I Think I’ll Ride A ... Coors Light
by | Apr 11, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (7)
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The new Coors Light ad outside Café Romeo.
The city’s bike share program has a new advertiser: Coors Light.
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Absentee Landlords Caught Supersizing
by | Apr 10, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (20)
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The backyard at 68 Mechanic St.
The city found a Mechanic Street home owned by two Guilford-based landlords to be “unfit for human occupancy” due to an absence of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, unpermitted and uninspected interior renovations, and the illegal conversion of a two-family dwelling into five separate rental units.
Bike Co-op Founder Returned Garage To Its Roots
by | Mar 27, 2018 7:41 am | Comments (4)
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John Martin at the Co-op.
John Martin does not run the Bradley Street Bike Co-op … but he did start it.
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65 Tagged; Tagger’s Role Reversed
by | Mar 22, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (13)
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Perez and Arciuolo review routes before hitting the streets.
As a woman rushed out of a laundromat Wednesday night pleading with Kim Arciuolo to spare her a $100 ticket and a tow, Arciuolo thought back to the many tickets that she received in the late 1990s as a barista at the original Willoughby’s café on Chapel Street. And she gave the woman a break.
Echo Of Maria On Marvelwood Drive
by | Mar 8, 2018 5:18 pm | Comments (2)
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Giant ash that fell across Marvelwood Drive during Storm Elsa.
Jose Jordan (center) with neighbor Esther Comba (left) and New Haven firefighter Lt. Gerard Bellamy.
Jose Jordan’s mother sought refuge from Hurricane Maria by fleeing to her son’s home in Westville — only to have an ash tree topple over power lines in Wednesday night’s storm and plunge the home into cold and darkness.
Wilbur Cross Goes ... Back To High School?
by | Mar 2, 2018 8:50 am | Comments (0)
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Brandon Oliveras and Catherine Sigg.
Two people go to their high school reunion. Could be 15 years, 20 years, since they saw each other last. They strike up a conversation. Start to hit it off. They share a dance. A connection is forming. But they never dated in high school. Didn’t have a crush on each other. As it turns out, they didn’t know each other well at all. Which is why, when they sing to each other, they don’t sing to each other about the good old days.
“I’m glad you didn’t know me in high school,” they sing.
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Inside Underwear With Nick Grunerud
by | Feb 27, 2018 8:37 am | Comments (0)
Underwear, a.k.a. Nick Grunerud, is one of the most prolific musicians in New Haven, producing five full albums of original music in the past year. He also performs steadily, recreating live what appears on the album — and also showing that it really is a performance, as he builds, manipulates, and then disassembles the songs before the audience’s eyes.
Art Quivers From Cupid’s Arrow
by | Feb 7, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (0)
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“Last Cigarette: Cabin Fever Series.”
The lips are just graphite on paper, but maybe because of the cigarette dangling from between them, they convey a sense of iconic allure and danger. You want to draw the rest of the face. Maybe it’s a classic dame from a film noir movie. But maybe it’s nothing so stylized as that, just a woman on her lunch break, or waiting for the bus. Or maybe she’s sneaking a smoke after dinner. Whatever it is, neither the allure nor the danger can be shaken.
That kind of forthrightness — and ambiguity — permeate “Lovestruck,” an art exhibition up on the walls of mActivity on Nicoll Street from now until Feb. 28.
Blumenthal To Refugee Kids: “We’re Proud Of You”
by | Feb 2, 2018 3:50 pm | Comments (1)
Blumenthal with refugee students and ESL teacher Alan Gibbons.
Omar Moussa and his parents arrived from Syria two years ago after spending four years in a Jordanian refugee camp. He was 17 — the same age as U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s father in 1935 when he arrived from Frankfort, Germany, then in the initial throes of the Nazi takeover.
However, Blumenthal’s father in 1935 did not face the heart-breaking political and bureaucratic obstacles to bring over the rest of his family, which are now being confronted by Omar’s remaining siblings in Jordan and Lebanon.
That’s thanks to Donald Trump’s Executive Order(s) 13769/13780, known as “the Muslim” ban.
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Yale Div School Eyes East Rock Home
by | Jan 24, 2018 4:03 pm | Comments (13)
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Stephen Brown shows neighbors a map and photographs of 320 Canner St., a two-story, single-family home that Yale is interested in purchasing and converting to academic use.
The Yale Divinity School is interested in purchasing a single-family home near its Prospect Hill campus and converting it into an academic building, thereby removing over $18,500 from the city’s annual property tax rolls.
Trump Inspires Love March
by | Jan 16, 2018 8:35 am | Comments (2)
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The Love March.
President Donald Trump’s policies and especially his recent “shithole” statements about Africa and Haiti inspired the 150 people who prayed and hit the streets for New Haven’s 48th annual Martin Luther King Day “Love March.”
No, they didn’t agree with Trump’s statements. They statements gave them renewed energy to carry on King’s fight for racial and social justice.
School Evacuated After Gas Leak
by | Jan 3, 2018 4:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Assistant Chief Mark Vendetto.
Update: Gas and water company crews are expected to finish repairing a broken high-pressure gas main and a broken water main that led to evacuations Wednesday on Canner Street by 11 p.m.
Tax Plan Could Hit 1,780 Homeowners Hardest
by | Dec 19, 2017 8:48 am | Comments (34)
The newly approved overhaul of the federal tax code could raise federal income taxes for at least 1,780 New Haven homeowners, according to the city.
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Piety, Virtue, Beefsteak On Display
by | Dec 8, 2017 8:40 am | Comments (1)
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The president of Yale College, Timothy Dwight, both educator and minister, delivered an impassioned sermon on the folly, guilt, and mischief of the notorious gentlemans’ practice of dueling in September 1804 — two months late for Alexander Hamilton, who had died that July in his famous duel with Aaron Burr.
City Prepares To Clear Mill River Homeless Camp
by | Nov 28, 2017 9:12 am | Comments (12)
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A tent from a homeless encampment set up by the Mill River near the Ralph Walker Rink earlier this summer.
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LCI’s Linda Davis at Monday night’s meeting.
The city is planning to clear a large Mill River homeless encampment near the Ralph Walker Skating Rink sometime before the beginning of the new year.
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Coworking 2.0 Blooms
by | Nov 13, 2017 9:03 am | Comments (12)
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Merieta Bayati and Randi McCray at the Urban Collective, one of six new coworking spaces around town.
Randi McCray and Merieta Bayati were like a lot of entrepreneurs — young in their businesses and in need of a place to work. Instead of renting from someone else, they ended up launching one of a new wave of coworking spaces popping up around town.
Cops Find Missing Man’s Body On East Rock
by | Nov 10, 2017 5:12 pm | Comments (0)
Police Friday found the body of a 37-year-old man they’d searching for up and down East Rock.
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Cross Helps 11 Starting Over From Maria
by | Nov 3, 2017 7:58 am | Comments (1)
Cross students and amateur flamenco dancers Josselyn Escalante, Guizell Samaniedo, and Alondra Rodriguez.
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Daisha Rivera in the halls of her new high school, Wilbur Cross.
Two weeks ago, Daisha Rivera was living on Puerto Rico’s north-central coast, where her family had trouble finding clean water a month after Hurricane Maria.
Thursday night Rivera joined other new students for a communal embrace at Wilbur Cross High, the new academic home for 10 other hurricane evacuees as well.
Plan For Ex-Factory Breaks Condo Barrier
by | Oct 24, 2017 8:03 am | Comments (21)
The old Lehman Brothers Inc. printing company, which has been empty for almost 10 years.
Garrick, Paris, and Rozich unveil project.
With a plan to renovate a shuttered Goatville printing plant, a fast-growing New Haven real estate company is betting that New Haven’s housing boom is ready for condominiums, not just high-end rental apartments.
2 Community Organizers Square Off
by | Oct 16, 2017 1:04 pm | Comments (47)
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Williams and Winter: vying for Ward 21 seat.
When Rodney “Rock” Williams watches the demolition of the last vestiges of the former Winchester Arms plant in Newhallville, he sees more than childhood memories and the neighborhood’s past slipping away. He sees the alarming potential for the neighborhood’s political power to slip away too.
Would You Buy A Parking Space From This Man?
by | Sep 28, 2017 8:12 am | Comments (14)
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Doug Hausladen.
Doug Hausladen came to East Rock looking to make an elusive sale: a flexible parking space designed to bridge the gap between meter-wary merchants who need more on-street parking and neighbors who want to park their cars on the streets where they live.
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Bus Stops Get Fall Reprieve
by | Sep 26, 2017 1:48 pm | Comments (6)
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The crowd at Monday night’s East Rock Community Management Team meeting.
The city’s holding off until the end of the year with a plan to remove six State Street bus stop so neighbors have time to weigh in.
Coffee Pedaler, Neighbors Square Off
by | Sep 26, 2017 10:46 am | Comments (28)
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Deb Rossi: It comes down to 17.5 inches.
For months, Ryan Taylor has been trying to expand his East Rock coffee shop into an after-hours wine bar. If his East and State Street neighbors have their say, that may not happen anytime soon.
CT Folk Festival Finds Protest In Folk Roots
by | Sep 8, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (0)
Charles Rothenberger is an environmental attorney and lobbyist who’s also a board member for CT Folk, which is holding its annual CT Folk Fest and Green Expo this Saturday in Edgerton Park.
On Tuesday’s episode of WNHH radio’s “Northern Remedy,” he was asked: Which came first, the music or the environmental activism?
“The music, obviously,” Rothenberger said. “That comes in the womb.”
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Oratorio Choir Opens House
by | Sep 5, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
Daniel Shaw, the artistic director for the New Haven Oratorio Choir, wants people to audition for the choir. He also wants the choir to audition for them.
That’s the idea behind the choir’s open rehearsal, which is coming up on Sept. 13 at the Church of the Redeemer on Whitney Avenue. The open rehearsal is a chance for people interested in joining to see what being in the Oratorio Choir is all about, even beyond the singing.