Sitting down with Kenneth Reveiz
While most Yale students bid farewell to New Haven after graduation, poet Kenneth Reveiz, CC ’12, stayed in the Elm City to help found the People’s Arts Collective (PAC). PAC is an inclusive public...
Articles by Andrew Wagner
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What we’re watching: RuPaul’s Drag Race What is objectively the best reality show ever is back, and somehow RuPaul has managed to bring the absurdity to a whole new level. What makes RuPaul’s so...
Letter from an editor: The Herald Issue 5
I couldn’t tell you who any of the Catholic saints are, except for Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lost things. Tradition dictates that saying a prayer to him will help you find any...
MUSIC: My Bloody Valentine
Twenty-two years—that’s how long it’s been since My Bloody Valenine released their last album, the iconic Loveless. And this past Saturday night, with little more than a warning on the day of, the band...
21. BEST MIYA’S ROLL
Every Yalie is familiar with that Howe Street holy trinity of New Haven restaurants: Miya’s, Mamoun’s, and Alpha Delta Pizza. And while the most adventurous of us might be able to stomach all three...
Major promotion
"Could we make Yale declare a major in comic books if we spent enough time marching in front of President Levin’s house?”[...]ER&M was created as a “secondary” major, meaning that students could only major...
Movie: Bully
As a film, Bully is powerful. It is a fine assemblage of harrowing vignettes about the lives of bullied school kids. The bullying is relentless and unbelievable (one girl relates how she was hit...
Q&A: Allison Williams of Girls
On Sun., Apr. 15, the comedy show Girls will premiere on HBO. Created by Lena Dunham, and co-starring Allison Williams, MC ’10, it focuses on four 20-something women trying to get by in New...
Music: The Shins
Forever immortalized (for better or for worse) by the 2004 film Garden State, The Shins have returned with Port of Morrow. The music landscape has changed a lot since we last heard from The...
Grimes’ post-Internet dream world
Post-Internet. It sounds like the latest trend in a culture that likes to add post- to everything: post-race, post-hipster, post-postmodernism. So, when Claire Boucher, the Montrealer known as Grimes, describes her new album Visions...
Movie: Melancholia
It’s fun to debate which part of Melancholia is best. Is it the stunning prologue of gorgeous images depicting the end of the world, set to Wagner’s overture to Tristan und Isolde? It could...
Music: Echo & Drake
Echo & Drake do love their guitars. A local band from Hartford, CT, Echo & Drake recently self-released their debut album, Sundrenched Elsewhere, an LP brimming with lush, melodic guitar washes that give it...
Music review: St. Vincent
While it may have seemed odd that St. Vincent was covering the 80s punk band Big Black at recent concerts, the group’s influence is apparent on St. Vincent’s latest album, Strange Mercy. Noisy guitars...
Action/reaction: Yale after Title IX
At the Harvest pre-orientation program, Yale freshmen-to-be work on local farms, learning about agriculture while bonding with each other. During the trips, the two leaders sleep in one tent, while all of the freshmen...
