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Mar 6, 2019 8:40 am
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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.
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
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 11, 2019 8:46 am
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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 2, 2019 8:31 am
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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.
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Molly Montgomery |
Oct 29, 2018 2:50 pm
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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.
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.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Jun 27, 2018 9:25 pm
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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.
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Jun 12, 2018 7:45 am
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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.
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.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 30, 2018 12:18 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 28, 2018 7:44 am
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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.
New Haven Academy 10th grader Semmel, at right in photo, with NHA Co-Principal Meredith Gavrin.
Natalie Semmel can teach only one work of literature.
Will it be Sandra Cisneros’s Latina story, The House On Mango Street? Or Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God? Or a tale about hot, impulsive teenagers, albeit written by a dead white dude named William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)?
Do kids today benefit more from reading “classics,” which can be a slog, or more “diverse” authors with a more immediate connection to their lives? And how do you decide?
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Feb 14, 2018 8:33 pm
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Early reception before transitioning to dance floor.
Exotic masks and costumes seemed in short supply under the shimmering streamers of the annual New Haven Free Public Library (NHFPL) Mardi Gras fundraiser celebration this year — but not the celebratory fervor that kicked into high gear at the celebration’s temporary new location in Westville.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 5, 2018 9:09 am
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West delivers New Haven address.
Cornel West got Black History Month going in New Haven with a challenge for people to love — not a polite kind of love, but the kind that speaks truth to power and makes people uncomfortable during “the bleakest moment” since the 1860s for the civil rights struggle.
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Allan Appel |
Dec 15, 2017 1:12 pm
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When an artist and a baker get together — when they get along famously, and the artist loves food and the baker loves art — well, an illustrated cookbook can’t be far behind.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 17, 2017 8:37 am
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A single guitar starts “One Zero – Periodic Orbits from Chaos to Order and Back,” two notes that sound at first like the beginning of a thousand rock songs. But within three seconds, the guitar has jumped away from that and into a more complex world of triplets and gnarly scales, playing a line filled with menace and beauty. Another guitar joins it, and another, and another, until four guitars are playing the same line in unison. There’s a lot of information — and emotion — packed into that figure.
