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Co-founder Elise Dardani.
New Haven 20 years ago spawned a new test-score-focused set of charter schools known as “Achievement First” that challenged the approach of traditional public schools.
Now two women are trying to launch a private high school with a “Learning First” approach that also seeks to take education in a new direction.
by | Nov 2, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (3)
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Bull & Swine co-owner Albert Greenwood (in costume) Matthew Corey (not in Halloween costume).
A Hartford bartender walks into a New Haven bar on Halloween night.
He’s not there to serve drinks, or to judge the costume contest. He’s there to run for U.S. Senate.
by | Oct 9, 2018 2:33 pm | Comments (4)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
September in Bangkok owner and head chef Winyu “Win” Seetamyae.
September in Bangkok is the best time to get rice, one of the mainstays of Thai cuisine. Winyu “Win” Seetamyae hopes New Haveners will consider any time of the year “September in Bangkok” when they have a hankering for Thai food.
by | Sep 7, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (2)
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Meg Bloom.
From the title of Meg Bloom’s and Howard el-Yasin’s collaborative exhibit, “Within These Walls” — up now at City Gallery on Upper State Street until Sept. 30 — you might be forgiven for thinking of a certain border wall that may or may not yet be built.
by | Jul 9, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (0)
Michael Zack
Attendees.
Shadowy ciphers stand in a crowd, their relationships to each other unclear. Some of them are on their phones. Some are walking. Some are standing. Are they talking to one another or just passing by? Do they even notice one another?
by | May 24, 2018 7:37 am | Comments (1)
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J.P. Dempsey’s, undergoing renovations.
JP Dempsey’s will no longer be a bar exclusively the province of Patriots fans.
by | May 21, 2018 2:09 pm | Comments (0)
Nancy Eisenfeld
Whirl.
A storm stretches a ragged arm of cloudy debris across the wall of City Gallery. Wire tangles in paper mist. Then it all converges in the storm’s eye, a maelstrom of wreckage and energy. It’s a sculpture about destruction, but it’s an act of creation, too, and a meditation on change.
by | Apr 16, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (1)
Hank Paper
Police and Musicians.
We’re on a sunlit stretch of a city block. From the architecture it could be any city center south of the United States, or someplace in Europe. That the building in the foreground is worn down helps narrow it down. But not as much as the subjects. There’s a policeman on the corner, looking vigilant. To his left, a group of musicians, guitars, shakers, an upright.
It’s Havana, and this image, for photographer Hank Paper, encapsulates his experience of Cuba as much as any picture he took.
Make no mistake, he said — Cuba is a dictatorship, and “when you have police on every corner, you’re not going to have crime.” But then “there are these musicians who convey a whole different spirit about the place.” The repressive politics and widespread poverty; the deep and vibrant culture that fascinates the world. “These are the two forces that we’re contending with.”
by | Feb 21, 2018 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
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L’Orcio co-owners Francesco D’Amuri and Alison DeRenzi prepare to toast 15 years.
When Chef Francesco D’Amuri and Alison DeRenzi opened their restaurant L’Orcio on State Street 15 years ago, the winter months made them wonder what they had done moving away from Florence, Italy.
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Khan and dome-buildiers at Booker T. Washington, which the state just named a “school of distinction.”
Science teacher Intisar Khan challenged her first-graders to build a dome, the way Roman engineers combined the arch and the circle and the way Bucky Fuller built his geodesic version two millennia later.
by | Feb 14, 2018 8:12 am | Comments (0)
Joy Bush
Suspended Disbelief #6.
At first glance, maybe it’s an island on a clear day, reflected in still water. But then you see that no water is that still. The line between the halves is a little too sharp. Then you see that the bottom half isn’t the same as the top half. They’re not halves at all. It’s a land mass floating in midair.
The image is arresting, stunning, fascinating. What is going on?
by | Feb 12, 2018 8:33 am | Comments (0)
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Human Flourishing
“It’s uncertain what the name of this series is going to be,” joked Conor Perreault as he discussed taking over the second Saturday of the month time slot at Never Ending Books that used to belong to the Uncertainty Music Series — which had come to the end of its run this past August. The Uncertainty Music Series had been devoted to experimental music.
So, it seems, will Perreault’s series. It doesn’t have a name. But it does have a mission.
by | Dec 21, 2017 8:42 am | Comments (2)
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Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion congregation on Dixwell Avenue donated over 300 toys to the students of Booker T. Washington Academy.
by | Dec 13, 2017 3:38 pm | Comments (2)
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Permit-seekers Joshua Santana and Ryan Taylor.
An Upper State Street coffee shop’s quest for a tavern license will move forward, while a proposed City Point restaurant’s application for a full liquor license will not.
by | Dec 1, 2017 8:53 am | Comments (0)
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“Broken Wharf,” acrylic gouache paint on board.
The only time in her life Mary Lesser did not make art was was during a four-year-period she was at the Yale Law School and, simultaneously, raising two small boys.
by | Nov 28, 2017 9:12 am | Comments (12)
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A tent from a homeless encampment set up by the Mill River near the Ralph Walker Rink earlier this summer.
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LCI’s Linda Davis at Monday night’s meeting.
The city is planning to clear a large Mill River homeless encampment near the Ralph Walker Skating Rink sometime before the beginning of the new year.
Continue reading ‘City Prepares To Clear Mill River Homeless Camp’
by | Oct 25, 2017 9:26 am | Comments (24)
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Permit-seekers Joshua Santana and Ryan Taylor.
Upper State Street neighbors Tuesday night embraced a coffee shop’s proposed liquor license as a draw for museum curators and young families attending wine tastings. City Pointers blasted a separate proposed liquor license as a magnet for drunks and teens seeking cheap drinks.
by | Oct 13, 2017 11:46 am | Comments (13)
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John Taylor high-fives an arriving student.
Principal Laura Main showed up to work around 6:30 a.m. to welcome kids with cartons of milk. She went home at 6:30 p.m. after meeting with a dozen parents and students to resolve an argument.
by | Oct 11, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (0)
“Good morning America, how are you?” sang Expression Mondays East cohost Bobcat Carruthers, playing “City of New Orleans” — the Steeve Goodman song that Arlo Guthrie made famous — with guitarist Sal Fusco and Terence Clarke on harmonica.
Others in the audience answered with their own instruments, and another night of sharing and expression began.
Continue reading ‘Expression Mondays East Runs From Poetry To TV Pilots’
by | Sep 26, 2017 10:46 am | Comments (28)
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Deb Rossi: It comes down to 17.5 inches.
For months, Ryan Taylor has been trying to expand his East Rock coffee shop into an after-hours wine bar. If his East and State Street neighbors have their say, that may not happen anytime soon.
by | Sep 15, 2017 8:35 am | Comments (36)
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Hennah waits for the Q at one of 6 stops to be eliminated.
Vivian Hennah was resting her bum leg while she waited for the Q bus at the corner of State and Bishop streets — an opportunity she won’t have much longer.
by | Aug 30, 2017 2:56 pm | Comments (36)
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A popular East Street coffee shop is seeking to branch out to evening wine sales — with some neighbors preparing to fight rather than sip.
by | Aug 20, 2017 1:44 pm | Comments (0)
Bassist Carl Testa, who began the Uncertainty Music Series ten years ago, spoke about the word “uncertainty.” “It’s partly about the music itself but with some unknown element that’s different every time you play it,” he said. “This series started as a chance for me to play original music, but then became about asking the audience to take a chance and having myself and other musicians take a chance as well.”
Another person who took a chance on this series of experimental music was Roger Uihlein, owner of Never Ending Books on State Street, who offered his space up as a home for the series on the second Saturday of every month ten years ago and, according to Testa, “never asked for anything in return.” As a thank you to Uihlein, Testa set up the final show of the series at Never Ending Books on Saturday, Aug. 12, with proceeds from the show going to the venue. The Uncertainty Series will itself end with a two-night sendoff at Firehouse 12 on Sept. 23 and 24.
Continue reading ‘Musicians Pay Tribute To Never Ending Books’
by | Aug 7, 2017 12:14 pm | Comments (7)
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Tatters at Sunday’s protest.
A tattoo street battle came to Upper State Street, where a new combination parlor-school is offering classes that rub traditional skin-ink artists the wrong way.
by | Aug 4, 2017 5:32 pm | Comments (21)
Christopher Peak Photo
A makeshift tent, right behind Ralph Walker Rink.
Camper Luke and partner.
Homeless people have pitched tents, erected lean-tos and stacked mattresses along the Mill River beneath I‑91, leading neighbors to push the city to clear out the new encampment.