by | Feb 5, 2021 12:39 pm | Comments (3)
The city has announced two special Saturday Covid-19 vaccination clinics for New Haveners 75 years old and up.
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by | Feb 3, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (6)
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Lino Monge gets his vaccination shot at the Casa Otonal senior apartment complex.
Long wait times to book vaccination appointments by phone. Transportation difficulties. Lack of information about how to sign up.
Dwight neighbors raised these observations as they considered why nonwhite seniors in particular seem few and far between at Covid-19 vaccination sites in New Haven.
by | Feb 3, 2021 2:30 pm | Comments (5)
Thirteen people will go into quarantine from Barack H. Obama Magnet University School and another from King/Robinson Interdistrict Magnet School as a result of the latest reports of Covid-19 cases in the public schools.
by | Feb 3, 2021 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy of Peel Art Museum and Archives, Brampton Ontario, Canada
Raina.
Standing in front of the Kashmiri Gate in Lahore, Pakistan, the artist Jagdeep Raina was overcome with emotion. At first, his reaction was inexplicable. He grew up a world away in a Toronto suburb and had not visited his family’s homeland in 14 years. Why did he feel so much as he gazed at the wooden monument dating back to the Mughal Empire? Raina brought a tripod to the site and began documenting the gate to understand what it signified to him.
The product of that effort was a short film that the Yale Center for British Art screened last week as part of its ongoing “At Home: Artists in Conversation” series. The film layers shots of the gate with evocative charcoal drawings of figures sitting outside, riding horses, and relaxing at home — only to be washed away by blood dripping from disembodied hands.
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by | Feb 2, 2021 10:39 am | Comments (1)
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Marcella Nunez-Smith, at one of her local virtual stops Monday night.
Marcella Nunez-Smith’s three public appearances on Monday:
• White House national Covid press briefing, with Fauci.
• Community Foundation of Greater New Haven race & health-justice roundtable.
• New Haven sickle-cell town hall.
by | Feb 1, 2021 5:41 pm | Comments (1)
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The New Haven Green Monday.
The New Haven Public Schools canceled its meal distribution program on Monday and may cancel it again on Tuesday.
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“Is that feedback a scream, a release, or a revelation?” you may ask yourself, as the first 15 seconds of Killer Kin’s newest single, “Sonic Love,” burn their way into your body, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll spirit. As it turns out, it is all four of those things and more. The New Haven-based band released a 7‑inch red vinyl last week — the group’s debut on Pig Baby Records — and both are now also available to stream and sizzle their way into your long, cold winter nights.
by | Jan 29, 2021 5:23 pm | Comments (15)
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Nursing director Vazquez (at left): No in-school transmissions yet.
Officials had a dilemma after a kindergartener tested positive for Covid-19 this week at dual-language Christopher Columbus Family Academy: Who else should stay home?
by | Jan 29, 2021 4:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Khalid: Never gave up on his vision.
To make the lemon chicken at Ali Baba’s Kitchen, Jamshed Khalid started by cutting boneless chicken breasts into strips. He then marinated it, for at least 12 hours, in a blend of special spices.
I wondered what was in the blend.
“Should I tell you?” Khalid responded with a laugh. “No.”
by | Jan 29, 2021 12:19 pm | Comments (11)
A positive case of Covid-19 at Ross Woodward School has led to the quarantining of 13 people there.
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by | Jan 29, 2021 11:51 am | Comments (6)
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Lino Monge gets his vaccination shot Wednesday at the Casa Otonal senior apartment complex.
New Haven has set up a wait list for seniors between 65 and 75 years old to get Covid-19 vaccines that would otherwise go to waste.
by | Jan 28, 2021 2:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Saba (mackerel) sashimi.
Chef Sunny Cheng slipped a tiny sculpture under the plexiglass around his sushi bar. A transparent pane of kombu (seaweed) topped a delicate slice of mackerel and ball of rice.
He pushed the plate with the saba sashimi towards me, as though he were letting me in on a secret.
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by | Jan 28, 2021 11:26 am | Comments (19)
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Santana: “Somebody didn’t do the work. Somebody bankrolled the money somewhere.”
After embarrassing revelations about deferred maintenance, New Haven plans to launch an annual check on its schools to make sure multi-million-dollar buildings are being kept up.
New Haven Public Schools administrators revealed this plan after a night of tough questions at a hearing Wednesday night.
by | Jan 27, 2021 3:46 pm | Comments (3)
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Ron Simmot gets his shot Wednesday.
A city “strike team” made its first stop in the Hill Wednesday to deliver Moderna Covid-19 vaccinations to 100 homebound seniors.
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by | Jan 27, 2021 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Wanda Gomez: You should protect yourself too.
As a Covid-19 survivor and first responder, I did not think twice about getting the vaccine.
by | Jan 27, 2021 10:37 am | Comments (0)
Rosen.
What is a book
It’s a simple question — it’s a rectangular object with pages, and those pages most likely have words on them, and you read it to get information, or be told a story.
Right?
But what if there are no words? What if the pages are filled with images? What if they’re empty? What if the book doesn’t open like books usually do? What if it can become another shape altogether if you unfold the pages right? Is it still a book?
Continue reading ‘Bookmaker Reads All The Way Between The Lines’
by | Jan 26, 2021 10:36 pm | Comments (14)
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City Health Commissioner Darnell Young gets vaccinated on Meadow St.
Is the Covid-19 vaccine a rushed and dangerous experiment? Will the vaccine give you the virus? Are side effects worse than the disease?
And — that “zombie question” that just won’t die — does the vaccine affect fertility?
by | Jan 26, 2021 6:19 pm | Comments (4)
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Building Manager Chuck Tomaso examines Bishop Woods’ new air filter.
by | Jan 25, 2021 5:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Lee Chamberlain gets vaccinated by retired doc Soni Clubb (below).
Retired emergency medicine doctor Soni Clubb spent part of last March in bed sick with Covid-19.
Ten months later, she’s back on the front lines of the pandemic — helping vaccinate the elderly against the novel coronavirus at the newly opened Floyd Little Athletic Center mass vaccination site next to Hillhouse High School.
Continue reading ‘Hillhouse Mass Vaccination Begins With 250 “Soft Opening” Appointments’
by | Jan 25, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (1)
Aliyya Swaby
Aliyya Swaby, who covered New Haven schools for the Independent from 2014 – 2016, is gaining national attention for her groundbreaking work on the effect of the Covid-19 on public education in Texas.
by | Jan 25, 2021 10:14 am | Comments (0)
Here To Stay single cover
The saxophone slides in with an almost whisper of vocals behind it that are practically an instrument unto themselves, setting the smooth as silk pajamas vibe of “Here To Stay,” the latest single by New Haven-based producer and musician Gritz King — a.k.a. Stephen King — released this week.
by | Jan 24, 2021 12:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Alder Honda Smith enlists neighbors, Hindu Temple in pandemic quest.
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by | Jan 22, 2021 6:33 pm | Comments (6)
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The police academy’s latest graduating class.
Sixteen recruits graduated from the city’s police academy to become rookie cops during a ceremony held partly online, partly in-person at Hillhouse High School.
by | Jan 22, 2021 4:14 pm | Comments (6)
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Ambassador Lee on his mask giveaway shift on Church Street.
Jeff Lee approached a Church Street bus stop, his gloved hands carrying a plastic brochure holder stacked with 60 bright blue surgical masks.
He paused six feet away from a small crowd seeking shelter from the morning cold, then posed a question.
“Does anybody need an extra mask?”
by | Jan 22, 2021 2:25 pm | Comments (20)
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No biggie: The author, grateful, post-vaccination.
It turns out despite all my fears and anxieties, I actually enjoyed getting my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.