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Judge Arterton at a citizenship ceremony on the Green.
No, the proprietors of the Green are absolutely not against changing with the times. Quite the opposite, as long as the future changes reflect the values of the past and the common good is served.
That’s one of the main takeaways from a conversation with Judge Janet Bond Arterton, chair since 2007 of the Committee of the Proprietors, a self-perpetuating quintet that shares control of the look and uses of the Green with the city.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 21, 2025 10:07 am
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Host Croilot; “Ladies and gentlemen, are we ready for a slam?”
The Z Experience Poetry Slam on Monday saw a lot of changes from previous years, in introducing new hosts and a new competition format. But its commitments to making voices heard, diving deep into tough issues, and building community remained as central and strong as ever.
Protesters declare support for trans, immigrant, Palestinian rights and more on the Green...
...and outside City Hall, on Trump Inauguration Day.
A Statue of Liberty drawn on fire, free toiletries for any who needed, and collective shouts of immigrant, transgender, and Palestinian resistance rang through the frigid cold at two parallel protests downtown.
Their message resounded on Monday afternoon as Donald Trump once again took an oath of office — with a flurry of executive orders cracking down on immigration and cementing anti-trans policies awaiting his signature.
The Green, as drawn in 1879 by Bailey & Hazen. Note the state house on the Upper Green, behind the Center Church, built in 1831 and demolished in 1889.
And the view from 1824, as engraved by Doolittle.
From a “market place” to a burial ground to a venue for government and education and worship, the Green has seen many different uses over the years.
“However, the one constant over four centuries there is also that the space has been for the public good.”
“The Green is big enough, gracious enough, generous enough to tolerate many different people.”
And public space — well, “public space is not always fun.” That’s kind of the point.
So argues Elihu Rubin, a Yale architecture professor and documentarian of the Green, as he cautioned against too many permanent changes to the city’s great public square at a time when a redesign is on the horizon.
... can now be thrown out in city compost bins, including on Crown St.
It’s a great time to be a banana peel in New Haven — as the city has installed three new public composting bins as part of a pilot program to help divert food scraps from the landfill.
What about Mary? The gravestone of 3-year-old Mary Hillhouse Oswald preserved in Center Church on the Green's crypt.
When the city unveiled a proposal to build a fountain and a “children’s garden” on the upper half of the New Haven Green, Nicholas Mignanelli had a question: What about the eight to ten thousand people buried inches beneath the ground?
5 demolished buildings to be repurposed as brick mural, on ground floor of new Yale drama building at Crown & York.
Yale won a key city approval for its plans to construct a new seven-story drama school and Yale Repertory Theater building — at a downtown corner where the university intends to demolish five existing buildings, and then incorporate the brick wreckage into a new mural.
That mid-century mysterious flying object was the subject of just one of the many queries, curious and quotidian, that have ended up on the desk of New Haven’s Allison Botelho in her 25-year career as the New Haven Free Public Library’s local history librarian.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 18, 2024 9:45 am
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Constance LaPalombara
New Haven 1 (Harbor).
It’s a misty day and there aren’t a lot of details to go on — no buildings or inland rock formations as landmarks. But because of painter Constance LaPalombara’s eye for including the right and necessary details, the scene is recognizable if you’ve ever been along the shore in, say, Morris Cove, and looked northward into the mouth of New Haven Harbor. With the defined sense of place comes a deeper appreciation for what LaPalombara is doing. She’s not capturing every detail, but she gets the details that matter. She grounds the viewer in a specific spot and then doesn’t just paint what the viewer might see through a camera lens. You could say she paints the atmosphere itself, the feeling of the air; if you concentrate enough, you can almost feel it.
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Dec 16, 2024 11:14 am
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At last call at Soul De Cuba, with Frank Brady and Tea Montgomery.
After more than 20 years of serving Cuban cuisine and culture on the corner of High and Crown Streets, Soul de Cuba will be offering only catering and take out services for the next few days before going dark on Dec. 22.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 13, 2024 9:26 am
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Little kiddos coming soon.
A nonprofit cafe and job training program for immigrant and refugee women has won city permission to open a worker-owned childcare center in the basement of a downtown church.
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Asher Joseph |
Dec 12, 2024 4:25 pm
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Elena's Light Founder Fereshteh Ganjavi (left) with Qaderi (center) and Siawash.
When Siawash reads the once-unsent letters that his mom wrote to him while she was living in exile and he was a child in Afghanistan, he isn’t filled with sorrow.
“Every time I read the letters my mom wrote to me, I see that history repeats and repeats,” Siawash said before a crowd in Yale’s Dwight Hall. “I have hope for the future.”
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 12, 2024 9:47 am
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Merik Goma
As I Wait, Untitled 6.
A man stands in front of the bathroom mirror in a towel. He’s just getting in the shower, or just getting out. At first glance it might appear he’s shaving, or putting on cologne. But the object in his hand isn’t a razor or a bottle. It’s something else. And maybe that’s when you also notice the sink is overflowing with fruit. “Some people may not recognize it as an old fire extinguisher,” artist Merik Goma said of the object the man is holding, or “they may be drawn to the fruit.”
“Where is he going? What is that thing supposed to be? Is it a symbol? Is it literal?” Goma said. “It can mean a lot of things.” And that’s part of the point. Goma starts the story. It’s up to us to finish it.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 11, 2024 9:40 am
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Baub Bidon: "We didn't sue another rapper, we just battled."
On Friday, Free 2 Spit celebrated the completion of its 20th year holding down an open mic for New Haven’s spoken-word scene at the New Haven Peoples Center on Howe Street, with a night that drew newcomers, seasoned New Haven-based poets, and voices from one state over alike to share the mic and their words, heating up a wintery night.
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Donald Brown |
Dec 10, 2024 8:47 am
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Whitney White in Macbeth in Stride.
When we first meet Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s best-known and often-staged tragedies, she seems designed to steal the show. Her speeches are riveting, her emotions keyed up and powerful. When her husband Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis promoted to Thane of Cawdor, arrives home, she delivers more drama, prodding his dithering into regicide, and even shows him how it should be done when it comes to implicating the two guards that Macbeth and his Lady have drugged.
All this Whitney White — in her show Macbeth in Stride, now playing for one week only at Yale Repertory Theatre through Dec. 14 — delivers with musing commentary. Then comes a coronation that looks like it could be featured on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Murderous.” After that triumph, what next for our ambitious queen? As White, who wrote the show and performs the lead (called “Woman”) in the piece, flatly states: “She gets to host a dinner party.”
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Dec 9, 2024 5:26 pm
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Dolores Jeter at Monday’s ribbon cutting: “It’s like my prayers have been answered from 30 years ago.”
Hello laundry and shower and medical and more.
Dolores Jeter watched the blue ribbon whirl apart to celebrate Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s new all-in-one drop-in center.
She nearly teared up thinking back to her life 25 years ago, when she herself was homeless and had to zig-zag across the city each day in order to meet each of her needs.
“Do you know how many times I had to cancel out on an appointment because I didn’t have the fare to get the bus? Or I was too tired to walk?” Jeter said.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 6, 2024 12:33 pm
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Snazzy threads? Yankees seats? Mid-century Enson's had you covered
It’s no small thing to stay in business for a hundred years, but Enson’s Gentlemen’s Fashions at 1050 Chapel St. has accomplished that feat of entrepreneurial longevity.
The reason? There’s a surprisingly old-fashioned thread — pun very much intended — that runs through the decades.
“Nice things, great customer relations, and all these years, we’ve had great tailors.”
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 6, 2024 7:35 am
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A cold December temperature didn’t keep crowds away as New Haven celebrated its 111th tree lighting on the New Haven Green Thursday night, with an evening of festivities that included food and craft vendors, live music from bands and choirs, amusement park rides and activities for kids, and a visit from Santa Claus.
Tenants union leader Zach Postle tapes a pamphlet to Farnam's front door ...
... as union members and supporters rally for a collective lease.
Another tenants union rallied outside another front door of another Ocean Management successor — calling for their new property management company to step it up on maintenance, and to be open to negotiating a collective lease.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 3, 2024 8:58 am
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"Mind/Matter" show panel: Something's not quite right here ...
Look once, and it’s just an upside-down face of a woman smiling. But look again, perhaps a third time, and a few details seem off. Something’s wrong, definitely wrong, even if you can’t quite figure out what it is.
Yale's proposed dramatic arts building, circa 2029 ...
... to be located at York and Crown.
All the world’s a stage — for Yale, which plans to construct a new seven-story, 188,000 square-foot building for its drama school and the Yale Repertory Theater, to be located at the northwest corner of Crown and York streets.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 21, 2024 8:21 am
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Videodome.
On Wednesday night at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown, two area bands, Nervous City and Videodome, welcomed a touring band, Parachute Club, to its first-ever gig in the state of Connecticut with big riffs, squalls of guitar noise, and an appreciative crowd of rock fans ready to stay up and have a good time.
