Local harmonica sensation Chris DePino played a concert Monday night at the Czech Republic’s presidential palace. He sent in these photos and this write-up:
Laco Deczi, jazz trumpet legend and patriot, played a concert tonight in front of a prestigious crowd of VIPs at the president’s castle in Prague. Ambassadors from a dozen countries were also in attendance as the jazz legend performed his compositions. And by his side was New Haven’s Chris DePino who wowed the crowd with his chromatic harmonica and singing!
Fans of the Harry Potter movies may recognize this cloister at Gloucester as a hallway at the Hogwarts School.
The choir of St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in New Haven is in England until Aug. 22, singing for church services at Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, and Gloucester Cathedral. Mark Branch is keeping a journal of the trip for the Independent.
We left London Tuesday morning for Gloucester, a city in western England that is just about the same size as New Haven (but without the Elm City’s large suburban population). It has other similarities to New Haven: It is a port city, thanks to a canal that connects it to the Bristol Channel. It is a planned city, built by the Romans in their fashion with a main north-south street and east-west street crossing at what is still the center of town. And it is a former industrial city that is still trying to find its way in a post-industrial world.
Does Facebook represent the triumph of global middle-class ingenuity? Is Yale fooling itself thinking it can promote freedom in Singapore? Will freedom accompany the rise in people’s incomes worldwide?
R. James Woolsey (right) at a reception at Kroon Hall.
Despite the troubling intelligence coming out of Pakistan, that nation and the U.S. nevertheless need to work together, the former head of the CIA said in a visit to town Tuesday night.
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May 3, 2011 7:22 am
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Alderwoman O’Sullivan-Best.
One day after U.S. commandos took out the most wanted man in the world, some New Haven lawmakers called for a national holiday. Others argued that assassination, even of a mass murderer, is no cause for celebration.
Clare Gillis’ parents are still waiting for to hear information about their daughter, who was detained by government forces in Libya on April 5 and hasn’t been heard from since.
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Feb 21, 2011 9:19 am
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Four men stood in front of City Hall with signs calling for redirecting military spending to meet human needs at home. Why weren’t more people joining them?
Mohamed Ali was grilling up breakfast at his Lombard Street diner when he heard the news: Hosni Mubarak, the man who had ruled Ali’s homeland for three decades, had stepped down.
More than 50 Yale students and New Haven residents gathered at Beinecke Plaza on the Yale Campus at noon on Monday to demand government action: They want President Obama to cut off all foreign aid to Egypt.
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Josiah Brown
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Jan 30, 2011 7:13 am
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January 30 marks the 63rd anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, a Hindu himself, by a Hindu extremist in 1948. At the conclusion of a month when we recall the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. — who was deeply influenced by Gandhi and visited India in 1959 — let us also honor Mahatma Gandhi.
On Saturday, Jan. 22, while Anna Aschenbach received the Dr. Alice Hamilton Peace and Freedom Award, she suffered a stroke, and passed away on Jan. 23. She was 88.
For decades, Anna was an active member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), a war tax resister, a peace activist and a staunch advocate of civil rights and equality for people of color. New Haven County WILPF presented the award to Anna in recognition of her work for peace and for her many years of activism.
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Nov 24, 2010 12:40 pm
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Mayor Phan Trong Vinh of New Haven’s sister city of Hue, Vietnam, said he liked the local beer and, of course, Frank Pepe’s pizza. He also was curious about matters non-culinary: how the Elm City, for instance, balances the pressures of economic development with historic preservation.
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Oct 12, 2010 7:33 am
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The Soomro family.
Farhan and Shahida Soomro became American citizens on Friday. Originally from the Sindh Province in Pakistan, they have lived in the U.S. for ten years. Two days after becoming Americans, they held an event with their friends Ron Miller and his wife Cathie Miller to raise money and awareness about the floods which have ravaged their province in Pakistan. “It’s been a busy weekend!” said Shahida Soomro.
Gerda Genece’s Lombard Street home is filled with donated items meant for earthquake-ravaged Haiti — tents, food, a wheelchair, a thousand T‑shirts. She fears the donations won’t ever reach their destination.
Brother and sister Ramin and Raheleh Sohrab joined a feast in New Haven with fellow members of the Baha’i faith — storing up in anticipation of an annual fast.
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Feb 22, 2010 8:57 am
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Claude Menelas was in Port-au-Prince when the Jan. 12 earthquake struck. For the 35 seconds of shaking, he thought Haiti would vanish from the face of the earth. Now that he’s home in New Haven, the vastness of the destruction and the aftermath have only strengthened his faith.
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Feb 22, 2010 8:42 am
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Gerda Genece and other volunteers had a short and simple message for shoppers outside C‑Town: “Haiti! Help Haiti! Dollars, pesos, medai-pesos!” But Genece had a longer story to tell, a painful, personal tale, that helped explain why she was there.
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Allan Appel
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Feb 17, 2010 3:49 pm
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The boxes only appear to have bananas in them. Troyana Hie was delighted to behold box upon box of clothing, shoes, tools, food, and medical supplies being readied for shipment to Haiti — part of an avalanche of giving that has occupied an entire storefront in Whalley’s Edge of the Woods plaza.
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Feb 8, 2010 12:17 pm
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Dominic Kabulu (pictured) arrived in New Haven from the Democratic Republic of Congo last fall, via five years in a refugee camp in Zambia. On Sunday, he was one of 500 who ran up and down East Rock in a 5 K race to support the agency that has supported him: Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services.
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Jan 20, 2010 8:41 am
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City employees will soon be able to send a portion of their pay directly to humanitarian relief for Haiti, thanks to a unanimous vote by the Board of Aldermen.
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Jan 19, 2010 12:47 pm
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There won’t be Haitian mangoes in the aisle of Edge of the Woods this year. There will be ample rice, beans, and medical supplies at two spots in Port-au-Prince, thanks to Edge owner Peter Dodge and his customers.
