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Oct 25, 2016 8:14 pm
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Math Instructional Coach Mindy Schwartzman explains the ropes.
Mauro Sheridan third-graders and first-graders were in the back of the cafeteria dutifully scooping seeds out of pumpkins with gusto, but they weren’t getting very far.
They needed the seeds to work on counting in tens, but first they needed enough seeds to do it.
“Get in their with your hands,” Math Instructional Coach Mindy Schwartzman urged. “Like this!”
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 20, 2016 11:07 am
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Nurse pitches the BZA.
You won’t be able to have a glass of wine while you savor a piece of chocolate from a new Westville chocolate shop, but you can enjoy a whole bottle if you take it to go in a gift basket, thanks to a decision by the city’s zoning board.
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David Sepulveda |
Oct 16, 2016 10:09 am
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“Crowds”- Eoin Burke
Sculptures at Lyric Hall.
Last weekend, the first in a series of four weekends of City Wide Open Studios kicked off in Westville, marking a watershed moment in the life of this emerging arts district. Consideration of Westville’s entree as a full-fledged, City Wide Open Studios (CWOS) weekend destination had its pros and cons according to Helen Kauder, executive director of Artspace, which sponsors the nearly month-long arts festival in New Haven.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 6, 2016 8:19 am
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Tyrone Wells at cop-community hoops contest.
As Gregory Daniels leaned forward to sink yet another long-distance jump shot, an incredulous bystander shouted towards the police officers on the sidelines: “All these cops on the court, and they still can’t stop this man from shooting!”
The old girl was showing her age when Nancy Greenberg met her. Her roof was dilapidated, her cedar shakes were rotting, and vines and overgrown grass had taken over.
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Allan Appel |
Sep 21, 2016 11:56 am
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“Smiling Politician,” 12-color serigraph by Greenier.
Sharon Lovett-Graff takes so much delight in the community space at her Mitchell Branch Library, you’d think it were a room in her own home that she’d recently decorated.
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David Sepulveda |
Sep 15, 2016 11:54 am
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Pride, excitement, and gratitude were some of the emotions face and body painter Lauren Wilson of Westville had in response to learning that one of her painted mermaids had landed on the cover of SkinMarkZ Magazine, the first U.S.-based magazine dedicated to face painting, body art, illusion, and special effects.
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Lucy Gellman |
Sep 15, 2016 8:11 am
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This coming Sunday, at 3 p.m., musicians Ignacy Gaydamovich, Cihan Yücel and Gary Capozziello will sit down on Lyric Hall‘s intimate stage. Gaydamovich, possibly resting his cello for a moment against his knees, will introduce the bill: Sergey Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata, followed by Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2. Yücel, on piano, and Capozziello, on violin, perhaps will nod knowingly. Then a wild, Russian-induced magic will explode from each of them.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Sep 14, 2016 8:19 am
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Arganese pleads case.
A pawn shop will not be coming to upper Whalley Avenue in the Beverly Hills section of the city, where neighbors and other businesses feared what kind of customers would come in.
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Lucy Gellman |
Sep 12, 2016 8:08 am
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It was the end of the world and Brian Robinson, bouncing up and down in a flower-dotted yellow dress on the cusp on his 41st birthday, knew it. Behind him, a string quartet played on, rap-tap-tapping drums carrying its members toward a big finale. Before him, a a packed Lyric Hall was rising to its feet, audience members old and young bobbing to R.E.M. as he jumped off the stage and into a frenzied, lovable sort of mosh-pit-meets-dance-hall.
Barbara Marks‘s new paintings are attired in bright, warm colors and shapes that seem to invite you into the room to hear what they’re saying to each other.
She has an idea what they’re chattering about, but she’s not about to tell you. That’s your job.
A driver failed to heed a cop at a traffic stop — and subsequently crashed into another driver’s car, causing a busy intersection to close for five hours.
For the fourth year, the officers from the Westville/West Hills district celebrated the first day of school by inviting kids to the neighborhood substation for backpacks and pizza.
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David Sepulveda |
Aug 19, 2016 12:16 pm
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Marx, second from left, at opening night.
Ten volunteers came to Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery Thursday night not to look at art, but to practice the art of persuasion on behalf of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Tonight, there was plenty of art to see and lots of enthusiasm among the ten volunteers that showed up at the gallery for what New Haven ward alder (26) Darryl Brackeen Jr. described as a “virtual phone bank.”
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Aug 16, 2016 12:13 pm
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The trumpets and saxes for Funky Dawgz Brass Band swung into their sound check on the lawn of Mitchell Library before the trombones even arrived. About 15 seconds into it, one of the bone players strolled up, calmly took his horn out of its case, assumed his position in the band, and came in hot, sounding like he’d arrived right when he was supposed to.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Aug 10, 2016 3:56 pm
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A new raised obstruction slows a Chapel Street motorist.
Instead of zooming by as usual, drivers approached with caution a new square island in the middle of the street just a few feet away from the intersection of Chapel Street at Alden Avenue.
That new driving pattern is just what the city’s engineer, traffic chief and nearby neighbors had in mind.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Aug 8, 2016 8:11 am
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Dakoulas with designs allegedly taken by Zara’s.
Dakoulas’ post last week.
Alex Dakoulas recognized the cursive letters outlined in orange and blue on major clothing retailer Wet Seal’s website, and realized: his store had been ripped off.
Wet Seal was selling an iron-on patch that used the exact design of independent artist Vaughn Fender — an exclusive design found only at Dakoulas’ store Strange Ways in Westville.
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David Sepulveda |
Jul 21, 2016 2:53 pm
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Corsillo with YUGE!
Design Monsters’ George Corsillo, a self-described “font freak,” has earned a book jacket design credit for “YUGE!” (30 Years of Doonesbury on Trump), a timely new anthology by nationally syndicated Doonesbury cartoon creator and Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Trudeau.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 15, 2016 7:48 am
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John Harris and Laura Barr beside Debbie Hesse’s “Alcove,” plexi, color gels, mylar.
Eighteen of New Haven’s most newly married couples are not only getting along great — they’re also willing to open up and tell you the secret of their happy pairings.
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David Sepulveda |
Jul 7, 2016 8:33 am
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Detail of the 150-foot mural by Faring Purth.
A group of children skip along the image of an elongated, reclining figure, as if swept up by a magical energy field. The process of discovery leads them past swirling lines trailing from mandala-like starbursts, part of the internal galaxy that animates “Marielle” — as in, the light of Marielle, a new mural and the latest installation in a series of recent public art works commissioned by Westville Village Renaissance Alliance (WVRA).
