by | Apr 20, 2016 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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Yarboro and Rawls-Ivy.
Bethea.
The gloves are coming off in the WNHH studio. Today’s broadcasts explore the ins and outs of the upcoming Connecticut Democratic presidential primary with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters, ask tough questions about racially motivated violence in New Haven, do battle with some intensely masculine fiction, and more.
by | Apr 9, 2016 8:05 pm | Comments (0)
All seems placid and happy in the New Haven suburb of South Haven — until you venture inside people’s homes, and into their private lives.
by | Apr 6, 2016 7:52 am | Comments (0)
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Russell.
Today’s shows on WNHH radio explore homeownership in New Haven, delve into literary metaphysics, uncover New Haven’s earliest sewer system, and more.
by | Mar 29, 2016 7:39 am | Comments (0)
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Jefferson at WNHH.
What if, Michael Jefferson wondered, slavery and reconstruction hadn’t ended in new iterations of racism? What if history’s wrongs could be righted, power restored to black hands?
by | Mar 21, 2016 7:25 am | Comments (0)
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Doron Monk Flake at WNHH Monday.
Doron Monk Flake described the comic-book inspriation for his “nerd rock” music, and offered some samples, on the latest edition of WNHH radio’s “Tom Ficklin Show.”
by | Mar 16, 2016 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Baldwin.
Abdussabur with Cahan.
When New Havener Sheree Baldwin saw Beyoncé‘s “Formation” video, she was inspired to add a local angle to the song.
by | Mar 11, 2016 4:49 pm | Comments (1)
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Rhodeen (below) reveals the backstory to Northern Ireland’s historic ceasefire in his new book Peacerunner.
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Penn Rhodeen has grown fond of uttering a dirty word. At a time of brutal, seemingly intractable tribal warfare around the globe, he believes it offers hope for peace.
Rhodeen’s dirty word: “politics.”
by | Mar 9, 2016 3:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Rey Harp.
The latest WNHH Radio broadcasts introduce community groups, propose secrets for living longer and happier lives, and bring a new book to the airwaves.
by | Feb 26, 2016 3:02 pm | Comments (13)
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Joyner and Anderson: Turned on to literature.
Zelenski, subject of a new book, has felt hampered by Hillhouse changes.
Jessica Zelenski asked her Hillhouse High students to write a paper in defense of Mayella Ewell, a notorious character in To Kill A Mockingbird who falsely accuses a black farmhand of rape.
“I’m asking for some compassion for the girl; I didn’t say you had to like her,” she said when students protested.
by | Feb 26, 2016 8:08 am | Comments (2)
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Pellegrino.
“I write for whites. Black people already know the problem,” states New Haven author and attorney Robert L. Pellegrino in the introduction of his self-published new book, I See Color: Identifying, Understanding and Reducing Our Hidden Racism.
by | Feb 23, 2016 3:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Talia Aikens-Nunez with her new book.
Talia Aikens-Nunez wrote her first book as an elementary schooler. A story about her cat Mickey, it was written on computer paper with staples serving as a binding.
As an adult, Aikens-Nunez has published three books for children. Her latest children’s novel, OMG…I Did It Again?!, the second in a series about a young girl who discovers she has witch powers, will be released on May 1.
by | Feb 16, 2016 2:39 pm | Comments (1)
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Belbusti and Guillorn.
Musicians Paul Belbusti (a.k.a. Mercy Choir) and Lys Guillorn have split a lot of bills together. They even did an EP in 2013 called Trouble, in which Belbusti wrote the music and Guillorn wrote the words for the first song; then, for the second song, they switched roles. So in November, when Belbusti asked Guillorn if she wanted to collaborate in putting together a month-long Friday-night residency at Never Ending Books on State Street — a “variety show,” according to Belbusti — she agreed.
The result is the Wobbling Roof Revue, which features 28 acts performing 20-minute sets each across four Fridays in March, in a lineup that ranges from musicians and storytellers to a tarot reader, a comedian, and a trivia meister.
Continue reading ‘Wobbling Roof Revue Takes Over Never Ending Books’
by | Feb 15, 2016 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
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Jill Snyder at WNHH.
Jill Marie Snyder knew that her parents had written love letters to each other that dated back from the mid-1937 until they were married in 1941. She didn’t find them — and understand their significance — until her mother, who always wanted them published, died.
by | Jan 14, 2016 4:30 pm | Comments (0)
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James, Williams in the WNHH studio.
Teele.
Seventy New Haveners have opened restaurants, barber shops, catering shops — even an upcoming driving school — thanks to a new Small Business Academy in Dixwell Plaza.
by | Jan 8, 2016 5:50 am | Comments (2)
Shafiq Abdussabur — author, WNHH radio host, police officer, law enforcement consultant — took a look around New Haven and decided it just might be ready for a literary awakening.
Continue reading ‘Urban Writers Series Builds Community With Books’
by | Jan 6, 2016 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Verses from the Song of Songs — or Shir Hashirim in Hebrew, or the Song of Solomon or Canticles in the Christian Bible — have been such a popular subject for artists and fine printers over the decades that some have called the phenomenon “Song of Solomonitis.”
by | Dec 23, 2015 8:13 am | Comments (0)
I often find myself lost in the forest of perceptions. It seems I’m always trying to get people to understand the value of my work, as my work is an effort to amplify positive stories and give voice to the fight for equality.
by | Dec 16, 2015 4:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Abdussabur, Ginsberg, Webster, Lewis at WNHH Wednesday.
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Haufe and Bennick.
New Haven’s school-reform drive, five years in, needs a new jolt of energy and refocusing.
by | Dec 16, 2015 7:22 am | Comments (0)
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Lovett-Graff, Dymond, actors Deena Nicol-Blifford and Scarpa.
One celebrated, countryside wedding in a French chateau. Two slightly awkward American guests sleeping in the old servants’ quarters. From another era, three rotating armies, French, German and American. Four courses, and then some. Five times to admit faux pas and embarrassment as out-of-town guests, working sloppily through the language. Six doves, leading a white flock released after the wedding. Seven fireworks to begin the end of the night.
Continue reading ‘Listen Here Gets Surprise Visit From Author’
by | Dec 8, 2015 5:19 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Dec 2, 2015 3:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Ifeanyi Awachie.
Elizabeth Larkin.
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.
by | Nov 13, 2015 1:41 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Nov 5, 2015 7:23 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Oct 29, 2015 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Oct 23, 2015 12:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Juan Bobo. Frida Kahlo. Diego Rivera. Dom Luis Martino Martin. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.