"Gypsy" Kathleen McKenzie — with her bag of overdose prevention materials.
“Gypsy” Kathleen McKenzie arrived at the Green for her daily walk with a purse full of nasal Narcan slung over her shoulder as usual — and wound up stocking that bag with Narcotics Anonymous brochures, fentanyl test strips, bracelets with phone numbers for addiction service providers, and more naloxone kits.
She took that stroll just days after another New Havener was found dead at 37-years-old of an overdose downtown and on the same day that the city hosted a parade of providers distributing information and resources for International Overdose Awareness Day.
Powered by the vocal support of elected officials and labor organizers — and by their own cheers of “up with the tenants” and “down with the slumlords” — renter activists and allies took to the streets to protest a raft of recent eviction notices that they critiqued as union-busting retaliation.
Blanchette, on the Green Tuesday: "It's kind of a weird energy being in the middle of everything."
Three tents standing as of Wednesday morning.
Tim “Mohiks” Blanchette needs a car — to sleep in at night, and to help him get back on track with a music studio apprenticeship in West Haven during the day.
ClimateHaven CEO Ryan Dings: “We’re an incubator, accelerator, and a convenor.”
Yale post-doc Wangbiao Guo has just received a patent for a multi-stage system that captures carbon from the air by the use of algae.
All he needs for the next step is about $500,000 to finance a pilot/prototype to begin to take the product to market — and that’s why he was enjoying an American Snappy Lager Thursday night over at 770 Chapel St.
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Aug 25, 2023 9:08 am
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Yale University Art Gallery
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art.
While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) undergoes renovations, the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) has volunteered to host a selection of their paintings in an exhibition entitled “In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art.” The show — running now through Dec. 3 — houses over 50 paintings, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, that attempt to capture the scope and breadth of British life at the time through a series of intimate glances into another country’s art and culture. “In a New Light” offers a glimpse into British painting with little explanation and few qualifiers, allowing viewers to simply view the artwork and draw their own conclusions.
The New Haven Green swarmed with tents. Music boomed from the loudspeakers, covering everything from “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears to “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” by Shakira. The air hung heavy and sweet with the scent of fried dough and freshly-applied sunscreen. The second annual Black Wall Street Festival had begun.
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Aug 14, 2023 7:40 am
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The crowd on the Green at the Puerto Rican Festival.
Ramon Rivera attends the annual Puerto Rican Festival on the New Haven Green every year — and Saturday was no exception. He sells Puerto Rican flags of varying sizes and colors, each latched to a wooden dowel, making them perfect for waving in the air or propping against chairs, strollers, and even traffic cones. “I like being with my people,” said Rivera, who is Puerto Rican himself. “It brings us back home as a family.”
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Shelley Stoehr-McCarthy and son Luca McCarthy make collages.
Inside the upstairs gallery at The Institute Library at 847 Chapel St. sat a table littered with paper, magazines, paintbrushes, glitter, scissors, stickers, and a giant jug of glue. Outside it was rainy and humid, but the room — set aside for a collage workshop entitled “A Time To Breathe: an Oasis Workshop” — formed a little oasis itself. Not just a refuge from the weather, but a safe space for creativity to roam free.
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Aug 8, 2023 8:57 am
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Wayne Coyne at Monday night's show.
Giant inflatable pink robots. Enormous balls filled with confetti. And a veteran band, playing as well as ever, fronted by a singer who was all heart. Now-venerable psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips returned to College Street Music Hall Monday night to an ecstatic, sold-out crowd ready to take in a show that delivered heaps of fun — and empathy.
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Keith Petrulis, at DESK presser last December.
(Updated) Keith Petrulis, a 36-year-old advocate for New Haveners experiencing homelessness, was found dead Monday morning outside of the State Street soup kitchen where he was himself a client.
Jerusalem Peace Builders students Malak Swidan, Tavor Hazani, Hafeed Khalaily
If you pack survival kits for the homeless, or hammer in some boards on an affordable house in-the-making, or set upright fallen tombstones in an old Jewish cemetery that needs some love, you’ll be powerfully transformed — and that act of peace-making might just change the world.
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Aug 7, 2023 12:40 pm
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Entrepreneur and stylist Kim Poole browses Noir Vintage & Co.'s back room.
Meanwhile, store owner Evelyn Massey, right, hugs supporters in a burst of emotion.
With the snip of a ribbon, Evelyn Massey opened up a portal through time in the form of a vintage shop styled after a Harlem Renaissance salon, the culmination of a long-simmering dream.
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Aug 7, 2023 8:25 am
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Jim LoPresti shakes away the stress with his bamboo leaf rattle.
If asked where one might go in New Haven for a moment or two of meditative stillness, few people would suggest Crown Street, known for its bustling and crowded restaurants and bars as well as a bevy of sounds that would challenge any symphony. But one place offers, among other wellness and restorative practices, a chance to take in an hour of music made specifically to center its participants and give them a chance to remain present and thoughtful in their minds and bodies.
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Earl Durham: "I need a job, and a source of income."
Earl Durham took a break from studying to become a railroad engineer to try to get back on the job at a nearby Amazon warehouse, which is in the middle of its latest local hiring push.
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Jul 27, 2023 8:57 am
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Nieda Abbas encouraging guests to dig in at Tuesday's celebration.
Local bakers, daycare leaders, and healthcare providers came together to celebrate the success of a downtown cafe’s efforts to get New Haven employers to hire refugee and immigrant women.
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Jul 27, 2023 8:54 am
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Autumn Nelson
Self-Indulgence.
Autumn Nelson’s canvas is the first piece in “The Past Pushes Forward” — an art show installed in the top floor of the Blake Hotel at 9 High St., now until August 31 — to greet viewers as they exit the elevator. It’s hung in just the right spot so that the canvas functions as a double of the subject matter. The mirror that reflects the painter is held up to the viewer as well. Do we love ourselves as much as Nelson loves herself? How much are we allowed to love ourselves? Why is it fraught to even ask that question?
Karen DuBois-Walton: "Every night I go to bed concerned" about the housing crisis.
Pre-approve certain building plans. Eliminate parking minimums. Support single-room apartments. Implement a land tax.
The Housing Authority of New Haven and its nonprofit affiliates recommended those city-level policies and others while delivering a message to City Hall: when it comes to the housing crisis, “we can’t count on the state.”
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Jul 21, 2023 9:51 am
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Ruth McInton Cogswell's silhouettes of New Haven characters.
“Profiles: Ruth McInton Cogswell and Dorothy Cogswell” — the latest exhibition at the New Haven Museum at 144 Whitney Ave. — highlights the lives and work of two women who played an important role in the Elm City’s early 20th-century local art scene. The mother-daughter duo of artists used watercolors, pencil drawings, and silhouettes to pay tribute to the people of New Haven and commemorate their history. Through the Cogswells’ work, the show provides a tour of the city’s past, where viewers can recognize familiar figures and learn new aspects of their history.
Imagine yourself peering through the large end of a telescope, looking at the world in miniature. You feel blown out of proportion, almost godlike, a giant out of Gulliver’s Travels staring down at people the size of insects going about their days. But as you look, you begin to notice details in the minute, humanity condensed to an anthill ready for your inspection. You see the big picture, made small.
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Jul 17, 2023 3:11 pm
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Eric Cajamarca and Diana Pérez perusing the nonfiction shelves.
Eric Cajamarca and Diana Pérez took a break from exploring downtown on a hot and rainy day to engage in a bit of friendly competition in the public library stacks.
The Lacy family with Mayor Elicker and Development Deputy Cathy Graves on Thursday.
Trays of meatballs, mac ‘n’ cheese, wings, and more wings lined the countertop of Linwood “Woody” Lacy’s restaurant for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating Woody’s Wings’ new location in the heart of downtown.
The entrance to 45 Church St.: Pot shop coming soon?
A long-vacant Classical Revival former bank building at Church and Crown streets could have a new life — as a medical and recreational cannabis dispensary.
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Original printing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Exhibit on Frederick Douglass, William Grimes, and the Declaration of Sentiments at the Beinecke.
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds one of 26 known surviving copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence. The document, printed by John Dunlap in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776, has a single typographical error, an indication that the founders issued it in a hurry to declare independence from England.
On Wednesday, a few dozen New Haveners got to hear the words of that revolutionary broadside read aloud — along with that of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 oration “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” — as part of an annual primary-source-focused tradition to celebrate the 247th anniversary of Independence Day.
New top city librarian Maria Bernhey, with see-through backpacks ...
... at Monday's Ives Branch "Stay and Play."
During her first day on the job, new City Librarian Maria Bernhey made a bee line to the new Early Literacy Corner, a cozy spot on the second floor of the Ives Main Branch on Elm Street, where a dozen of the new diaphanous see-through-backpack kits — a way to expand literacy beyond the library — sat invitingly on the shelves, their first day available.
