Josie Massey
Articles by Josie Massey
Features
Past Timothy Dwight College and up three stories in a closet-sized Whitney Humanities Center office, there is a post-doctorate Mellon Fellow unlike all the rest: Gwenda-lin Grewal. Although this name may call to mind a medieval queen in King Arthur’s kingdom or an elfin princess who used to know Gandalf the Grey, replace flowing robes …
Culture
Logging into your Eli account and entering “Bulldog Chat” on the Yale admitted student website for the first time is like running into a game of double dutch. Conversations swing like ropes around you—the curious fellow prefrosh intimidating you almost to the point of complete inaction—and players jump in and out faster than you can …
Culture
The Yale Bowl: Built in 1914 and designed by Charles A. Ferry, class of 1871, the Bowl was the first stadium shaped like a bowl in the U.S. and one of the largest stadiums built since the Roman Colosseum. Its unique shape allows each seat to have an unobstructed view of the field. Its arched-entranceways and …
Culture
Between Broadway and Elm Street is a small park with a large history. The park, which looks more like a patch of grass with a few trees, contains both a Civil War memorial and a memorial to the number of deaths in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The Civil War memorial is a 32-foot column. …
Reviews
American Horror Story, the newest show on FX and the brainchild of Glee and Nip/Tuck creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, is too twisted and has too many subplots to even attempt to describe here. Connie Britton and Dylan McDermott play Vivien and Ben Harmon, a married couple who move to L.A. after Vivien has …
Culture
It seems that no matter where you go or what you do nowadays, you keep hearing the same thing: China is taking over the world. A Master’s Tea with the CEO of Sotheby’s, British money behemoth, would seem like a safe zone for a non-China-world-domination discussion—but alas, no. The Tea, which took place in the …
Culture
If you keep walking down Broadway past the Yale bookstore, you will find yourself at Dixwell Ave., Whaley Ave., or Goffe St. Although you are probably contemplating the all-important question of how many Ramen packets you are going to purchase at Stop&Shop, you may stop for a second and wonder why these three streets sound …
Reviews
Just a few blocks off Old Campus at 216 Crown St. lies the Mochi Store, an easy-to-miss dessert shoppe featuring a delightfully exotic and tasty treat: mochi ice cream. Mochi ice cream is a sweet rice paste (similar to dough) wrapped around a bite-sized, ounce-and-a-quarter ball of ice cream. Although it’s a traditional Japanese delicacy, …
Features
Some say they create a magical mood on campus. Others think they’re annoying as hell. They make the Yale-hopeful giddy with Harry Potter comparisons and the Chinese tourist look up from his Nikon D80. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi to those bells that ring out over Yale’s campus, and so, just for you, …
Reviews
The Little Salad Shop, located on High Street across from the Yale Center for British Art, is the much-hyped brainchild of Jerry Choinski, SY ’12, and Etkin Tekin, CC ’12, both current seniors and Yale Entrepreneurial Institute alums. As stated on their website, the Little Salad Shop was designed to be a “healthy place to …