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Jul 8, 2021 9:55 am
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Police entering 360 State at the height of Wednesday night’s lockdown.
An “emergency lockdown” at 360 State St. left the luxury downtown apartment tower’s residents stuck in their rooms — or outside of the building and unable to get back in for hours— as police searched for someone allegedly in danger of self-harm.
Police didn’t find anyone, and the lockdown was lifted.
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Jul 7, 2021 1:39 pm
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McQueeney Towers on Orange St: 2 10th floor blazes since Saturday.
Two fires in four days broke out on the 10th floor of the McQueeney Towers public housing complex — the first in an empty office space, the second outdoors on a residential balcony.
No tenants were hurt or displaced as city firefighters quickly put out both blazes.
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Jun 27, 2021 8:05 pm
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Zinc owner Donna Curran with U.S. Sen. Blumenthal at the restaurant Friday.
Donna Curran, owner of Zinc Restaurant across from the Green on Chapel Street, received word in May that she was getting federal pandemic assistance — and then a month later a letter arrived basically saying, “Never mind.”
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Jun 22, 2021 9:32 am
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Briana Williams and Cliff Schloss.
As the sun began to set Monday evening, Make Music New Haven hosted an afterparty on the rooftop of the Arts Council building, with five acts and a DJ spinning tunes in celebration of another year of international Make Music Day.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2021 8:44 am
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Kevin Monroe and Devotion.
Before Kevin Monroe and Devotion hit the stage Sunday afternoon on the Green, Rev. Kevin Ewing of Baobab Tree Studios (and formerly of Center Church on the Green) addressed the hundreds of people who had gathered to hear the music and the message. He pointed out that gospel music has been a part of the programming of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas for years, and this year was no different. He welcomed people who already knew gospel and people who were about to get their first taste.
“For those of you who don’t know what gospel is, sit back,” Ewing said. “You’re about to learn something.”
He then turned to the faithful. “Church folks know what to do,” he said. “I hope you brought your shouting shoes.”
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 18, 2021 3:38 pm
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Rohn Lawrence and Jay Rowe light up the stage.
Toad’s owner Brian Phelps (center) with SBA CT Director Marx, Rep. DeLauro, and Sen. Blumenthal.
For the first time in 15 months, musicians took the stage at Toad’s Place — with the promise of more tunes to come, thanks to a federal bailout slowly making its way to shuttered venues across the country.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 17, 2021 9:33 am
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Allison Baker’s installation transforms the front gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street into something between a playground and an uneasy dream. All is glittering, but also unnaturally balloon-like — whether it’s immediately recognizable objects such as hangers, brassieres, and cleaning gloves, or less obvious (but no less glittery) shapes strewn on the floor and suspended from the ceiling. Further exploration reveals that the installation spills over into the next room, taking over half the first floor of the building. It’s fun, yes, but threatening in its entertainment. Everything is fine. Everything is wrong.
Alder Sabin test rides a new Chapel Street bike lane.
Construction has begun on the Edgewood Cycletrack.
A newly-striped bike lane has appeared on Chapel Street for cyclists to use as they seek to dodge downtown car traffic — and, a few blocks to the west in the Dwight neighborhood … could it be? … the long-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack has finally begun construction (!).
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 15, 2021 8:00 am
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It’s a lunar volvelle, a device dating to the medieval era used to chart the passage of the moon across the sky and determine days and dates. But this particular volvelle has two distinguishing features. First, it involves fragments of poetry. Second, the family members of poet and artist Monica Ong appear in a small parade in the center as one moves through the possible positions on the volvelle. Using the volvelle also reveals different fragments of poetry, so that each day produces a new poem, introduces a family member, all in the process of scientific observation.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 9, 2021 2:29 pm
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Ward 1 alder candidate Alex Guzhnay.
The story of Alex Guzhnay’s run for Ward 1 alder starts four years ago — when the Fair Haven native got a city-subsidized summer job at a Ferry Street farm.
Take 1: Developer Carter Winstanley, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, Mayor Justin Elicker, Alder Ron Hurt, Alder Evelyn Rodriguez, Yale President Peter Salovey, Gov. Ned Lamont, SCSU BioPath student Therese Ziaks.
Take 2: SCSU President Joe Bertolino, Gateway CEO William T. Brown, Salovey, Elicker, Schools Superintendent Iline Tracey, Biolabs President Johannes Fruehauf, Arvinas CEO John G. Houston, Winstanley, SCSU BioPath student Apple Pham, SCSU physics Professor Christine Broadbridge, Ziaks.
History had a chuckle Monday as government and business leaders grabbed shovels near the border of the vanishing Route 34 Connector.
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Jun 1, 2021 3:54 pm
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Eli Sabin, at center, at 200 Orange to file papers to run for Ward 7 alder, surrounded by former Alder Alberta Witherspoon and current Democratic Ward Co-Chair John Martin, both of whom endorsed his candidacy.
Alder Eli Sabin is running again to represent downtown in the city’s legislature — but this time, he’s eyeing a newly vacated seat right next door to the Yale-dominated ward he currently calls home.
Downtown Alder Abby Roth has decided not to run for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders, opening up Ward 7 for new local legislative representation come 2022.
It’s June 1, and you’re at the corner of College Street and South Frontage Road. You were going to take South Frontage to I‑95 or I‑91 — but it’s blocked off with road construction signs. What now?
Take a deep breath and follow along. You can get there from here.
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Thomas Breen |
May 21, 2021 2:30 pm
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101 College St. rendering
“Parcel B,” where materials and vehicles will be located during construction of 101 College.
Expect to see dirt piles, dump trucks, and a whole lot of hard hats and building materials atop the former Rt. 34 Connector downtown —as the planned two-year construction of a new 10-story, 525,000 square-foot bioscience lab and office tower is about to begin.
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Brian Slattery |
May 21, 2021 9:19 am
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The art on the walls of Claire’s Corner Copia, on the corner of Chapel and College, thrums with energy, vibrant colors, and shimmering textures. But there’s a heaviness there, too.
Neither simply joyful nor simply sorrowful, the work of New Haven-based artist Shaunda Holloway uses old motifs in new ways; it reaches back in order to move forward, with strength and resolve, mindful of the sorrows of the past but hopeful for the future.
Holloway’s pieces are the latest to be exhibited as part of an artist-in-residence program at Claire’s.
As friends and fellow artists dropped by on Thursday to have a snack or dinner and offer congratulations, Holloway had a chance to revisit how her artistic practice has developed in the past decade, and in what new directions it may point.
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Brian Slattery |
May 14, 2021 8:42 am
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Vincent Calenzo
Bike.
The boy in Vincent Calenzo’s Bike wears an expression of wariness and awe. Before him stands a masterpiece — of engineering, sound, and speed. Not everyone is into motorcycles; most of us don’t know enough about them to appreciate them. But the way Calenzo, through his technique, renders the bike, we get to see it through his and the boy’s eyes. We get to feel some of its power.
In this way, Calenzo shows how, even in the age of easily manipulated digital photography, painting still has a lot to say, and let us see the present day in new ways.
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Thomas Breen |
May 12, 2021 1:38 pm
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That big “Alexion” sign at the top of the 100 College St. tower?
It may soon read “AstraZeneca” instead, as the Cambridge-based drugmaker took one big step closer to a $39 billion takeover of the Boston-based biopharmaceutical company — with plans to keep Alexion’s 500 local workers in place. For now.
As public schools statewide prepare to institute African-American studies courses, New Haven Academy’s Kelly K. Hope and her students are already on the case.
“Are there any volunteers at home who want to do this problem?” said New Haven Academy biology teacher David Herndon, addressing the portion of his class tuned in via computer. “Don’t all jump at once.”
His in-person students giggled.
Herndon switched his attention back to the physical classroom — and, like high school teachers all over New Haven, navigated a new normal of teaching two types of classes at once: Remote, and in-person.
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Amelia Stefanovics |
May 10, 2021 8:51 am
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“Old Early Morning.”
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Hill Regional Career student writer Amelia Stefanovics.
The following is a short story written by Hill Regional Career High School student Amelia Stefanovics and republished from the student magazine Elm City Sage.
