The Yale Herald Online
Vol. XXI, Number 2 - Friday, February 2nd, 1996
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT




REVIEWS

The undergraduate art show: our lives on display
"You are the topic. You are the center. You are the occasion. You are the reasons why. You provide the initial impulse. You are the heroes and villains of this piece." - Peter Handke

Hats, gloves, shoes: Dressing up with party girls and boys
Let's admit it -- at this time of year, all we really want to do is have some fun. As we imagine our mailboxes filled party invitations to chase away the winter blues, the question arises: what to wear?

'Radical: work in progress or propaganda?
If your head is still spinning from the whirlwind of activity surrounding GESO's conflict with Yale, the documentary Radical? may realign your perspective.

A competent 'Macbeth' haunted by spotty design.
Macbeth is said to bear a curse for all those who involve themselves with its production...perhaps it is a by-blow of the piece's theme: the corosive evil which swallows up cast and crew alike, as director Matt Shakman, SY'97 suggests.

Feast on New Haven's mouth-watering restaurant scene
$105.84! The promise of a weekly check in the event of a strike has surely inspired fantasies of spending sprees...but remember, the lines for food are only getting longer!

The distortion of dreams, the perversion of fantasy
The City of Lost Children opens with an ideal image of Christmas Eve. A young boy waits anxiously in his room while a wind-up toy claps happily and snow falls gently outside the window...


RECORDS

Drink up: Morrison's latest is all smoke and no fire

The earth doesn't move under Tori Amos' new 'Boys'


Bass and ennui: reissues spotlight England's obscure angels


STATIC!!!

Barbakan European Style Dance Club

Almee Mann - Toad's Place

Ballroom dancing, massage, skeet shooting, and more...


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