by | Nov 19, 2015 4:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Hank 1 (Paper) …
… and Hank 2 (Hoffman) of Best Video in the WNHH studio.
Syrian refugees, Best Video’s transition into the nonprofit sphere, and one seasoned artist’s take on where the city’s art scene is going: those were among the hot topics on shows aired today on WNHH radio. Listen to them below.
by | Nov 18, 2015 3:55 pm | Comments (18)
After Indiana’s governor refused to take in a family of Syrian refugees, New Haven’s Chris George immediately agreed to help. The family— pawns in a national post-Paris ideological argument — has arrived in town.
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Sister Lu, center, with the masjid’s Shah and Ahmed at WNHH.
After Lu Rifai started losing her eyesight, she also lost the chance to hear the call to worship summon her to prayer five times a day.
by | Nov 11, 2015 5:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Marvin kisses the bride at St. Rose’s.
Ivette Guevara’s eyes would well up when she recalled the day she was notified that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had taken her husband, Marvin, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, into custody.
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A few months after arriving in New Haven from Iraq, Akram Hussein was verbally attacked by a stranger while riding a bus.
He didn’t speak enough English or know enough about the city to report it to police.
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Magdalena Rosales-Alban is the chief executive officer of Lulac Head Start, a family and childcare development center that annually serves 188 children between six months and five years of age across New Haven. Started out of the basement of a church, the center now has three locations, two of which Rosales-Alban has been responsible for: its Cedar Street home, as well as satellites on James and Ramsdell Streets.
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Smiling, Erika and Jessica Sanchez held up a picture of their grandfather, Erineo, in front of two of the enormous puppets that would soon be marching through the streets of Fair Haven as part of the annual Día de los Muertos parade.
“I have never been to a Día de los Muertos event,” Erika said. “I’m getting in touch with my roots and I want to honor the spirits of those who have passed.”
Continue reading ‘Día De Los Muertos Honors Living And Dead’
by | Oct 27, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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There is a big Colombian presence in the New Haven area, and it can be experienced — and savored — at The Little Colombia restaurant. There Rosalba Vera and her husband, Julio Cesar, serve traditional Colombian dishes such as camarón y piña asada, ceviche, and paella marinara.
Continue reading ‘“Little Colombia” Draws A “Latino Salsa” Of Customers’
by | Oct 23, 2015 7:26 am | Comments (4)
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Booted businessman Ernesto Garcia was back selling arepas on York Street during the Thursday lunch wave — just not at the same spot as before.
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Garcia at his cart.
Ernesto Garcia offered a clipboard instead of arepas Thursday to the lunchtime crowd on York Street.
The clipboard contained a petition protesting the city’s decision a day earlier to evict Garcia’s and two other carts, after neighboring storeowners complained the operations infringed on their business.
by | Oct 13, 2015 3:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Rather than culture shock, Mantina Varma encountered snow shock when he came to New Haven.
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When the ribbon was cut on new apartments and a bakery/coffeehouse at a transitional Dixwell crossroads, the man holding the scissors was largely unkown to the public eye — but increasingly familiar to tenants around town.
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Omar Rajeh was behind the counter at his Mediterranea restaurant on Orange Street when his cell phone rang. The call came from his native Syria.
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Marta Mera replaced the windows at Pan Del Cielo bakery after a shooting last month around Ferry and Chatham streets that cracked the glass.
Continue reading ‘A Congresswoman Knocks On Fair Haven’s Doors’
by | Sep 16, 2015 7:02 am | Comments (0)
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Look out, New York — Puerto Rican bread from Ferry Street is headed your way.
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy wants Congress to reallocate resources to bolster refugee efforts.
Forty-one year old Omaia said her family endured a year of bombings and killings in their home country of Syria before they decided to leave on foot for Jordan. Three days later their house was leveled by a bombing.
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George: First 5 of many.
As the U.S. moves cautiously to opening its doors to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war, New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS) has resettled four families from that conflict with another on the way to New Haven.
by | Sep 3, 2015 3:33 pm | Comments (2)
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The mangonada.
Miguel Xicohtencatl needed a hot seller to get his dream businesses going. He found it in a cold cup of mango.
Continue reading ‘Summer’s Surprise Hit: Miguel’s Mangonada’
by | Aug 21, 2015 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
Sonia Salazar, 36, is the owner of Barracuda, a popular new restaurant and bar at the corner of Park and Chapel. She is from Barranquilla, Colombia, and has been living in different cities across Connecticut since she immigrated to Stamford when she was 18, including several years on Quinnipiac Avenue in New Haven. Now she lives in Milford with her two sons, ages 14 and 16.
Continue reading ‘“You Know What You’re Doing, You Can Make It”’
by | Aug 20, 2015 5:37 pm | Comments (0)
In an appearance this week on Fox News’ Bill O’ Reilly Show, Donald Trump declared the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to those born or naturalized in the U.S., unconstitutional.
by | Aug 18, 2015 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Gopi Nair grew up in Kerala, India. He came to the U.S. in 2001, pursuing a career as a chef. Two years ago he opened Tikkaway Grill, a healthful fast-casual Indian restaurant on Orange Street. Offering economically priced, “fast, fresh, healthy Indian food” to order with gluten-free and vegan options, the outlet (which is halal) became a big hit. Nair has since opened a second branch at 2 Howe St. Customers build their own dishes from a menu of choices. He lives with his wife, Deepa, and children Arjun, 7, and Diya, 4.
by | Aug 18, 2015 10:24 am | Comments (2)
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Juan Diaz, a onetime radio and TV journalist in Santo Domingo, brought a sense of performance to the kitchen as he fried green plantain to make mofongo.
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Third in a series.
Tetlanohcan, Mexico—Like the many New Haven immigrant families she helps reunite, Tlayolotzin Embarcadero is a patient woman.
by | Aug 10, 2015 7:46 am | Comments (0)
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Second in a series.
San Francisco Tetlanohcan—When Francisca Morales Rosette visited New Haven, she kept running into long-gone neighbors, friends, and relatives who had moved from their humble agricultural town, San Francisco Tetlanohcan, in the tiny state of Tlaxcala.
Continue reading ‘From Relative To Friend, A City Finds A 2nd Home’
by | Aug 3, 2015 5:11 pm | Comments (2)
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First in a series.
San Francisco Tetlanohcan, Mexico — New Haven’s sister city south of the border shares about 10 to 15 percent of its population with us, and little else.
Continue reading ‘Families Pay A Price In New Haven’s Sister City’