by | Dec 15, 2017 1:12 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Nov 17, 2017 8:37 am | Comments (0)
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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.
And then it’s over, in 34 seconds.
by | Nov 15, 2017 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Mauricio de Sousa, a Brazilian cartoonist, teaches the basics of anti-trust law in “Lemonade Cartel.”
Quick: How do you illustrate the essential nature of the complex legal subject of involuntary manslaughter?
Answer: She slips on a banana, tumbles toward the poor fellow ahead of her on the sidewalk with a force that pushes him forward into the sharp edge of a cane, which is being perhaps recklessly held parallel to the sidewalk and under the arm of the fellow in front of him. The cane pushes the poor victim’s eyeball right out like a billiard ball.
by | Oct 4, 2017 7:53 am | Comments (0)
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Artist Sara Scranton.
Artist and poet Daniel Eugene told me before his photo shoot with Sara Scranton at his Studio Feruvius in Westville that he plans to be the Patron Saint of Paper Trails.
by | Aug 3, 2017 3:18 pm | Comments (3)
New Haven. What a gritty, dirty, low-life town, littered with the corpses of the striving, the exploited, churning with the endless contest between power and the powerless.
by | Jul 28, 2017 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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When Frank Street resident Henry Brockenberry lost his retail job last month, he started coming to the Courtland Wilson Branch Library in the Hill to use the computers and Internet to job search.
But you have to take a break every once in a while from sending out your resume. That’s how Brockenberry discovered the branch’s up-to-date and extensive collection of DVDs.
Now, he takes out two a day — “religion, Bible, comedy, everything.”
by | Jul 4, 2017 9:37 am | Comments (3)
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Rosa DeLauro blasts efforts to repeal Obamacare, at a New Haven Planned Parenthood event.
Washington – Three years ago veteran New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro felt compelled to do one of the few things she had never done before – write a book.
Continue reading ‘Defending Safety Net, DeLauro Turns Author’
by | Jun 14, 2017 1:45 pm | Comments (0)
Jewish women in New Haven started plunging into purification waters more than a century and a half ago and have continued to do so in different non-descript locations. But where, and when?
David S. Fischer was determined to find out.
Continue reading ‘Dr. Fischer Follows The Ritual Baths Trail’
by | Jun 8, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Cardona surrounded by friends and well-wishers at City Hall book signing.
Erica Cardona may not be old enough to vote, but she is old enough to have her own book signing.
by | Jun 6, 2017 12:57 pm | Comments (13)
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Langdon (above); his new book (below).
On a recent sunny morning, journalist and editor Philip Langdon sat at a table at what was formerly Lulu’s European Coffehouse and is now East Rock Coffee. For Langdon, it was the epicenter for work that transformed East Rock starting over 20 years ago — and made it a living example of how urban neighborhoods can thrive.
by | Jun 2, 2017 2:27 pm | Comments (23)
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Stacy Graham-Hunt, author of a new memoir.
Decades after publicly humiliating a high school girlfriend about the smell of her body, Kwame had second thoughts. He finally apologized.
by | May 16, 2017 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy Beinecke Rare Books Library
William Carlos Williams in his garden.
How many rare book and manuscript collections can you visit leaving with a pack of zinnia seeds?
by | May 12, 2017 12:53 pm | Comments (3)
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James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr. wanted to tell a story that put African-Americans at the center, and not just on the sidelines. He found that story in a Washington, D.C. courtroom where all the actors — the judge, his client, and the prosecutor — all looked like him.
by | May 9, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (4)
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Fiona Bradford in the New Haven Reads basement.
A sewage leak has destroyed over 300 books at a New Haven literacy nonprofit, putting in jeopardy its ritual end-of-year book giveaway.
by | Apr 26, 2017 12:06 pm | Comments (1)
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Desmond, Gage, and Salgado onstage at CCA forum at Career.
After spending years interviewing tenants and landlords and reporting on urban evictions, Matthew Desmond reached a conclusion that surprised him: Conventional liberal and conservative explanations that heap blame on everything from deindustrialization to out-of-wedlock childbirth overlook the actual root causes of poverty in this country.
by | Apr 21, 2017 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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The artist with her “Remendando Mi Patria.”
Artists have a stage and they sure should use it. They could sense dangerous shifts in the body politic before non-artistic citizens do, and they should act on on these instincts. And poets are always in the midst of difficult times — it comes with the profession — so they could guide others when the difficulties spread.
by | Apr 6, 2017 3:14 pm | Comments (0)
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The author with fans Jazmine Lucas and Toni Odom Kelly.
“Who can share a word someone said about you?”
It didn’t take long for “ugly” and “stupid” to emerge as answers to that question from the circle of 25 jumpy pre-teen girls.
Then author Sakina Ibrahim led the girls in a dance movement to propel those words out, way out the window.
And let their opposites in.
Continue reading ‘“Ugly” Turns To “Beautiful,” “Stupid” To “Smart”’
by | Apr 6, 2017 3:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Brogan: Stay in and read!
New Haveners were all invited Thursday to read a book about immigration, then come together to discuss it.
by | Apr 3, 2017 8:02 am | Comments (1)
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Carrie Savage’s James & The Giant Peach.
Lego James summited a giant frosted peach. Moby-Dick’s insides were starting to melt. Julien Sorel got blanketed in raspberries. In separate corners, Hemingway’s Robert Jordan traded his bullets for chocolate chips, and sweet Lizzie Bennett firmed up her relationship with a toothpick.
Continue reading ‘Creative Arts Workshop Takes A Bite Out Of Fiction’
by | Mar 31, 2017 12:05 pm | Comments (0)
Levinsohn hugs retired police Det. Stacy Spell at celebration for his 10 years of volunteering.
A celebrated literacy not-for-profit founded in a New Haven garage is celebrating its 15th birthday — and working to ensure at least 15 more years.
by | Mar 30, 2017 10:25 pm | Comments (0)
Courtesy A&I
Chad Herzog, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas’s interim co-executive director and director of programming, stood on the stage in a large room on the first floor of Alexion, on College Street. Before him, artists and filmmakers mingled with bankers and civic leaders. A countdown clock projected on the wall that looked more like something for a sports event — maybe a nod to March Madness? — had just run out. Herzog was on stage to announce A&I’s lineup for 2017.
by | Mar 30, 2017 1:32 pm | Comments (1)
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Michelle gets all literary with apples.
Although it could not be independently verified — not even by her mother — first-grader Michelle Mapuvire revealed that she has read Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears A Who 79 times. Not 78 times and not 81 times.
Continue reading ‘Barnard School Transformed Into Seussville’
by | Mar 23, 2017 1:39 pm | Comments (0)
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Petaway (inside St. Luke’s) with Zahler and the new guide.
When Diane Petaway visited her grandmother in the 1950s in the Dixwell neighborhood, she never knew about Curry’s Confectionery, a sweet shop whose chocolates were so delicious local white merchants sold them as their own. They carried the subterfuge as far as to require James and Ethel Curry to deliver their candies at night so customers would not know the original candy makers were African-American.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell’s History Comes Alive On New Tour’
by | Mar 2, 2017 4:16 pm | Comments (6)
Snyder & pamphlet, 2017; Paine & pamphlet, 1776.
If the Age of Trump produces a new Tom Paine, he might turn out to be New Haven’s Timothy Snyder.
by | Mar 1, 2017 2:36 pm | Comments (2)
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ECDC dancer Luis Antonio.
City Librarian Martha Brogan toasted the free press. Mayor Toni Harp gave an impassioned appeal for the public pursuit of knowledge. Michael Morand recalled attempts at surveillance under the Patriot Act, then pointed to libraries as the unspoken heroes of that moment and the evening.