by | Nov 18, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
A woman admitted she was “too drunk to drive” — after she crashed into a car on the Boulevard, then one at Marvel Road and West Elm.
Meanwhile, a burglar left some scatalogical traces behind after making off with a DVD player, a laptop, and over 1,000 DVDs from the apartment of a man who was in the hospital.
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:51 pm | Comments (1)
A Blake Street senior’s favor to a thirsty handyman ending up costing her. And a Fountain Street tenant learned that neighbors’ constant coital commotion is not a police matter.
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:51 pm | Comments (6)
Markeshia Ricks Photos
Brown-Dean reads from her new book at Kehler Liddell Gallery …
… and signs a copy for ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons.
As you reflect on Veterans Day, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean asks you to think of Jimmie Lee Jackson and Leonard Matlovich.
And when you think of them she wants you to consider how their identities and the politics and policies that shaped their lives still have much to teach us today.
Continue reading ‘“Identity Politics” Illuminates Past, Present’
by | Nov 8, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Dennis Serfilippi and Adam Marchand after the polls closed Tuesday.
Dennis Serfilippi ran for alder Tuesday as an independent in Ward 25 against incumbent Adam Marchand, who won the election. Serfilippi wrote the following article.
Driving home from Edgewood School on Election Night I realized there was unfinished business. I needed to find a way to express my gratitude and more importantly share my experiences of the day just passed.
by | Nov 7, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
Roy Money
Pond Elder and Remaining.
They’re pictures of the surfaces of water, of the roots systems of trees, but the scale the photographer chooses helps us look at them in a different way. Roy Money doesn’t pick landscapes that encourage us to take in the full view. They’re pictures of nature on a human scale, what you might see if you crouched down on a trail on the woods, or stopped to sit by a pond’s edge. But the sharp clarity of the images helps you see more detail than you might otherwise. It makes the roots of the tree look a little like a mountain range, or wrinkled fingers. It makes you look again.
by | Nov 5, 2019 10:22 pm | Comments (10)
David Sepulveda Photo
Dennis Serifilippi congratulates Adam Marchand at the Ward 25 polls.
Democrats swept all 30 races for Board of Alders seats in New Haven.
by | Nov 5, 2019 5:14 pm | Comments (0)
Clara Tolbert saw parents bringing their children with them to vote Tuesday — an experience she never had growing up in the Jim Crow South.
by | Nov 4, 2019 4:50 pm | Comments (1)
The winner of an OfferUp online auction brought a $4,940 check to McDonald’s. he rode away with a west side woman’s 2008 Nissan Sentra.
by | Nov 3, 2019 3:48 pm | Comments (17)
Paul Bass Photo
Urn Pendragon, Justin Elicker, Corey Evans, Erick Russell, State Rep. Robyn Porter at Sunday GOTV brunch: Harp’s name unspoken.
With 50 hours to go before the polls open, leading Democrats made the case for hitting the streets for mayoral candidate Justin Elicker — without making any case against the incumbent he seeks to unseat.
by | Oct 30, 2019 7:57 am | Comments (31)
Thomas Breen photos
Westville Alder Adam Marchand and challenger Dennis Serfilippi.
Are the Yale’s unions a force for political engagement or obfuscation? Economic uplift or conflicts of interest?
Does the social media app NextDoor promote civic debate and neighborly communication? Or racism and paranoid fear-mongering?
by | Oct 28, 2019 11:55 am | Comments (1)
As Halloween approaches, some of the spirit has vanished from Moore Drive.
Continue reading ‘6 Scarecrows, 5 Skeletons & 1 Tombstone Stolen’
by | Oct 25, 2019 5:02 pm | Comments (30)
Thomas Breen photos
Marianne Williamson Friday afternoon at Balanced Yoga. Below: Campaign sign taped to supporter’s car’s bumper.
Sitting barefoot in a Westville yoga studio, Democratic presidential candidate and best-selling New Age author Marianne Williamson offered a guide for cleansing the soul of America’s corrupted body politic: through paying hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations to the descendants of enslaved Africans.
by | Oct 22, 2019 8:18 am | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
CMT Co-Chair Iva Johnson, who proposed beautifying Hilltop Park.
A welcome sign for West Hills? A fund for homeowners to purchase security cameras?
How about renovating a playground currently strewn with bottles and needles? Or adding strings of those cute bulbs to illuminate trees along Whalley Avenue?
Westvillians and West Rockers are having a hard time choosing on which of those to spend $20,000.
by | Oct 17, 2019 7:55 am | Comments (37)
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Digital rendering of the future Westville Music Bowl.
Allan Appel Photo
Dennis Serfilippi: Even Nextdoor users love the idea.
New Haven’s vacant tennis stadium is on track to become an outdoor music and comedy venue now that the team behind the College Street Music Hall has won approval — from both the City Plan Commission and, in a twist on history, Westville neighbors.
by | Oct 16, 2019 11:44 am | Comments (2)
An argument over loud music turned violent on Fowler Street, as did a pit bull that escaped from a room at the New Haven Inn.
Continue reading ‘Alleged “Wife-Beater” Allegedly Socks Accuser’
by | Oct 7, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (0)
One of two men robbing a Fairfield Street man was wearing a mask depicting the marvel Comics character Venom. In a separate incident, someone slipped a Joker card under a rear store door —the night before someone tried to break in.
by | Oct 7, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (0)
The following was contributed by King Robinson Inter-district Magnet School kindergarten teacher Mallorie Madden.
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The staff at King/Robinson Inter-district Magnet: An IB STEM School added a twist to their back to school night this year.
by | Oct 3, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (21)
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Ward 26 alder candidates Darryl Brackeen Jr., Joshua Van Hoesen.
Joshua Van Hoesen got a preview of what he’d hear on the Upper Westville campaign trail when he moved into his new house — and saw all the lead paint on the porch and the sump pump at work in the basement.
Darryl Brackeen has heard a lot about sinking houses and water-caused damage in the six years he has represented the neighborhood.
by | Oct 3, 2019 11:51 am | Comments (20)
Thomas Breen photo
The building at Whalley and Fitch, soon to be demolished.
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It’s a deal: Buyer Mendy Paris (right, center) with partner Sim Levenharz and attorney Ben Trachten; seller Edward Roubeni (left front) and attorney Ken Rozich.
A local developer plans to knock down a blighted Westville commercial building and build in its stead 200-plus luxury apartments, now that he and his partner have purchased the property for $3.1 million.
by | Oct 1, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (1)
Brian Slattery Photos
It was 8 a.m. on Saturday in Edgewood Park. No one was playing at the tennis courts, or the basketball courts. No one was using the skate park. But about a dozen people from the New Haven Bird Club congregated in the parking lot with a common mission: to spot and count birds, and along the way, unveil Edgewood Park as a spot of wilderness in the middle of the city.
by | Sep 29, 2019 4:12 pm | Comments (5)
Police don’t know whether an argument over canine bathroom habits led to a fire erupting in a tree on Valley Street.
They do know that someone made off with $5,000 worth of copper fittings, and someone else climbed a fence at the Connecticut Tennis Center and carted away powered landscaping equipment. And they discovered that a phony Craiglist ad apparently separated a Missouri woman of $1,750 that she thought was securing her an apartment on Central Avenue.
by | Sep 27, 2019 8:01 am | Comments (0)
Thomas Breen photo
Darcel Reddick on his home turf in Edgewood Park …
… and in uniform at the YMCA.
Darcel Reddick showed up to Edgewood Park to play basketball, just as he’s been doing for the past 22 years.
What he didn’t know was that this time he’d get a chance to test his shooting, dribbling, and rebounding skills against city police officers and neighbors alike as part of an annual tournament designed to blur the boundaries between cops and the community.
by | Sep 26, 2019 11:53 am | Comments (0)
Kraig Binkowski
Evening Light.
The image may be in black and white, but it feels like dusk even without looking at the title of the piece. It’s there in the angle of the shadows thrown across the buildings in a nameless American city. It’s there in the texture of the walls, the texture of the glass. And for all the built environment, there’s just one person in the image, perched in a window, hunched over a little as if taking a break from work just to watch the sun go down.
by | Sep 23, 2019 3:30 pm | Comments (3)
Really, officer, I just happened to find these bags of shrimp in the Stop & Shop bathroom …
by | Sep 23, 2019 7:45 am | Comments (0)
Brian Flinn
The Parson’s Second Wife.
The first impression of Brian Flinn’s work may be of humor. Some of his figures have the out-of-proportion features of cartoons, the odd poses, the uneven faces. But there’s detail within the comedy, layers of images on the skins of his subjects. There’s an eye that’s startlingly human. The other eye, upon closer inspection, isn’t an eye at all. The layering makes the skin seem translucent. Or maybe the body is in flux. Take another step back, and the image seems more like a flickering film. Maybe if you turned away and looked back again, it would be a different image entirely.
Continue reading ‘Artists Cover The Changes At Kehler Liddell’