by | Sep 16, 2019 12:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Pampita connecting with some Argentine pups.
Local dog lover Mark Winik found himself in Argentina, pitching the assistant to the president of the country’s premier filmmaking society on a documentary he wanted to make about the special relationship between people and pups in Buenos Aires.
Continue reading ‘Dog Doc Highlights Human-Canine Connection’
by | Aug 16, 2019 12:56 pm | Comments (6)
There once was a boy named Abdul. He loved to read books.
He noticed that he almost never saw someone who looked like him in those books.
by | Jul 24, 2019 12:45 pm | Comments (1)
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City Librarian Martha Brogan.
Martha Brogan will step down as the head of the New Haven Free Public Library in October after helping the local system win the highest national award available for libraries that provide “exceptional contributions to their communities.”
by | Jun 21, 2019 3:34 pm | Comments (8)
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Josh & DT, 2 of 14 contributors to “New Haven and Yale.”
When decision time came this week about whether to allow a youth homeless facility to open on Grand Avenue, neighbors and policymakers had a lot to say on the subject. DT did too.
by | May 28, 2019 3:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Art Tyson in action.
One white player thought because Arthur Tyson is African-American, he must have a tail.
When Tyson beat white players at a tournament in Virginia, the championship trophy mysteriously would disappear. The $250 winner’s check could not be found
None of that deterred “the champ.” Because Tyson, born and bred in the old Elm Haven projects, was determined to become the greatest black horseshoe player in the world. And he made it, coming in second three times in the world championships.
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MakeHaven Facilitator Clancy Emanual and Kirsten Levinsohn of New Haven Reads with Victoria Smith of New Haven Read.
A team of 13 dedicated volunteers gathered at MakeHaven with MakeHaven’s woodshop facilitators to build 6 “Help Your Shelves” — free book boxes that will be installed around New Haven.
Continue reading ‘“Help Your Shelves” Project Builds Literacy Access’
by | May 7, 2019 5:26 pm | Comments (3)
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The New Haven Free Public Library has won the National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the highest honor a library can win for “exceptional contributions to their communities.”
by | May 7, 2019 4:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Lary Bloom with his new biography of LeWitt.
Sol LeWitt was so self-effacing that when an Italian magazine asked him for a picture, he sent a photograph of his dog.
His colorful geometric drawings take up the walls of an entire 27,000 square foot factory building, comprise the longest-running temporary exhibition in American art history, going on for 25 years. But it may well be painted over or destroyed, like a Tibetan sand mandala, when the show concludes.
by | Mar 6, 2019 8:40 am | Comments (3)
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New Haven felt a little closer to New Orleans Tuesday night as revelers converged on Mitchell Library during the annual Mardi Gras fundraising celebration for the New Haven Free Public Library.
by | Mar 1, 2019 1:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Elizabeth Bickley with one of her finds.
A poet picked up a copy of a periodical called Pagany, from the long ago summer of 1930, headlined by verses from William Carlos Williams, for just three bucks.
A Southern philosophy professor, on the prowl for Asian cookbooks, stumbled on Martin Heidegger’s tome about Asian philosophy.
And Elizabeth Bickley, a public space designer, found a Gerard Manley Hopkins, a prose book by W.H. Auden, a collection of poetry by Charles Wright, and two translations of the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen — all for $24.99
Continue reading ‘Bibliophiles Unite At Used Bookstore’s Opening’
by | Jan 25, 2019 1:58 pm | Comments (9)
Sam Burton unpacks stock for his soon-to-open York St. bookery.
Just when you thought downtown New Haven and the environs of Yale had plenty of brain power already, more Grey Matter is on the way.
by | Jan 11, 2019 8:46 am | Comments (0)
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Geertz.
The Institute Library is changing its organizational structure as it works, at last, to address structural problems with its aging building. But everything’s going to be OK.
Continue reading ‘With New Leader, Institute Library Tackles Fiscal Challenge’
by | Jan 2, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (2)
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Pizza making at Rawa as part of “Let’s Play.”
From its art galleries to its warren of studio spaces to its live music and theater venue at Lyric Hall, “Westville is seen as an arts center in New Haven,” said Elizabeth Antle‑O’Donnell. An initiative she’s helping to build is making sure it stays that way, and grows.
Continue reading ‘Behind-Scenes Effort Guides Westville Art Scene Into 2019’
by | Oct 29, 2018 2:50 pm | Comments (1)
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Chayton Pabich Danyla as Edgar Allen Poe, Craig Henderson as a Commander from the Handmaid’s Tale, Andrea Barbelich as a handmaid, and Judy Deshpande as Anne Rica at Saturday’s party.
Centuries worth of literary and real-life New Haven characters showed up for the party — a fitting way to celebrate an indy used-bookstore that has survived tumultuous industry changes.
Continue reading ‘Booktrader Turns 20 — In Literary Costume’
by | Oct 17, 2018 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Organizers at the library opening.
This article was submitted by Bob Caplan.
The New Haven Police substation at 329 Valley St. is sandwiched between the West Hills school and the community center. And when school is closed the newest Little Free Library at the substation will still be open.
Continue reading ‘Little Free Library Comes to Valley St. Substation’
by | Jul 10, 2018 1:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Readers Marge Wiener and Spirite Watson, and Valentine Moore participating in his own way.
Spirite Watson led the way helping to read an inspirational book about a powerful hat and what it means to be a foreigner.
Jayden Bolden thought the sundaes were particularly good with chocolate sauce and a ton of sprinkles.
And Valentine Moore was so comfortable with the reading and the event, he fell fast asleep on Marge Wiener’s leg for 15 minutes.
by | Jun 27, 2018 9:25 pm | Comments (48)
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Cops stop protesters at door to “Ives Squared” opening.
Harp, Brogan, Sen. Martin Looney and Michael Morand eventually get to cut ribbon on new library cafe.
A feel-good event marking the inclusion of a coffeehouse and maker space in the public library morphed into a protest raising the question of who gets to sit in the chairs.
Continue reading ‘Protesters Crash Coffee Klatch At Library’
by | Jun 12, 2018 7:45 am | Comments (1)
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This post marks beginning end of the New Haven & Northampton Canal Greenway
Bob Madison did not know that a canal built in the 19th century had run near his childhood home in Westfield, Mass., until he became an adult. Yet he walked across what had once been a canal almost every day in high school.
Land spanning parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts has been home to the canal, a railroad, and now a paved pedestrian bike trail, the Farmington Canal trail Madison has made it his mission to disseminate the history of the canal across the two states.
by | May 14, 2018 2:59 pm | Comments (0)
When, and how best, to disrupt? Weatherman “Days of Rage,” Chicago 1969; anti-Trump march to shut down a New Haven’s Route 34 mini-highway, Feburary 2017.
Jonathan Lerner was lucky. He didn’t end up killing anybody.
Continue reading ‘Ex-Weatherman Revisits Which Way The Wind Blew’
by | Apr 30, 2018 12:18 pm | Comments (1)
Elon Trotman.
Jazz heavyweights and artistic emissaries from Africa will mix with New Haven’s finest talent at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas this year. That’s just the way Chad Herzog, co-executive director of the festival and director of programming, wants it, as the festival continues to deal with a tighter state budget by sinking its roots deeper into the Elm City.
by | Apr 27, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (0)
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The Little Free Library at Dwight Substation is installed and open for business.
The Dwight police substation at 130 Edgewood Ave. is sandwiched between a school and the “A Walk In Truth” bookstore — two places where a kids can find a good story. Now substation, too, will be a hub that encourages the love of reading.
by | Apr 17, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (1)
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James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr., who wrote a powerful book documenting the roots and unintended tragedies of drug-war mass incarceration, and Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan, who told the story of a local Syrian immigrant family’s resettlement in the New Haven area in the Age of Trump, won journalism’s highest honor Monday: the Pulitzer Prize.
by | Apr 5, 2018 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
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Defenders Monument, from the new booklet.
You may know the Connecticut state bird (the American robin). And perhaps the state flower (the mountain laurel).
You may even know the state fish (correct: the shad).
How about the official Connecticut state hero? Who even knew we had one!
by | Apr 4, 2018 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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ALIVE Counselor Antonietta Delli Carpini reading from Legend of Miss Kendra at Wednesday’s event.
A program that uses art to help schoolkids with trauma is spreading from New Haven across the troubled nation.
Continue reading ‘Kids & Trauma Effort Comes ALIVE With New Book’
by | Mar 28, 2018 7:44 am | Comments (4)
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Abdul Masre and Marian Alrashid, with theirs — each of the school’s 200 plus kids received a take-home copy.
Kids at the West Rock STREAM Academy are accustomed to hearing from authors. After all, until this year the inter-district magnet was officially called West Rock Authors Academy.
Until Tuesday, they had never heard from an author who also happened to be a professional football player.
Continue reading ‘Patriots’ Malcom Mitchell Scores With West Hills Readers’