by | Jun 1, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (0)
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Nasty Women Connecticut’s Luciana McLure, Louisa de Cossy, Abbie Kundishora, and Attallah Sheppard at Sunday’s event.
One woman speaks of how men on the assembly line harassed her and her female colleagues, one of whom was taunted for wearing yoga pants and bending over.
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by | May 31, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (1)
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Campbell and Duff.
On the stage of Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School on Tuesday, Isabella Violante Fletcher, Jayliz Freeney, Nehima Bell, and Chidimma Nzekwe —better known as Mustardseed, Peaseblossom, Cobweb, and Moth in their costumes — were chanting about animals.
“Spotted snakes with double tongues, thorny hedgehogs be not seen. Newts and bloodworms do no wrong. Come not near our fairy queen.” They sang it to the tune of Brahms’s famous lullaby. In the middle of them was Zyana Campbell, or Titania, who sank slowly into slumber. One of the fairies stood guard, until Martin Duff as Oberon shooed her away.
He knelt down and cast his own spell to work some of the mischief that fuels A Midsummer NIght’s Dream — the eighth annual Shakespeare production at Mauro-Sheridan, put together by a deep collaboration among Jodi Schneider of Mauro-Sheridan, the education program at Elm Shakespeare Company, Hopkins School, and most important, a cadre of game, hardworking, and talented fifth- to eighth-graders at Mauro-Sheridan.
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by | May 21, 2018 2:09 pm | Comments (26)
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Most recent iteration of design from the perspective of Whalley Avenue.
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Previous interim design shown at a February meeting.
The original design presented at BZA in January.
After enduring criticism of their initial design, the developer and architect who plan to transform the vacant lot where the former Delaney’s used to stand showed off the latest iteration at the City Plan Commission.
by | May 17, 2018 12:41 pm | Comments (14)
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Greenberg at City Hall Wednesday night.
A medical marijuana dispensary could be coming to New Haven — specifically to Amity Road — if the state approves an application from a local businessman.
by | May 15, 2018 6:42 pm | Comments (3)
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Stevenson Road in Upper Westville.
A storm that whipped through the state Monday evening spared New Haven the worst of it — but still felled trees throughout the city and left much of East Rock and Westville without power.
by | May 14, 2018 2:50 pm | Comments (3)
East Wall Westville’s festival installation.
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Green Goat dairy goats begin their assault.
A second New Haven “Goatville neighborhood” was opened in Edgewood Park during Westville’s 21st annual Artwalk festival.
But this “neighborhood,” a wooded and overgrown corner of the park, has real, live goats that will be performing special community service for several years to come.
by | May 11, 2018 8:04 am | Comments (0)
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Cavaliere and one of the first purchases she made with her mother.
Lorri Cavaliere had one wish — to own a store that sells the kinds of antiques and collectibles she has found at estate sales for 20 years.
That wish came true when her husband handed her the keys to 865 Whalley Ave.
by | May 10, 2018 12:28 pm | Comments (8)
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Owner Hines with bartender Oreanna Davis.
After the latest police calls to Roosevelt’s Restaurant & Bar in Westville Village, owner Ted Hines said he has heard his neighbors’ concerns.
by | May 9, 2018 7:53 am | Comments (5)
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Yale Law students make the case for the village zone.
A committee of alders voted to try to preserve SROs in New Haven — while seeking to ensure that a proposed new zoning plan for Westville Village does not undercut that goal.
by | May 7, 2018 4:13 pm | Comments (1)
A man driving a Pontiac struck a 32-year-old man and his 5‑year-old daughter in Fair Haven, sending them to the hospital.
by | May 7, 2018 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Middle Passage.
It takes a second to get your bearing. There’s a woman gazing out at you from Eric March’s canvas, stoic, angry, accusing. As your eye takes in the full image, you see that the funereal flowers aren’t below the woman; they’re floating on the waves lapping a sandy store. You, the viewer, aren’t standing upright. You’re floating in the air just over the waves, looking down. The woman is under the waves, looking up.
The piece is called Middle Passage, and it’s probably the first thing you’ll see when you walk into the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue for “How With This Rage Shall Beauty Hold a Plea?” a 53-artist exhibit about art and political outrage running now through May 27.
by | May 7, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (8)
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Bysiewicz meets potential voters at Manjares Sunday.
Susan Bysiewicz lost New Haven Mayor Toni Harp’s endorsement for her quest to become Connecticut’s next governor, but she demonstrated support Sunday in the heart of high-voting Westvile from people who pull the vote for progressive candidates.
Local supporters included, from left, Westville Ward Co-Chair Janis Underwood, Gabe DaSilva, Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., Co-Chair Amy Marx, activist Hilary Grant.
by | May 3, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (4)
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The General Assembly’s legit electronic billboard shows the House vote on the billboard bill.
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The new Whalley billboard.
Spurred by public opposition to a blinding blinking billboard on New Haven’s Whalley Avenue, state legislators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would allow cities and towns to regulate the illumination of public advertisements, so long as those signs have the technological ability to calibrate their own brightness.
by | Apr 30, 2018 5:23 pm | Comments (51)
Dirt bikers fleeing cops Sunday in Edgewood Park.
The daredevil dirt bike season began with a vroom as renegade riders surrounded a driver’s car, then surrounded a cop car, before zooming away through a park.
by | Apr 25, 2018 1:04 pm | Comments (15)
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Trash behind 873-887 Grand Ave.
A landlord amassing thousands of dollars in blight fines on a deteriorating building he owns in Westville is suing the city for harassment over another property he owns at the edge of Wooster Square. The city’s suing him back.
by | Apr 25, 2018 7:45 am | Comments (1)
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Goodnight Blue Moon at Cafe Nine in January.
“Undertow,” the first single from Goodnight Blue Moon’s new album Dawning Dream, announces the evolution of the band’s sound right from the start. A hi-hat hisses for the drums to settle into the kind of rhythm Al Green might like. The bass throbs. “It’s been a long time coming / I’ve been working overtime,” the vocals croon. “The days keep passing by / See fireworks light the sky, so bright.” A violin lays down a runway for a lead guitar to take off with a sparse melody, while another rhythm guitar adds in the planks from an old Motown record.
Continue reading ‘Goodnight Blue Moon’s New Album Sees The Light’
by | Apr 18, 2018 3:39 pm | Comments (22)
Old Yale Armory and horse stables: Beware falling slate.
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49 Goffe: “imminent” collapse.
The city’s building department found two unsafe buildings and one illegal appartment conversion at properties controlled by two of New Haven’s biggest landlords.
by | Apr 16, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (2)
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State Rep. Dillon inspects a crack in Cheryl Jackson’s house.
The State Bond Commission has approved Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s recommendation to release $1 million to provide grants to homeowners in Westville and Woodbridge to fix their sinking homes.
by | Apr 13, 2018 12:08 pm | Comments (1)
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Capt. Helliger makes pitch for ideas to keep seniors safe.
The New Haven Police Department wants you to take an active interest in the welfare of your senior neighbors and to be on the lookout for people trying to swindle them out of their money.
by | Apr 12, 2018 4:50 pm | Comments (9)
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Paul Kuriakose outside 325 Fountain.
The roof might last another year, the inspector told Paul Kuriakose. Kuriakose decided not to take any chances.
by | Apr 11, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (14)
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Revamped designs for Delaney’s.
BZA’s Mildred Melendez and Anne Stone split on approvals.
Westville Village’s nightlife is poised to change dramatically, after the zoning board Tuesday night gave the green light for two restaurants, Delaney’s Taproom and Manjares Fine Foods, to proceed with building and expansion plans.
by | Apr 10, 2018 7:46 am | Comments (0)
Marjorie Wolfe
Matera.
At first glance the cityscape looks deserted. It could be a ruin of an old city, or one abandoned due to conflict.
But look closer — much closer — and you can see that there are indeed people there. Someone putting out laundry on one of those miniscule rooftops. Someone else on one of the walkways meandering between the buildings.
Marjorie Wolfe’s Matera, situated in the center of the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville, is representative of the works in her exhibit, “Far and Wide,” and the paired exhibit “Extended Visions,” featuring work by fellow artist Tom Edwards, on view now until April 22. In both exhibits, the artists explore landscapes and objects that are nearly if not completely devoid of people, but in which the presence of humans is still deeply felt.
Continue reading ‘Photographers Capture People Out Of Place’
by | Apr 3, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (11)
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The billboard at night: It’s lit.
Hartford—New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon said she received some criticism from colleagues when she introduced a bill that would reinforce cities’ authority to regulate the brightness of digital billboards. Weren’t there more important things for her to draft legislation about?
Then a new sign at Whalley Avenue and Emerson Street was powered on.
by | Apr 2, 2018 2:43 pm | Comments (18)
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WVRA Executive Director Lizzy Donius pitches a new urbanist vision for Westville to the City Plan Commission.
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Proposed new zone.
City planners voted unanimously to approve the creation of a new zoning district for Westville Village that they hope will serve as a model for how to use zoning regulations to encourage dense, diverse, mixed-use economic development throughout the city.
by | Apr 2, 2018 12:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Clinic construction.stage.
From groundbreaking to the laying of its foundation, to seeing cinderblock walls rise to support a pitched frame and the steel roof that would cover it, Westville and some New Haven supporters have cheered every stage of construction of a new health clinic located more than 5,000 miles away — one which they helped make happen.
Now there’s more work to do.
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