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Sep 13, 2021 1:06 pm
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IRIS’s Chris George (right): “Would you leave your parents behind?”
Forty-five New Haven and West Haven residents remain trapped in Afghanistan, and are currently caught in an “agonizing” position: Do they find a way to get back to the United States while leaving their families behind, or do they stay in a country where they and their families are in constant danger?
A call went out Monday to help them get back home — and to help Connecticut prepare to resettle 1,000 new Afghan refugees through next summer.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 9, 2021 6:42 am
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Posen.
Ariel Posen — acclaimed guitar hero on tour from Canada — had something to say near the beginning of his set at Cafe Nine Wednesday.
“This is equally amazing and equally strange,” he said. “Something you do pretty regularly for kind of forever stops for what feels like forever … then we’re expected to just jump back into it like nothing happened.”
He smiled.
“It wouldn’t feel like it used to if it wasn’t for you guys, so give yourselves a round of applause.”
The packed audience of entirely masked people clapped their hands. At a show at which proof of vaccination was required at the door and wearing a mask was the rule, Posen and the Connecticut-based Joey Wit and the Definition served up two sets of guitar music straight from the heart.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 8, 2021 7:42 am
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Anti-Romantic.
The young woman at the center of Emily Pruitt’s Anti-Romantic looks as if she has a story to tell, but she’s not going to tell us what it is. The photograph itself conveys conflicting emotions — humor and defiance, playfulness and a little bit of dread. That, as it turns out, is the point.
Runners at the front of the pack at Chapel and York Streets.
Ben True comes in first after sprinting through the 20K finish line.
Cheering on the Kids Run at Elm and Temple.
Thousands of runners and their families, friends, and supporters filled a sun-dappled downtown for the triumphant return of the New Haven Road Race — one year after the pandemic put the brakes on the annual Labor Day festivity.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 1, 2021 7:12 am
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Dawn Tallman.
The International Festival of Arts and Ideas is taking over the New Haven Green again — for Labor Day weekend. The event, called “Vaccination & Vibes,” will feature two evenings of music, dance, and poetry that draw from talent in New Haven and elsewhere. It marks the A&I organization’s continued work in creating deeper connections with the New Haven community than it has in the past. Under the direction of Executive Director Shelley Quiala — who last August took the reins from co-directors Liz Fisher and Tom Griggs — the Labor Day weekend events are also A&I’s very public foray into throwing events outside of June, and even outside of the May-June summer programming it held this year.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 31, 2021 3:41 pm
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Chef Jeyson Santoni; his jam-packed 259 Orange burger (top).
You might call the 259 Orange a cheeseburger, a bacon burger, or an egg burger. Or maybe a short rib burger or an avocado burger.
The only thing certain is that the 259 Orange Burger nearly didn’t happen. Nor, for that matter, did Dangle’s Bar and Grill, which serves the 259 Burger, and which opened three weeks ago on 259 Orange just up the street from the New Haven County Courthouse.
Public updated, weighs in Tuesday night on pandemic-relief plans.
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Give small businesses and homebuyers needed cash. Encourage non-car transportation. Teach kids budgeting, saving, investing. Boost wages to keep up with the cost of living.
City Hall has heard those priorities about how to spend $90 million in federal pandemic relief — and is now crafting plans to convert those goals into action.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 16, 2021 8:25 am
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Dan Heaton (above) picking up pre-movie-watching essentials at newly reopened Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas (below).
For the first time in a year and a half, I sat in a dark, air-conditioned theater with my friend Dan Heaton and a trough-sized serving of popcorn and — just as I’ve done hundreds of times in pre-pandemic times — watched a movie at the Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 13, 2021 2:47 pm
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Carla Vallati, back in uniform, outside the Omni.
After 15 months out of work, Carla Vallati returned to her job cleaning rooms at the Omni Hotel — and credits local labor-friendly pandemic legislation for helping.
Work Thursday on the trail section behind Whitney and Audubon.
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A rendering of Farmington Canal Phase IV.
An old fence has come down, stray tree stumps have been pulled up, and an excavator is busy moving dirt and debris about, as construction work began at long last on New Haven’s unfinished final stretch of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.
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Aug 12, 2021 5:09 pm
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Ruth Rose sings “En mi viejo San Juan” at flag-raising on the Green.
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From newly released Census data.
The Puerto Rican flag climbed slowly into a cloudless sky above the Green Thursday — right before the Census Bureau revealed that Hispanics have become New Haven’s largest ethnic group.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 9, 2021 8:00 am
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Wednesday marks the opening night of the 2021 New Haven Documentary Film Festival, or NHDocs — once again happening in the parking lot next to Sally’s Apizza on Wooster Street — featuring two films that shine a light on two obsessions: collectible toy cars and vinyl records.
Nelson Pinos outside First & Summerfield on Friday.
More than 1,330 days after first taking sanctuary at a downtown church, Nelson Pinos can return to his home and his family in the Annex with a small sigh of relief — now that the federal government has decided to temporarily stop trying to deport him to a country he hasn’t lived in for three decades.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 26, 2021 9:02 am
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Jazz on the patio at The Orchid Cafe
Brunch is one of the most celebrated meals in this city, and the brunches that include jazz are particularly revered. This reporter decided it was time to revisit three of them: one that had recently restarted, one that was a limited-run event, and one that had been ongoing for the past year.
Commissioner Pagan, Chair Radcliffe: Go slow on builder breaks.
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“Massing study” of planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
City planners held back on endorsing a proposed tax break for a new affordable housing project downtown, after two commissioners declined to back another city handout to a developer — even if that developer has a great reputation in the neighborhood.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 22, 2021 9:34 am
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Animation by Eva Lee, Sound by Michael Joel Bosco
Eye Spy.
Eye Spy morphs from image to image fast enough that you have to pay attention to see the narrative. Seals and other ocean life change into plastic bottles on the beach, the manmade objects that found their way into a bird’s stomach. Then back rushing ocean waves, lush coral of vibrant colors, sea turtles and teeming schools of fish. The music is serene with powerful, tidal undercurrents. The loop between the vivacity of the ocean and the damage we have done to it is causal in both directions. It gives us a sense of what’s at stake in the effort to adapt to climate change, and what could be if we manage to do enough.
Downtown neighbors gave thumbs up to the latest proposal for building new apartments — and especially liked the idea of limiting the number of parking spaces.
A “massing study” of the planned redevelopment of State and Chapel.
Beacon CEO Kovel: Tax break key to making numbers work.
A Boston-based developer has taken a second crack at obtaining subsidies for an affordable housing project downtown — this time with more apartments planned, and a larger tax break.
Customers check out produce at the Sunset Farm booth.
Six new vendors reopened CitySeed’s Downtown Farmers Market after a pandemic pause — and used the occasion to test out Chinese at-home meal kits, vegan granola mixes, and “No Trace” soaps they hope to develop into thriving commercial lines.
