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Feb 19, 2025 2:45 pm
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Lois Conner
West Lake, Hangzhou, China.
At first glance, Lois Conner’s image might read as a great mid-century abstract painting, full of bold shapes, strong lines, and vivid contrasts. But it’s not; it’s a photograph of desiccated plants and their reflections in a still body of water. The image collapses the line between observing nature and interpreting it. It has both documented a moment in time and also given us some commentary on it, a way to feel about it, and to be drawn in.
Senior Lily Gonzalez: "Just had to get used to" not texting mom or friends as much.
NHA's wall-mounted locking and unlocking devices near school exits.
New Haven Academy’s hallways and cafeteria have gotten louder — now that the high school has become the first in the district to adopt Yondr pouches, leading to students spending lunchtime talking to each other instead of looking at their phones.
...and Patricio ignites a chant for transgender rights.
Holding up a pink triangle sign — which in another time and place might have marked them for death — Patricio seized a moment of silence, cupped their hands over their mouth, and started a chant of their own among the hundreds of protesters gathered outside City Hall.
Their words — “Trans rights are human rights!” — spread through the crowd like fire.
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Feb 14, 2025 9:32 am
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Though the style of the paintings is utterly contemporary, the mood somehow evokes both family photos in the living room and a formal ancestral shrine, cozy and familiar yet also reverential. The paintings are of the artist’s family, their humanity captured and elevated by the painter’s keen eye and steady hand. The photographs help in showing what the artist is up to, how he sees the people he loves through the way that he works. They’re also a first step in understanding, in the context of his artistic practice, what the artist means by “family.”
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Feb 7, 2025 7:49 pm
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Colin Caplan: Ready to set a new Guinness World Record.
DATTCO Pizza bus, at Friday’s shindig.
The effort to canonize pizza as the heart of Connecticut’s cultural life continued apace Friday morning, with local connoisseurs and state politicos in attendance on Crown Street to announce a host of ah-beetz events in the works — including a pizza party of world record-setting proportions.
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Feb 7, 2025 10:31 am
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Scott Azevedo
Untitled (A Delightful Children's Room).
Scott Azevedo’s Untitled (A Delightful Children’s Room) appears somehow both peaceful and volatile. Peaceful because of what it depicts, a woman sitting in a cozy room, and the colors chosen — warm and vibrant. But something in the execution makes the image unstable, like a half-lost memory, full of glitches and errors. The lines emanating from the figure might be flames. The person in the painting may be cherished, but the perception of her is somehow shot through with difficulty.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 6, 2025 7:57 pm
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Emani Adams in her favorite part of the library, the Ives Squared "Tinker Lab."
J. Dennis: A resource to the library, just as the library is a resource to him.
At a desk inside the Ives Main Library, Emani Adams unzipped a bag of neon nail polish. She was trying to decide on a color.
Adams and her seven-month-old baby, who soaked in the room with gleaming eyes, had arrived at the New Haven Free Public Library’s main branch downtown at noon on Thursday, as snow mellowed into light rain.
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Feb 6, 2025 2:31 pm
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Rachel Goswell of Slowdive at CSMH.
Slowdive College Street Music Hall New Haven Feb. 4, 2025
There was a slow, two-minute build. The drums began to accelerate and subdivide. The bass switched its pattern, following the drums’ rhythm. The sung melody soared over it all, an angelic wordless wail. Other lines moved in and out, from guitars and electronics, somehow both floating and gathering energy. The lights around the crowd and stage slowly multiplied and became more colorful.
Finally, it erupted. The lights started flashing, impossibly fast. The music consumed itself, becoming an onslaught of noise that pummeled bobbing heads and waving arms in the audience. All the while, the line of musicians at the front of the stage — Slowdive members Rachel Goswell (vocal, guitar, synth), Neil Halstead (vocal, guitar), Christian Savill (guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), and Simon Scott (drums) — were motionless, staring out at the crowd or down at the row of pedals and flashing lights by their feet.
Smith, with the thumbs up, showing her family the city she loves.
Call her a starry-eyed young optimist, but Caroline Tanbee Smith believes this could be the century of civic engagement — and the New Haven Green the heart of an activated civic infrastructure that will make us a less isolated, more connected, and a healthier city for all.
As one of six members of the newly minted New Haven Green Conservancy, charged with raising engagement in and dollars for that revitalized vision, Smith is poised to be at the heart of the process.
Dottie Green (right): "You should be able to go to any town anywhere on the bus."
Adrian Huq took a quick break between classes Tuesday to join a Transit Equity Day event on the Green — where they called for free bus rides for people 18 and under, before rushing to catch the 234 on Church Street to head back to school.
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Feb 4, 2025 10:00 am
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A still from "The Social Network."
The Yale Film Archive’s spring semester film series has been in full swing for a couple of weeks now, and in true form they have brought their A‑game with a variety of screenings that honor the all-time classics and the more recent additions to the canon of must-see films.
Never was that more evident than at their Saturday night screening of a 35mm print of David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” the 2010 film about Facebook’s origin and the resulting drama, from Harvard’s campus to the shores of Palo Alto and the dorm rooms and boardrooms in between.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 30, 2025 10:56 am
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Ambassadors at work, street cleaning in the Town Green Special Services District.
Town Green's domain, minus the Green.
Win Davis likens the L‑shaped 27-block area of businesses and residents the Town Green District serves to a doughnut, with the New Haven Green — which is technically and legally not in the District — as the hole in the middle of the doughnut.
He’s excited about changes being contemplated for the city’s iconic public greenspace and thinks the doughnut has a good chance in the years ahead to become a Danish, with the best part of the pastry being right there in the middle.
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Jan 27, 2025 3:11 pm
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200 execs at 100 College, for "legislative breakfast."
Bracing for a federal funding drought and higher state costs for Medicare and Medicaid, Gov. Ned Lamont urged pharma executives to work with Hartford on cutting the cost of prescription drugs Monday morning at a gathering held by the life sciences lobbying group BioCT.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 21, 2025 12:03 pm
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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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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...
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...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.
