David Gregor: Waiting on what's next, on State Street.
Beneath a canopy of tree cover on a State Street triangular mini-park, David Gregor sat in the shade, popped in his earphones, listened to Rascal Flatts, and waited for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) drop-in center across the street to open — so he could grab one more coffee before pushing forward in his bid to find a stable place to live and get his life back on track.
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Jun 20, 2023 8:57 am
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The dancers in the circle were lifting up their own spirits and the spirits of those around them. They were participating in a culture that was now in its third generation of practitioners. And, as was explained, they were helping strengthen and preserve it; if they didn’t, they could lose it.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 19, 2023 7:21 am
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Juneteenth parade marchers gather at the Green.
A parade and a panoply of music, speeches, vendors, and community on the Green connected Dixwell and downtown for a celebration of a new national holiday honoring the history of Black freedom.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jun 14, 2023 5:37 pm
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Newly minted Coop grad Imalis Cotto, with diploma ...
.. and cap displaying her favorite animal, a raccoon, painted by Oddo De La Cruz.
Coop High School theater student Imalis Cotto needed some help decorating her cap in time for graduation on Wednesday. So she called in friend and visual arts Coop classmate Oddo De La Cruz to lend a helping hand.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 14, 2023 2:38 pm
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Bill Lowe let out a cry from his tuba, guttural and keening, ecstatic and heartbreaking at the same time. Ken Filiano responded in kind from his bass. Hafez Modirzadeh joined in with a moan from his saxophone. Naledi Masilo unspooled a string of skittering vocalizations. Taylor Ho Bynum release a plaintive wail as Kevin Harris laid down ominous piano lines. Luther Gray arrived with a rattling drum line that solidified into a rhythm that Lowe emphasized with snapping fingers. As he directed each of the players to take solos, Lowe broke into smiles. The music may have spoken about complex emotions, but there was great satisfaction in the telling.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 14, 2023 8:35 am
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La Fille du Laitier
La Fille du Laitier's Macbeth Muet.
A black screen. A table, covered by a white cloth. Styrofoam cups and origami paper fortune tellers. These, along with performer-puppeteers Jérémie Francoeur and Marié-Hélène Bélanger Dumas, comprise both the setting and the characters of La Fille du Laitier’s Macbeth Muet, a silent pantomime version of Shakespeare’s classic. Using minimal props and a wealth of choreographed body language, Francoeur and Bélanger Dumas interpret the Scottish tragedy into a visceral and lavish affair that does full justice to the scope of the original play.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 13, 2023 9:07 am
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Protest organizer Gaylord Salters: "Over 1,000 years of life" taken unjustly.
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As Maleek Jones waited within the walls of a Suffield prison, his voice reached the 25 protesters calling for his freedom by way of a recording: “I just have a hope that somehow, justice will find me,” Jones said as protest footage flashed across a TV screen.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 13, 2023 9:03 am
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John Hatch
Tea Time with Marcel Duchamp.
John Hatch’s Tea Time with Marcel Duchamp catches the eye fast, with its shiny surface and improbable, delightful shape. It takes a second to see how all the parts fit together — the tea kettle, the bell of a horn, the metal legs. It then invites speculation. What sound would it make if you boiled water in it? Some tea kettles whistle, or even sound like trains. Maybe this one plays a jazz solo. It’s possible to let the mind wander in this way because for all the relative seriousness of the execution, the piece itself is, above all, fun.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 12, 2023 8:59 am
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Grupo Tentación on the Green on Sunday.
Under a crisp and clear Sunday sky, two bands — Grupo Tentación and QUITAPENAS — brought highly danceable Latin beats to the New Haven Green for the second night of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 8, 2023 9:41 am
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Newly minted GED graduate Raquel Cuiman with family ...
... at Adult Ed graduation ceremony at the Omni.
Six months ago, Raquel Cuiman was in a hospital bed fighting for her life against Covid for a second time.
This week, with the support of her family, friends, and mentors at the New Haven Adult & Continuing Education Center, she received her GED — and is now pursuing a dream to help others overcome the same health and emotional and educational obstacles she found a way to clear.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jun 7, 2023 11:56 am
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Big changes -- and six-month closure -- coming to State St. drop-in center (pictured).
A commercial kitchen and health clinic are coming to State Street’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen next year — as the long-time homelessness services provider prepares to temporarily relocate so that it can build out its latest location to better support a growing number of people facing housing and income insecurity.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 6, 2023 8:33 am
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The paper houses are perched on the ragged edges of foam cliffs. There are places in the world like it, where people have built actual houses in unlikely places, on rocks all too close to the water, on stilts over surging marshes, on the sides of mountains. But the houses in this art exhibition push it all just a little further. Upon closer examination, some of the structures are more improbable than real houses could be. Others are built high overhead; you’d have to have wings to live there. Finally, there are the houses built on a wall’s vertical face, oriented sideways. To live there, you’d have to defy gravity.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 1, 2023 5:13 pm
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Laura Boccadoro hangs up symbols of pride and "peace."
Paper cranes await a place hanging along Olmo's walls.
A flock of hand-folded, rainbow-colored paper cranes took flight inside Olmo Bagelry on Thursday morning, carrying a message of queer pride and affirmation.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 1, 2023 9:12 am
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Strange Ways' Val Ruby-Omen and Alex Dakoulas.
New Haven has a way to celebrate Pride Month for all of June, thanks to a series of events organized by Val Ruby-Omen and Alex Dakoulas of Strange Ways in Pitkin Plaza.
It begins with a vendor fair and queer beer unveiling this weekend at Armada Brewing in Fair Haven and continues at the 151 Orange St. shop all month, including mixers, a pop-up market, a chance to draw a drag queen, and an open mic night.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 1, 2023 9:04 am
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Haven String Quartet at Yale Art Gallery.
“Think about the relationship between listening and looking.”
So encouraged Jessica Sack, curator of public education at the Yale University Art Gallery and organizer of “Playing Images,” at an event that combined artwork with the music of the Haven String Quartet.
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Abiba Biao |
May 30, 2023 12:31 pm
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Jamie Dawn: “With a consignment store, depending on the store, you could be very choosy about what you select.”
Jamie Dawn saw an increasing appetite for secondhand clothing and kitchenware and all other kinds of goods, especially among sustainability-minded college-aged shoppers — and decided to meet that demand by opening a new consignment shop on Broadway.
Haseeb Mohammed whipped up an Indian take on chicken tacos Thursday to feed a crowd on Orange Street celebrating the enhanced rebirth of a popular fast-casual restaurant.
The downtown one-way streets covered by this latest traffic study (in yellow).
A City Hall-adjacent stretch of Church Street could see cars driving both north and south — intentionally, and legally — in the not-too-distant future, as the Elicker administration prepares to act on one decade-old two-way-street conversion plan at the same time that it undertakes yet another study targeting rapid-fire downtown one-way streets.
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Thomas Breen |
May 23, 2023 11:56 am
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Students released early from Coop Tuesday after lockdown.
Students at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School spent more than two hours locked down Tuesday morning in response to a report of a student bringing a gun in a backpack into the building.
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Maya McFadden |
May 22, 2023 3:49 pm
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Tallying up Friday's school board election results at City Hall.
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Cross sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser.
Wilbur Cross High School sophomore John Carlos Serana Musser will be the next student representative on the Board of Education, after coming out on top in a three-way race for a soon-to-open seat.
Eddie Freeman: “Everybody's hiring, and if you want it, you can get it.”
Dozens of New Haveners on the hunt for new work turned out to the Green to learn about employers, participate in job interviews, and explore training and career-building programs.
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Brian Slattery |
May 10, 2023 8:50 am
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Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home starts with a perky voice on an answering machine, bright and insistent. The young woman on the other end is trying to get a hold of an older woman. The reason is a civic event, the dedication of a swimming pool, which is to be named after the older woman’s father. When the older woman — Janice — finally calls the young woman back, she is polite, but hesitant. There’s a little pain in her voice, and (the audience can see) more pain on her face. The phone call is bringing up difficult memories. Why would the renaming of a swimming pool do that?
Nair and Kesavalu Thursday inside Tikkaway soon-to-open "wow!!tikka."
Decades after starting their careers at the same Indian hotel, Gopi Nair and Kannan Kesavalu have reunited to revive cult-caliber fast-casual Indian dining on a reviving corner of New Haven’s Orange Street.
