by | Mar 17, 2016 4:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Boyarksy (at right below) failed to win approval — yet — for his mulching operation (above).
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One frail 77-year-old neighbor said he hasn’t been able to open his windows in three years. Another, with asthma, said she loves her home on Blake Street but may be forced to leave.
by | Mar 14, 2016 12:03 pm | Comments (2)
Artist Photo
“Tomlinson Bridge.”
For more than a decade David Ottenstein has been looping around the Midwest and the South before returning home to New Haven. Everywhere he makes disturbingly beautiful photographs of broken buildings, abandoned industrial sites, savaged farm land, the undersides of overpasses, real bridges or piers that seem like moody stage sets left behind after an evacuation, and other de-peopled landscapes of abandonment, where the human touch is felt primarily by its neglect or absence.
Now the human beings are about to make a comeback.
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“Tomlinson Bridge.”
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But for now broken landscapes reign at David Ottenstein’s new show.
by | Mar 14, 2016 7:40 am | Comments (4)
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Fekieta pitches his plan.
Joe Fekieta offered an idea for how he and his Hill neighbors can spend a $10,000 windfall from City Hall. The idea starts with a little R‑E-S-P-E-C‑T.
by | Mar 8, 2016 8:24 am | Comments (9)
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James Street developersSalinas and O’Brien, at right, with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes and City Hall’s Matt Smith Monday night.
The Board of Alders gave final approval to a deal to transform the defunct CT Transit bus garage on James Street, and it gave the OK for the city to accept a $1.2 million grant to advance bike ridership on the west side of town.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK “DISTRICT” Deal, Cycle Corridor’
by | Mar 7, 2016 1:25 pm | Comments (4)
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911 Whalley now has a Coffee Pedaler and studios for artists like Violet Harlow (inset).
Westville’s reputation as an emerging arts district and destination has taken a step forward with the introduction of West River Arts, a new cluster of art studios and sister project of The Range at Lotta Studios.
Continue reading ‘Westville Village Gets Java, Artist Infusion’
by | Feb 26, 2016 8:08 am | Comments (2)
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Pellegrino.
“I write for whites. Black people already know the problem,” states New Haven author and attorney Robert L. Pellegrino in the introduction of his self-published new book, I See Color: Identifying, Understanding and Reducing Our Hidden Racism.
by | Feb 23, 2016 8:25 am | Comments (0)
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Fussiner and Freidelaender get serious with the peanut butter.
On any given weekend, Angus Fussiner and his dad, Saul, dive into a suite of activities — soccer, jujitsu — laced with an almost rhythmic routine and social aspect that helps seven-year-old Angus, who is on the Aspergian end of the autism spectrum, get to know other kids his age in safe and comfortable settings.
Last Saturday was different. Holding a soft, stretchy pink toy meant to quell stress through sensory pleasure, Angus sat at a table at Chapel Haven, spreading peanut butter on a pinecone with almost surgical precision. At his right, Linda Freidelaender, senior curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art, took a big whiff, smiling at the scent as Fussiner continued his quest to coat the cone, which he planned to cover in birdseed once all sides were sticky.
by | Feb 16, 2016 1:01 pm | Comments (4)
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Clinard at her exhibit opening.
“Filtering Noise,” Susan Clinard’s solo, mixed-media sculpture exhibit at Westville’s Da Silva Gallery until March 2, is a testament to the artist’s restless and sensitive spirit and “reflects the challenge,” she said, “of keeping myself inspired each and every day.”
Continue reading ‘Artist Filters Noise and Channels Spirits’
by | Feb 11, 2016 5:04 pm | Comments (9)
Pastor, at left, pitches neighbors Wednesday night.
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345 McKinley Ave.
A former home to Catholic nuns in Westville could become a home to “new urbanites” looking to give up big homes in the ‘burbs for city living.
by | Feb 11, 2016 4:56 pm | Comments (0)
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“Blockhead Otters.”
Forget those pulsating red hearts, those shiny diamond rings, the giant glistening chocolates, and all the broad-brush emotion and extravagant color of traditional Valentine’s Day contemporary iconography.
Continue reading ‘Westville Gallery Celebrates Valentines Day With “Couples”’
by | Feb 11, 2016 4:54 pm | Comments (0)
Contributed photo.
Westville’s Lyric Hall will stage a world premiere Friday, as literature, music and history come together to celebrate the legacy of Broadway composers George Gershwin and Kay Swift in “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” a theatrical concert that will highlight composer George Gershwin’s romance with Broadway composer Kay Swift and some of the landmark musical hits they produced.
by | Feb 10, 2016 9:00 am | Comments (16)
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Furlow: Glad to see project advance.
CVS got over one of the first hurdles to setting up a new store on the corner of Whalley Avenue and Dayton Street, with City Hall finally on board for the ride.
by | Feb 8, 2016 8:39 am | Comments (0)
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Contributed photo of Pierre Lallement.
Pierre Lallement, who invented the precursor to today’s modern bicycle, would most likely be thrilled with how New Haven’s cycling culture has evolved since April 4,1866, when he pedaled his invention from Ansonia to the New Haven Green and into the the annals of cycling history.
by | Jan 22, 2016 8:12 am | Comments (0)
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Sylvia Heart.
Sylvia Heart was rocking it at center stage, squaring a yellow-bustiered chest toward the audience as Pink’s “This Used to Be A Fun House”, came fabulously to life, blaring through the speakers.
by | Jan 21, 2016 3:44 pm | Comments (10)
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Marchand: Westville’s “happy about this project, I can tell you.”
Plans to tame high-volume Whalley Avenue traffic that hurries through the center of Westville Village have moved forward by receiving a key approval, as did plans for separated west side bike lanes to downtown.
Continue reading ‘Car-Calming, Cycletrack Nearer To Fruition’
by | Jan 21, 2016 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
UI plans to have power returned to the homes of some 1,700 west side New Haveners by 2:15 p.m., according to company spokesman Mike Foley.
by | Jan 11, 2016 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
“Almond Trees, Judean Hills,” oil on canvas.
Deconstruction and then reconstruction — that process comes into play whether you’re making a medical diagnosis, putting oil paint on canvas, or writing poetry.
Continue reading ‘Cardiologist Takes Painting & Poetry To Heart’
by | Jan 7, 2016 9:00 am | Comments (23)
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Proposed Edgewood lanes.
State money may be on the way to help New Haven offer a protected bike commute from the west side of town.
by | Jan 5, 2016 1:28 pm | Comments (5)
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Swoon’s latest.
Even when the sun is not shining, there are shadows: Wheels, spokes, and unmistakable shapes of bike frames that seem to be cast by colorful light, stretch across the sidewalk just outside Westville’s Manjares Restaurant. They’ve inspired many a double-take at the base of a yarn-bombed, U‑style bike rack — especially when no bikes are parked.
by | Dec 17, 2015 2:38 pm | Comments (10)
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Klee, Hausladen, and Heitman give the Volt a jolt.
Starting today you can not only charge those holiday presents at the boutiques in Westville Village — you can charge your car, too.
by | Dec 15, 2015 3:16 pm | Comments (0)
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To the extent that Cyclo-cross racers live to race in challenging conditions, Sunday’s 2015 Elm City CX Finale race at Edgewood Park, could not have been more different from last year’s inaugural race, when snow squalls covered trails and riders reveled in the extra challenging conditions.
Continue reading ‘300 Cyclocross Racers Navigate Formidable Course’
by | Dec 14, 2015 8:25 am | Comments (0)
Shane McLellan Photo
On the eighth night of Hanukkah, when it appeared that no new surprises could be found on this miracle-themed holiday, this picture materialized.
by | Dec 8, 2015 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
David Sepulveda Photo
Before his choice to leave the New York gallery scene for timid one in New Haven, before he purchased the Frame Shop in 2002 to turn it into The Frame Shop & Westville Gallery, and certainly before he was informally crowned the unofficial “mayor of Westville,” Gabriel Da Silva was a 17 year-old Uruguayan immigrant working odd jobs in New Haven to “make ends meet” as he, his parents and three siblings sought to put a life under rotating military dictatorships in Montevideo behind them.
He was homesick, and working hard, and not entirely sure what the future would hold.
by | Dec 3, 2015 4:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Grant Hill, a senior on the Hopkins Varsity Wrestling team, practices his wrestling technique.
The rumble of wrestling shoes against mats and cement floors blended with wrestlers’ heavy breathing. “Levels!” yelled Hopkins School varsity wrestling coach Adam Sperling. Sixteen high-school wrestlers clapped in unison, lowering their wrestling stance, and turned to face the opposite direction.
Continue reading ‘Wrestlers Aim High As New Season Approaches’
by | Dec 1, 2015 1:20 pm | Comments (1)
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The co-work space at Lotta Studio.
Family and art. Family and art. Family and art. In talking to Mistina Hanscom, it’s a phrase that came up again and again.
“Do you want to go to art school? Come talk to us first,” she said.
She and her husband Luke are establishing The Range at Lotta Studio, a collective photography studio in Westville.
Continue reading ‘The Range At Lotta Studios Lights Up Westville’