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Even in the animated video to Benjamin Scheur’s song “The Lion,” something deeply emotional happens less than a minute in. It isn’t just the nostalgia of the brown and yellow landscape, on which paper cutouts of animals — giraffes, lions, and their cubs — spring to life, nuzzle, and teach each other. There’s something deeper there too, caught in the just-flinty parts of Scheuer’s voice.
by | Dec 11, 2015 12:03 am | Comments (3)
Climbing 60 feet in the air is no joke, especially once you realize you’ve climbed about 20 feet too high and have to traverse the jungle of rope course to get back down.
by | Dec 10, 2015 1:19 pm | Comments (2)
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The Fiasco Theater’s production of Measure for Measure, directed by company members Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld at the Long Wharf Theatre and running until Dec. 20, makes the Bard’s darkest comedy more viewer-friendly. First of all, the characters to keep track of has been shrunk from 21 to a much more manageable 11 (or 12 if you count the unseen Barnardine, a prisoner), and played by a cast of 6. And that means everyone but Andy Grotelueschen as the Duke — who disguises himself for most of the play as a friar — plays two roles.
Much of the fun starts right there.
by | Dec 8, 2015 1:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Sargent’s workers gather before dawn at Sports Haven.
Neither the horses nor the dogs were running on the rug-sized darkened screens high above. The bar was closed, not a boxing match in sight.
Yet the lights were on, Danish and hot coffee were served, and Sports Haven was hopping even before sun-up Tuesday morning.
by | Dec 4, 2015 3:24 pm | Comments (6)
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Ray Pompano plans to report to Sargent Drive Tuesday morning to work on machine parts, as he has for over 50 years. But first he has an important 6 a.m. stop to make at Sports Haven.
Continue reading ‘After 3 Decades, Union Prez Passes Mantle’
by | Oct 29, 2015 7:34 am | Comments (6)
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Shopping the newest outpost of Jordan’s Furniture will be like stepping into the world’s largest playground with a splash of Las Vegas showmanship.
The chain’s president and CEO, Eliot Tatelman, means the splash part literally.
by | Oct 19, 2015 3:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Land Trust’s Elicker with one of the six new displays by the harbor.
Did you know that a horseshoe crab’s blood is blue? And that’s because it contains hemocyanin, a copper-based moleclue that clots around bacteria?
Or that these crawling blue bloods are used to test that vaccine you might have just received?
by | Aug 25, 2015 4:53 pm | Comments (8)
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Church Street South families at La Quinta.
Jessica Rivera said her four children don’t mind eating hotel restaurant food every day. But after two weeks of living in a single hotel room, they’re ready to go home — to Church Street South.
It doesn’t appear home will be ready for them any time soon.
Continue reading ‘Church Street South Evacuees Crammed In Hotel’
by | Jul 31, 2015 1:01 pm | Comments (7)
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Supporter Finan snaps a selfie with Smith.
Happy hour at the Greek Olive Thursday included a round of politics, as former City Clerk Ron Smith announced he is officially running for mayor.
Continue reading ‘“Homegrown” Politician Enters Mayoral Race’
by | Jul 7, 2015 2:21 pm | Comments (4)
A 29-year-old Milford motorcyclist is on life support at Yale-New Haven Hospital after crashing on Long Wharf early Tuesday.
by | Jun 16, 2015 4:55 pm | Comments (0)
Firefighters used rope, a crane and a rescue stretcher to help save the life of a man working in New Haven Harbor.
Continue reading ‘16 Firefighters Help Rescue Engineer In Harbor’
by | Jun 10, 2015 1:28 pm | Comments (0)
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Leonard and Koutroupas.
Korean War vet Vickia Koutrapas is making the move from the air to the sea. Even though she can barely see.
by | Jun 8, 2015 7:11 am | Comments (0)
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For more than 50 years — or longer than anyone could remember — the hefty statue of St. Andrew the Apostle was always loaded onto a local boat and taken out to New Haven Harbor. There a priest, riding on the boat with a vial of holy water, individually blessed the passing boats in a maritime caravan for a safe season on the waves.
This year the blessing of the fleet, organized by the St. Andrew Apostle Society, which launches its week-long “festa,” happened differently.
Continue reading ‘They Loaded In Branford, Blessed In New Haven’
by | May 30, 2015 10:05 pm | Comments (12)
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I skipped breakfast Saturday for the first of the two days of an inaugural New Haven Food Truck Festival, held all along the Long Wharf waterfront. In anticipation of barbecue, I wore a brown T‑shirt to mitigate the damage when I got sauce all over myself while eating ribs. And I brought along Leo, my son and eater-in-crime, to make sure we sampled as much food — and as many rides — as possible.
Continue reading ‘Food Truck Festival Delights (And Stuffs) The Stomach’
by | May 30, 2015 10:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Fernando Mateo was handing piña coladas and taking cash through the back window of the La Unica truck while two of his family members took orders from two other windows of the truck.
by | May 18, 2015 2:46 pm | Comments (0)
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The following article was reported through a collaboration between the New Haven Independent and the Multimedia Journalism class at Southern Connecticut State University. The students are profiling small businesses around the New Haven area.
Bill Shields didn’t name himself the “Flag Man,” or more specifically, “The Flag Man of Long Wharf.”
It was customers, Shields said, who coined the term.
by | May 6, 2015 5:03 pm | Comments (3)
Harp, Colon, Tatelman and Nemerson at the groundbreaking.
Eliot Tatelman didn’t bring the Greatest Show on Earth to New Haven, but you might have thought otherwise when he introduced people to the location of his new big-box furniture store.
by | Apr 30, 2015 8:08 am | Comments (5)
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Ricky Evans kept the ribs coming to whet appetites for an upcoming festival that will feed the foodie masses while collecting money to jumpstart the careers of more New Haven entrepreneurs.
Continue reading ‘Food Truck Festival Rolling Into Long Wharf’
by | Apr 15, 2015 7:14 am | Comments (0)
America’s first black serial killer. A not-quite love song to a favorite purple and mercurial fruit that doubles as a touching and insightful narrative of family relations. A series of unfolding scenes in Clarkston, Washington.
Continue reading ‘Contemporary American Voices Arrive In Elm City’
by | Mar 2, 2015 2:55 pm | Comments (2)
A man hanged himself from a bridge above a Sargent Drive parking lot, police reported.
by | Oct 6, 2014 12:26 pm | Comments (3)
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Lena Largie showed a merry band of community-garden supporters something they’d never seen before: a melon cucumber.
Continue reading ‘Grassroots-Veggie Tour Reveals Some Surprises’
by | Jul 28, 2014 12:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Teen vandals refused to come out of the marsh — until a police pooch stepped up to the microphone.
by | Jul 28, 2014 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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Gilvarg (left) shows Klee an eroded stretch of Long Wharf.
Let’s fix that pier — and give the fisherman who climbed around that chain-link fence more places to catch snapper.
by | Jun 13, 2014 12:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Southern Connecticut State University has taken possession of Gateway Community College’s abandoned Long Wharf property — without a clear plan of what to do with it.
Continue reading ‘SCSU Takes Over Gateway’s Long Wharf Campus’
by | Jun 6, 2014 8:19 am | Comments (2)
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With her 2‑year-old daughter looking on, Eneida Martinez built a bridge across a muddy rivulet in the Long Wharf Nature Preserve — and then crossed over to a new life as a high-school graduate.