Austin Hits New Haven City Limits
by | Nov 11, 2013 6:08 pm | Comments (1)
In the cozy confines of a restored old Vaudeville theater, New Haven got a taste of what a hipper town’s music sounds like.
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BettySoo’s Back
by | Nov 8, 2013 2:31 pm | Comments (0)
On a weekend when a longtime star guitarist and songwriter hits the Shubert (Elivs Costello), an up-and-coming singer-songwriter hits Westville for a return engagement in a more intimate setting.
Voters Choose Among Crowded Culinary Field
by | Nov 5, 2013 5:03 pm | Comments (2)
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Edgweood students Roger Baldwin, Sinead Donnelly, and Kira Turlington moderate the soup station.
Part way through Election Day, the white bean chili and Georgia-Hot, shrimp & rice soup were battling for first place in the hotly contested election for top parent-baked soup.
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Fit To Be Stripped
by | Nov 4, 2013 9:35 am | Comments (4)
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A group of tire thieves hit a new neighborhood, as owners of two Hondas in Westville awoke Sunday to find all their wheels and tires missing.
Commute Home Ends With Gunpoint Bike-Grab
by | Nov 1, 2013 5:07 pm | Comments (20)
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Dusk was settling in as Bela rode her bike home from work through Edgewood Park on Halloween night. A gunman hid in the shadows.
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At 90, “Emerging” Poet Rocks Mitchell
by | Nov 1, 2013 12:25 pm | Comments (1)
She exercises on the treadmill every day. She writes about it in verse that has nabbed her an award as an “emerging poet.”
Oh, and she’s 90 years old.
Libertarian Candidate Calls For More Guns
by | Oct 31, 2013 12:23 pm | Comments (13)
A last-minute Westville aldermanic candidate proposed a fix for New Haven’s street violence: take more young people to the gun range, and help them get more guns.
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Rock Opera’s Creator Rolls The Dice
by | Oct 31, 2013 11:40 am | Comments (0)
When the nameless Card Player takes on Lucifer at poker and actually wins the big pot — the ability to succeed at anything he desires — you’d think there’d be a happy ending to an original rock opera debuting on Halloween night.
Think again.
Westville Gets A Last-Minute Race
by | Oct 23, 2013 4:31 pm | Comments (38)
Michael Pinto has already achieved two milestones in his sudden run for office: becoming the last candidate to enter a race for alderman this year, and the hardest one to vote for.
Art Explorers Arrive By Bus And Bicycle
by | Oct 22, 2013 11:39 am | Comments (4)
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Bus tour meets bike tour at West Cove Studio and Gallery.
Sometimes, getting to a destination can be as much fun as the destination itself.
“The ride was already awesome before I got to the first gallery” said Margaret Middleton, one of 27 bicyclists who pedaled to various galleries and art studios around the city during Artspace’s second week of City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) events.
Harp Gets 60 Days To Make Repairs
by | Oct 18, 2013 5:26 pm | Comments (24)
The city’s building official paid a visit to the home of mayoral candidate Toni Harp Thursday and gave her son a two-month deadline to complete “minor” repairs and obtain a permanent certificate of occupancy.
Bus Tour “Reveals” Flourishing Community Gardens
by | Oct 9, 2013 1:20 pm | Comments (6)
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A coach bus arrives at Westville’s Stone Hearth Restaurant to begin the tour.
A sparkling white coach bus from New Haven Land Trust’s “Habitat, Harvest, and Happy Hour Benefit Bus Tour” ambled down Newhallville streets. At the head of the bus, Stacy Spell, a former New Haven homicide detective with microphone in hand, described how some of the streets and corners were once breeding grounds for crime, consumed in drugs and violence.
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Bike Helmets Did Their Job
by | Oct 3, 2013 2:09 pm | Comments (11)
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Word spread fast when a stop sign-running driver crashed into Rebecca Weiner’s bicycle — and neighbors flew to the scene.
Edgewood Park “Take-Back” Begins
by | Oct 2, 2013 12:07 pm | Comments (16)
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Willie Hoffman lays out the plan.
Edgewood Park’s natural splendor helped draw Juliet Avelin’s family to leave Vermont’s green mountains and relocate in New Haven’s Westville neighborhood. Then the news of an assault made her family start avoiding the park.
On Tuesday, she and her neighbors began the process of taking the park back.
“No More Children Living in Fear”
by | Oct 2, 2013 8:20 am | Comments (6)
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Russell, at left, was joined with, among others, mayoral candidate Toni Harp, at right.
A newly created public safety commission. A manual of police tips, in print and on line, to frustrate robbers in stores and protect employees. And a standing community fund instantly available to aid victims of violence.
Amid Fernandez Fans, Elicker Sticks To Message
by | Sep 30, 2013 3:49 pm | Comments (15)
A one-time lion’s den became a room of new opportunity for independent mayoral candidate Justin Elicker.
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Ka-Thunk, Ka-Thunk!
by | Sep 27, 2013 12:03 pm | Comments (10)
Deb Lovely asked the city for speed humps to stop cars from blasting down her street. She had no idea what she was signing up for.
“I Heart New Haven” Hits A Wall
by | Sep 18, 2013 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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“Nathan Hale Park.”
The duck pond. The lighthouse. The great Rocks. Not to mention the Green, students and sledders, taxi drivers, and the view out to the harbor from Nathan Hale Park.
These New Haven images converge on a wall in Westville, in a new exhibit born on the web.
Burger King Manager Shot
by | Sep 16, 2013 8:49 am | Comments (6)
Two armed men in dark clothing robbed a Burger King manager some time before 9:30 p.m. Sunday, and one of them shot her in the legs before leaving.
B&W And Color Duel at Kehler Liddell
by | Sep 6, 2013 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
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In 1973, when Sven Martson photographed this blissed-out fellow and the other New Yorkers in “Hare Krishna,” there were far fewer cameras following our daily movements. So no one seemed to mind a photographer doing “street work.”
Not so any more in the era of mobile camera phones, the NSA, and the new culture of omnipresent surveillance.
He Drives To Paint
by | Sep 5, 2013 12:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Ferguson from his driver’s — & artist’s — perch.
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Ferguson’s small oil on canvas, “Sol de Cuba.”
Chris Ferguson parked his Yale Transit shuttle bus right across from the colorful and aromatic line-up of food carts on Cedar Street. That gave him an idea, a big idea, for his next series of oil paintings.
Campaign Notebook: No One’s Fessing Up
by | Aug 28, 2013 8:06 am | Comments (16)
A push-poller from an outfit called National Opinion Research called some voters at home Monday night to trash mayoral candidate Toni Harp. Who could have hired the trash-talker?
Fernandez, Harp Differ On Proposed Pension Fix
by | Aug 27, 2013 1:38 pm | Comments (31)
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Harp, Fernandez.
Henry Fernandez suggested a way to defuse New Haven’s pension ticking “time bomb”: convince the city, the state, and government workers to cooperate on a rescue plan. Toni Harp called Fernandez’s plan “sophomoric”; even if it made sense, she argued, he couldn’t pull it off.
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1 cmpgn stop, rv vu
by | Aug 26, 2013 12:09 pm | Comments (10)
Paul Ondrejka’s take on the West River.
Campaigning in Westville, Toni Harp came across one of her favorite New Haven scenes — on a wall.
Carolina Touts Hillhouse Progress
by | Aug 26, 2013 9:10 am | Comments (20)
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Carolina greets guests to a backyard campaign event Sunday evening.
Not only are more students reaching graduation at Hillhouse High School; they are also staying in college longer.