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Oct 1, 2018 11:59 am
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Lawrence.
There’s a moment in Jen Silverman’s The Roommate when Sharon, a woman in her fifties putting her life together after a divorce, and Robyn, her new housemate, have already gotten to know each other a bit. They know about each others’ kids. Robyn knows about Sharon’s dissatisfaction with her marriage. Sharon knows Robyn knows how to grow weed. They’ve even shared a joint together. But then Sharon discovers that she doesn’t know the half of what’s going on with Robyn, and she’s scared by what she finds. She’s not sure she even knows Robyn’s real name anymore.
“But what were you born as?” Sharon asks her. And Robyn answers: “I was born as a malleable, changeable template.”
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 20, 2018 8:03 am
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A handful of people in a scrappy Alcoholics Anonymous group, struggling to get sober and help everyone else stay sober, one day at a time. Two cops in Cleveland, and what happens when one of them pulls the trigger. A family in Uganda, each person in it just trying to make their way.
New Hope kids traversing 1 Long Wharf’s parking lot.
Out on Howard Avenue, 3‑year-old Jameson Jones was vulnerable. A driver drove right into him. Sent him to the hospital. Could have killed him.
But according to the New Haven police interpretation of state law, Jones was not a “vulnerable user.” The driver, who admitted not watching the road, left the scene with a ticket for failing to grant the right of way to a pedestrian.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 5, 2018 2:51 pm
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Azhar Ahmed.
Azhar Ahmed fled the war in Sudan in 2004. For a decade she lived with her husband in Cairo, working as a teacher and applying for refugee status in the United States. In June 2015 she and her husband finally arrived in New Haven. Her son was born six months ago, in a friend’s house.
“You have to start from the beginning,” she said, of her experience of arriving in the United States.
Deputy Economic Development Administrator Steve Fontana and Canal Dock Boathouse Coach John Pescatore announced the start of the regatta.
New Haven held its largest food truck festival yet at Long Wharf Pier last Saturday with 50 food trucks and a dragon boat regatta along the Quinnipiac River.
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Allison Park |
May 24, 2018 12:06 pm
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With a steady hand and careful precision, Christian Garcia shaded in a sketch of New Haven’s eastern coastal landscape during an afternoon at the scenic Long Wharf Nature Reserve.
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May 23, 2018 3:50 pm
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The lines in front of Jesse “J-Hop” Hardy’s barbecue truck during last year’s festival.
The city’s fourth Food Truck Festival promises to be bigger than last year with more food choices and a dragon boat regatta that will start earlier in the day.
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Brian Slattery |
May 3, 2018 1:12 pm
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Williams.
Anthony Williams, a.k.a. Fashions Prince of Collective Vibe, stood tall on the stage of Terminal 110 Wednesday night before a packed house.
“It’s turn-up time,” he said. “It’s just good vibes. We’re just two-stepping in here.” He was midway through emceeing his eighth installment of R&B Wednesdays at the Long Wharf nightclub, and surveyed the crowd the event had brought — hundreds of people there to have a good time, dance like it was the weekend, and hear what New Haven’s own R&B talent had to offer.
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Thomas Breen |
May 2, 2018 12:00 pm
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Joe Standart and the 68-foot tall photograph of Paulina.
The first photograph in a 50-image series celebrating the dignity and endurance of New Haven’s refugees and immigrants was unveiled on the side of a towering, empty architectural landmark in Long Wharf, reminding city visitors and residents alike that those newest to this country best represent the core American rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Jason Fitzgerald |
Apr 30, 2018 7:36 am
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Pope, Thomas, Covington, and Crawford.
It’s not only Latice Crawford’s powerhouse vocals, athletic melisma, and seemingly bottomless reserves of soul that are bringing audiences to their feet at the Long Wharf Theatre. The force of her rendition of the gospel classic “His Eye is On the Sparrow” is sustained by its dramatic context.
Crawford is not just singing her heart out; she’s struggling to reach an angry and emotionally closed teenage girl, wounded by violence and betrayal, who can’t imagine that gospel music might have something to say to her. The girl’s reluctant opening to her heritage is the thin but effective plot of Crowns, the musical written and directed by Regina Taylor now being revived in a spirited and talent-riddled production co-presented with the McCarter Theatre.
A year after a breakthrough in negotiations with abutting property owners, the city is wrapping up legal loose ends on plans to construct the last leg of the Farmington Canal Trail in New Haven.
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Donald Brown |
Mar 14, 2018 7:58 am
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Forget March Madness. In Connecticut right now, March is Mystery Month. Up at Hartford Stage through March 25, Agatha Christie’s beloved sleuth Hercule Poirot is solving The Murder on the Orient Express, while over in Norwalk until March 18, The 39 Steps, a comedy-mystery based on an espionage thriller, is playing at Music Theatre of Connecticut.
And at Long Wharf Theatre, Baskerville, Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles, runs through March 25. There seems to be statewide agreement that we need fun to divert us from the weather while still getting us out to the theater. And it’s no secret that mystery has draw.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 12, 2018 7:50 am
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Fifteen New Haven high-school students brought playwright August Wilson’s characters to life in an August Wilson Monologue Competition on Friday evening. Before they started, James Bundy, artistic director at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reminded the audience that a little bit of themselves might be in Wilson’s plays.
The self-taught playwright, Bundy said, spent a lot of time just listening to people talk. “The people who are in his plays are people he heard from sitting in coffee shops.” In town, that meant Atticus and especially Book Trader on Chapel Street. If you stop into Book Trader, Bundy said, “You’re sitting where he listened to New Haven.”
Envisioned stormwater ribbon park anchoring new design.
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Urban planner Stan Eckstut unveils plan Tuesday night.
New Haven won’t have just one Long Wharf district if an ambitious new plan takes form. It will have five urban, walkable Long Wharfs connected by a ribbon-like park.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 23, 2018 9:16 am
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Pearce and Moggridge.
A strong wind blew inside the rehearsal space at Long Wharf Theatre, making Dr. Watson and Sir Henry lean into it.
“And hat,” said director Brendon Fox. A member of the crew tossed a hat through the air in front of the characters, who were looking for and found a certain Dr. Mortimer, who might have some information they needed.
“We’re lookin’ for a woman with the initials ‘L.L.’!” Sir Henry shouted into the wind. “What?” Dr. Mortimer shouted back. “We’re looking for a woman!” Watson shouted. “So am I! I’m tired of being single!” Dr. Mortimer shouted.
Mayor Toni Harp endorsed a plan to build a modern new $15 million primary care center on Long Wharf — and predicted that getting there will prove easier than some skeptics believe.
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Jason Fitzgerald |
Jan 30, 2018 1:18 pm
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Office Hour opens with a short scene that primes the audience to anticipate a terrifying event — a shooting at a university — and then delays that event as long as possible. In playwright Julia Cho’s astute hands, though, that delay becomes the point: It is the trauma we bring to the play, not the fear it invents, that she is asking us to examine.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 24, 2018 3:07 pm
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Taylor, Sparer, and Lagarde field neighbors’ questions.
Stacy Spell: Too far to walk.
Yale-New Haven Hospital’s planned new $15 million primary care center sounds great, West River neighbors said. But how will people without cars get there?
