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Dec 16, 2022 2:35 pm
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Keith Petrulis picking up a coffee from J'Quan Towns and Gigi Levesque Friday.
Keith Petrulis walked out of the frigid winter rain and into a State Street drop-in center to pick up his regular daily cup of hot coffee, cream and sugar — and to stand alongside fellow unhoused New Haveners and local homelessness service providers in advocating for more, permanent state aid for shelter from the cold.
Mario Franco, play money in hand, at Thursday's protest.
A group of highway service plaza workers and union organizers showed up to a Church Street office lobby with $1 million in “cash” as part of a holiday-season pressure campaign against alleged wage theft at Dunkin’ Donuts.
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Dec 14, 2022 8:45 am
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Tuesday evening at Three Sheets on Elm Street found not a band onstage, but a vast assortment of paper with arrays of compelling images on them — from owls to goat people to skeletal horses, as well as letters, dingbats, and geometric shapes — along with scissors, pieces of cardboard, and glue sticks. The tables and chairs in the room were full of people using those materials to make collages — and try what Three Sheets and Hershey, Penn.-based brewer Tröegs Independent Brewing had to offer.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 12, 2022 9:33 pm
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Father and son, reunited.
Adam Carmon, right, hugs his son outside of prison for the first time.
After 29 years in prison, Adam Carmon walked out of the Church Street courthouse handcuff-free on Monday. His son, Najee, ran out after him. They hugged for a minute, tears streaming down their faces.
“You’re here. You’re here. You’re here,” murmured Najee, who had only ever seen his father in prison or in court.
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Dec 12, 2022 4:07 pm
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A small plume of smoke wafted up from beneath a cracked sidewalk on Orange Street — occasionally crackling into fiery red sparks, and perplexing a crew of nearby firefighters trying to find its source.
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Dec 12, 2022 12:04 pm
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Neighborhood Music School Director Noah Bloom and NMS Production Fellow Ibn Orator Friday.
A young African American musician named Ibn Orator wanted to know if Black and white people, who have such starkly different common memories — the one of slavery and incarceration and the other a rosier patriotic version of the American past — can ever develop a memory broad, shared, and potent enough to be the basis to solve our country’s seemingly intractable problems.
An answer, well, a partial answer to that profound question came during a Friday night book talk from Nicholas Dawidoff, the white, New Haven-born prize-winning author of the recently published The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and The American City.
The answer was: “Yes, for all our enduring troubles, this is a country where historically change has happened. “
Climate change, human rights, holiday treats, and sidewalk art intersected outside City Hall as environmental activists sought to heat up the public conversation around a warming planet and what to do about it.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 12, 2022 9:07 am
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New Haven-based ska band The Simulators had finished the second song of its skank-filled set at College Street Music Hall on Saturday afternoon when bassist Zachary Yost had a question: “Who’s enjoying spending all their money on all these lovely local vendors?” He meant the dozens of artists and artisans who had jammed into the place for the College Street Punk Rock Holiday Flea, which, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., changed the College Street performance space into a bazaar for original art, thrift clothing, instruments, records, and much more.
Dave Agosta: "It is not possible for people with disabilities to 'travel' in New Haven. They can only 'navigate hazards.'"
Spotting a loose brick on the Audubon Street walkway, David Agosta nudged it with the tip of his toe — then reached down and handily uprooted the cube.
That block could have caused a twisted ankle or worse, the downtown disability rights advocate said, especially for pedestrians who get around using walkers or crutches or canes.
Mobility hazards like these have led him to ramp up his broader critique of New Haven’s accessibility by filing a formal complaint with the federal Department of Justice.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 9, 2022 8:54 am
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As A Soldier’s Play — running now at the Shubert Theatre through Dec. 11 — opens, a group of faceless and as yet nameless soldiers join in a song. Their performance is full of strength, energy, even joy. But the song is a work song, captured at Parchman Farm, the notorious maximum-security Mississippi State Penitentiary, in which inmates were made to work in conditions all too reminiscent of slavery. The parallel is clear: these Black soldiers in the U.S. Army, at (the fictional) Fort Neal in Louisiana, deep in the Jim Crow South, are in some sense prisoners, trapped and laboring under a crushing system of racist oppression that they are in no position to be able to change. Though this being the Army, they do have the chance to be promoted in it, if they follow the rules and don’t make too much trouble. So what happens when one of them, Sgt. Vernon C. Waters, is shot to death under mysterious circumstances?
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 8, 2022 9:12 am
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On Wednesday evening, dozens gathered in KNOWN, the co-work space in the Palladium Building at 139 Orange St. It was part of KNOWN’s Wind-Down Wednesdays, a chance for people to exchange ideas and just relax. But the art on the walls — like Daniel Ramos’s Monk at the Ojo de Agua — wasn’t there as a coincidence; this particular Wednesday evening was a chance to celebrate the opening of “Assemblage,” a show put together by Kim Weston of Wábi Gallery. As it turned out, the gathering of humans at KNOWN was mirrored by the exhibition itself, which Weston conceived of as its own gathering of artists, and the ideas and spirit they share.
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Dec 5, 2022 9:02 am
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Michele Selene Ang and Katherine Romans.
Set in Lexington, Kentucky (home of the University of), Leah Nananko Winkler’s The Brightest Thing in the World is a rom-com, a sitcom, and a story of addiction and recovery, of the bond between sisters, of goofy romance between a nerdy woman and a more worldly one. It has babbling drunks and maudlin drunks, tough honesty and an almost slapstick emergency, with enticing baked goods, cutesy Christmas paraphernalia, a random dance number, and a final scene of intense, visceral truth. The play, receiving its world premiere, is running now at Yale Repertory Theatre through Dec. 17, directed by Margot Bordelon.
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Dec 2, 2022 3:39 pm
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The Celentano School chorus performing at Thursday's annual tree-lighting ceremony on the Green.
On a bone-chilling Thursday evening, friends Alex Gonzalez and Ellen Martin danced amid scores of high-spirited revelers under a perfect half-moon on the New Haven Green — the massive, dark, soon-to-be-illuminated Norway Spruce behind them lending the festivities an air of happy anticipation.
“I love seeing everyone out, seeing the small businesses, seeing the kids, especially given the last few years,” Gonzalez said of the annual tree lighting, which was hosted by the New Haven Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism. “It’s like a hometown celebration.”
Career High's Jonathan Berryman with Board of Ed VP Matt Wilcox Wednesday.
The Board of Education has hired a national search firm to try to find the next city schools superintendent by March — raising public concerns that the process to find Iline Tracey’s replacement needs to be longer and more community-focused.
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Nov 30, 2022 3:31 pm
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Yale Law's Alice Wang and Greg Antill: "Yes" for the union.
One of the few union election signs posted on Yale's downtown campus.
After months of mass public demonstrations in support of a decades-long campus unionization drive, Yale graduate teachers quietly slipped into polling places across downtown to cast their ballots in Local 33’s first election since 2017.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Nov 28, 2022 3:30 pm
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The Connecticut Yuletide Carolers.
A quartet of carolers dressed in traditional Victorian holiday garb harmonized to “Silver Bells” as children laughed and passersby ambled along downtown’s busy sidewalks. Families gathered to listen outside of Union League Café, shopping bags and hot cider in hand.
Next door, children sat around tables to decorate ornaments with ribbons, bells, markers, and gems. Beyond the arts and crafts a professional ice sculptor worked his trade, using a chainsaw and chisel to carve out a holiday elf. And around the corner, Santa and Mrs. Claus posed for photos.
That was the scene on Saturday as downtown New Haven welcomed some winter holiday cheer in the form of the Town Green Special Services District’s annual “Hallmark Holiday,” which promised all-new events, special shopping promotions, and festive activities for locals and visitors alike.
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Nov 23, 2022 10:45 am
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Arabic interpreter Nuha Ibrahim and attendee Rajaa Abdella at Sunday's workshop.
(Updated with response from city) Camila Guiza-Chavez asked a roomful of women — mostly refugees, many facing housing insecurity — if anyone had applied for the city’s new federally funded, pandemic-era housing assistance programs.
“No,” was the unanimous reply.
Then she asked if anyone in the room had even heard of these programs. She was met again with a resounding: “No.”
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 23, 2022 9:09 am
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"The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born" Might Not Hold True For Much Longer.
We can’t read the expression on the subject of the painting, but that’s not where the eye goes anyway. Maybe we look first at the vibrant clothing she’s wearing. Or maybe we’ve already seen the element that makes the painting one to stop and linger at: that the carpet is in fact an elaborate collage of photographs. Whether we know the people in the pictures or not, we recognize them as people representing a place, a past, a culture. There’s commotion beneath the calm, questions beneath the assertiveness.
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Nov 21, 2022 1:00 pm
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Five new apartments coming to Artist & Craftsman upstairs?
The vacant second floor above a Chapel Street arts supply shop may soon become an empty canvas for developers and renters to fill — as a plan to convert the space into five new apartments advances.
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Nov 21, 2022 9:30 am
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Laura Hutchinson, Kymbel Branch, Leander Dolphin, Kristin Bures, and Kit Ingui at the Big Expo on Thursday.
Pick your battles.
That was one of the takeaways from a spirited, and often inspiring, discussion among a powerhouse slate of women’s power panelists at the Big Connect Business Expo in the College Room at the Omni New Haven hotel.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 17, 2022 8:47 am
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In Fear We Trust: Pandemic Family Portrait.
Susan Clinard’s In Fear We Trust: Pandemic Family Portrait is a snapshot of a harrowing moment. The figures in the bed show an astonishing range of emotion, from anger to worry to terror. But the piece itself isn’t an incitement to anger, but compassion. The family may be up late at night, their emotions eating away at them as they surely did for many in the depths of 2020. But Clinard makes sure we see that together they’re drawing strength from one another too. When times are hard, they gather together.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 16, 2022 5:34 pm
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James Pagan, also known as Epic the Poet, performs at Wednesday's protest.
During Darcus Henry’s 13 and a half years in prison, he would spend every possible minute at the law library with a group of nearly 15 other men who all maintained their innocence. Together, they’d meet for the permitted hour every Tuesday and Thursday to read about court precedents, research their own cases, and exchange stories of pressured witnesses and suppressed evidence.
Dawn Hawkins Johnson: 1st cohort alum, now back to help run the 4th session.
Dawn Hawkins Johnson left her corporate healthcare job at the height of the pandemic to start her own consulting company fighting for a more equitable industry.
One of the first stops she made along the way of her entrepreneurial journey was a downtown-based program focused on training new business owners of color. Two years later, she’s now leading that program as it embarks upon its fourth cohort.
At long last, construction begun at 842-848 Chapel.
Kenneth Boroson Architects
The proposed new mid-block complex at 842-848 Chapel, previously pitched by Northside, now pitched by CA Ventures.
A Chicago-based real estate company has purchased a long-vacant collection of Chapel Street properties for $6.75 million — and has begun the long-awaited construction of 166 new apartments at that site.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 14, 2022 12:41 pm
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The soon-to-be-resurrected Hill Cooperative Youth Services Building.
Plans to bring a former Trowbridge Square community center back to life took a big step forward as the Board of Alders formally accepted $1.5 million in state funds to renovate and reopen the Hill Cooperative Youth Services community center, formerly known as the Barbell.
