Jews (both middle-aged and teenaged) comes from watching teen melodrama “The […]

March 30, 2012

Last semester, a sudden urge came over me that required immediate attention in the form of intensive Witch House research. Witch House, if the term […]

March 30, 2012

This past week no one asked me about my spring break. For starters, I technically have no vacations at all. “But Jordi, isn’t a gap […]

March 24, 2012

In 1953, James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA. Since then, science has continued to flex its control over life’s […]

March 23, 2012

The big winner from the 84th Academy Awards, “The Artist,” was a perfect Oscar movie: a feel-good work that was entertaining and engaging. And safe. […]

March 23, 2012

Last week, a friend whose musical taste I normally respect introduced me to the song “Call Me Maybe” by the perky 26-year-old Canadian singer Carly […]

March 2, 2012

Talking about sex is uncomfortable. I never got the sex talk from my parents, nor did I want one. I was content not knowing what […]

March 2, 2012