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Newly minted GED graduate Raquel Cuiman with family ...
... at Adult Ed graduation ceremony at the Omni.
Six months ago, Raquel Cuiman was in a hospital bed fighting for her life against Covid for a second time.
This week, with the support of her family, friends, and mentors at the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center, she received her GED — and is now pursuing a dream to help others overcome the same health and emotional and educational obstacles she found a way to clear.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 7, 2023 11:56 am
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Big changes -- and six-month closure -- coming to State St. drop-in center (pictured).
A commercial kitchen and health clinic are coming to State Street’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen next year — as the long-time homelessness services provider prepares to temporarily relocate so that it can build out its latest location to better support a growing number of people facing housing and income insecurity.
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Jun 6, 2023 8:33 am
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The paper houses are perched on the ragged edges of foam cliffs. There are places in the world like it, where people have built actual houses in unlikely places, on rocks all too close to the water, on stilts over surging marshes, on the sides of mountains. But the houses in this art exhibition push it all just a little further. Upon closer examination, some of the structures are more improbable than real houses could be. Others are built high overhead; you’d have to have wings to live there. Finally, there are the houses built on a wall’s vertical face, oriented sideways. To live there, you’d have to defy gravity.
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Jun 1, 2023 5:13 pm
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Laura Boccadoro hangs up symbols of pride and "peace."
Paper cranes await a place hanging along Olmo's walls.
A flock of hand-folded, rainbow-colored paper cranes took flight inside Olmo Bagelry on Thursday morning, carrying a message of queer pride and affirmation.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 1, 2023 9:12 am
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Strange Ways' Val Ruby-Omen and Alex Dakoulas.
New Haven has a way to celebrate Pride Month for all of June, thanks to a series of events organized by Val Ruby-Omen and Alex Dakoulas of Strange Ways in Pitkin Plaza.
It begins with a vendor fair and queer beer unveiling this weekend at Armada Brewing in Fair Haven and continues at the 151 Orange St. shop all month, including mixers, a pop-up market, a chance to draw a drag queen, and an open mic night.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 1, 2023 9:04 am
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Haven String Quartet at Yale Art Gallery.
“Think about the relationship between listening and looking.”
So encouraged Jessica Sack, curator of public education at the Yale University Art Gallery and organizer of “Playing Images,” at an event that combined artwork with the music of the Haven String Quartet.
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Abiba Biao |
May 30, 2023 12:31 pm
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Jamie Dawn: “With a consignment store, depending on the store, you could be very choosy about what you select.”
Jamie Dawn saw an increasing appetite for secondhand clothing and kitchenware and all other kinds of goods, especially among sustainability-minded college-aged shoppers — and decided to meet that demand by opening a new consignment shop on Broadway.
Haseeb Mohammed whipped up an Indian take on chicken tacos Thursday to feed a crowd on Orange Street celebrating the enhanced rebirth of a popular fast-casual restaurant.
The downtown one-way streets covered by this latest traffic study (in yellow).
A City Hall-adjacent stretch of Church Street could see cars driving both north and south — intentionally, and legally — in the not-too-distant future, as the Elicker administration prepares to act on one decade-old two-way-street conversion plan at the same time that it undertakes yet another study targeting rapid-fire downtown one-way streets.
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Thomas Breen |
May 23, 2023 11:56 am
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Students released early from Coop Tuesday after lockdown.
Students at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School spent more than two hours locked down Tuesday morning in response to a report of a student bringing a gun in a backpack into the building.
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Maya McFadden |
May 22, 2023 3:49 pm
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Tallying up Friday's school board election results at City Hall.
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Cross sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser.
Wilbur Cross High School sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser will be the next student representative on the Board of Education, after coming out on top in a three-way race for a soon-to-open seat.
Eddie Freeman: “Everybody's hiring, and if you want it, you can get it.”
Dozens of New Haveners on the hunt for new work turned out to the Green to learn about employers, participate in job interviews, and explore training and career-building programs.
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Brian Slattery |
May 10, 2023 8:50 am
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Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home starts with a perky voice on an answering machine, bright and insistent. The young woman on the other end is trying to get a hold of an older woman. The reason is a civic event, the dedication of a swimming pool, which is to be named after the older woman’s father. When the older woman — Janice — finally calls the young woman back, she is polite, but hesitant. There’s a little pain in her voice, and (the audience can see) more pain on her face. The phone call is bringing up difficult memories. Why would the renaming of a swimming pool do that?
Nair and Kesavalu Thursday inside Tikkaway soon-to-open "wow!!tikka."
Decades after starting their careers at the same Indian hotel, Gopi Nair and Kannan Kesavalu have reunited to revive cult-caliber fast-casual Indian dining on a reviving corner of New Haven’s Orange Street.
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Brian Slattery |
May 3, 2023 8:45 am
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Marty Tucker, a recently minted member of New Haven Theater Company, recalled how he was asked to join the troupe. “One night Kevin” — that is, J. Kevin Smith, NHTC’s president — “bought me a beer and said, ‘hey, I got a question for you.’ How are you going to say no after someone buys you a beer?”
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Lisa Reisman |
May 2, 2023 2:22 pm
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Imagining the Hiptec Suit Version 1
Behold the Hiptec Suit Version 1, a VR full suit created by a group of 10 eighth graders from Truman School on a field trip to DAE, formerly known as the afterschool program District Arts + Education.
Portable, adjustable, and a lightweight microfiber nylon, it features a body tracking belt that regulates the user’s temperature, a sensor that recognizes anxiety and tells you to breathe, and the option for virtual reality therapy sessions.
There’s just one caveat. Hiptec Suit Version 1 exists only on a whiteboard.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 20, 2023 3:23 pm
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The not-yet-opened canal trail, viewed from Whitney south of Audubon.
Concrete has been poured and hard-hatted construction workers are busy on site, but the final downtown stretch of New Haven’s Farmington Canal Heritage Trail won’t be done until the fall — thanks to a mandatory break to accommodate summer camps in an adjacent park.
One hundred and sixty-six new market-rate apartments — and at least one sauna — are en route for Chapel Street thanks to two new now-under-construction buildings slated for two long-vacant lots downtown.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 17, 2023 1:32 pm
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Ray Shaw: No parking meters needed during Chapel construction closure.
Closed eastbound lanes on Chapel at Church.
Ray Shaw hustled out of the rain and back towards his city transit department van after turning off the parking meters on an eastbound block of Chapel Street that will be closed to car-and-foot traffic for the next 16 months to make way for the construction of 166 new downtown apartments.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 13, 2023 8:25 am
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Sir MacArthur and Pope Francis
Greg Aimé’s Sir MacArthur and Pope Francis are already intricate enough from a visual perspective. They are riffs on, even explosions of, classic European portraiture. They are collages to get lost in, places where cultural signifiers blend and collide. They capture the scrum of history, the messy generation of culture, where suffering, celebration, experience and investigation commingle. Aimé then adds a layer for anyone with a device that can read a QR code; there’s music, narration, that gives more context, broadens and deepens the themes. The layers of aural and visual components are a statement in themselves. There’s always more to learn, always ways to dig deeper.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 11, 2023 4:46 pm
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Now-former Ely Center employee Max Schmidt: "I think we can do better."
A now-former employee at a Trumbull Street visual arts gallery left his job after finding out about a board member’s decade-old child pornography arrest.
That employee is now speaking out about what he describes as an insensitive and unsupportive workplace, as well as an alleged exodus of board members sparked by their former colleague’s criminal record.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 10, 2023 12:47 pm
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Conversation facilitator Kim Weston: "I want young people, and children, and anyone who walks into this space to be safe."
A downtown visual art gallery has kicked off a public reckoning with how to become a “safe” workplace in the wake of resignations by several board members and an employee.
Workshop attendee Nathalie Garcia: "You just need to be ready and know how to take care of yourself and others."
A box of Narcan nasal spray.
Shrunken pupils, shallow breathing and blue nail beds are signs that someone may be overdosing on opioids — and cues that more New Haveners may now be able to pick up on, thanks to a library-hosted class educating the public on how to intervene in such situations.
