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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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 6, 2023 9:10 am
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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.
Rosa DeLauro (center) at Wednesday's courthouse-steps presser.
Connecticut has been a sanctuary for decades for those seeking abortions — and will remain a haven for women’s reproductive healthcare, even as the court-toppled Roe v. Wade precedent recedes into recent history.
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Jun 28, 2023 8:51 am
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Yige Tong's
Confluence.
The figure in Yige Tong’s Confluence connotes both safety and vulnerability. She may be at rest, sleeping comfortably. She may also be protecting herself, or recovering from hurt. The sense that both readings are in play is amplified by a closer look at the piece, where the viewer discovers that the background is made up of fragmented and interwoven images of the faces of small children and adults. Family members? Friends? Strangers? The pieces of the past surround her. Some may give comfort. Others remembrance of pain. A final part of the image lies in seeing what’s in the woman’s hand: a remote control for a camera. She has taken her own picture, put it up for others to see. The image of her body is meant to pass something along, deliver a message, maybe find connection.
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Jun 26, 2023 9:11 am
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Mical Teja.
On Saturday evening the annual New Haven Caribbean Heritage Festival finished a day of festivities on the New Haven Green with a blazing concert of soul, reggae, and soca, courtesy of the festival and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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Jun 26, 2023 9:05 am
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Vendors and cultural booths at the Caribbean Heritage Festival.
Colorful booths popped up on the New Haven Green as the city celebrated the Caribbean Heritage Festival this Saturday. Attendants ambled from vendor to vendor, snacking on jerk chicken and popsicles from the food trucks. Upbeat music filled the air and flags fluttered to the rhythm of the gentle breeze. Cultural pride suffused the scene.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 22, 2023 8:46 am
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Absofunkinlutely performs at College Street Music Hall for May Music Day.
On Wednesday, Make Music New Haven sought to fill the air with something other than pollen: sound. In honor of Make Music Day, a worldwide celebration of music, the local branch organized 31 artists to perform at 17 different locations in the greater New Haven area.
David Gregor: Waiting on what's next, on State Street.
Beneath a canopy of tree cover on a State Street triangular mini-park, David Gregor sat in the shade, popped in his earphones, listened to Rascal Flatts, and waited for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) drop-in center across the street to open — so he could grab one more coffee before pushing forward in his bid to find a stable place to live and get his life back on track.
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Jun 20, 2023 8:57 am
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The dancers in the circle were lifting up their own spirits and the spirits of those around them. They were participating in a culture that was now in its third generation of practitioners. And, as was explained, they were helping strengthen and preserve it; if they didn’t, they could lose it.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 19, 2023 7:21 am
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Juneteenth parade marchers gather at the Green.
A parade and a panoply of music, speeches, vendors, and community on the Green connected Dixwell and downtown for a celebration of a new national holiday honoring the history of Black freedom.
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Jun 14, 2023 5:37 pm
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Newly minted Coop grad Imalis Cotto, with diploma ...
.. and cap displaying her favorite animal, a raccoon, painted by Oddo De La Cruz.
Coop High School theater student Imalis Cotto needed some help decorating her cap in time for graduation on Wednesday. So she called in friend and visual arts Coop classmate Oddo De La Cruz to lend a helping hand.
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Jun 14, 2023 2:38 pm
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Bill Lowe let out a cry from his tuba, guttural and keening, ecstatic and heartbreaking at the same time. Ken Filiano responded in kind from his bass. Hafez Modirzadeh joined in with a moan from his saxophone. Naledi Masilo unspooled a string of skittering vocalizations. Taylor Ho Bynum release a plaintive wail as Kevin Harris laid down ominous piano lines. Luther Gray arrived with a rattling drum line that solidified into a rhythm that Lowe emphasized with snapping fingers. As he directed each of the players to take solos, Lowe broke into smiles. The music may have spoken about complex emotions, but there was great satisfaction in the telling.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 14, 2023 8:35 am
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La Fille du Laitier
La Fille du Laitier's Macbeth Muet.
A black screen. A table, covered by a white cloth. Styrofoam cups and origami paper fortune tellers. These, along with performer-puppeteers Jérémie Francoeur and Marié-Hélène Bélanger Dumas, comprise both the setting and the characters of La Fille du Laitier’s Macbeth Muet, a silent pantomime version of Shakespeare’s classic. Using minimal props and a wealth of choreographed body language, Francoeur and Bélanger Dumas interpret the Scottish tragedy into a visceral and lavish affair that does full justice to the scope of the original play.
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Jun 13, 2023 9:07 am
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Protest organizer Gaylord Salters: "Over 1,000 years of life" taken unjustly.
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As Maleek Jones waited within the walls of a Suffield prison, his voice reached the 25 protesters calling for his freedom by way of a recording: “I just have a hope that somehow, justice will find me,” Jones said as protest footage flashed across a TV screen.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 13, 2023 9:03 am
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John Hatch
Tea Time with Marcel Duchamp.
John Hatch’s Tea Time with Marcel Duchamp catches the eye fast, with its shiny surface and improbable, delightful shape. It takes a second to see how all the parts fit together — the tea kettle, the bell of a horn, the metal legs. It then invites speculation. What sound would it make if you boiled water in it? Some tea kettles whistle, or even sound like trains. Maybe this one plays a jazz solo. It’s possible to let the mind wander in this way because for all the relative seriousness of the execution, the piece itself is, above all, fun.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 12, 2023 8:59 am
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Grupo Tentación on the Green on Sunday.
Under a crisp and clear Sunday sky, two bands — Grupo Tentación and QUITAPENAS — brought highly danceable Latin beats to the New Haven Green for the second night of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
