Features Archives - Yale Daily News

Like many birders, I have a particular fondness for hawks. Each fall, migrating raptors often gather by the dozens or hundreds, and dedicated observers count […]

May 7, 2024

LAZO GITCHOS

FEATURE: Naming Birds

A hard rain rips at my tent. It sounds like Velcro. It’s hot inside but my feet are cold. The summer days are impossibly long […]

May 7, 2024

SURAJ SINGAREDDY

FEATURE: Birdwatcher Watching

There are certain expectations that come along with turning 21. You’re expected to become more mature and to know what you want in life. Really, […]

May 7, 2024

ARTHUR DELOT-VILAIN

CHANGING HANDS: The New Haven Clock Factory and Urban Development

“Everything in here was found in the dumpsters,” Jason Bischoff-Wurstle says, pointing to a blown-up image of Dimitri Rimsky’s art studio. In the photo, […]

February 11, 2024

EVERETT YUM

FEATURE: Sort of Blue

Take a look at Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1968) – the blue background displays a deep sapphire shade that, although obstructed by large black blocks, […]

February 9, 2024

OWEN CURTIN

FEATURE: Invisible Stacks

As I waited for a library employee to grab a book for me off the holding shelf, I contemplated for the first time the process […]

February 9, 2024

BRUNELLA TIPISMANA

FEATURE: Daniel Alarcón’s Americas

The morning Daniel Alarcón found out he won the MacArthur fellowship, he bought three pairs of sneakers. The other plans would come later, the more […]

February 9, 2024

TIGERLILY HOPSON

FEATURE: Past Due

When Charles Childress and Orisade Awodola were small, their grandfather Merritt Hicks told them stories about their great-great-great grandfather James W.C. Pennington. “He ran […]

November 14, 2023