by | Feb 25, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (13)
Vacant ground floor space at 109 Court.
A canceled deal amid New Haven’s torrid real-estate market ended with a dispute over a $50,000 deposit — and landed in court, in a case that raises questions about the due diligence of property buyers and sellers.
by | Feb 23, 2022 2:43 pm | Comments (1)
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EVVO French Toast superfood smoothie.
Owner Julia Stepien.
A superfood cafe called EVVO is a mission of “transforming” the lives of its customers — the way its young founder transformed her own life.
Continue reading ‘Smooth(ie) Career Move Brings Plant-Based Magic To Orange Street’
by | Feb 21, 2022 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
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"Bunny Is A Rider" singer Caroline Polachek at CSMH Sunday
Viral avant-pop darling and Grammy nominee Caroline Polachek took a stop between shows opening for Dua Lipa Sunday evening to headline in her home state of Connecticut. Polachek’s “one-off” concert at College Street Music Hall marks the first time the 36-year-old artist has performed as a solo act in the state where she grew up.
by | Feb 16, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (0)
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz highlights clay artist Kiara Matos...
...and Havenly's Caterina Passoni and Nieda Abbas.
Checks delivered by Connecticut’s lieutenant governor are helping women entrepreneurs send off boxes of baklava and a flock of ceramic birds into New Haven.
by | Feb 14, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Jeena Yi.
Yale Repertory Theatre, which has been shut down since March 2020, is back.
by | Feb 14, 2022 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Sven Gamsky onstage at CSMH.
Singer-songwriter Still Woozy (a.k.a. Sven Eric Gamsky) reminded the audience at College Street Music Hall Friday night just how nice it is to experience live music together at a concert. The collective dancing and singing of the packed crowd offered a sense of pre-pandemic nostalgia, if only for a moment.
Continue reading ‘Still Woozy's Laid-Back Sound Propels A Party @CSMH’
by | Feb 10, 2022 1:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Foodies got a taste for what a new generation of local food entrepreneurs can offer on Wednesday evening at Elm City Market.
by | Feb 8, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (0)
Yvonne Shortt’s Material Investigations at the Ely is simple yet evocative — a system of ropes that Shortt is slowly transforming over time into something else. The patterns she’s creating remind one of braids, or farther toward the floor, maybe cascading dreadlocks. The knotting she’s doing is a simple macrame, but also the pattern for the beads on a shekere. All these evocations are in play; she “investigates hair and cultural mindsets using rope, repetition, various other materials, and historical context,” she writes. But the rope serves another purpose, to bind together all the artwork around it, in form, process, and function.
by | Feb 4, 2022 2:56 pm | Comments (4)
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Rob Greenberg with pressed tin behind ACME wood paneled walls.
EMERGE crew prepares 29-33 Crown for "mass timber" future.
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Historical detritus-turned-artifacts that Greenberg has found at his family's former commercial home, including torn pieces of a Yiddish-language newspaper.
Hiding behind the walls and beneath the floorboards and amidst the rubble of a mid-demolition former vintage furniture store is pile after pile of Ninth Square history.
Fortunately, New Haven’s “Indiana Jones” is on the scene — combing through the wreckage and preserving whichever artifacts from the city’s commercial and industrial past he can find.
by | Feb 4, 2022 9:13 am | Comments (2)
New Haven-based musician Tim Palmieri’s upcoming show with Lotus — at College Street Music Hall on Feb. 19 — is another step in his long career as a nationally touring guitarist, but also a chance to return an Elm City stage. “I’m 42 years old and I’ve been gigging since I was 13,” Palmieri said. “Band after band, gig after gig — and now I’ve been able to join Lotus.”
Continue reading ‘Tim Palmieri Comes Home To College Street’
by | Feb 3, 2022 8:27 am | Comments (0)
Three long, heavy bags of salt snake across the wall in one of the galleries in the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, and their goal is empathy. To artist Ying Ye, who created them, they evoke fortune cookies. But their weight — 50 pounds each — is meaningful, too; as Ye writes, that “represents the average physical weight … restaurant workers need to lift up in the workplace.” The salt “implies their sweat and pains have transformed into delicious tasty food.”
Continue reading ‘Art Exhibit Makes Compassion A New Year's Resolution’
by | Feb 2, 2022 4:58 pm | Comments (21)
Too close for Southern Comfort? Crown Street's Wine Thief.
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Michael Hendrix: "Doesn't bother me" if another liquor store opens.
A Crown Street “package” store is taking the city and a downtown landlord to court, in a bid to squelch new booze-dispensing competition from opening two blocks away at the corner of High Street.
by | Feb 1, 2022 9:52 am | Comments (28)
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PMC's McKeon: "We can get a copy of the report out to folks."
Building rendering, behind 360 State tower.
What rents will you charge?
“We’re still crunching numbers.”
How will zoning affect the ground floor?
“The report does not address that.”
Will construction interfere with the Farmington Canal Trail?
“I don’t know the details.”
Skeptical neighbors posed those and lots more questions Monday night to the developer of a proposed new 14-story building at 78 Olive St. They received a variety of iterations of “don’t know” in response.
by | Jan 31, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (3)
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Jermaine Smith and Ra Hashim at construction site on Crown.
The word on Crown Street Monday was “level up.”
by | Jan 28, 2022 3:22 pm | Comments (6)
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Friday's ribbon-cutting at new G Cafe at Park and Chapel.
While cutting the ribbon Friday to his fourth bakery-cafe spot, Andrea Corazzini paid homage to his European roots — with a hot latte.
by | Jan 27, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (0)
Matthew Dercole
Remnant 16.
Matthew Dercole’s artwork dramatizes a phase of biology that many find uncomfortable. His pieces are in a sense fungal; they’re full of life, but the kind of life that sprouts from death, that transforms flesh into something else. It’s the kind of reminder of mortality that many find unsettling. Dercole knows this; with his exquisitely detailed pieces, he seeks to both attract and repel.
Continue reading ‘Artists Take It Uneasy In Ely Center "Solos" Exhibit’
by and | Jan 25, 2022 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
Steve Williams: Fixture outside the courthouse.
The word on the street was… hot dogs.
At 10 in the morning.
Lots of hot dogs.
by and | Jan 21, 2022 10:01 am | Comments (6)
Warmth is in the cards at DESK drop-in center during freeze.
Gloria came to New Haven’s drop-in center Thursday not just to stay warm during the day — but to remain overnight rather than sleep outdoors as usual, as preparations kicked into gear to keep unsheltered residents safe during an expected week-long deep freeze.
Continue reading ‘Deep Freeze Sends DESK, Keefe Into Action’
by | Jan 13, 2022 11:54 am | Comments (6)
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New Crown & High complex: ground-floor retail remains empty.
It’s fine to cluster liquor outlets on Crown Street. On Orange Street? Fuggedaboutit.
That at least was the import of two developments at this week’s zoning board meeting, where a Crown Street developer won permission to try to fill an empty storefront with a high-end package store while Atticus Market withdrew a request to start selling beer in East Rock.
Continue reading ‘More "Package" Purveyors Allowed Downtown’
by | Jan 10, 2022 8:00 pm | Comments (2)
Mourners Monday at first-ever Toad's funeral.
The line on York Street went halfway down the block on Monday afternoon as friends and family gathered to bid farewell to New Haven music legend Rohn Lawrence, whose visiting hours and funeral service were held at Toad’s Place, the stage on which he’d performed countless times.
Continue reading ‘Mourners Pay Last Respects To Rohn Lawrence At First-Ever Toad's Place Funeral’
by | Jan 6, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (11)
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The former Quinnipiack Club at 221 Church St. (left), now owned by Biohaven, which has its headquarters right next door at 215 Church St. (right).
In a reflection of the changing makeup of New Haven’s business sector, a locally based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company has purchased the historic Quinnipiack Club building on Church Street for $4.1 million.
by | Dec 9, 2021 9:10 am | Comments (0)
A darkened room filled with luminous yet ruinous shapes. A wavering eye at the top of a crooked tower, never blinking but always bleary. One wall has been transformed into a pale blue screen. The words “I wouldn’t do this to you if you didn’t deserve it” are typed out in a primitive font. Across the room is a chair with the word “guilty” projected onto it; on the wall behind it, a more expansive message: “Everybody’s guilty of something.”
Continue reading ‘Ely Center Exhibit Is A Light In The Dark’
by | Dec 3, 2021 9:27 am | Comments (1)
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The city’s annual tree-lighting on the New Haven Green brought “the holiday spirit back” one colorful bulb at a time.
Continue reading ‘Annual Green Treelighting Features Tunes, Toys, Donkey, & Kid Vaxxes’
by | Dec 2, 2021 9:21 am | Comments (0)
The portrait of the Foote sisters — Anna and Amelia — dating from around 1860 appears early in “Children of the Elm City,” the new exhibit at the New Haven Museum running now through winter 2022. It’s in the first section of the exhibit, dedicated to portraiture from the 18th and 19th centuries, before the advent of widespread photography.
Because the exhibit is partially geared toward children, a lot of questions appear in the text accompanying the exhibit. One might not expect those questions to be as provocative as they are.
Continue reading ‘Photo Exhibit Sees Elm City Through Kids’ Eyes’
by | Nov 29, 2021 3:56 pm | Comments (5)
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Sweatsuit in hand, DeLauro turns to book shopping.
A green sweatsuit at More Amour Boutique called out to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, and she couldn’t resist. She bought it while encouraging New Haveners to shop local for the holiday season.
Continue reading ‘On Shop-Local Tour, “Oh So Chic” Sweatsuit Calls Out To Congresswoman’