by | Feb 20, 2017 8:58 am | Comments (20)
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Banking on dinner at Fountain and Central.
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Dream team Camacho & Bolduc: Headed for Westville?
The empty former First Niagara Bank branch in Westville’s commercial heart may soon find new life as an eatery run by one of the city’s more successful restaurateurs — and revive some of the dining scene lost in the fire at the old Delaney’s across the street.
by | Feb 14, 2017 8:51 am | Comments (7)
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At the launch.
On a plank of wood that almost looks soft, there’s a discarded quill, bent like a fern. Ink still wet and velvety at the tip. Beside it, the inkwell. Its mouth beckons, shallow cap flung open while the well of black liquid suggests there’s more inside. Beside them, a letter opener, and a sense that the table could go on forever.
It comes with a note. If you want to take it home and keep looking, you can — and not for the small fortune usually associated with buying art.
by | Feb 13, 2017 8:47 am | Comments (6)
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New Haven’s latest snowstorm has once again attracted excited visitors to West Rock Avenue, where a memorable snowman has risen in David Sepulveda’s front yard — this one offering a message of peace for turbulent times.
by | Feb 3, 2017 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
“Headed toward D2,” Officer Francisco Ortiz reported on the police radio as he led the cops following a speeding driver of a stolen Toyota Highlander.He slowed down at a commercial intersection, losing sight of the driver. A moment later, he reported: “Large 22.” And “We’re going to need a signal 1 here.”
Continue reading ‘Audio, Reports Flesh Out Fatal-Crash Chase’
by | Jan 25, 2017 9:06 am | Comments (7)
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Grooving at Edgewood’s skate park.
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Moser and local skaters mark up map with new design.
David Moser offered a simple choice to the group of skaters and bikers and rollerbladers gathered in a circle before him Tuesday night: “Concrete vs. asphalt.”
“Falling on asphalt,” one skateboarder responded, “is like falling on sandpaper.”
by | Jan 20, 2017 9:05 am | Comments (11)
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Giammona beside her 30-second video starring her smoking and finger-biting in “High Anxiety.”
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Julie Fraenkel’s papier-mache pinata was the first piece to sell.
Toni Giammona’s uncle threatened to wear his “Make America Great Again” T‑shirt to her art “Inauguration Nation” art opening in Westville this weekend. Until she talked to him.
Artist Giammona — whose dad Vincent was a New York City firefighter who died on 9/11 — has made her first-ever video installation titled “High Anxiety,” about the incoming Trump administration.
by | Jan 16, 2017 3:03 pm | Comments (1)
Zohra Rawling was racking her brain, trying to explain all of the things that a recent beau had been doing to make her feel that special, warm tingly feeling from her nose to her toes, that flutter within her chest and stomach.
“I could say bella bella even / say wunderbar,” she sang. “Each language only helps me tell you/ how grand you are!”
by | Jan 9, 2017 6:00 pm | Comments (11)
The Nighthawks and the Ravens may have long since flown from New Haven, but now the Elm City Express is returning pro sports to town.
by | Jan 9, 2017 8:00 am | Comments (1)
When Anna Osinaike woke up to see large, swirling snowflakes outside her window Saturday morning, she had a moment of calm. This — the first snow of the new year, crisp and still bright white — would be the perfect reason for a quiet day.
But then she remembered: She and her 4‑year-old daughter Kristen had a date to travel halfway around the world, and be back in New Haven by 3 p.m. Despite the winter weather, they couldn’t be late.
by | Jan 3, 2017 9:39 am | Comments (27)
Contrary to initial reports, cops may have been chasing a stolen Toyota Highlander as it flew up an embankment and crashed into a synagogue, killing both of the vehicle’s occupants.
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Tay Brown lighting a memorial candle for his cousin at the crash scene.
by | Jan 3, 2017 9:29 am | Comments (3)
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Dominguez at the most recent community management team meeting.
Sgt. Renee Dominguez, Westville/West Hills’ top cop, is moving across town.
by | Jan 2, 2017 4:32 pm | Comments (12)
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Two men stole a man’s car, then fled from the cops — until fatally crashing at Beth El Keser Israel (BEKI) synagogue at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Harrison Street.
by | Jan 2, 2017 4:31 pm | Comments (4)
Cops outside the market after the robbery.
Prakunj Patel was doing his normal job behind the counter at the Westville Quality Market when two men showed up to rob the store.
Continue reading ‘Westville Quality Market On Guard After Robbery’
by | Dec 19, 2016 8:35 am | Comments (3)
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Several women racers are all mud and smiles.
Specks and spatters of mud became badges of honor for the nearly 300 Cyclo-cross (CX) racers who competed in the in the finale of the Connecticut series of cyclo-cross races, Elm City CX, held Sunday in New Haven’s Edgewood Park for the benefit of the Parks and Recreation department.
Continue reading ‘Snow, Mud, No Match For Determined Cyclo-Cross Racers’
by | Dec 16, 2016 8:42 am | Comments (54)
When two pressure cookers showed up on a Whalley Avenue sidewalk one recent late afternoon, police officers rushed to the scene. At one point, they found themselves hustling away a news reporter who got too close as he took photos. They handcuffed him, shoved him in a cruiser, grabbed his camera, and charged him with a crime.
by | Dec 15, 2016 12:46 pm | Comments (4)
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The cookers on the street.
Cops feared the worst when they rushed to upper Whalley Avenue to investigate abandoned pressure cookers.
Turns out there was nothing to fear but the possibility, or impossibility of rice.
by | Dec 7, 2016 9:36 am | Comments (17)
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DuBois-Walton at forum.
Amid all the talk about impending dangers from the incoming regime in Washington, Karen DuBois-Walton offered a glimmer of hope Tuesday night: Perhaps, just perhaps, there is opportunity in uncertainty?
by | Dec 6, 2016 6:55 pm | Comments (2)
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The empty pressure cookers, after cops opened them.
Police closed off Whalley Avenue from Blake Street to Emerson just as rush hour began Tuesday afternoon so they could investigate two pressure cookers left out on the street.
Continue reading ‘Pressure Cookers Discovered Outside Westville Library’
by | Nov 29, 2016 8:48 am | Comments (1)
“You First,” the opening track on Western Estates’ debut EP Me First, starts with a churning electric guitar that makes its indie-rock intentions clear. But the drums that come in don’t fall into the usual pattern; after sliding into the rhythm of the song, they fall into a call and response with the strong yet quavering vocals, before the end of the verse opens up into a catharsis surprising in its timing, but so welcome when it comes.
And that’s all in the first 20 seconds. In its 1:10 running time, the New Haven-based band runs “You First” through a series of changes that catch the ear without losing the pulse, as the instruments switch up their strategies, build to a final moment, and then cut out with the kind of ending that says one thing: Play me again.
by | Nov 17, 2016 4:01 pm | Comments (18)
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Gremse behind the bar at Stone Hearth.
Peter Gremse’s first Westville restaurant burned down. His second burned through money.
Now he’s heading to California.
by | Nov 15, 2016 8:18 pm | Comments (6)
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The Whalley building.
Westville neighbors and city development officials got their wish: A self-storage business will not move any time soon to the neighborhood gateway at Fitch Street and Whalley Avenue.
by | Nov 11, 2016 1:37 pm | Comments (14)
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Segaloff, at center, and Zagoren, right, pitch neighbors.
The deteriorating unoccupied former factory complex at Whalley Avenue and Fitch Street may become home to a self-storage business — although some neighbors question whether that’s the best “gateway to historic Westville.”
by | Nov 8, 2016 3:39 pm | Comments (21)
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Fuentes delivers needed ballots at Wilbur Cross.
A New Haven cop waded into an East Rock polling spot Tuesday afternoon to the sound of applause — because he had boxes of ballots with him so that waiting citizens could finally vote.
by | Nov 7, 2016 3:38 pm | Comments (11)
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Median work Monday on Whalley.
Drivers used to speeding through Westille Village on their way to downtown or back out to the suburbs had a slower commute Monday — because traffic calming on Whalley Avenue has finally arrived.
by | Oct 27, 2016 8:15 am | Comments (0)
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Rawling.
Standing in the middle of Lyric Hall’s intimate stage, soprano Zohra Rawling was having a perfectly normal Thursday afternoon conjuring spirits, her voice reaching the rafters and pushing upward to the roof. Oooo oooo ooo ooooooohhhoo, she sang, the first of three puppets appearing before her with neat, ruby red lips and a bone-white face. Ooooooo oooo, she continued. A few backstage cobwebs dissolved with the vocals.
Right on cue, stilt-walker-cum-ghost Allison McDermott teetered behind Rawling, waving her arms to the music. Another puppet appeared, and an opera got underway.