by | Jan 23, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (15)
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Inside 150 Sargent, proposed new primary care site.
Tens of thousands of New Haveners next year will receive basic health care in a new spot with an experimental approach — if state and federal regulators say OK.
by | Jan 10, 2018 9:04 am | Comments (33)
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Initial rendering unveiled Tuesday night; dream-team designer Fang with participants at meeting (below).
Imagine this day spent on Long Wharf: You take a trolley or bike through the “stormwater” park that strategically connects to the Farmington Canal trail to the expanded IKEA “village,” where you buy furniture or browse shops and restaurants. Then you jump back on the trail and head to the New Haven Food Terminal to pick up fresh produce and other sundries for a picnic. You take your bike and picnic lunch on a water taxi that ferries you across the Long Island Sound for an afternoon at Lighthouse Park.
by | Dec 6, 2017 8:16 am | Comments (14)
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Fang and Eckstut of Perkins Eastman, who’ll lead Long Wharf 2.0 study.
The team that designed and planned a $2 billion transformation of a mile and a half stretch of Washington D.C.‘s Southwest waterfront has been tapped to create a strategic development and economic plan for the city’s Long Wharf District.
by | Dec 5, 2017 1:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Wolkowitz and Skybell.
Who are the chosen?
by | Oct 26, 2017 12:21 pm | Comments (1)
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Arndt and Alexander.
Eleanor Bannister and Abel Brown are at odds again. Abel says he’s looking for work, but has also made it pretty clear that his interest in Eleanor goes beyond the professional. Eleanor can’t decide if he’s a con man or just a man with a complicated life, and can’t deny the feelings she has for him, too. They’re both too smart, and a little too stubborn, to just let it go. Abel makes a last pitch to help Eleanor fix up the rundown cottage at the back of her property, which they both know also means they’ll be seeing a lot more of each other. Or, he says, in a moment of counterfactual argument, he could just burn the old cottage down and be on his way.
“If that’s what you want,” Abel says.
Eleanor lets her guard down. “I don’t know what I want, Abel,” she says.
Abel thinks about this. “Seems right to tell you, Eleanor, that those are exactly the words every con man wants to hear.”
Continue reading ‘Fireflies Lights Up A November-November Romance’
by | Oct 11, 2017 1:52 pm | Comments (0)
Before finishing Fireflies — which has its world premiere at Long Wharf Theatre Wednesday night — playwright Matthew Barber first took a road trip to southern Texas in 2010 to meet an 80-year-old retired schoolteacher named Annette Sanford, who had written a story Barber couldn’t get out of his head.
Continue reading ‘How “Fireflies” Took A Road Trip To Get Home’
by | Sep 12, 2017 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
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The cast of Small Mouth Sounds
In Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds, six people go to a weekend-long silent spiritual retreat, looking for a chance to change. The idea is that new habits — like not speaking and learning to interact without chatter — will help them foster a different approach to their lives. Their teacher (Orville Mendoza) instructs them by voice-over; his first speech states the rules that will govern the exercise. One participant, Alicia (Brenna Palughi), arrives late and misses out on the instructions. Another, Ned (Ben Beckley), wants desperately to ask for a writing utensil but doesn’t dare.
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The cast (l. to r.): Brenna Palughi, Connor Barrett, Cherene Snow, Edward Chin-Lyn, Ben Beckley, and Socorro Santiago.
Ned, a 39-year-old man who works for a nonprofit, has suffered a series of calamities, from prolonged hospitalization to marital infidelity to rampant alcoholism, and has joined a weekend-long, mostly silent spiritual retreat in the hope that it will help him put himself back together. He’s sitting in a session with a match in his hand.
“The teacher starts to play the recorder,” playwright Bess Wohl writes. “Ned has no idea what he’s supposed to do. He’s slightly worried that he’s supposed to set himself on fire. He half raises his hand, wanting to ask another question. The music stops.”
by | Jul 31, 2017 2:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Here: Krikko notes Union Station on his New Haven drawing.
Transit-riders heading down escalators to the tracks at Union Station can once again get a glimpse of their final destinations — New York City, Boston and, yes, New Haven — through the famed lead-pencil drawings of Gregory “Krikko” Obbott, a local artist whose prints have been sold worldwide.
by | Jul 30, 2017 9:53 am | Comments (0)
A man was pronounced dead at the hospital after the Coast Guard and fire department rescued and cared for him and a fellow boater overnight.
by | Jul 11, 2017 12:09 pm | Comments (10)
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Front door is open again, by appointment.
After being shuttered for decades, Marcel Breuer‘s famous Brutalist elevated concrete griddle off I‑95 is opening its doors once again.
However, inside they’re not promoting Armstrong Rubber, which commissioned the building in 1968, or Pirelli Tires, or the sofas of IKEA, which still owns the building. Instead, an art show is on display. In the show, New Haven native, ECA graduate, and now distinguished conceptual artist Tom Burr offers art with evocations to New Haven’s recent past, including the 1970 May Day on the Green, Jean Genet’s defense of the Black Panthers, an era of borders and border crossings, and the arrest of Jim Morrison at the New Haven Arena in 1969.
by | Jun 23, 2017 1:05 pm | Comments (6)
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Kinga Obartuch, at right in photo, explains her proposal to City Plan commissioners.
New Haven may soon dig up remnants of the original Long Wharf buried in the harbor thanks to the work of one enterprising intern.
by | Jun 5, 2017 7:43 am | Comments (3)
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The crowd on Long Wharf Saturday.
I have a confession: I haven’t been to Long Wharf Park a) since the very first food truck festival (cringe) and b) since it was declared a “food truck” paradise (cringe even more).
Continue reading ‘Food Truck Fest Serves Fewer Eats, More Good Time’
by | Jun 4, 2017 9:44 am | Comments (2)
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Three teams line up for the championship round.
A 40-foot-long “Dragon Boat” oared by venture capitalists sped toward the shore, neck and neck with another vessel powered by bicyclists. The result? Almost too close to call.
Continue reading ‘Cyclists Vs. Capitalists In A Photo Finish’
by | May 23, 2017 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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“Old Converse,” by John Barnes
This dapper and venerable “Old Converse” sneaker practically speaks its own charming welcome, inviting viewers to come look at it. The painting by John Barnes is one of 223 works by 90 artists on view in the fifth edition of “The Art Of Aging,” the annual show organized by the Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut at its offices at One Long Wharf Drive.
by | May 19, 2017 2:17 pm | Comments (32)
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The new cycletrack.
Just over a dozen cyclists took a five-mile spin together on Long Wharf for an inaugural test run on Connecticut’s first protected bike lane.
by | May 18, 2017 3:01 pm | Comments (2)
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The cast.
On the way home from seeing The Most Beautiful Room in New York, my wife Steph actually said this: “As a lifelong lover of musicals, I resented this. It is everything that people who hate musicals say they hate about musicals.”
What happens in a good production of a musical when the musical itself isn’t good? Beautiful Room gave us a chance to find out.
by | May 4, 2017 7:59 am | Comments (16)
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Cyclists on the Vision Trail: Not for long?
The state Department of Transportation has again outraged New Haven’s new urbanists, this time with a plan to destroy the Vision Trail.
by | May 1, 2017 4:49 pm | Comments (7)
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ULA’s John Lugo passes out flyers to the workers inside the Santa Apolonia food truck on Long Wharf.
Taste of Brazil closed for Day Without Immigrants.
At least 40 New Haven businesses kept their stores bolted all day Monday to demonstrate the contribution that immigrants make to the region’s economy.
by | Apr 21, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (1)
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Sgt. Renee Dominguez leads a panel on how youth view their community and policing.
Crime is down in New Haven, but several high profile clashes among police officers, ordinary residents and protesters have resown seeds of mistrust between officers and the communities they’re sworn to protect.
How can that trust be regained? By not giving up on the community, the police, or the concept of community policing.
by | Apr 4, 2017 12:48 pm | Comments (6)
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Osmany Hernandez, Jesus Mazarieg in Long Wharf’s El Cubano.
Holmes: Fair, safe.
Food truck operators will soon officially need to follow new rules when they vend downtown, near the hospital on Cedar Street, and on Long Wharf and Sachem Street.
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.