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Mar 18, 2021 9:53 am
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In April last year, Tank and the Bangas headlined at College Street Music Hall, supported by local favorites Phat A$tronaut, Jelani Sei, and Nikita. The next week, Ian Sweet anchored a show at Cafe Nine, with Jay Som, Audio Jane, and Daniprobably opening. The next month, Farewood, Violent Mae, Passing Strange, and Sarah Golley shared a bill at Best Video.
We know that none of these shows happened. But since September, local musician Dan Deutsch has constructed a kind of alternate reality in which they did.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 17, 2021 2:54 pm
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Lee Chamberlain gets vaccinated by retired doc Soni Clubb at the Floyd Little mass site in January.
Yale New Haven Hospital is vaccinating roughly 800 to 1,300 people per day at the Hillhouse High School-adjacent Floyd Little Athletic Center — as the regional hospital system continues to see vaccination rates go up and up, and Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths decline.
Numerous afternoon bus routes will not run as usual Wednesday afternoon to and from Downtown and Brookside, Lighthouse Point, Kimberly Square, City Point, Hamden, Cheshire, and Waterbury in the latest of ongoing CT Transit cancelations.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 16, 2021 1:18 pm
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New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter at Tuesday’s press conference: “Economic justice must come first.”
A new statewide coalition of community, labor, and faith organizations has partnered with New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter to push proposed tax code changes that would raise $3 billion in new revenue from the state’s wealthiest residents, and send money directly into the pockets of the poor and working class.
Wexler Grant School (pictured): By summer, the heating will be fully fixed.
Wexler-Grant and Fair Haven schools will finally have five fully functional boilers by this summer, at least a year after the New Haven Public Schools started planning to upgrade the two schools’ heating systems.
State housing commissioner Seila Mosquea-Bruno at September 2020 City Hall presser.
Renters have a new lifeline: The state has officially opened a $235 million pandemic-era rental assistance program, whereby eligible tenants can receive up to $10,000 in rental aid and up to $1,500 to help cover utility payments.
Testifying Monday for “recovery for all” bills, clockwise from top left: Abby Feldman, Beryl Benson, Kimberly Cushman, John Lee.
New Haveners traveled virtually to Hartford Monday to issue a call: Increase taxes on the wealthy who have thrived during the pandemic, and send money back to the poor and working class who have been hit hardest by Covid-19.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 15, 2021 8:07 am
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Deto 22 sips from a mug while the words “can use a cup of coffee” are heard. Then Sketch tha Cataclysm breaks out in dance and verse: “Even when the drama begins, yo, that problem ain’t a problem. That’s it. I wanna live.”
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 13, 2021 6:35 pm
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Nydia Jimenez and Ellieben Acosta-Harris (right) encourage Jimenez’s Saltonstall Ave. neighbors to get vaccinated.
Kica Matos at Saturday’s “Vaccinate Fair Haven” kickoff: This is what community looks like.
Over 200 volunteers walked block by block across Fair Haven Saturday, kicking off a grassroots campaign to sign up as many eligible neighborhood residents as possible to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
Beecher gym teacher explains a game at Friday’s assembly.
Exactly a year after New Haven schools closed in response to Covid-19, L. W. Beecher students and staff Friday reflected on all that happened — and celebrated the fact that they made it through.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 10, 2021 7:55 pm
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A CT Transit bus with an Our Humanity ad.
New Haveners looking for information about Covid testing and vaccination sites can now stop by any of the New Haven Fire Department’s (NHFD) ten firehouses for help.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 10, 2021 10:35 am
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“WTF Is Wrong With You,” the just-released lead single off Tarantula Daydream — the upcoming release from New Haven-based grindcore project Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop — begins with an ominous, distorted line between heavy drumbeats. Something wails in the background, hard to identify. The drums kick up the pace and slip into blast beats. Then everything stops, pivots, and the vocals come in, raging over the top. The musical ideas keep coming, one after the other, until it all comes to a screeching halt. It all happens in about a minute and a half.
Rusted exhaust fan at Fair Haven School, before ordered repairs.
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Goldson: Job not getting done.
Amid reports of new schools with already malfunctioning HVAC systems and neglected air filters, the Board of Education is reconsidering its dependence on an outside facilities manager.
The action took place offstage and on the street Monday, as a dozen stagehands stood in the cold in front of College Street Music Hall to assert that the concert venue is not willing to offer them the same benefits there as the Shubert Theatre does across the street.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 8, 2021 3:19 pm
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Fair Haven Health’s Dr. Lagarde vaccinates school social worker Stephanie Willis.
Fully vaccinated New Haveners should feel comfortable ditching their masks as they gather indoors with no more than one unvaccinated household at a time — while all New Haveners should continue to wear face coverings and keep six-foot social distances while out in public, even as the state’s business-reopening restrictions loosen.
Jason Puttre, one of 10 Bella Vista tenants facing eviction.
Two years after losing one of his legs, and one year after losing his family’s financial support, Jason Puttre is now on the cusp of losing his Bella Vista apartment — as a Meriden-based landlord moves to evict 10 elderly and disabled tenants who are more than six months behind on rent.
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Kevin Maloney |
Mar 8, 2021 10:13 am
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Local government employees are the first line of defense against the cyberattacks that could compromise citizens’ data. All they need is an hour of training, according to Middletown Director of Information Services Bryan Skowera.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 8, 2021 10:07 am
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Smiling into the camera, musician Lys Guillorn explained that, in a certain way, streaming a show from one’s living room could be “more stressful than a live gig” due to what was going on off-camera. Her living room, she explained, was strewn with wires. Her husband was “relegated to a seat in the hallway, but he is wearing a Grateful Dead T‑shirt” and festive hat, she added. Then she began the show.
“This is a valentine to all of my friends.” She was grateful to have spent the pandemic with her husband, but she was “thinking about how many people I missed,” she said. “The people I miss are all of you.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 8, 2021 9:00 am
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Ro Godwynn.
“Boy, does it feel good to jam,” said Carrie Sangiovanni of Caravan of Thieves, one of four acts performing live at The State House Saturday night as part of Homegrown Folk, the CT Folk-produced show broadcast from the State Street venue live on Facebook. Feeling good was the theme of the night as each performance built upon the one before, each act expressing and eliciting great joy at the chance to be back live on a local stage.
Superintendent Tracey at the opening of Wilbur Cross’s vaccine clinic.
After more than a year of online-only learning, local high school students will be able to return to in-person classes starting April 5, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) officials announced on Friday.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 5, 2021 3:45 pm
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Kica Matos: We need volunteers.
The Fair Haven community is partnering with Fair Haven Community Health Care (FHCHC) to launch a “Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign to register all eligible residents for their Covid-19 shot.
