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Dec 8, 2015 5:19 pm
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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.
WNHH radio’s shows todays featured discussions about federal drug and corruption investigations, how New Haveners are using poetry as a platform for social change, and a new book club suggestion.
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Lucy Gellman |
Nov 13, 2015 1:41 pm
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The last time artist Mohamad Hafez was in Damascus, waiting on a visa application that ultimately took a month and a half, it was 2011. The city was still standing strong, and he had a kind of trick. When time stopped each afternoon — the result of a long, large midday meal that ended in a city-wide siesta — he would walk the old city, taking in its Roman arches and the Great Mosque of the Umayyads, listening to birdsong and breath fuse with the daily call to prayer, and sitting in coffee shops with his new iPhone flat on the table, recording conversations quirky and banal alike. Born in Syria, raised in Saudi Arabia, and educated largely in the United States, the self-described “Midwesterner” cherished these snippets of speech, conversations between neighbors, friends and family in a language for which he had been deeply homesick.
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Nov 5, 2015 7:23 am
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It was 1987. In New York City, the AIDS epidemic was taking hold of a population, St. Mark’s Place and Tompkins Square Park were hotbeds of iniquity, and “straight edge” had emerged as a subculture of hardcore punk, one that counterintuitively required its adherents to abstain from eating meat, having sex, and doing drugs.
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Lucy Gellman |
Oct 29, 2015 12:14 pm
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Perhaps best known for his book Bad Paper and work in the New Yorker, including a recent in-depth profile of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, East Rock author Jake Halpern wears another hat: Young Adult (YA) novelist with friend and colleague Peter Kujawinski, a U.S. diplomat during the day and fiction writer by night. Their most recent novel, Nightfall, debuts across the country this month, and will enjoy a local homecoming Thursday night at Worthington Hooker Middle School on Whitney Avenue.
Judge Clarence Jones found a way to clue the public in on the drama he witnessed behind the closed doors of juvenile court — by changing the names of the guilty, and throwing in a mob hit.
The first time Faye Saxon Horton read the Book Of Esther, she was struck immediately by a certain something. It wasn’t just Esther’s strong, sometimes steely presence before king Ahasuerus as she made an appeal to save her race. Or the way she worked, grace under pressure, when her older cousin Mordecai informed her of a nefarious plot to massacre the Jews. It was the dignity with which she led by example, and the relevancy for young woman that she saw. That gut feeling that something was inherently right about it ultimately led her to write Decisions of Life: From the Book of Esther, published in 2015.
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Oct 14, 2015 4:10 pm
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Joining me in the studio for a special free-form edition of “At The Moment” on WNHH radio was guest Caleb Hamptom, a traveler, writer and reader originally from Davis, California.
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Every man, Portuguese chef David Leite says, has an origin story, and every hog does too. In the Azores, from where his family hails, one pig will feed a family for weeks — because it has to.
Step one. Accept yourself entirely. Take the extra weight, the added baggage, the laugh lines and baggy eyes, the guilt of past mistakes, and take one good hard look at it in the mirror.
Step two. Forgive the people who have hurt you. And for goodness sakes, forgive yourself.
Step three. Heal. Heal right now and heal entirely, because you won’t be able to accomplish anything if you do.
If you have a hankering to travel back to the counter-cultural press and its close connections with Donovan, Dylan, Moon Dog and other music figures of the late 1960s, click on the audio file below for the latest episode of “This Day In New Haven History” on WNHH radio.
Fact: New Haven is a racially divided city. White and Asian-American families in the city statistically have been able to pass wealth to members hurt by the recession, while black and Hispanic families have not … because they don’t have as much wealth to pass.
Up for debate: Whether New Haveners are willing to engage in a genuine conversation about it.
City transit chief Doug Hausladen looks forward to the day when property owners to come to him asking for bus shelters, seeing them as an asset and not a liability.
In the 20 years since he began practicing law in Connecticut, Gerry Giaimo has witnessed major changes in the life of Connecticut law firms, including the closing of Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn LLP, in 2008 and the opening of Halloran & Sage’s New Haven offices in 2011.
Giaimo pressed for a New Haven office because so many of the firm’s attorneys were commuting long hours even though they lived in the New Haven area. Starting as a young associate, Giaimo, now a partner in his law firm has witnessed major changes in law firm life. The younger lawyers, he said, are trying to change entrenched habits of law firms, from work schedules, to dress codes, to a desire for a different lifestyle. All issues still in transition, he said.
José Oyola doesn’t mess around with his music. Instilled with melody and harmony from a young age, he began performing n English and Spanish early in his musical career, and has had enough success with it to be in the midst of finishing up and promoting his sophomore album, Hologram, before it debuts later this fall.
Eugene Driscoll has had a heck of a week. And it isn’t even halfway over. Monday morning, he kicked it off by breaking the news of a homicide across the WNHH airwaves, in between retelling the story of totaling his beloved PT Cruiser.
