New Haveners past and present are lifting their virtual glasses in a cyber-toast to the Anchor bar and restaurant, which closed abruptly on Sunday night... Read on
Thornton Wilder drank there, and so, quite possibly, did you. Esquire magazine thought it one of the 25 best bars in America. The Anchor Bar has been a... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | January 5 2015 10:09am | 3 comments
Enough with the grim statistics. Traffic safety is a serious subject, but Yale is adopting a light touch in its new campaign to get pedestrians to watch where... Read on
For more than a year, people passing by the corner of York and Broadway have been wondering what is going to fill the prominent storefront there. The... Read on
A friend used to poke fun at what she considered our children’s impractical choices of college majors by saying that my daughter was going to open a... Read on
For most of the years since I graduated from Yale, I’ve been a year-round resident of New Haven. But there was something special about the first... Read on
Mark Alden Branch ’86 | June 27 2014 11:46am | 2 comments
Yale and the historic-preservation community don't always see eye to eye: preservationists have clashed with the university in recent years about razing 13... Read on
If you follow us on Facebook, you might have seen our photo last spring of a blue sweatshirt that says KALE instead of YALE. Turns out, not all Yalies are... Read on
Carole Bass ’83, ’97MSL | February 18 2014 06:27pm
Robert Dahl ’40PhD, one of America's greatest political scientists and a major contributor to Yale's renown in the field, died Thursday at a... Read on
For years, Yale undergraduates have studied their adopted hometown in a political science course called "New Haven and the American City." Now they'll... Read on
If you were a young Yale-trained physician and Olympic gold medalist in pole vaulting, you would surely decide to make your living in the magic... Read on
One by land, three by air: those were the touchdowns that wide receiver Deon Randall ’14 scored in the football team's 38-23 victory over Cornell on... Read on
Pass by the corner of College and Chapel tonight at 6 pm, and you'll see a pack of people making a fuss over nothing more than a bike rack. Well... Read on
"The law" means one thing to those who study and teach it in ivy-covered classrooms. It has a very different meaning to those who enforce the law, and those... Read on
Just weeks after canceling an affordable-housing project where an elderly professor was assaulted, Yale president Rick Levin ’74PhD promised... Read on