Cross sophomores Charlotte Herzog, Alma Barjamovic, and Maya Harpaz-Levi.
On the third day of the 2023 – 24 school year, Wilbur Cross sophomores Charlotte Herzog, Alma Barjamovic, and Maya Harpaz-Levi reminisced on a summer of travels to Denmark, Israel, Ireland, and Maine — while also celebrating their return to the city’s largest public high school, which they described as overflowing with opportunity, variety, and diversity.
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Sep 1, 2023 12:27 pm
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Michael Nutter: Goldenberg has "the capacity, he has the intellect, the drive, the focus, the commitment that I look for in folks looking to run for office."
Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter took a 5:15 a.m. Amtrak to New Haven to grab a cup of orange juice and talk politics at East Rock Market, survey the transit hub-adjacent desolation of Church Street South, and throw his support behind his former student’s run for mayor.
Nkenge Hook, with listing employers and application information (below), at New Haven Works-organized job fair.
Fair Haven resident Nkenge Hook didn’t miss a beat of information, filling the lines of her notebook with bright blue ink as each employer stepped up to speak.
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Aug 21, 2023 8:53 am
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That Virginia at Witch Bitch Thrift.
The Black Box at Witch Bitch Thrift echoed with music, laughter, and an ever-present sense of community as AcoustiQueers made its premiere at the event space on Saturday night. A series that — according to Witch Bitch’s social media post, “creates an intimate space to celebrate queer music and queer joy” — was started by artist Eli Wood in New York City in 2017. After playing one of those events, the store’s co-owner and musician Virginia Semighini received permission to bring the series to Connecticut, where it ran until 2018. With the evolution of the Whitney Avenue thrift store to now include an event space, the series is being revived and, on this evening, features Semeghini, the New Haven-based trio Untold Joys, and a solo performance by Olive Tiger.
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Aug 18, 2023 7:23 am
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Detail from promotional art for Merry Wives of Windsor.
“Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English,” says Mistress Quickly, played with cheeky humor by Martine Fleurisma in Elm Shakespeare Company’s production of one of the bard’s lesser-known works, The Merry Wives of Windsor. The production plays fast and loose with the audience’s expectations, but it never betrays their patience or wastes their time. Instead, The Merry Wives of Windsor — running now through Sept. 3 at Edgerton Park — provides exactly what it promises: wit, wiles, wanton scoundrels, and scheming wives. Most of all, it supplies the audience with over two hours of good, old-fashioned fun.
Yale has purchased a two-and-a-half-story Prospect Street house-turned-office building for $2.85 million, further cementing the university’s ownership of much of a Prospect Hill block.
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Jul 31, 2023 9:07 am
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Zines, zines, and more zines, at Bike Co-Op-hosted fair.
The Bradley Street Bike Co-Op overflowed with glossy prints, eye-catching artwork, and colorful personalities for a Zine Fair that offered an opportunity for connection and collaboration, as well as a meeting ground for artists of all different mediums.
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Jul 26, 2023 8:54 am
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Psychedelic Don Ho Down Orchestra
On any given night you can walk past Christopher Martin’s, the restaurant and bar at 860 State St., and hear the clinking of glass and animated conversations from inside, or from one of the many outdoor tables that line its sidewalks. On Tuesday evenings, however, you can hear live music, and on this Tuesday, it was the music of the Psychedelic Don Ho Down Orchestra, a band comprised of seven stalwart and seasoned musicians from the New Haven scene.
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Jul 24, 2023 4:27 pm
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Andrea Downer at Friday's joint ward committee meeting.
Andrea Downer took another step towards securing the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her bid to unseat incumbent elected Board of Education rep Darnell Goldson, after winning the support of two Democratic ward committees in East Rock, and tying on the third.
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Jul 20, 2023 3:03 pm
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After a months-long debate and impasse over whether to fully reopen the road up to the summit of East Rock Park, the Board of Park Commissioners may have stumbled upon a solution: a magic bus.
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Jul 20, 2023 9:27 am
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I got your back: Alberto Wednesday with new mentor.
Huddled in the hallway, Wilbur Cross senior Alejandro Delacruz offered pre-game tips to incoming freshman Alberto Colon: Be confident. And keep your grades up if you want to be on the baseball team.
Liam Brennan (left) and Abby Roth (right) outside the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op on Tuesday afternoon.
Former Downtown Alder Abby Roth, a former supporter of incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker, switched her allegiances for this year’s campaign and endorsed one of his challengers.
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Jul 6, 2023 10:09 am
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Fireworks at the Wilbur Cross display on July 5th.
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Demi out to see fireworks for the first time with her older cousins, Payton and Jessica Smokes.
Excited to give their cousin Demi the same Fourth of July experience they’ve had since childhood, East Rock natives Payton and Jessica Smokes laid out a picnic blanket under the setting sun on Wednesday to watch the rain-delayed fireworks alongside her.
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Jun 26, 2023 9:14 am
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At Saturday's "PRIDE"-making party ...
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... the finished art-project letters, and contributors.
East Rock neighbors decorated rainbow-colored cardstock letters spelling out the word “PRIDE” — and spoke about how that word means love, acceptance, authenticity, and support — at a LGBTQ+ community-celebrating event that doubled as a campaign stop for an aspiring first-time alder.
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Jun 26, 2023 8:57 am
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Paxx Headroom performs at the Black Box.
Drag kings, fairy hair, tarot readings, visual art, and a vivacious vibe that pulsed with community: these and more filled the event room, art gallery, and gathering area now known as the Black Box this past Saturday night at Witch Bitch Thrift. The Whitney Avenue thrift store has created a space within its space that can be used for anything from a contemplative sanctuary to a meeting area for clubs, classes, open mics, and more.
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Jun 22, 2023 1:06 pm
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The road to the top of East Rock: Let cars roll, again?
Parks commissioners delayed deciding on whether or not to fully reopen the road to the top of East Rock Park to cars — as they weighed the testimony of drivers and those who struggle to walk such a long steep slope alongside that of frequent pedestrians and clean-park proponents.
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Jun 14, 2023 2:24 pm
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At Wilbur Cross' 102nd commencement ceremony.
Newly minted Cross grads Kayla and Makayla Edwards.
Wilbur Cross cheerleading co-captains and twin sisters Kayla and Makayla Edwards haven’t had a lot to cheer about over the past four years — until, that is, they did.
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Jun 8, 2023 3:35 pm
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Magda Colón: "Teach out of love and with love."
Colón with family at Thursday's celebration.
Just like during every other day of the school year, East Rock Spanish teacher Magda Colón came to work on Thursday ready to celebrate the hard work of her students.
This time, she was in for a surprise — when her students and school staff turned that praise around, and presented her with an award recognizing the impact she’s had on their lives.
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Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am
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Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 5, 2023 12:08 pm
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Cesar and Giovanni Mendez at NHPS "Seal of Biliteracy" ceremony.
Sound School senior Cesar Mendez wore a purple cord to symbolize his bilingual superpower — and so that his younger brother Giovanni can now recognize him as the hero that he is.
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Jun 1, 2023 1:41 pm
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Ice cream aplenty -- and alcohol verboten -- at Elena's on Orange.
A bustling East Rock ice cream shop won’t be offering wine on tap anytime soon — now that a legal agreement has reversed a prior approval permitting the storefront to sell booze in addition to soft serve.
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May 26, 2023 3:19 pm
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The McKoy family wins the day at Celentano school art auction.
Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
