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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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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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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.
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Allan Appel |
Nov 15, 2017 8:36 am
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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.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 4, 2017 7:53 am
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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.
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.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 28, 2017 12:01 pm
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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.”
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Jul 4, 2017 9:37 am
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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.
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?
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Jun 6, 2017 12:57 pm
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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.
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Markeshia Ricks |
May 12, 2017 12:53 pm
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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.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 26, 2017 12:06 pm
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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.
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Allan Appel |
Apr 21, 2017 12:07 pm
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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.
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Apr 3, 2017 8:02 am
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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.
