R.J. Rico live-blogs the Yale football game against Brown, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.

For student musicians, waiting in line for practice rooms, kicking other students out of rooms they have reserved, rescheduling rehearsals or conceding defeat and settling for out-of-tune pianos are all familiar ordeals.

Everybody blames the smokers. One little fire in Branford and the hegemonic, white-lunged majority hurls hatred at a threatened and dwindling, black-lunged minority. The comments on the News’ Web site disturb me. One poster, an anonymous coward, even used the slur “hipster.” That hurt.

Though the loss to Penn significantly lowered the Bulldogs’ chances of repeating as Ivy League champions, the Yale volleyball team (17–3, 7–2 Ivy) will set out to finish the regular season strong on the road against Harvard (10–11, 6–4) and Dartmouth (9–11, 5–5) this weekend.

What do you think a play called “A School for Greybeards or The Mourning Bride” could be about?

This week Julian Casablancas dropped “Phrazes for the Young,” Casablancas’s first solo album and one of the best debuts I’ve heard.

A symposium on "The Promise of Yale Psychiatry" will held on Friday, Nov. 13, to mark the installation of Dr. John H. Krystal as the sixth chair of the Department of Psychiatry.

R.J. Rico live-blogs the Yale football game against Brown, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.

“I love you!” screamed a girl seated in the buzzing crowd when James Franco made his way to the small stage in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday afternoon.

Last night the Board of Aldermen approved the new contract for New Haven teachers, representing the end of a well-run process, and a beginning for real school reform in the city.