by | Sep 22, 2022 2:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Love146 cuts off-site ribbon Wednesday: Roberta, Erin Williamson, Rob Morris, Nick Onnembo, Gary Ciarleglio, and Marlena King.
Under a banner reading “National Champions,” a celebratory ribbon was cut to commemorate 20 years of local and international anti-human trafficking advocacy and prevention work.
by | Sep 21, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (12)
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The lights are off inside Tikkaway's Orange Street storefront.
A beloved Downtown restaurant specializing in healthy, “fast-casual” Indian meals has shuttered its doors.
by | Sep 21, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (48)
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Sample image of an Axon drone.
The New Haven Police Department is planning to acquire two drones and a set of GPS equipment that can latch onto cars implicated in crimes.
Continue reading ‘NHPD Buying Drones, "StarChase" GPS Launchers’
by | Sep 21, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (0)
Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè
Ẹnìkan Ìí Pèrò or Ẹnìkan Kìí Pa Èrò (Two Heads Are Better than One).
The piece, by famed Nigerian sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè, depicts two mothers with two twins. The style is soaked in tradition, but the sculptor has also found his own voice within that tradition, and in turn, given his subjects their own voices as well. Look closely, into the abstraction, and you can see the individual expressions of the figures, the things that make them unique, perhaps a mixture of dignity and worry in the adults, a sense of determination and mischief in the children. Look even more closely and you understand more of the relationships among the figures. The two mothers are themselves twins, and they are supporting each other; their outside arms, meanwhile, are there to protect and guide all of their children. They’re a small society unto themselves, even as they’re connected to everyone around them.
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by | Sep 20, 2022 9:13 am | Comments (0)
The small first-floor gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art is flooded with multicolored light. It darkens the room overall but has the effect of making the atmosphere in there more vibrant. The gallery becomes a place where you might want to linger, the way people linger around any places that are alive with color, from rooms strung with Christmas lights to meadows full of wildflowers. It’s a place to take a breath and, in keeping with the theme of an exhibit currently staged there, think about new beginnings.
by | Sep 19, 2022 2:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Edgar Marcial inside his now-shuttered Orange St. restaurant.
A kitchen-wall fire shut down Edgar Marcial’s Tacos Los Gordos restaurant barely a month after it first opened on Orange Street.
Now, the California transplant is working on raising money to rehab his recently renovated culinary home so that he and his staff can soon get back to cooking up and dishing out nopales tacos, esquites, and other Oaxacan fare.
by | Sep 16, 2022 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
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At Wednesday's press conference for the Elm City Bioscience Center.
City officials and bioscience-business boosters cut the ribbon for a newly opened lab and research building located in converted former offices downtown.
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by | Sep 16, 2022 10:15 am | Comments (3)
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Fivio Foreign and Coi Leray performing Thursday night at College Street Music Hall.
New York drill icon Fivio Foreign and TikTok sensation Coi Leray performed at College Street Music Hall Thursday night in front of hundreds of teens in a sponsored collaboration with New Haven’s Youth and Recreation Department. The event — titled as a “Back 2 School Concert” — sold out in less than two days.
by | Sep 16, 2022 9:47 am | Comments (13)
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Jade Greene at her Off The Tracks shop.
Fall has arrived early on State Street with Caramel Apple Pie, Skinny Pumpkin Teddy Graham, and Maple Glazed Donut shakes — all of which can now be filed under the category “health food.”
Continue reading ‘"Tea Fairy" Pursues Dream, Fuels Teachers’
by | Sep 15, 2022 4:23 pm | Comments (23)
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Ben Crump (center) with Cox's family, friends, lawyers Thursday.
Richard “Randy” Cox’s lawyers and family put the Elicker Administration on notice that, within the next seven to 10 days, they plan to file a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the city violated the paralyzed 36-year-old New Havener’s civil rights.
by | Sep 15, 2022 12:42 pm | Comments (1)
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The former Harold's site at 19 Elm.
A new 96-unit apartment complex is one big step closer to coming to the site of the former Harold’s Bridal Shop, after zoning commissioners gave a final OK to the new owner’s requested parking relief.
Continue reading ‘Zoners OK Parking Relief For Harold's Apts’
by | Sep 15, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Lukman Fakeye at the Yale School of Art.
Lukman Alade Fakeye set up his tools and a block of African mahogany wood in a large workspace on an upper floor of the Sculpture Department of Yale’s School of Art. It was the first day of a week-long residency as the School of Art’s Fall 2022 Hayden Visiting Artist, during which time he would be creating a new sculpture and speaking with classes and individual students. Fakeye is in the sixth generation of his family’s lineage of Yorùbá woodcarvers, working within a larger tradition that extends back hundreds of years.
Continue reading ‘Visiting Sculptor Lukman Alade Fakeye Goes With The Grain’
by | Sep 14, 2022 12:04 pm | Comments (32)
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Painted street-crossings, above, started the process of restitching the borders of Wooster Square and downtown.
Pedestrians and cyclists will have a protected slice of State Street all to themselves. But what about bus riders?
That new information, and subsequent questions, emerged from city leaders’ first public input session about plans to redesign one of the city’s widest driving corridors, one that connects four neighborhoods and two train stations, to rebuild housing and restore safe pathways in an Urban Renewal-cleared corridor.
by | Sep 13, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (0)
Anne Doris-Eisner
Hidden Lives.
Hidden Lives, Anne Doris-Eisner’s piece submitted to the 2022 active members’ exhibit of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club — on view now until Oct. 8 at the gallery in Creative Arts Workshop on Audubon Street — is immediately recognizable as a natural form, a gnarled part of a tree. But somehow in the way Doris-Eisner has rendered the details of those textures, she has made room for abstraction as well. The more we look, the more we see: figures curled in the bark, shapes suggestive perhaps of more human forms. And, at the same time, it’s possible to stop trying to find anything in the shapes and just accept the texture for what it is, an intricate network of lines, interesting enough as it is to not require us to name it.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Paint And Clay Club Has Day In The Sun’
by | Sep 12, 2022 4:23 pm | Comments (1)
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The flag marks PRIDE New Haven, eight days of LGBTQIA+ events.
A rainbow burst through the Monday afternoon fog in the form of a Pride flag newly raised over the New Haven Green, marking the start of a week of LGBTQIA+ celebrations amid growing resistance towards transgender rights in the state and across the country.
by | Sep 12, 2022 1:49 pm | Comments (25)
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Mayor Elicker (right) biking in the new Wall St. contra-flow lane.
Cyclists heading west across downtown towards Yale’s campus won’t have to take as many one-way-street detours, thanks to a new “contra-flow” bike lane on Wall Street that was the scene Monday of an official inaugural ride.
by | Sep 8, 2022 4:06 pm | Comments (5)
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Chief Jacobson and Asst. Chief Ettienne at Thursday's presser.
City detectives are investigating an alleged late-night assault on York Street as a potential hate crime perpetrated by a group of white men who beat up a Hispanic man while shouting racial slurs at him.
by | Sep 7, 2022 1:11 pm | Comments (13)
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Owners Yaakov Atia and Nadav Adad at Tuesday night's opening.
Yalies, townies, rabbis, and other members of New Haven’s growing Jewish community gathered over wine and appetizers to celebrate the grand opening of Ricotta, New Haven’s first kosher pizza restaurant and bakery.
Continue reading ‘New Spot Adds Kosher Twist To Pizza Scene’
by | Sep 7, 2022 11:04 am | Comments (2)
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Night Market in the 9th Sq. in May.
Downtown streets will ditch cars for arts for parts of October, thanks to two different sets of road closures approved by the Board of Alders.
by | Sep 5, 2022 4:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Evan Jones outside Plush's soft opening (above). Below: Opening night party.
Skateboarders from New Haven and beyond gathered on Orange Street for the soft opening of the city’s second community skate shop.
by | Aug 30, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (17)
Erin Boggs: Woodbridge has consistently "zoned to exclude."
A coalition of affordable housing advocates filed suit in New Haven Tuesday against the town of Woodbridge over zoning regulations that prevent multi-family housing in the vast majority of the town.
by | Aug 29, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (2)
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The music poured onto Temple Street all the way from the plaza in the middle of the block, directing and enticing a steady stream of pedestrians and shoppers to the long rows of canopies set up for the Black Wall Street Festival, an afternoon-long event designed to showcase a wide range of Black entrepreneurs.
Thanks to the robust turnout, a live band, and a pervasive sense of cheer, the festival was true to its name, turning Temple Street Plaza into something like bazaar meets block party.
Continue reading ‘Black Wall Street Festival Brings Out The Artrepreneurs’
by | Aug 26, 2022 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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A dozen students gathered around a long table in a second-floor studio in Creative Arts Workshop on Thursday evening, busily preparing strips of white fabric with woodblocks, clothespins, and rubber bands. CAW instructor Annie Trowbridge moved from one student to the other, pouring on ideas, humor, and enthusiasm. On the other side of the room, smelling of ammonia, was a bucket containing one of the most well-known and beloved natural dyes in the world. Before the class was over, that color would transform several yards of fabric and maybe change a perspective or two.
by | Aug 25, 2022 11:40 am | Comments (4)
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The Institute Library at 847 Chapel.
The Institute Library plans to embark on a comprehensive set of building repairs and improvements at its historic Chapel Street home, thanks to a recently approved $1.725 million grant from the state.
Continue reading ‘$1.7M State Grant To Support "Full-Scale Restoration" At Institute Library’
by | Aug 25, 2022 10:20 am | Comments (5)
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Phara Dorleans: "I'm not giving up on the kids."
A city celebration of educators and school staff reminded Mauro-Sheridan Magnet School French teacher Phara Dorleans of the moments that have kept her in the profession for seven years and counting.
At the top of that list: When her then-kindergarten student cried all weekend to her father, “I want to go to school to see mademoiselle. I miss her!”