Controversial Strip Club Plan Shelved
by | Mar 9, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (5)
Eli Westerman, Darlene Casella protest before planned zoning vote.
Planet Venus won’t be landing by Jocelyn Square any time soon.
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Hamden Animal Shelter Site Proposed — In New Haven
by | Mar 8, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (6)
After years of outsourcing abandoned and abused pets to North Haven, Hamden is exploring joining forces with New Haven to establish a regional animal shelter.
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Tweed Will Fly To DC, Chicago, Raleigh
by | Mar 8, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (39)
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Unveiling Avelo's new nonstop routes at Tuesday's presser.
Avelo CEO Andrew Levy (center) with airport chief Scanlon and Avports CEO Roberts.
Tweed-New Haven Airport’s fast-paced expansion of daily flights continued, with the announcement Tuesday that Avelo Airlines will now fly nonstop to the hubs of Chicago and Washington, D.C. as well as Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
Strip Club Opponents Take To The Streets
by | Mar 7, 2022 9:02 pm | Comments (9)
Nesta Allen: "Who are we, nothing?"
Residents gathered in Jocelyn Square Park and then walked surrounding blocks on the eve of a zoning vote to demonstrate that they live in a neighborhood — not in “Las Vegas” or an “industrial wasteland” befitting a midnight-to-dawn BYOB strip club.
Brewers Make Change Out Of Lemons
by | Mar 7, 2022 2:54 pm | Comments (2)
Nonprofit beverage barons Brian Burkett-Thompson and Kristen Threatt with customer Morgan Esdaile (center).
Brian Burkett-Thompson and Kristen Threatt watched customers snap up bottles of their new lemonade brand — and waited for a fire victim to show up so they could disperse the profits.
Sweep Shuts Down Corner Store
by | Mar 4, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (6)
G-Mart owner Gazy Kaden: Problems not easy to fix.
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Inspection crew posts shutdown order Friday.
Two weeks ago after a shot man stumbled into Fair Haven’s G‑Mart corner store and collapsed in a pool of blood, a city government crew swarmed in — and shut the business down based on health, labor, and safety violations.
Ely Center Races Clock To Buy Ely House
by | Mar 2, 2022 4:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Ely Center board members Rashmi Talpade, Valerie Garlick, Jeanne Criscola, and Debbie Hesse.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is busy not just putting art on its walls — but looking for the money to keep the walls themselves. It has two weeks.
Guv Gets Taste Of Lab-Meat Economy
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.
DeLauro: Supply Chain Help On The Way
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (4)
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Jay Pallotti: Sales are up, but profits are down.
Lamberti’s Italian Sausages President Jay Pallotti saw his grandfather’s 1946 Long Wharf business threatened after more than 70 years of business when two of the company’s refrigerated trucks broke down — and no replacement vehicles were available for purchase.
Early Childhood Centers Warn Of "Collapse"
by | Feb 28, 2022 12:21 pm | Comments (2)
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Georgia Goldburn: "Stunned and appalled" at governor's budget.
Early childhood centers are warning of a crisis that could lead to mass closures and skyrocketing fees, if the government doesn’t act soon.
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Smooth(ie) Career Move Brings Plant-Based Magic To Orange Street
by | Feb 23, 2022 2:43 pm | Comments (1)
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EVVO French Toast superfood smoothie.
Owner Julia Stepien.
A superfood cafe called EVVO is a mission of “transforming” the lives of its customers — the way its young founder transformed her own life.
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Zoning Plan Would Isolate Pot Shops
by | Feb 21, 2022 5:18 pm | Comments (8)
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At Hamden's High Bazaar. Proposed New Haven law would ban such "private marijuana vending events, cannabis trade shows or public cannabis events."
“High Bazaar” in New Haven? Not anytime soon.
That’s according to a newly proposed zoning update that would prohibit the types of weekly commercial cannabis parties that currently take place in Hamden — as part of a broader city effort to define where pot shops should and should not be allowed in the Elm City.
This Cheese Stands Alone
by | Feb 21, 2022 5:08 pm | Comments (6)
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Ralph Liuzzi displays his mozzarella's flexibility to visiting senator.
A Hamden cheese manufacturer is aging as well as the products it sells — and is stretching its story further across town as business booms.
Hamden Property Sales Round-Up: Mandy Grows On Newhall
by | Feb 21, 2022 2:54 pm | Comments (0)
Cafe Amici is expanding their hold on Hamden, as is local mega landlord Mandy Management, according to the town’s most recent property transactions.
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Bamn! Bloom Gets LIT With Black Lit
by | Feb 21, 2022 9:52 am | Comments (9)
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The crowd Sunday at Bloom Black History event.
Book lovers descended Sunday on Bloom to sample not only the assortment of flowers and soaps, but the works of James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Jesmyn Ward — brought into the Edgewood Avenue lifestyle store and gathering place courtesy of Bamn Books, a New Haven-based mobile bookstore that focuses on the literature of the African diaspora.
Rocker-Stoner Standoff Averted As Organizer Cancels High Bazaar
by | Feb 19, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (5)
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Hamden's High Bazaar crew inside the Cellar On Treadwell: Saturday's event has been canceled, as announced via Facebook.
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High Bazaar is taking an indefinite hiatus, as the lead organizer of Hamden’s weekly commercial cannabis parties canceled Saturday’s event while he seeks “proper permitting” from town government.
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Sign Of Times: "Persnickety Thrift" Debuts
by | Feb 18, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (8)
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Chloe Rose models $50 look, styled by Todd Lyon with items from Fashionista's new vintage collection
In a jet-black 1950s Polack dress and gloves to match, Chloe Rose modeled a grieving widow look styled by Fashionista co-owner Todd Lyon — complete only with 1960s kitten heels, Aviators, and a maroon headscarf.
The outfit was one of four that Rose donned to promote “Persnickety Thrift,” the vintage store’s new line of thrifted clothing, which debuts this weekend. The line marks a new stage in the evolution of one of New Haven’s most colorful homegrown businesses, and a reflection of where fashion consciousness and society at large have moved amid the chaos of a pandemic.
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Lyric Hall Goes With The Flow
by and | Feb 18, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (7)
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Renewed mission: Violet Harlow, John Cavaliere, Andre Marti at work.
Restoration is in full swing at Westville Village’s hub of reinvention.
Women's Power Biz Bucks Go A Long Way
by | Feb 16, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (0)
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz highlights clay artist Kiara Matos...
...and Havenly's Caterina Passoni and Nieda Abbas.
Checks delivered by Connecticut’s lieutenant governor are helping women entrepreneurs send off boxes of baklava and a flock of ceramic birds into New Haven.
Hamden Hunts For Its Brand
by | Feb 15, 2022 4:22 pm | Comments (18)
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Books & Co.'s suggestion: Community first.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité? More like, community, diversity, & … femininity?
Those are some of the values Hamden residents say define their town — and suggest buzzwords the town may use to market itself to future residents and business owners.
Brothers Take Fun On The Road
by | Feb 14, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (4)
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Saturday's Madden tournament players.
On Super Bowl weekend, six teams battled to stay alive through elimination rounds in a tournament in a Hamden parking lot — inside a trailer primed to hit the road to offer young people fun stuff to do.
Builder Sees Dixwell Coming Back Black
by | Feb 11, 2022 3:42 pm | Comments (20)
Price's rendering of repurposed Walt's Cleaners building.
Jason Price at Dixwell community meeting.
Walt’s Cleaners on Dixwell Avenue is long gone, but Black-owned business doesn’t have to be.
Work Set To Begin At Former Coliseum Site
by | Feb 11, 2022 12:28 pm | Comments (16)
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Square 10 plan rendering.
With the long-delayed redevelopment of the former Coliseum tentatively set to begin this coming spring, the developer clued local contractors about how to seek a piece of the work.
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Love Conquers Kimberly Square
by | Feb 10, 2022 4:17 pm | Comments (0)
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Thursday's ribbon cutting.
New Haveners can now find love — and gift baskets — in Kimberly Square, at the newly opened Angela’s Unique Creations.
Town Takes High Bazaar To Court
by | Feb 10, 2022 2:37 pm | Comments (11)
Organizer Joseph Accettullo with cease-and-desist order: Show will go on "every fucking week."
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Undaunted High Bazaar crew Wednesday.
Hamden has filed a court order to shut down the “High Bazaars” that have been attracting hundreds of people to town each weekend for a commercial cannabis carnival for the past six months.
Undaunted, the organizing crew was already scrambling to move the gathering to a new location in time to reassemble this weekend, without missing a beat.