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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.
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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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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.
The city has received a one-time windfall of $2.7 million in deferred building permit fees from the now-former owner of 360 State St., thereby closing out two parallel developer deals that date back more than a decade.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 11, 2022 9:14 am
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Steve Winter and Ann Garrett Robinson celebrate Lucretia's Corner renaming Thursday.
Four centuries after New Haven’s first recorded Black resident left her mark as an activist and enslaved domestic worker, the corner of Elm and Orange is slated to bear her name.
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Nov 11, 2022 8:56 am
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Officer Chad Curry at Thursday's Board of Alders meeting.
After one bullet grazed his ear and another lodged in his shoulder, Officer Chad Curry got up to chase the man who fired at him.
The Board of Alders honored that perseverance and service in an official citation Thursday evening, just over a month after a shooting injured the police officer.
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Nov 10, 2022 8:47 am
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Silver Bell Mine, Arizona.
Even in italics, on a placard in an art museum, the voice of Peter, a Navajo miner, comes through loud and clear. “I worked in the uranium mines for more than 14 years, until the mid-1970s,” he says. “While the other men in our family were serving in the military, I needed to provide for the family by working; the mines were close to our homes, and we were told that we were helping to support our country.” There is already a sense of dread — a sense that turns out to be well founded.
New landlord Gideon Friedman: This high-rise is an "icon."
A New York City-based real estate company has purchased the 360 State St. apartment tower for a whopping $160 million — which is nearly $45 million above the high-end high-rise’s latest city-appraised value.
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Nov 9, 2022 12:24 pm
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Erick Russell with rest of Democratic statewide team at Wednesday presser: LGBTQ history made.
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (right) with supporter Sydney Perry Tuesday night.
Democrats elected to fill all of Connecticut’s statewide elected offices for the next four years — including the first New Havener to win one of those offices in 36 years — claimed a mandate Wednesday to continue and build on the policies of the previous four.
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Nov 8, 2022 4:00 pm
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Activist Alexis Terry.
A coalition of unhoused New Haveners and advocates rallied at City Hall on Election Day to “vote” for public bathrooms, safe storage spaces, and a long-term commitment to helping the city’s most vulnerable.
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Nov 8, 2022 3:51 pm
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Among the 400 same-day registrants (as of 4 p.m.) lining up to vote at City Hall.
Yale School of Management student Brittany Swanson waited too long to send in an absentee ballot to vote against celebrity physician and Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania this election.
So she instead found herself at City Hall, registering to become a New Haven voter to throw some last minute support towards Connecticut’s Democratic ticket.
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Nov 8, 2022 2:25 pm
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Some of the many guests at Saturday's gala.
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Links members and supporters gather to celebrate organization's 50th anniversary in 2nd floor ballroom of the New Haven Omni Hotel.
A historic Black female advocacy organization celebrated half a century of sisterhood and service at its first in-person gala since the start of the pandemic.
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Nov 8, 2022 9:22 am
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Exposure and Perspective 2.
Cailin Alcock’s Exposure and Perspective 2 — part of “Unusual,” a show of Alcock’s works running now at Blue Orchid on Court Street for a few weeks — can be understood to act as a tutorial for the rest of the show. The piece itself is abstract, hanging from a metal pipe on a chain, but the shapes and shades in it are evocative enough that one’s brain might begin to try to make sense of it, as a portrait, as landscape, as something. Alcock has anticipated this. “These images may be reminiscent of a face, but not one that is recognized. These can be interpreted as faces based on what is known. Eyes, nose, mouth. But is that enough to say this is a face?”
Mayor Elicker (second from left) and Town Chair Vincent Mauro Jr. (far right) with entire statewide Democratic slate at BAR Monday evening.
Top Democrats from across Connecticut descended on a Crown Street pizzeria the night before Election Day to make their final case to voters in the “political capital of the state” that their party is the one to trust to protect democracy for the long term.
Editor Rachel Kauder Nalebuff with contributor Sofiya Moore ...
... reading from Our Red Book on Saturday.
“We all know womanhood can be very challenging; that’s why it’s good to start it off with a sweet taste of support and a little cream cheese frosting,” Lily Grace Sutton read aloud to celebrate a new New Haven-rich book all about menstruation.
Wanda Perez: Buses are a lifeline to doctors, food pantries, family.
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Fares, be gone!
As she juggles the cost of everything from utilities to laundry, the past seven months of fare-free buses have given Wanda Perez one less expense to worry about.
“That helps me go to my doctors’ appointments, to see my loved ones,” Perez told a room full of bus riders, transit advocates, and alders — as they collectively pushed for making the state’s temporary bus fare holiday permanent.
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Nov 7, 2022 8:50 am
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Movimiento Cultural
The world-renowned Shubert Theatre was home to some of New Haven’s own on Saturday night, as a show entitled Elm City’s Finest brought artists performing everything from bomba to dramatic monologues to rock ‘n’ roll to this first-of-its-kind event. The evening also included work displayed by local visual artists, food from local restaurants, and wares from local vendors.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 4, 2022 9:11 am
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Films and filmmakers from Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, among other places, are coming to New Haven next week as the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — known to all as LIFFY — returns for its 13th year of free and open-to-the-public films and events, in person with an online component after being virtual only for the past two years. No one could be happier about that than its founder and executive director Margherita Tortora, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at Yale, who is looking forward to the return of in-person events, but has also kept the online opportunities available due to audience demand.
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Nov 4, 2022 9:03 am
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In the first scene of Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are — now on at New Haven Theater Company as a staged reading through the weekend of Nov. 3 through Nov. 5 — Roberta (Susan Kulp) and Joe (Ralph Buonocore) are sitting in the pews of a church, chatting amiably as the service starts. What they’re talking about is, in some ways, not as important as the fact that they are talking, with the ease and camaraderie of a couple happily together for years. They forget where they are, have to apologize to the people around them. After a minute or so, it finally occurs to Roberta to ask: whose funeral are they attending, again?
Tacos Los Gordos, bustling with culinary activity on Wednesday.
The shop's "Day of the Dead" ofrenda.
A downtown taco shop has reemerged from its temporary fire-induced closure with new life, plenty of pozole and quesadillas, and a Día de los Muertos altar remembering lost loved ones close to the head chef’s heart.
A headstone marking the first burial at Grove Street Cemetery in 1797.
Grove Street Friends Chair Morand: This cemetery gives New Haveners "a sense of common groundedness."
Martha Townsend was laid to rest in Grove Street Cemetery 225 years ago this fall — becoming the first person to be interred in downtown’s foliage-dappled, history-rich burial ground.
Since then, thousands of notable New Haveners have joined her. They have left behind wisdom of the ages that remains relevant today.
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Oct 31, 2022 2:00 pm
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Fest Faves' owners, employees, and town supporters snip the opening ribbon.
Neon candied apples, plump corn dogs, flaky fried Oreos, and carousel jingles await customers of a new Whitney Avenue restaurant, where co-owner Victoria Streeto hopes to offer a time-traveling portal to childhood comforts and delights.
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Oct 31, 2022 9:25 am
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Calendar cover.
Three Sheets New Haven is well known for its dog-friendly patio, and some of the dogs that frequent there have become as familiar to its patrons as some of the human regulars.
For the third time since the bar/restaurant’s inception, a calendar featuring 13 of those patio pups was created to help raise money for Friends of the New Haven Animal Shelter. On Sunday night, Three Sheets threw a Pup-O-Ween-themed release party to celebrate the 2023 edition of that calendar, complete with the first look at this year’s edition, raffles, and, in keeping with the holiday, costumed pooches.
The Wine Thief at 181 Crown: Boxing out "package" competitor.
A Crown Street wine shop has succeeded in stopping a booze-dispensing competitor from opening down the street, at least for now, according to a proposed agreement that would put an end to a months-long court case.
