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Run For Refugees Marks 2nd “Banniversary”

by Allan Appel | Jan 29, 2019 5:02 pm | Comments (0)

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Aminah, Kutti, and Azhar

Aminah and her family fled from the violence of the Syrian civil war. Azhar and her family fled when her father was targeted in Sudan for helping internal refugees there.

Herman Bershtein wouldn’t be alive today and, at age 92, still running 5K races if his mother had not found an American sponsor to permit her to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland back in 1913.

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“I Should Have Named You Amber — Just In Case”

by Brian Slattery | Jan 22, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (0)

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Ngoma.

Poet, organizer, and master of ceremonies Ngoma was once again in front of the microphone on the third floor of the Peabody Museum on Whitney Avenue on Monday, overseeing the annual Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Community Open Mic and Professional Poetry Slam.

The professional part of the slam tended to draw poets from around the country to compete. But the community open mic was already getting heavy.

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Pizza And Beer! Made In House At NOLO

by Thomas Breen | Jan 18, 2019 8:47 am | Comments (3)

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NOLO’s cheese pie.

Erector Brewing Collective beer on display in NOLO’s on-site microbrewery.

NOLO ribbon cutting with restaurant owner Derek Bacon and Erector Brewing Collective’s Justin Maturo (center) and NOLO executive chef Joshua Ulmer (right).

Pizza and beer have long made for a winning combination.

A new State Street restaurant and microbrewery ups the culinary ante by not only delivering on thin-crust pies and hoppy beers, but also by baking and brewing those goods in house.

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Burglar Hits Fashionista

by Thomas Breen | Dec 14, 2018 1:09 pm | Comments (9)

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Inside Fashionista.

Fashionista’s Nancy Shea on Thursday night.

A beloved, eccentric vintage clothing and accessory store on the border of Downtown and East Rock was burglarized this week, depriving the owners of several thousand dollars and of key information about their rental business.

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Voices Raised At Arts Awards

by Brian Slattery | Dec 10, 2018 8:39 am | Comments (2)

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AwardeesMelton, Slomba, Downing, DeLauro, Hameen, and Washington.

The Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 38th annual awards ceremony, held Friday during a luncheon at the New Haven Lawn Club, began with a protest. As patrons were seating themselves in the Lawn Club’s expansive ballroom, a troop of young women marched in file toward the stage, chanting and holding aloft signs about stopping domestic and sexual violence, about women’s suffrage, about curing breast cancer.

The women were dancers from Premier Dance Company, headed by Hanan Hameen, one of the afternoon’s award recipients. They took the stage to a blast of music from the speakers, moving from funk to pop to hip hop, as patrons finished sitting down — a fitting nod to the theme of the arts awards this year, of phenomenal women.

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Wilbur Cross X-Country Crosses Out Old Records

by Christopher Peak | Nov 30, 2018 1:42 pm | Comments (4)

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Nassaiah Betancourt, a varsity cross-country runner at Wilbur Cross.

Travis Martin is one of the fastest long-distance runners in the state. As soon as the cross-country season kicks off, his high school teachers might expect his grades to drop. But Martin said that’s actually right when his scores start to shoot up.

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Brontosaurus Plans Vacation—For Peabody Renovation

by Allan Appel | Nov 28, 2018 4:14 pm | Comments (5)

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Envisioned new museum terrace, facing west.

There’s still a year or so to take in the great Brontosaurus and other treats of the natural world, past and present, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Then, beginning in 2020, the galleries will close for major renovations — the first such pause in the museum’s history.

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Bike Share Out, Baked Goods At Historic East Rock Pharmacy

by Allan Appel | Nov 28, 2018 8:38 am | Comments (19)

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A bakery and coffee shop that roasts its own may become the next tenant at the historic Hall Benedict Drug Company building on Orange Street.

And the Bike New Haven advertising stanchion, which had riled residents, right outside the location — along with the bikes themselves — may be moved to another East Rock location before the aromatic new establishment moves in.

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Concert Series Turns Goatville Into The Village

by Allison Hadley | Nov 26, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (3)

Posted by Fernando Pinto on Saturday, November 24, 2018

It was a night of multitasking in an already multifaceted space this past Saturday, as mActivity — gym by day, and now, thanks to Fernando Pinto and his East Rock Concert Series, concert venue and café by night — hosted Kevin Burt and Dom Flemons in a double feature

Both musicians never seemed to just play one instrument, whether it was Burt’s virtuosic harmonica or Flemons’s quills, bones, or otherwise.

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Suds Up In Goatville!

by Markeshia Ricks | Nov 1, 2018 9:35 pm | Comments (15)

Tim Wilson explains the growler to Mayor Harp.

It took brothers Tim and Shaun Wilson a little longer than they’d hope to get the doors of the city’s first production brewery and beer hall open — about three years — but nobody was counting during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their Nicoll Street facility.

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Plan Proposes Mill River Clean-Up

by Thomas Breen | Oct 17, 2018 3:02 pm | Comments (4)

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Stretch of the Mill River just outside of the Eli Whitney Museum.

Derrylyn Gorski signs Mill River watershed map to pledge support at Tuesday’s event.

Add bioswales up and down James Street. Convert a portion of Exchange Street into a linear trail park. And always keep parking lot dumpsters closed to avoid stormwater runoff contamination.

Those are among dozens of environmentally-conscious recommendations included in the new Mill River Watershed Plan.

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