Meredith Ries, a set designer in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening this month. Join her now as she and her team create a massive, richly detailed backdrop.
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Read MoreThe Maury Show has been around since 1991, airing such timeless episodes as “I’m Sure 1 of These 6 Men Is My Baby’s Father!” and “Are They Jingle Belles or Jingle Boys?” Attending a taping last week, I remembered why the show is a cherished tradition for so many families — including my own.
Read MoreMeredith Ries, a set designer in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening this spring. Today, a tale of triumphant design meetings and the dark, looming clouds of budgeting — a tale she calls In the Red.
Read MoreCan Scrabble be considered the quintessential American sport, more so than football? Play along with me as I reconstruct a heated game from a recent NASPA tournament, and discover how to take the game beyond your smartphone.
Read MoreMeredith Ries, a set designer currently in her final year at the Yale School of Drama, is writing a multi-part series about her design process for Hamlet at the Yale Repertory Theater, opening in the spring of 2013. In this second installment, she shares photos and stories (and blisters) from the model-building process.
Read MoreWe've all heard the claim that urban yoga fetishizes another culture while catering mainly to the white and affluent. Enter Compass Yoga, a nonprofit organization that teaches free beginner-level classes at five different branches of the New York Public Library, in the belief that yoga should be accessible to everyone.
Read MoreLast Sunday, I ventured through a pair of glass doors whose red handles formed the shape of the number pi. A numeral was on the loose, somewhere inside the newly opened Museum of Mathematics. By forming teams and solving a series of puzzles, we could compete to recover it.
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