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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 19, 2024 9:17 am
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Elm Shakespeare Company's Richard III.
Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of Richard III — running in Edgerton Park now through Sept. 1 — opens on a scene of warfare, complete with smoke, red lighting, and clashing swords. Then it transitions into a party, with swirling ribbons and joyful dancing. The titular Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Lisa Wolpe) feels much more at home in the former scene than in the latter. “Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace / Have no delight to pass away the time,” Richard proclaims bitterly. This is the key to his entire character, and in some senses, the play itself.
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 9, 2024 2:30 pm
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Abdul Osmanu, Steve Winter, and Tarolyn Moore after the debate.
“Like Abdul just said…”
“I do kind of agree with Steve…”
“Tarolyn’s exactly right…”
“My answer was what he said!”
Phrases like these were heard frequently at a political debate on Thursday evening, where three state representative candidates agreed more than they disagreed on issues such as tenants’ rights, income inequality, teacher pay, and the role of deep listening in politics.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 9, 2024 1:39 pm
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KP's serving of Ozzy's Apizza.
New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, indeed.
Ozzy’s Apizza, which started in the West Coast kitchen of CT native Chris Wallace and made its way from pop up to mainstay in Los Angeles is now a part of Goatville. Pies with names like The Liotta, The Swanson, and The Bada Bing are already hits on the other side of the U.S. Now co-owners Wallace and Craig Taylor are hoping to become an integral part of their home state’s scene.
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 2, 2024 10:46 am
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Alders-For-A-Day Ada Akdağ and Melissa Rodriguez at work learning about Keiry Pena and Joseph Jenkins' deli dreams.
Two “alders” checked in on a couple’s revived East Street deli, talked street improvements with a development official, blasted the news to constituents — and dreamed about what they want to be when they grow up.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 18, 2024 3:19 pm
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New lab building, new greenspace, OK'd for Science Hill.
A green, landscaped, public-welcoming entry point to Yale’s northeastern campus is coming to Science Hill — as part of a Yale Bowl-sized redevelopment project, including a massive new lab and classroom building, newly approved by the City Plan Commission.
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Asher Joseph |
Jul 5, 2024 8:35 am
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Explosions in the sky ...
... as viewed thru the miraculous camera eye of Chris Randall ...
... thanks, Chris!
Jasmine Gormley, Melissa Tamarkin, and Madison Sanders arrived at Wilbur Cross High School around 7 p.m. on Thursday — not to stake out the seats closest to the fireworks, but to set up a hammock at the furthest corner of the field near the school’s athletic complex.
The trio graduated from Yale last month, but had never before stuck around long enough after classes ended to see the city’s annual Fourth of July fireworks. Back in New Haven together for one last time this summer, the three headed to East Rock for a holiday spectacle.
Krystopher Linderman, Zach Postle, and Jesse Goldblum at 1455 State.
An alarm blared through a Cedar Hill apartment building at 1 p.m. sharp on Monday — as United Illuminating (UI) turned off the power in the common areas because of an overdue electricity bill.
Tenants union members and city, state, and federal politicians were already on site for an “open house” to showcase how poorly the Ocean Management complex is maintained. The sudden onset of afternoon darkness only fueled their frustration with what they alleged to be landlord malpractice.
Bye-bye berms, at Yale construction site on Whitney.
Yale won permission to demolish a handful of Science Hill buildings, including a 661-space parking garage, and then construct a new 406-space parking garage — in the latest set of approvals designed to tee up the future development of a major new laboratory and classroom building.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2024 12:15 pm
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Thank you, water, on Whitney Ave.
Part architectural stunner, part essential public utility, the silver and glass structure of the Regional Water Authority’s water treatment plant was even more impressive up close than seen from Whitney Avenue across the street from the Lake Whitney Dam.
Just as impressive, as it turned out, were the inner workings of that plant and how it provides water to the city and elsewhere — as a group of 30 participants learned on a tour of the facility, guided by Jesse Culbertson, RWA water treatment team lead, as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
Eitan Hochster: Sale changes only "where the profits go."
A 37-unit East Rock apartment complex changed hands for $11.5 million — because a Long Island City lighting company’s land value kept rising while its manufacturing business kept slowing down.
How are those two real estate phenomena two states apart connected?
Through a federal tax deferral provision called Section 1031.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 14, 2024 9:34 am
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Mission accomplished, at Cross’s graduation ceremony.
Aspiring electrician Nakarie Wills, pediatric nurse to-be Nathalie Hiraldo, and future music producer CheMi “CJ” McGee all walked across the Wilbur Cross graduation stage — taking big steps closer to their post-high school dreams.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 11, 2024 9:11 am
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Lake Whitney Dam: Ready to be improved for “the next 160 years.”
The Lake Whitney Dam on the border of New Haven and Hamden has been going strong since 1860, when Eli Whitney and the city built it. But it’s in need of rehabilitation — a major construction project — to prepare it for the climate challenges of the next century and beyond. That can be done while also keeping an eye on the community and environmental concerns of the present.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 7, 2024 3:30 pm
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Hilarie Alden: Now, officially, a "life changing" teacher.
“She pushes you to be your best self.” “She’s always positive.” “She makes school fun.” “Her good mood in the classroom influenced me to do better things outside class.”
Those words of praise and so much more were offered by Worthington Hooker parents and students on Friday as they shared testimony about this year’s “Life Changing Teaching” awardee and Hooker second grade teacher, Hilarie Alden.
Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters: "A natural beauty" to the Mill River underpass (pictured below).
Among the weeds and overgrown vegetation of a highway underpass off of State Street, Achievement First Amistad High School juniors Madison Mcgregor and Karriema Peters couldn’t help but see potential.
The soil, still damp and moist from a recent downpour, could make fertile land for a community garden in the future. What type of foods they would grow is still up for debate.
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Arthur Delot-Vilain |
Jun 5, 2024 10:21 am
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Bonsai appreciators Zahra Ashe-Simmer and Oliver Egger: “There's something so pleasing about [the trees] being miniature.”
In order to maximize its access to air and light, Peter Hlousek’s blue spruce has branches far enough apart for a bird to fly through them.
That’s one of the guiding principles of bonsai, the art of growing and shaping tiny trees — which Hlousek has been doing for nearly three decades as a member and former president of the Bonsai Society of Greater New Haven.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 4, 2024 9:14 am
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Biliteracy ceremony honoring the superpower of knowing more than one language.
Cross seniors Fernando Aroca, Paola Velasquez, and Anthony Perez: All recognized for Spanish proficiency.
During the school day, Paola Velasquez often pauses in the Wilbur Cross hallways to help out fellow students whose first language is also Spanish. She helps her peers know where their classes are, what the school bells mean, or what a teacher is asking of them.
Those skills were honored by the city’s public school district at a recent ceremony uplifting 176 “biliterate” graduating seniors who are proficient in languages ranging from Spanish to German to Pashto to Mandinka.
Cross Principal Brown: "The job of the teacher has never been harder."
Wilbur Cross Principal Matt Brown has a math problem to solve:
How do you lead a school where the building’s capacity is for 1,300 students, its enrollment tops 1,700, and the number of students who actually show up to class each day is somewhere in between — given the district’s persistent struggles with chronic absenteeism?
Brown’s answers: Get creative, share classrooms, celebrate student diversity, and encourage a sense of belonging and school pride among students and teachers alike at New Haven’s largest public school.
At Cross Friday morning: Education Justice Organizer Megan Fountain and Cross staffers Mia Comulada Breuler, Cordell Wallace, and Gwendolyn Bright.
(Updated) “What do we want? Fully-funded schools! When do we want it? Now!”
Those chants echoed down Mitchell Drive Friday morning as New Haven students, teachers, and paraprofessionals kicked off a day of action to rally support for increased funding for the city’s public schools.
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Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
May 6, 2024 5:33 pm
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Alexandra Daum highlights new landscaping and more sustainable energy ...
... as part of Science Hill development projects.
Yale is seeking to build up its scientific campus by digging down into the earth, as revealed during a presentation on future buildings with a massive underground presence.
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Lisa Reisman |
Apr 30, 2024 12:16 pm
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Jimmy Apuzzo and Joseph "Pino" Ciccone at the meat counter.
Ex-business owners make the best employees, according to P&M Orange Street Market meat department manager and ex-business owner Jimmy Apuzzo, who’s retiring on May 15.
“I have almost a photographic memory,” Apuzzo, 69, said on a recent morning in the basement storeroom of the East Rock market where he began his working life on Dec. 6, 1967. He was 13. “I can walk into the cooler, look around, and instantly know what’s there and what’s not.”
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Kian Ahmadi |
Apr 29, 2024 11:03 am
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Upper Westville Alder Amy Marx (right) with daughter Esther at Rock to Rock.
More than 600 cyclists took to the streets and trails Saturday for the 16th annual Rock to Rock event, which started in East Rock and ended with a “green fair” filled with food, folk music, and calls to environmental action.
Jailene Ramos (right) and Supt. Negron at Cross-hosted budget talk.
Will next year’s schools budget have enough money set aside to fix bathrooms with no sink handles and school buildings that get too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer?
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn (right): Goal is to keep everyone safe.
Upper Orange Street’s parking spots will all stay put. The city will build no new dedicated bike lanes.
But! The city will “slow” the street and make room for cars and cyclists alike by narrowing the road, trimming the speed limit, improving signage and sightlines, coloring the street, and putting in a median.
Such are the details the Elicker administration has put together after years of debate over a new design for a nine-block run of Orange Street between Humphrey and Cold Spring Streets.
