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Lisa Reisman | Jan 6, 2025 9:23 am
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Under the bright lights of the Floyd Little Athletic Center, shoes squeaked on hardwood. Bodies collided and scrambled for loose balls. The 800 people in the stands groaned over every missed jumper.
The scintillating affair, between the Hillhouse High School Academics and the New London Whalers, was just one matchup in the annual Robert Saulsbury Basketball Invitational.
It’s a great time to be a banana peel in New Haven — as the city has installed three new public composting bins as part of a pilot program to help divert food scraps from the landfill.
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Thomas Breen | Jan 3, 2025 12:11 pm
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A Brooklyn-based landlord has purchased a 112-room extended-stay hotel on Long Wharf for $15 million — and plans to convert the property into apartments.
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Thomas Breen | Jan 2, 2025 1:26 pm
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Army Reserve veteran David Germaine took a break from applying for jobs Thursday morning to stand alongside the top Democrat on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee — at a Hill press conference celebrating a bipartisan funding boost designed to help keep a roof over the heads of homeless vets like Germaine.
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Nora Grace-Flood, Jamil Ragland, Sarah Bass and Alicia Chesser | Jan 2, 2025 9:28 am
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Baby-boomer critics have spent the past week reliving halcyon memories and lauding the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown. It turns out that critics born long after Bob Dylan exploded popular culture and released generation-defining music have their own takes on the film, which adopts an historical fiction approach to capturing the moment when the folkie plugged in and blasted “Like A Rolling Stone” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Then there are years marked by someone like IfeMichelle Gardin, who in 2024 “exposed the questions that the answers hide” — as artists do, according to James Baldwin.
Gardin is authoring a new chapter of New Haven’s literary history in the form of Kulturally Lit, an organization that blossomed over the past year during what would have been James Baldwin’s 100th year of life.
(Updated with sales data through 12/31) Two of the city’s largest landlords unloaded a combined 191 New Haven apartment buildings containing 594 rental units for more than $79 million this year — as a wide array of different buyers, new homeowners and out-of-town investors alike, moved in to fill the void.
When the city unveiled a proposal to build a fountain and a “children’s garden” on the upper half of the New Haven Green, Nicholas Mignanelli had a question: What about the eight to ten thousand people buried inches beneath the ground?
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Brian Slattery | Dec 23, 2024 9:33 am
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In a restaurant, art about environmental catastrophe. A music show in a bike shop. A tap-dancing demonstration in a bakery. A full-fledged musical in a transformed gymnasium. An opera in a museum.
From large, multi-organization efforts to team-ups between artists and local businesses, in 2024 New Haven saw a lot more collaborations across its arts scene.
Board of Education President Yesenia Rivera was interested in serving another four-year term on the school board — but the mayor decided otherwise, so now she’s getting ready to leave.
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Brian Slattery | Dec 20, 2024 10:01 am
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Donato Biceglia of Dual Stage Amplification has been making and repairing amplifiers, guitar pickups, pedals, and other music gear for years out of his Erector Square space. He’s expanding his business now by rolling out a couple new pedals, among them a compressor and a phaser, all embedded with New Haven-specific messages burned right onto the circuit boards he uses for his gear.
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Nathaniel Rosenberg | Dec 19, 2024 5:40 pm
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Tiny footprints in concrete and a “Daily knock” at the door helped bring Daily Jackson’s memory to life Thursday morning at a crowded funeral service for the 17-year-old Riverside student who was shot and killed in Newhallville earlier this month.