by | Mar 10, 2017 8:50 am | Comments (4)
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Hot dog man Sweeney: “Don’t put dollar up front!”
The city came one step closer to realizing a new regulatory framework for monitoring New Haven’s food trucks, carts, and stands thanks to a vote following a three-hour public session at City Hall.
by | Mar 1, 2017 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
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With immigration a hot political issue, stories about the ways of life of immigrants become more than sentimental evocations of how newly arrived people managed here in the past. Such family histories, as featured in Meghan Kennedy’s new play Napoli, Brooklyn, at the Long Wharf Theatre through March 12, should make us aware of how diverse are the cultural backgrounds covered by the term “American.” That diversity undermines any right of one ethnicity to lay claim to that term more than another. Almost everyone has ancestors who suffered to get here and to stay here, and the American Dream has seemed to promise that this country would find room for all.
by | Feb 28, 2017 1:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Katy Rubin had a message for the teachers: “If you feel confused anytime in the next four hours, you’re doing it right.”
“If we want to change things,” she continued, “we first have to recognize that we don’t know. We have to be willing to be confused.”
by | Jan 25, 2017 4:11 pm | Comments (9)
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Planned lighted tunnel with canal exhibit under Whitney Ave.
The $9 million final leg of the Farmington Canal Trail is closer to construction thanks to a deal struck with neighboring property owners.
by | Jan 20, 2017 8:58 am | Comments (0)
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Dennehy and Cathey.
There’s a pantomime routine at the beginning of Endgame, the Samuel Beckett dramatic masterpiece now playing at the Long Wharf Theatre until Feb. 5, in which a man named Clov — who is physically unable to sit down — checks the state of affairs outside the two high windows in the back of the single room where the play takes place. He needs a ladder to be able to see out the windows. He places the ladder under one of the windows, climbs the ladder with difficulty, checks outside, gets down, starts walking to the next window. Turns and sighs. He has forgotten to bring the ladder with him. He gets the ladder, places it beneath the next window, climbs it with difficulty, checks outside again, gets down. Starts walking away. Turns and sighs, louder. He has forgotten the ladder again.
by | Jan 13, 2017 10:00 am | Comments (9)
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Fontana faces alders Thursday night.
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Sweeney at work on Long Wharf.
“When I started on Long Wharf, it was the seagulls, the pigeons and me,” Bob Sweeney said. “There was no people.”
Now he has swarms of human company — and he asked city lawmakers to “go easy” on them.
by | Dec 21, 2016 9:05 am | Comments (0)
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Dennehy and Cathey in rehearsal.
The man in the chair can’t stand up. The man nearby, standing up, can’t sit down. They can’t go outside. There’s nothing there.
In the room with them are two trash cans. None of them leave. Can’t or won’t, it’s unclear. But they don’t.
All they really have are their words. And from the pen of Samuel Beckett, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, novelist, theater director, and poet, what words they are.
by | Nov 14, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (4)
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Hernandez with Jesus Mazariego inside El Cubano; below, the generator.
Osmany Hernandez had his Predator 8,750 generator cranking on his Sandwiches El Cubano food truck Monday — but thanks to a newly announced $400,000 upgrade of the Long Wharf vending district, he’ll soon be able to save on the gas and the pollution.
by | Oct 16, 2016 10:00 am | Comments (1)
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The Freedom Schooner Amistad docked at Long Wharf.
The Amistad is back home again.
by | Oct 11, 2016 12:20 pm | Comments (2)
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Myrin and Brown.
Fans of comic actor, playwright, and humorist Steve Martin will no doubt find something to like in his latest play, now at the Long Wharf after a successful run at the Old Globe in San Diego. Meteor Shower, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein, bases its appeal on Martin’s celebrated gift for the non sequitur. There are jibes at the pretensions and insecurities of married couples, moments of uncanny or absurdist humor, ironically erotic scenes, actual pyrotechnics, and gestures toward an all’s‑well-that-ends-well faith in normalcy.
Martin’s approach works when it works, but viewers might find themselves wondering what purpose this walk on the mild side serves, beyond fitful amusement.
by | Sep 26, 2016 2:27 pm | Comments (6)
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Design for the new boathouse.
Henry and Shawn Carey Monday morning slowly lowered a two-ton purple double-epoxy coated rebar form over one of 50 20-foot-tall columns that will support the second floor of Long Wharf’s newest/old attraction, the Canal Dock Boathouse.
by | Sep 23, 2016 8:15 am | Comments (1)
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Salas-Romer christens the rebooted extended stay hotel.
A Long Wharf Drive extended stay hotel has a new owner, a new name and a new look.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Extended Stay Hotel Gets Reboot’
by | Jul 21, 2016 7:47 am | Comments (1)
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Campers dig for shells in the Harbor.
On her first day of camp, 9‑year old Anaya Brianna Rice was apprehensive; the sun blazing hot, and the New Haven Harbor smelled.
Two hours later, however, Rice was already making plans to come back to the waterfront after camp.
by | Jul 6, 2016 2:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Sweeney reaches for more condiment.s.
Bob Sweeney could see that something was wrong: A neighboring food truck had placed three water coolers on a rectangular strip of tarmac reserved for cars that drive past the line of vendors every day.
by | Jun 29, 2016 1:01 pm | Comments (4)
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GOP Town Chair Wharton.
Jonathan Wharton believes that plotting New Haven’s future and sampling draft beers can go together.
by | Jun 20, 2016 7:20 am | Comments (0)
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A table display at Friday’s celebration.
Jajuana Cole, a smiling 13-year-old known to her family by the nickname “Nonnie,” was shot to death outside a Dickerman Street party ten years ago last week.
For her sister, Quanisha Cole, who was 11 years old at the time, the shooting still feels painful and raw.
Continue reading ‘A Decade Later, Jajuana’s Spirit Lives On’
by | Jun 6, 2016 1:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Last year I went to New Haven’s inaugural food truck festival with my son, Leo, and we proceeded to eat about as much as we could. This year we returned with my sister, Jill, visiting from New York City, to find not just another big crowd walking the length of Long Wharf Drive to sample everything from pulled pork to arepas to Italian pastries, but a first-ever New Haven “dragon boat” regatta in full swing.
Continue reading ‘2 Arepas, 2 Black Pugs, & 1 Pulled Pork Sandwich Later ...’
by | May 30, 2016 9:38 am | Comments (1)
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Gertz, at left, speaks at Sunday’s cermeony.
Two soldiers who died fighting in the Vietnam War were remembered at New Haven’s Long Wharf Vietnam Veterans Memorial Sunday in a Memorial Day ceremony as examples of what our country needs more of: “real heroes.”
by | May 18, 2016 12:02 pm | Comments (11)
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Cyclists get ready to pedal to “Paris.”
Elizabeth Nearing cycled to work at Long Wharf Theatre regularly but didn’t have a bike rack nearby for parking. So she started a campaign to get one.
by | May 3, 2016 7:15 am | Comments (1)
Plans to reopen a long defunct visitor information center on Long Wharf Drive got a boost from the Board of Alders.
by | Apr 14, 2016 7:15 am | Comments (0)
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Randy Danson and Martin Moran.
We’re on a patch of sand next to a local highway outside of Lewiston, Idaho. There’s a wonderfully gaudy, yet nearly defunct fireworks stand to the left of us. It’s right before the Fourth of July, but there isn’t a customer in sight.
Nearby, Alice and Connor, two people old enough to be grandparents, are testing some of their supply. It gives off a few sparks, just sputters and fizzles out.
“It makes me want to move to Canada,” Alice says.
by | Apr 7, 2016 7:33 am | Comments (7)
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Dixwell’s “ambassadors” at work last summer.
Bombero in WNHH’s studio.
New Haven’s whittled-down parks crews are doing their best to keep up with wrappers, cigarette butts, and other litter. But they can’t do it without citizens changing their ways.
Continue reading ‘Parks Chief: We Need YOU To Stop Littering’
by | Apr 1, 2016 1:43 pm | Comments (16)
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Pescatore with a Google satellite image of the boathouse.
Dragon boat in Taipei.
John Pescatore is hoping 40-foot-long canoes with dragon heads and tails will draw crowds to Long Wharf Pier this summer.
by | Feb 17, 2016 8:42 am | Comments (6)
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Morrison: Whole city benefits.
The Board of Alders green-lights plans to transform parts of Dixwell and Long Wharf for the next generation.
In a unanimous vote, the alders Tuesday nights authorized Mayor Toni Harp to accept the $14.5 million from the state for the long-awaited rebirth of the Dixwell Q House, the beloved settlement house that opened in 1924 and closed in 2003.
by | Feb 12, 2016 2:00 pm | Comments (18)
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Pylons from the old piers.
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Colon: Park needs TLC.
More than a half-century after the birth of Long Wharf, New Haven is asking the state for $935,000 to reimagine the city’s “welcome mat.”