by | May 13, 2021 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Lys Guillorn.
Wednesday night gave beloved New Haven-based singer-songwriter Lys Guillorn a chance to perform live from Holberton School for District Arts and Education’s biweekly series, one that Guillorn herself mentioned that she has been watching since the livestream series began last year.
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by | May 12, 2021 7:44 pm | Comments (4)
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Nydia Jimenez knocks on neighbors’ doors for “Vaccinate Fair Haven” campaign.
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And set a statewide standard in the process.
by | May 12, 2021 9:37 am | Comments (1)
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Filmmaker Lisa Tedesco is a planner, and thanks to that, neither the general disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic to the film industry nor a brief Covid scare on set could prevent her from making Spin — the story of two high-school seniors in a drama club who, after wrapping a run of Romeo and Juliet, let their feelings for one another run free.
by | May 11, 2021 4:39 pm | Comments (20)
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Goldson (left): If it makes sense for the kids … McArthur-Jackson: Virtual has benefits.
Should the Board of Education return to in-person meetings, now that schools are reopen? Or stay virtual?
As New Haven emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, board members wrestled with that question, weighing whether some form of Zoomocracy becomes the new normal.
by | May 11, 2021 2:37 pm | Comments (3)
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English teacher Kelly Hope.
As public schools statewide prepare to institute African-American studies courses, New Haven Academy’s Kelly K. Hope and her students are already on the case.
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by | May 10, 2021 12:21 pm | Comments (13)
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At least two laptops needed at a time.
“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
by | May 9, 2021 1:33 pm | Comments (4)
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Mayor Justin Elicker makes vaccine case to Terrance Williams.
Soon after the mayor knocked on his door, Terrance Williams ran down the street — to get a Covid-19 shot.
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by | May 7, 2021 4:03 pm | Comments (6)
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Kevin Blackman: People were counting on me.
Kevin Blackman was back in the courtroom where he was first sentenced to 24-plus years in federal prison.
This time, that was cause for celebration — for Blackman, and for a community looking to repair lives crushed in the War on Drugs.
by | May 7, 2021 4:02 pm | Comments (1)
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The closed downtown Subway, on the hook for $62K+.
A shuttered Subway sandwich shop’s owner has agreed to pay its downtown landlord over $62,000 in back rent and attorney’s fees and to move out by the end of July if it can’t find a replacement commercial tenant.
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by | May 5, 2021 8:53 am | Comments (0)
A visit to a gynecologist’s office that may or may not be under siege. How copulation might resemble the objects you might find in your attic. And the travails of a child maligned by his shallow parents, seeking May 4‑appropriate, Star-Wars-themed revenge. On Tuesday night the Regicides — the improv troupe from A Broken Umbrella Theatre Company — started ArtWalk in Westville, which returns to live, in-person, yet still social distanced activities this year.
by | May 4, 2021 6:31 pm | Comments (1)
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Those behind on rent and utility bills due to the Covid-19 pandemic can get help from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at Columbus Family Academy.
The state’s emergency rental assistance program, UniteCT, is parking a bus at the school to help tenants and landlords sign up.
by | May 4, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (11)
After 41 years, music is back in the Westville Flats.
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by | May 4, 2021 8:59 am | Comments (0)
“Sleepover,” the first cut from the New Haven-based Arms Like Roses’ new EP, Get Some Sleep, begins with a delicate guitar line and calming vocal, but the rhythm hints at the urgency to come. “I can’t speak,” the singer sings, “I’m sorry.”
Then, without warning, the song kicks into gear, blasting guitars and crashing drums, and the singer elaborates. “I can’t speak,” she sings again. But it turns out she has a lot to say.
by | May 3, 2021 1:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Outreach: Diego Condo gets his Pfizer shot from Richard Jennings at Fair Haven Health’s Wilbur Cross High School clinic, which like others in town now accepts walk-ins.
New Haven entered a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: Cases are way down. Plenty of vaccine is available. But it now looks like the coronavirus is here to stay.
by | May 3, 2021 9:19 am | Comments (0)
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Zombii.
This past Saturday was the first of many things: the month of May, new state-level bar and dining guidelines, and a return to live music for two local bands at The Cellar on Treadwell. Local trio Zombii shared a bill with the Manchester-based Johnny Mainstream for a punk-punctuated night on the patio at the Hamden venue.
by | Apr 30, 2021 9:29 am | Comments (12)
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Angela Walder: My doctor knows best.
Angela Walder’s doctor has prescribed her remote work for the rest of the school year. Her employer denied that request and ordered the Barnard paraprofessional to return to in-person work this week, or take unpaid time off.
She took the time off.
This is one outcome of New Haven Public Schools’ messy efforts to bring roughly 250 teachers, paras and other staff members with Covid-related accessibility accommodations back to in-person work.
by | Apr 28, 2021 3:17 pm | Comments (2)
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New Head Start Supervisor Mary Derwin.
Columbus Family Academy Assistant Principal Mary Derwin will step into a new role in July as supervisor of New Haven’s Head Start pre-kindergarten program.
by | Apr 27, 2021 8:45 am | Comments (0)
An effervescent ode to coffee. Meditations on the divine and the earthly. And a call to move into the future with greater understanding and empathy. All of it was carried on the combined voices of the New Haven Oratorio Choir, in its first virtual concert, and first since the pandemic began. It also featured all works from living composers, who, making a virtue of the virtual, were all on hand from as far away as Australia to discuss their work.
by | Apr 26, 2021 8:40 am | Comments (1)
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$timmy single cover art.
”$timmy,” the new song by the chad browne-springer project Dreamvoid, isn’t just a candidate for hottest single of the summer; it is also a project unto itself, birthed from a New Haven-based afterschool program where students and teaching artists became creative collaborators.
by | Apr 26, 2021 8:39 am | Comments (0)
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Burnet.
Guitar in hand, Alex Burnet beamed at the crowd of about 70 people assembled — in a distanced yet communal way — in the parking lot of Best Video, on Whitney Avenue in Hamden. “Hope you’re enjoying this beautiful Saturday,” Burnet said. “If you’re vaxxed, let me be the first to say congratulations. It’s a real privilege to be able to share music with people in this time.”
by | Apr 23, 2021 2:04 pm | Comments (1)
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Borgstrom and Balcezak at Friday presser.
As older people got the Covid-19 vaccine, the average age of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus dropped.
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by | Apr 22, 2021 5:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Diego Condo gets his Pfizer shot Thursday from Richard Jennings at Fair Haven Health’s Cross clinic.
Ready for all: Kayla Gonzalez, Jennifer Vazquez, and Karen Nemiah of the Fair Haven Health team Thursday outside the Cross clinic.
No need any longer to futz with computers. Or stay on hold forever. The two-thirds of New Haveners still unvaccinated for Covid-19 can now get their free shots at local clinics without an appointment.
by | Apr 22, 2021 10:09 am | Comments (0)
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Darci Nalepa and Priya Mohanty in Queen’s world premiere at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago.
For director Aneesha Kudtarkar, two scenes from Madhuri Shekar’s play Queen stood out as scenes she was most excited to stage sometime in the future. In one, Sanam, a scientist, and Arvind, a Wall Street broker, go out on a first date in Northern California. They’re there because they’re both in their 30s, and in India, their grandfathers apparently played golf together, and while this isn’t exactly a possibility of an arranged marriage, it feels a little like it. In another, Sanam and her longtime scientific colleague Ariel are arguing over the ethical quandaries their years-long project has stumbled into, and it all comes out — the cultural and economic differences between them, the strains of being women in a male-dominated field. They’re the true heart of Queen, and in that scene, the heart perhaps beats the loudest.
by | Apr 21, 2021 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
Homebound New Haveners 16 and older can now get vaccinated against Covid-19 without traveling to a clinic.
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by | Apr 21, 2021 9:06 am | Comments (0)
It’s a soft, gentle sculpture, of a woman sitting next to a body of water. But the context in which that woman sits — an Afro pick — is nearly as old as civilization itself.
For artist Yvonne Shortt, it’s a connection to her personal history and to her African heritage. It’s also a way for her to connect with the struggles of other ethnicities — and reach out to everyone.