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Mies Julie at Yale Summer Cabaret. Photographed by Yaara Bar.

Seeing Red

For Yale Summer Cabaret’s production of Mies Julie, the floor is painted red. The walls are red as well, creating a sunbaked look and conjuring the setting of South Africa....

Seeing Red

For Yale Summer Cabaret’s production of Mies Julie, the floor is painted red. The walls are red as well, creating a sunbaked look and conjuring the setting of South Africa....

Minis at Elm City Games

State of Play

It’s a Thursday night, and magic is happening at Elm City Games—Magic: The Gathering, that is, a swords-and-sorcery card game that gets a special evening of competition at the downtown...

State of Play

It’s a Thursday night, and magic is happening at Elm City Games—Magic: The Gathering, that is, a swords-and-sorcery card game that gets a special evening of competition at the downtown...

Bus Stop (2016) by Jim Goldberg

People and Places

In the stark room at the Yale University Art Gallery where Candy/A Good and Spacious Land is staged, a window looks out over the Gothic Revival towers of the school,...

People and Places

In the stark room at the Yale University Art Gallery where Candy/A Good and Spacious Land is staged, a window looks out over the Gothic Revival towers of the school,...

Little by Little

Little by Little

When I enter Woodlawn Duckpin Bowling, foam fills the gutters of the lanes. “I had the first-graders in today. They need the bumpers,” owner Bob Nugent explains. Where those first-graders...

Little by Little

When I enter Woodlawn Duckpin Bowling, foam fills the gutters of the lanes. “I had the first-graders in today. They need the bumpers,” owner Bob Nugent explains. Where those first-graders...

Shawn Miller / Dandy Lions

Queen-being

Eyebrows are glued down, painted over and redrawn higher on the forehead. Skin is covered in foundation and sculpted with dramatic contours and beaming highlights. Eyeliner, eye shadow, lip liner,...

Queen-being

Eyebrows are glued down, painted over and redrawn higher on the forehead. Skin is covered in foundation and sculpted with dramatic contours and beaming highlights. Eyeliner, eye shadow, lip liner,...

Reinaldo Cruz

Chopping Wood

In his Edgewood backyard, Reinaldo Cruz is busy shearing a piece of wood with a heavy knife. The forearm-sized-and-dwindling piece of red elm begins to take the shape it’s destined...

Chopping Wood

In his Edgewood backyard, Reinaldo Cruz is busy shearing a piece of wood with a heavy knife. The forearm-sized-and-dwindling piece of red elm begins to take the shape it’s destined...