by | Mar 31, 2022 12:38 pm | Comments (0)
Jordan's bacon and bbq hot dog.
A bacon and BBQ hot dog transported this correspondent to the right-field bleachers of Yankee Stadium, with a ball launched from the bat of Aaron Judge soaring into the sky on a mild August evening.
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by | Mar 17, 2022 10:11 am | Comments (15)
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Proposed 15-unit mixed-use building at 793 State.
A Madison-based developer won permission to build 15 new apartments atop a vacant State Street lot.
by | Mar 11, 2022 9:46 am | Comments (5)
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Sultan Thahir: "Tonight, we're having..."
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Wednesday? Must be yoga night.
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Live music night.
After dusk, night after night, young crowds are swarming into an unassuming new coffeeshop on State Street to transform the place into an event hot spot — each time with a different reason to gather.
by | Feb 15, 2022 3:20 pm | Comments (0)
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1041 State St., future home to 75 new apartments.
A Fairfield-based developer purchased an Upper State Street warehouse for $1.35 million, as it moves ahead with its plans to build a new 75-unit apartment building across the street from the Corsair.
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by | Feb 15, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (0)
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Sack.
A crowd of colorful figures are running amok on a table in City Gallery. Their surfaces swirl with patterns, their forms just reminiscent enough of people or animals to endow them with a great deal of personality. They are, above all, fun — and part of “Phantasmagoria: Art to Amuse and Amaze,” a collection of mostly wax-encaustic paintings and sculptures by Ruth Sack running now at the gallery on Upper State Street through March 6.
by and | Feb 1, 2022 4:03 pm | Comments (11)
Levi Erock: My Honda's not here.
Orane Fraser: Remove the speed bumps!
Word on the street: Orane Fraser left Levi Brock at the parole office. He waited a while. Then he hit the road.
by | Jan 28, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (0)
Paul Aguilar of the Callisto Quartet looked over the growing audience assembled at Gather on Upper State Street Thursday night. “Cool thing,” he said. “Literally today is Mozart’s birthday” — his 265th. In honor of that, the quartet was going to perform his famous “Hunt” quartet, “one of the most well-loved pieces” in Mozart’s oeuvre, along with Brahms’s third string quartet, which could be understood as an homage to the Mozart piece.
What followed was a world-class performance, delivered for free to what became a full house at the new coffee shop and community space on Upper State Street.
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by | Jan 12, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)
Bloom, Kane, Crowley, and Friedman.
“Convergence” — the show at City Gallery running now through Jan. 30, and featuring the work of Meg Bloom, Phyllis Crowley, Roberta Friedman, and Kathy Kane — celebrates not only the ways in which the four artists have continued to make art during the pandemic, but how the City Gallery artists have maintained the bonds of their community even while being, once again, forced apart by Covid-19.
by | Dec 8, 2021 10:02 am | Comments (0)
Susan Newbold
Island Magic
The vivid colors make the title of Susan Newbold’s piece — Island Magic — appropriate enough, but Newbold’s treatment of the subject moves the image well beyond a travel postcard. There’s enough information in the texture of the painting that, with a small imaginative leap, the viewer can be on that coastline, feel the grit of the sand, the roughness of the rocks, the cool water. It’s not just a picture of a place; it’s a record of Newbold’s experience of being there.
by | Dec 2, 2021 2:50 pm | Comments (10)
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Operators of a doggy daycare asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by noise-weary neighbors, arguing that the city, not a court, should handle the issue.
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by | Nov 17, 2021 9:08 am | Comments (1)
William Frucht
Pink Blanket.
It’s a photograph of a couple on a beach on a hot summer day. On one level, it’s all perfectly normal, almost banal. He’s checking something on his laptop; she may or may not be nudging him with her foot. But in its form it seems almost coordinated, that the two people are dressed only in black and white, that they’ve then chosen a hot pink blanket to rest on, a bright orange bag to bring, a bright purple cup to drink from. And then it’s all framed by just sand, without a wave in sight.
by | Nov 4, 2021 5:28 pm | Comments (13)
Emerging from the pandemic, people have grown used to spending more time at home — and may therefore want roomier apartments with work space.
The conclusion animated site plans for two building projects that won approval this week.
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by | Oct 11, 2021 8:14 am | Comments (0)
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Concussion
Improvisational music comes off to many people as a few musicians getting together and simply playing their instruments, perhaps in a haphazard way — except it’s not that at all, and it’s not so simple. In fact, it involves a whole lot of experience, enthusiasm, commitment, and most of all, love. All of those aspects were on display Saturday night at Volume Two: A Never Ending Books Collective for a three-act bill that showcased some of the finest local improvisational musicians getting back to what they do best.
by | Oct 6, 2021 3:00 pm | Comments (4)
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793 State and the former Pulaski Street: 16 new apartments on tap.
The city plans to sell off a portion of a highway-obliterated former street to make way for a proposed new 16-unit apartment building on Upper State Street.
by | Oct 1, 2021 3:42 pm | Comments (6)
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Bond at Portofino’s: I’ll continue Denise Merrill’s agenda.
It’s not the resume that counts most. It’s the talent.
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by | Sep 27, 2021 11:31 am | Comments (2)
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The Ralph Walker Skating Rink on Upper State Street.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved two public-private agreements — one that will keep Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that will bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
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by | Sep 23, 2021 8:03 am | Comments (1)
Mary Lesser
Effects of Bad Government.
At first glance, Mary Lesser’s painting is playful, almost festive, the earth a bright orange, the characters frolicking on the slope a cotton-candy pink. But then it becomes clear that the house at the top of that hill is the White House, and the sky is black, and suddenly the whole painting inverts itself. Is it a frolic or a frenzy? A rampage? Once established, that sense of ominousness can’t be shaken — which is just how Lesser wants it.
by | Aug 31, 2021 1:26 pm | Comments (5)
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Carlos Eyzaguirre presents Mike Amore Jr. with mayoral proclamation.
Since the 1950s, much of New Haven has kept its attire fresh and clean thanks to Jet Cleaners, which celebrated its 65th year in business Tuesday with city officials and neighbors.
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by | Aug 11, 2021 9:50 am | Comments (12)
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BoomBoomBoom! 186 units on tap for Fair Street.
City zoners unanimously approved land-use relief for two projects that promise to bring hundreds of new market-rate apartments to Wooster Square and East Rock.
by | Aug 10, 2021 3:40 pm | Comments (2)
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Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Alders unanimously advanced two proposed public-private accords — one that would keep a community health center in Dixwell for the next two decades, another that would bring an ice rink management company to Upper State Street for the next five years.
Continue reading ‘Hill Health, Skating Rink Contracts Advance’
by | Aug 2, 2021 8:36 pm | Comments (6)
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St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School at the ice rink in February 2020.
The city has tapped a Bridgeport-based management company with three decades of experience operating ice rinks to help turn the renovated Ralph Walker Skating Rink into a “wonderland of ice” starting this October.
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by | Jul 22, 2021 4:36 pm | Comments (2)
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At the Scantlebury Park splash pad.
One new sign, four temporary security bollards, and a new operator for the skating rink were all voted up.
No vote was taken — yet — on a proposed new policy asserting the right of every neighborhood in town to have a playscape or playground and a water area.
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by | Jul 20, 2021 9:52 am | Comments (2)
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Marshall cleaning up a scene on A&E’s “Dirty Rotten Cleaners.”
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Marshall gets ready for action.
Sadie Marshall’s team packed up her gear to answer a call to clean up two decomposing bodies, after answering a separate call from the A&E Network to broadcast her “Dirty Rotten” work to the nation.
by | Jul 16, 2021 1:44 pm | Comments (16)
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Design with planned new building at bottom right.
Four under-utilized and individually unusable parcels of land across from the Corsair apartment complex on the old industrial patch of upper State Street are slated to become the site of 75 market-rate units. Look for solar arrays on the roof and interior design features to appeal to people who have gotten used to working from home during the pandemic, among other amenities.
by | Jul 16, 2021 9:13 am | Comments (0)
Joy Bush
Troubled Turnips.
The turnip’s gnarled skin and desiccated sprouts stand out all the more because of the vivid red background they’ve been placed in front of. Nearby is a head of lettuce rendered inedible by time and neglect, a beet imploding with rot, a potato molding and sprouting at the same time. Joy Bush’s vibrantly decaying vegetables are part of “The Shape of Color” — the latest exhibit at City Gallery on Upper State Street, running now through Aug. 8, featuring the work of Bush, Judy Atlas, Rita Hannafin, and Tom Peterson — and, it turns out, born of a deeply political moment.