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Brian Slattery |
Jul 7, 2022 8:51 am
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Susan Clinard
Missing the Mark.
Susan Clinard’s sculptures are an exercise in extreme empathy, even as Missingthe Mark represents something more complex as well. It’s hard not to feel the pull of judgment in the juxtaposition of the crying face of the baby, who just needs some attention, with the blank faces of everyone else, staring at their screens. But in a broader sense, they’re all victims, of a specific mode of modernity we’re told we want. Clinard’s pieces forces us to look at ourselves, too. Are you reading these words on your phone right now? What are you missing around you?
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 22, 2022 9:52 am
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Leek chard fatayer made by Sanctuary Kitchen
Could 4,000-year-old recipes translate into a feast to tantalize the tastebuds of today’s dining aficionado? At the hands of chefs from New Haven’s own Sanctuary Kitchen, it turns out they more than satisfied. Around 30 diners gathered atRAWA Tuesday night for an International Festival of Arts and Ideas event where a three-course meal prepared by Sanctuary Kitchen was presented in conjunction with Yale Peabody Museum, inspired by writings from tablets that are a part of their Babylonian collection.
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Courtney Luciana |
Jun 17, 2022 9:11 am
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Lisa Saunders.
Lisa Saunders was working out at Edgewood Park early to get her morning calisthenics reps in using the playground as her personal gym before starting the rest of the day.
Saunders used to weigh 400 pounds and now guides other people of color in weight loss based on her personal experience while taking part in an overeaters anonymous group.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 16, 2022 5:06 pm
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Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects rendering
Two new apartment buildings and an office-to-residential conversion planned for 446A Blake St.
A plan to build another 144 new apartments in Westville Village moved ahead, amidst praise for a densifying west side and concerns about pedestrian safety on Blake Street.
A Branford-based developer working with local real estate investors plans to knock down two Westville commercial buildings — including a long-vacant and blighted structure at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Fitch Street — and construct in their stead 245 new riverfront apartments.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jun 14, 2022 11:19 am
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Kids' class at Westville Performing Arts Center.
Friends Latisha Douglas and Samantha Williams brought their children to violin lessons. They waved goodbye to their budding musicians — then, instead of heading home or out for errands, they went down the hallway, into another classroom, for a contemporary dance class.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 9, 2022 5:02 pm
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Darryl Brackeen and Pat Dillon.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. won’t be mounting a Democratic primary challenge for a state representative seat after all, but he’s still eyeing the seat. He is now turning his campaign sights to November, after failing to gather enough qualified petition signatures to force an August Democratic primary against State Rep. Pat Dillon.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 7, 2022 8:52 am
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Stephen Julien and cast.
The band room at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School was full of students getting into their costumes, changing into sailors and spirits, monsters and magicians. They donned robes and fixed their crowns of flowers, then congregated onstage.
“How does everyone feel in their costumes?” asked co-director Justin Pesce.
“Good,” said one student. “Hot,” said another. If they were all still wearing masks due to Covid concerns, it was a detail; what mattered was that, after two years, Mauro Sheridan was mounting its 2022 production of The Tempest, in collaboration with Elm Shakespare Company, in person.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 6, 2022 3:00 pm
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Monica and Andy Schlessinger: thankful for Chapel Haven.
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Chapel Haven crew sings National Anthem on Saturday.
Earth science and basketball classes. Volunteering in the community. And independent living for residents with developmental disabilities.
Mother-son duo Monica and Andy Schlessinger singled out those as just a few of the many highlights of the Chapel Haven Schleifer Center (CHSC) — which celebrated its 50th anniversary in Westville.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 3, 2022 9:07 am
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A cluster of paintings on the wall of the gallery all border a central piece, as if feeding it, which in a sense they do. The central piece holds the others together. In it, a yard bordered by trees is the site of some kind of excavation, roped off. Something is being unearthed there, the ruins of a house, or something still older, maybe. But instead of a crew with tools, the only animals in sight are a cardinal and a bluejay, watching over the proceedings in a moment that’s both funny and a little magical, a flight of fancy on the part of the artist, though very much grounded in reality.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 2, 2022 9:48 am
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Concrete Creations crew at work Wednesday.
Park regulars keep eye on renovations by the "Lyin' Tree."
As a crew repainted the fencing of Edgewood Park’s tennis courts, park regulars like Byron Breland, Ernest Newton, Billy Bostic, and Kerry Ellington watched from a distance cheering on long-awaited renovations to one of New Haven’s communal gems.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 16, 2022 8:25 am
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Amira and Iman Brown display their art and artistic flair.
ArtWalk brought the heat, both literally and figuratively, to Westville Saturday as outdoor vendors, neighborhood businesses, and a variety of activities in Edgewood Park energized and elated the village and its visitors.
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Laura Glesby |
May 11, 2022 1:29 pm
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One recent Wednesday morning, before arriving to Whalley Avenue to open his pharmacy business for a day, Victor Fok drove to a patient’s house to teach them how to test their blood sugar levels, free of charge.
At Fok’s previous job at a large corporate pharmacy chain, he would never have had the time and incentive to prioritize patient education. Now, as a co-owner of the recently-opened True-Care Pharmacy in the Amity neighborhood, Fok and his team hope to reach community members where they live with personally-delivered prescriptions, immunizations, and education initiatives.
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Brian Slattery |
May 4, 2022 8:57 am
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When sibling rivalry becomes a little too hostile. When a puppeteer’s puppet refuses to cooperate. When a threesome collides with the cheerful aesthetic of a Disney movie. These and many other wonderfully absurd scenarios were mined for laughter by The Regicides on Tuesday evening, kicking off a week of ArtWalk programming in Westville.
Knights of Columbus units at Sunday's celebration.
When the apostles sent out their nets at the shore of Lake Tiberias, according to the Book of John -– ultimately a metaphor to become “fishers of men” –- there were no real ichthyological prey to be caught. When they came to believe and to give witness, then they filled their nets. And, thanks to God, there was a big catch.
That was the apt homily for how to keep rebuilding the Catholic community in Westville and the heart of the message of Archbishop Leonard Blair as he celebrated mass in front of 200 of the faithful on the occasion of Westville’s St. Aedan’s and St. Brendan Parish’s main building’s 100th anniversary.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 29, 2022 1:08 pm
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Aaron Goode and Caleb Kleppner help guide straw poll.
Westville Dems line up "Iowa Caucus"-style for Erick Russell.
An Iowa Caucus-type event in Westville offered a preview of next week’s Democratic Party state convention, as Erick Russell and Matt Lesser won landslide victories in a ranked-choice-vote straw poll held among nearly two dozen Westville Democrats.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 28, 2022 8:35 am
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Frank Bruckmann
Skull Right.
A skull is so synonymous with death that our brains make it into a cliché, but Frank Bruckmann’s painting gets us to look through the symbol to the object itself — the shapes of the teeth, the perhaps unexpected delicacy of the animal’s cheekbone and jawbone. Bruckmann is, in short, inviting us to slow down.
Together again, at last. From left, Suzanne, Farah, Haitham (grandson), Lamese, Aboudi, Shiyam, Haitham (grandfather), Leila, and Wesam.
The long road from New Haven to the old industrial city of Erie, Pennsylvania, passes through Danbury, Binghamton, Damascus, Homs, Tripoli, Beirut, Chicago, and finally to the shore of the Great Lake that Erie is named after.
At least that’s the route we took in our minds when we undertook a ten-hour drive to, at last, meet the whole family of Haitham Dalati and Shiyam Daghestani, for whom, under the auspices of IRIS, we had helped ease their transition from the Syrian civil war to life in New Haven.
They agreed that Connecticut’s investments need bigger returns — and they each argued they were the best person to make that happen. The three candidates suddenly vying for the Democrats’ state treasurer nomination this year showed New Haven Democrats last night that what differentiates them is not politics — but what each of their individual qualifications say about their capacity to best serve in the position.
Sai Reddy and Lucille Alouah: Operation Save Our Mailbox.
Lucille Alouah believes a neighborhood should have a library and an accessible postal mailbox — and she’s fighting to keep both in her pocket of Westville.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 31, 2022 9:14 am
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Matthew Garrett
Acorn.
It’s just a picture of an acorn, but the lens makes all the difference. Under Matthew Garrett’s eye — and, apparently, his phone — the seed becomes a landscape of detail. The bed that it lies on brims with life. It’s a study of an intricate surface we don’t pay attention to very often, but given its subject, it’s also an image about possibility, the chance for vast growth.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 27, 2022 5:02 pm
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Rabbi Ravid Tilles, at right, presents prayer shawl to BEKI Rabbi Eric Woodward at Sunday's ceremony.
As we emerge –- we dearly hope -– from a mask-filled pandemic, one of the most important values to which we aspire is seeing and being seen, in the fullest spiritual sense.
