Halloweeners Say, “Boo(k)!”
by | Oct 27, 2005 3:34 pm | Comments (0)
The Independent scored an exclusive interview Thursday with none other than the Very Hungry Caterpillar.
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Chinese Scholar Mugged
by | Oct 23, 2005 3:11 pm | Comments (0)
Back in his home country people ride bikes everywhere. When he came to New Haven to teach, he rode his blue Fila bicycle around town, too — until he became the latest victim of bicycle-related street violence.
Celebrating A “Wave That Has No Crest”
by | Oct 23, 2005 11:50 am | Comments (0)
The grassroots power behind New Haven’s communal decision to embrace, rather than shun, the city’s burgeoning immigrant population took stock of its progress, and pledged renewed action, at a music-filled party Saturday night.
Ras Mo’s Better Blues
by | Oct 23, 2005 11:31 am | Comments (0)
Performance artist Ras Mo called this weekend for “liberating the brothers” — by teaching them to focus on outlets other than violence to express their anger. It was part of an unusually upbeat, even joyous, community event aimed at curtailing the dead-serious epidemic of domestic violence.
The Sustainable City?
by | Oct 21, 2005 11:51 am | Comments (0)
New Haven’s been known as the Elm City, the Model City, and, if Nate Bixby has his way, it will soon be known as the “Sustainable City.” Bixby is the moving force behind the Network for a Sustainable New Haven, Inc., which is presenting an evening of ideas to chew on, as well as organic vegetarian victuals and jazz, all wrapped up in a program called “Creating a Space for a Culture of Sustainability,” Saturday beginning at 5 p.m. at Yale’s Peabody Museum on Whitney Avenue.
The Case of the Disappearing Non-Bus Stop
by | Oct 12, 2005 2:01 pm | Comments (0)
This used to be a bus stop. Then it wasn’t. Then it was supposed to be one for a while. Now it won’t be. Does that make New Haven like New Orleans?
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New Haven Needs a Plan for Kids
by | Oct 9, 2005 1:20 pm | Comments (2)
Henry Fernandez, a former youth-agency head and then a city official, has an idea of what that plan should look like. He says New Haven needs to reverse the dangerous present course seen in youth-agency cutbacks and violent incidents involving kids with guns.
Yale’s Jail Bucks
by | Oct 6, 2005 8:23 pm | Comments (1)
On the same day that the Yale Daily News touted the superior performance of Yale’s investment portfolio over Harvard’s —” Yale still lags behind in absolute dollars, but its endowment increased by a higher percentage than Harvard’s this year —” more than 100 members of the Yale and New Haven communities came together for a fire-breathing news conference to denounce some of those very investments.
13, the Sequels
by | Oct 6, 2005 3:32 pm | Comments (0)
The bar mitzvah boy in this postcard photo celebrated the coming-of-age Jewish ritual in Vancouver, Canada, some time in the late 1880s. New Havener Terry Berger purchased this postcard and brought it to New Haven Free Public Library’s community room Thursday for a “Books Sandwiched In” discussion on the ritual in American life through the ages.
Border Crossing
by | Oct 6, 2005 7:57 am | Comments (1)
Up to 150 New Haveners crossed a border Wednesday night —”- into West Haven —”- to make a point about people in the city who make more treacherous border-crossings: immigrants coming here for a better life.
Backlash
by | Oct 5, 2005 7:55 pm | Comments (0)
It was intended to be one idea floated in a larger package of efforts announced this week to help Spanish-speaking immigrants navigate life more easily in New Haven. (See “Welcome City.”) But this one proposal — a city-issued i.d. card for illegal immigrants — provoked a quick backlash from immigrant-bashers as soon as the story made the national wires. Now City Hall’s backtracking on the idea. Click here to read Andy Bromage’s report on the controversy in the Register. And click here to read one Independent reader’s take on the politics behind the initiative. Lost in all this discussion: How cities like New Haven thrive when immigrants feel welcome, thrive, and contribute to the economy and culture.
It’s Knitting. Is it Feminism?
by | Oct 4, 2005 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
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The talk was about yarn and third-wave feminism when New Haven “Stitch N Bitch”-ers got together for their twice-weekly gathering at a local coffee shop.
Vows: Derek Holcomb and Kenneth Schlesinger
by | Oct 2, 2005 11:28 am | Comments (1)
Derek Holcomb, 51 of New Haven, and Kenneth Schlesinger, 49, of New York City, made their partnership official on Oct. 1, the first day that Connecticut law began recognizing civil unions, at New Haven’s City Hall. The civil union of Holcomb, the guitarist for New Haven’s The Furors and a waiter/bartender at Archie Moore’s, and Schlesinger, a theater librarian, marks an exciting, but not surprising, milestone in a New Haven romance that has lasted 22 years.
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Just Get a Job
by | Sep 30, 2005 11:30 am | Comments (2)
Get a job, or a better-paying job, and a poor family will become less poor. Right? Wrong. Not in New Haven. So reveals a new report called The High Cost of Being Poor in New Haven. It’ll blow your mind. And it offers practical solutions.
Local Bulgarians Dance for Their Own Flood Victims
by | Sep 25, 2005 10:24 am | Comments (0)
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Look At The Company We’re Keeping
by | Sep 23, 2005 1:39 pm | Comments (0)
Say “New Haven,” and what other communities come to mind? This door, to a boutique that opened on Chapel Street Friday, suggests that we’re keeping some new company.
Lessons in Double Love
by | Sep 23, 2005 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
Overdue recognition came Saturday for some of New Haven’s lesser-known heroes: the thousand-plus grandparents who raise their grandchildren. A terrific group called Grandparents On The Move shared the annual Morris Wessel Prize for “Unsung Heroes” at a ceremony at the Educational Center for the Arts. These grandmas have plenty to teach other grandparent-parents — not to mention a reporter.
Unlikely Celeb Rocks New Haven
by | Sep 19, 2005 9:51 am | Comments (3)
Cindy Sheehan brought a message Sunday to 1,000 supporters on the New Haven Green: George Bush will rue the day he declined to meet with her outside his estate last month.
Sheehan, a grieving 48-year-old mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, galvanized the antiwar movement this summer when she refused to leave Crawford until Bush would agree to meet with her.
Serge Lang, 1927-2005
by | Sep 18, 2005 11:28 am | Comments (1)
“What did they do to Tom Tomorrow?”
The voice on the other end of the phone was clipped, brusque, urgent. It resonated with hints of having sniffed out a conspiracy. The voice didn’t identify itself. No “hello.” Just: “What did they do to Tom Tomorrow?”
Looking for Trust
by | Sep 16, 2005 10:49 am | Comments (0)
Despite rumors about feds lurking outside to catch undocumented workers, about 100 immigrants and the people who work with them in New Haven showed up in Fair Haven Thursday night to describe the dreams and needs of the city’s fastest-growing population.
Quiet on the Gateway Front
by | Sep 16, 2005 7:39 am | Comments (0)
About 20 people showed up to the Long Wharf campus of Gateway Community College Thursday night to express concerns with or support for its planned move to two long-empty spaces downtown. This early step in the nine-month process that will ultimately produce an Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE) for the massive project was one of two “public scoping meetings,” a term that might have resonated more if there had been much of a public there to scope.
Press release: New Haven Unions Split from the AFL-CIO
by | Sep 15, 2005 12:51 pm | Comments (0)
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Can You Hear Us in D.C.?
by | Sep 12, 2005 8:51 pm | Comments (0)
There was a whole lot of horn honking by the New Haven Green at rush hour Monday as demonstrators in hot pink t‑shirts sent a message about the Supreme Court nomination hearings getting underway in Washington.
New Haven Remembers Sept. 11—The Aftermath
by | Sep 12, 2005 8:49 am | Comments (0)
New Haven commemorated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Sunday night with a performance based on what the U.S. did in response: wage war in Iraq. The words heard in the Little Theater were originally spoken by U.S. officials and an anguished father who watched his son die.
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Where Will They Smoke?
by | Sep 9, 2005 5:05 pm | Comments (0)
Three dozen representatives of New Haven city departments, service
providers and business met on Friday at the Citywide Field House to continue planning to welcome up to 100 families fleeing the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Related story: “Katrina’s New Haven Waves.“) They seemed to have everything in place to meet the evacuees’ physical, mental and spiritual needs. Except one thing — no one had thought about a designated smoking area.
Given the higher smoking rates in the South, and the added stress folks have been under, someone suggested that a smoking area be set aside at the Field House, where the families will first arrive. The group agreed that an outdoor smoking area was a necessary component of the plan.