by | Sep 5, 2018 12:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Chance gets one last hug from mom on opening day.
They didn’t know it but Carolyn Seward’s kindergarteners became part of history just by walking into her classroom Tuesday with their parents and taking their first shy steps to find their seats.
On their first day of school, they were joining the ranks of people educated at the Davis Street School over the last 100 years.
by | Sep 4, 2018 2:42 pm | Comments (2)
Karen Ponzio Photo
Fountain Street’s Elm City Sounds.
Chris Della Ragione, owner of Elm City Sounds, recalled how he and Jeff Chamiac came to work together at the newest place to find old vinyl in New Haven, which has just opened on Fountain Street in Westville.
by | Aug 21, 2018 12:28 pm | Comments (0)
Kim Weston
Emitting.
The sky is clear in Emitting. A dancer, hair cast in every direction, enveloped in the ghost images of feathers, is moving, moved, and about to move in a long exposure. Photographer Kim Weston has collapsed a long moment into a map of this dancer’s heat and spirit.
by | Aug 17, 2018 7:57 am | Comments (0)
Shanda Ferrucci and daughters.
Shanda Ferrucci grew up on a farm in the South and likes eating fresh produce, preferably grown by her family. She also likes bargain prices on name brands for paper goods and cleaning products.
She’s going to have both close by at the new Family Dollar store at 1168 Whalley Ave. near the corner of Dayton Street.
The new Family Dollar, which replaces an old CVS, is marking its grand opening week with a partnership with the local Boys and Girls Club to grow veggies and then sell them at a grand farmers market day in front of the new store later in the year.
by | Aug 10, 2018 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
Molly Gambardella
Blossom.
A burnished ornate candle holder stands beside a small Buddha balanced on a saffron paperback titled Love. Behind it, a vase erupts with gentle orange tulips. A plastic orange basket supports a slab of hardwood with a small painted alligator’s head. More pensive paperbacks share a plastic orange cutting board with another case of tulips, copper cups, an orange, and a candle. Beneath, there is a profusion of orange berries and petals in an orange wicker basket, resting beside a box of markers and pens: all siennas, vermillions, golds. This Titian tableau is an introduction to the idea that, as the title of a new art exhibit at Lotta Studio states, nothing rhymes with orange.
by | Aug 9, 2018 11:04 am | Comments (0)
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Jennifer Hudson at Local Lit.
A woman undergoing treatment for cancer strives to connect with her young daughter, even as she seems to be developing a new friendship at her chemo sessions. A middle-aged daughter tries to help her mother, who is suffering from dementia, deal with her impending eviction. A young man going out to buy condoms instead ends up part of the search for a lost car.
by | Aug 7, 2018 12:58 pm | Comments (1)
Paul Bass Photo
Afro-Semitic Experience Monday night in Beecher Park.
Monday evening was the pits in Westville — which was cause for celebration.
by | Aug 7, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (6)
A motorcyclist died after crashing into a car in Westville Monday night.
by | Aug 6, 2018 12:44 pm | Comments (5)
Allan Appel Photo
Park goat joins Uhl for morning coffee.
Yes, we have four stomachs making us thoughtful. Well, that makes us ruminative creatures.
We particularly like the unlimited buffet of Japanese Knotweed but we are fastidious to leave room for our favorite dessert, poison ivy. And we of course really enjoy meeting the hundreds of people who visit and care for us. New Haven water is pretty darn cool too.
Those were the highlights of an amusing (at least for me) interview with two of the six goats now busily eating the invasive species in a two-and-a-half acre fenced plot near the tennis courts in Edgewood Park.
by | Jul 27, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (6)
New Haven Engineer Department
The city’s new traffic calming plan for Yale Avenue: Speed humps and raised intersection included.
City Engineer Giovanni Zinn: Designing for the “80th percentile” speed.
City officials presented an updated traffic calming plan for Yale Avenue — aka “Anarchy Road” — that now includes speed humps and a raised crosswalk in addition to the previous proposal’s two-way cycletrack and over 300 new parking spaces along Edgewood Park.
by | Jul 27, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (0)
E.A. McMullan Photos
The house was packed Wednesday night at The Range at Lotta Studio as locals and travelers converged on the co-working space for the 33rd edition of Pecha Kucha New Haven, titled “Summer Lovin’.”
by | Jul 25, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (12)
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Mew Haven Cat Cafe husband and wife team Michael and Angela Pullo at Tuesday’s BZA meeting.
Connecticut’s first cat cafe is a step closer to opening in Westville Village center now that the Board of Zoning Appeals granted its owners a special exception Tuesday night.
by | Jul 10, 2018 12:41 pm | Comments (1)
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With soul music filling the air, Chocolate Pear squared off against Apple Crumb outside Mitchell branch library Monday night — and the community was the winner.
by | Jul 10, 2018 7:47 am | Comments (3)
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Angela Pullo on the cafe side of Mew Haven.
A haven for cats and the humans who enjoy them will be the first test of Westville Village’s new zoning rules.
by | Jul 10, 2018 7:34 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
Craig Gilbert with one of his 3D FLOW pieces.
What do a Tyrannosaurus Rex carrying a Hobbit in its mouth, a lederhosen-wearing man and his pregnant wife standing outside their trailer with a three-legged dog, and a bunch of big eyed ducklings sliding down a rainbow emitting from a unicorn’s backside have in common?
Well, they actually have three things in common. First, they are all characters from New England Brewing Company’s beer labels. Second, they are all on display at an art show at Kehler Liddell Gallery that premieres this Saturday, July 14. And third, they were all birthed in the mind of artist Craig Gilbert.
by | Jul 3, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Daryl Brackeen at Monday evening’s Board of Alders meeting.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. said he has decided to give State Rep. Pat Dillon another term to show that she can bring home more bacon for the 92nd General Assembly District she’s represented since 1984.
by | Jul 2, 2018 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
Sammi Katz and cast in Cabaret.
Sam Plattus, director of Cabaret — playing now at Lyric Hall in Westville until July 15 — met us, his guests, with warmth and enthusiasm on our way into the auditorium. We found the stage filled with the cast in their attire, quiet chatter and knowing smirks abounding as they managed their preparations. Just after a hush settled over the whole room, Plattus walked to the foot of the apron.
“Today there were protests all across the country. … It was really important to the whole cast that they were happening,” Plattus said. “I’ve learned, working on this show, that we live in a very fragile world. It looks more fragile by the day. It’s the responsibility of all of us together to make sure that the world doesn’t break.”
by | Jun 28, 2018 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
Amy Browning
The Last Time We Met (Ascent).
Amy Browning and Robert Bienstock’s abstract exhibitions — titled, respectively, “Island Musings” and “Fun with Lines” — will be up in the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville through this Sunday, July 1, when there will be a closing reception and artist talk at 2 p.m.
See it while you can.
Continue reading ‘There’s Method In The Chaos At Kehler Liddell’
by | Jun 22, 2018 12:48 pm | Comments (0)
Margaret Olin Photo
Margaret Olin sent in these photos of a car in flames and firefighters responding to the scene on the edge of Edgewood Park Thursday night.
by | Jun 20, 2018 7:42 am | Comments (0)
Courtesy Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo
2018 REACH graduates.
Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo, vice president of Chapel Haven’s admissions and marketing, sent in the following article.
The REACH class of 2018 has a special place in Chapel Haven history.
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (5)
A Superior Court judge ruled that a Westville family can stay in its rented home through the end of July and does not have to backpay rent for May and June because of its landlord’s delays in fixing the property.
Continue reading ‘Leaks, Plumbing Problems Stall Attempted Eviction’
by | Jun 13, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
Eddy.
Cliff Bradshaw (Nate Houran) has just interrupted his love interest, Sally Bowles (Jay Eddy), canoodling with another man. She storms offstage and Cliff moves to follow her. He’s stopped by Ernst (Jeremy Funke), who wants to make a deal with him. Cliff wants no part of it. Ernst is a little confused, but not thrown off his game.
“I know you need the money,” he says, “so it must be something else. Ah — that Jew at the party?”
That’s when Cliff hits Ernst, landing a punch right in his stomach.
by | Jun 5, 2018 12:13 pm | Comments (1)
Allison Park Photo
James Sousa hates bugs. Even ants make him squirm.
So when his mother brought him to a Ladybug Release Party on Monday evening, James hustled to a corner and started playing with the decorative rocks. But at an event where other kids his age were playing with ladybugs, he secretly knew it was the best place to overcome his fear.
by | Jun 5, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (17)
Markeshia Ricks Photo
Roth speaks out from the floor.
Were they voting to save SROs? Or preventing them from being built?
Downtown Alder Abby Roth asked colleagues that question during debates over two bills that became law Monday night.
by | Jun 1, 2018 11:23 am | Comments (26)
City of New Haven
Mock-up of proposed bicycle, pedestrian, and parking changes.
Thomas Breen photo
Neighbors weigh in as Alder Adam Marchand listens. Clockwise from top left: Ida Nelson, Dominic Carew, Nancy Ahern, Gabriel Da Silva.
First fix the speeding by drivers on Anarchy Road. Then we can talk about bike lanes.