by | Feb 3, 2011 1:51 pm | Comments (12)
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Joseph.
There used to be a saying you heard and read every day in New Haven: “According to mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga.”
Thursday, a new saying replaced it: “According to mayoral spokesman Adam Joseph.”
by | Jan 24, 2011 8:50 am | Comments (0)
People returned 2,340 overdue items to the New Haven Free Public Library during the “forgiveness” week after New Year’s, when all fines were waived.
by | Jan 12, 2011 9:16 am | Comments (10)
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If you’re looking for your top neighborhood cop on the city’s police website, there’s an eight out of ten chance you’ll find the wrong person.
Which is better than if you check the website listed on city police cruisers. There you’ll find an ad in Japanese for single-family homes.
by | Jan 4, 2011 11:07 am | Comments (3)
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That copy of Catcher in the Rye was due Aug. 5, 2008. Golf for Dummies was due July 6, 2006. Best Plays by Chekhov, June 15, 2004. The winner in the first batch of books returned during the first hour of New Haven’s Fine Forgiveness Week? Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club. Due date: May 2, 2003.
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by | Dec 16, 2010 7:43 am | Comments (6)
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Author and editor Anne Witkavitch, a former Westville resident who still has family ties to the area and currently lives in Bethany, will be reading selections from her recently published anthology, “Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers“Pya and other holiday-themed works at Deja Brew Café, 763 Edgewood Ave., on Sunday, Dec. 19, from 12 to 3 p.m.
by | Dec 15, 2010 1:45 pm | Comments (9)
The voice of City Hall is heading south.
by | Dec 9, 2010 9:04 am | Comments (9)
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Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery has long established itself as a place to view masterful paintings, prints and sculptures, but its use as a space for a variety of cultural and community events continues to evolve. Tuesday night the gallery was host to a book launch party by New Haven Review Books — “the world’s latest small press for high-quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry” according to Review co-founder Mark Oppenheimer.
by | Dec 7, 2010 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
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It had been years since Deborah Jackson, the head of a group of nine whom she introduced as “grandma and the bunch,” had gotten a photograph with her extended family. Thanks to Help-Portrait New Haven and a group of local volunteers, she and other local people received professional portraits for free.
by | Dec 6, 2010 3:27 pm | Comments (4)
Lynne DeLucia and Lisa Chedekel at the C-HIT office suite on Elm Street shared with the New Haven Independent and La Voz Hispana.
Two longtime Connecticut journalists launched a health-care investigative reporting project Monday.
Called “C‑HIT,” it is a part of the Online Journalism Project, which also publishes the New Haven Independent, Valley Independent Sentinel, and Branford Eagle.
Check out its first batch of stories here. And read on for a press release with more details.
by | Nov 29, 2010 4:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Diane Ravitch.
You can add your voice in person at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School or here online as School Change 2.0 meets New Media 2.0 Tuesday night at a one-of-a-kind summit.
by | Nov 12, 2010 10:09 am | Comments (4)
The next time you click on an Independent story, you might see one of those annoying pop-ups you find on other sites. There’s a reason.
by | Nov 10, 2010 12:11 pm | Comments (14)
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Jersey Shore’s Snooki? Bad news. Eminem, circa 2010? Inspiring.
by | Nov 8, 2010 8:10 am | Comments (28)
Yeah, it blew up. But it returns to consciousness on CPTV Monday night — a reminder that its legacy lives on in the questions New Haven is asking about its future.
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Van Halen on the Coliseum stage.
by | Nov 4, 2010 9:08 pm | Comments (9)
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After several hours of signing the new book Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau by Brian Walker and additional copies of his own book 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective at Yale Bookstore Wednesday, cartoonist and author Garry Trudeau made the short trek to the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall at the Yale University Art Gallery to give a lecture. Before beginning, Trudeau was introduced to a packed auditorium by Dean Robert Storr of the Yale School of Art. Noting that Trudeau was the first cartoonist to win a Pulitzer Prize for a cartoon strip, Storr said Trudeau’s work has “tracked the vicissitudes of a generation” in a journey that began when Trudeau was a student at Yale in the early ‘70s.
Storr touched upon the mileu of the returning soldier during those years: “Soldiers that came back from the Vietnam war were demonized … but they were not responsible for the political calculations of those designing wars.”
It was such an understanding and sensitivity to the plight of soldiers and all those touched by the machinations of war that have informed much of the work of the enduring comic strip artist. Readers familiar with the Doonesbury strip know that it is not of the “ha-ha” variety, said Dean Storr, but full of the “bitter-sweet understandings that reflected critically what was [is] really going on.”
by | Oct 15, 2010 12:59 pm | Comments (7)
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A “newsboy” from the turn of the last century stood on the steps of City Hall, selling papers from 2011.
by | Oct 8, 2010 1:18 pm | Comments (0)
The Journal Register Co., parent of the New Haven Register, expects to lay off between 30 and 40 employees in the coming months.
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by | Sep 24, 2010 9:22 am | Comments (1)
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“One of the best things that has happened to New Haven.”
That’s what one of the best people who have happened to New Haven said about the city’s 5‑year-old online news source, the New Haven Independent.
Downtown Alderwoman and all-around goodwill ambassador Frances “Bitsie” Clark puts her money where her mouth is.
by | Sep 16, 2010 11:22 am | Comments (15)
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New Haven’s leading typo-catchers, article-commenters, activists, politicians, media mavens, and arts entrepreneurs swarmed into the Elm Street offices of the New Haven Indepenent and La Voz Hispana to toast a new era of online not-for-profit community journalism.
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by | Sep 7, 2010 1:46 pm | Comments (1)
SeeClickFix. Ugly Radio. The Facebook & Twitter pages of State Rep. Gary Holder-WInfield.
Those three virtual locations have become meeting places and launchpads for new connections. The New Haveners who created them told how.
by | Sep 6, 2010 4:49 pm | Comments (16)
You made it happen. Let’s keep it happening.
by | Jul 7, 2010 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
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Walking under leafy sycamores on a Westville street, kids and dog in tow, Mark Oppenheimer looks like any other young dad fulfilling his fatherly duties. His casual attire and relaxed gait do not betray his station as a busy journalist for the New York Times, his role as teacher of English and political science at Yale, or the fact that he is has authored three books to date. “Beliefs,” his bi-weekly, Saturday New York Times column on religion, seems a perfect fit for someone with a Ph.D in religious studies, but in his new book, “Wisenheimer — A Childhood Subject to Debate,” the writer delivers a memoir packed with humor, poignancy and even some sex — but little religion.
by | Jul 6, 2010 7:30 am | Comments (10)
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Three clues about Tuesday’s New York Times crossword puzzle: Its writer has four letters in his first name. He lives in New Haven. And he has two years left of high school.
by | Jul 2, 2010 8:02 am | Comments (8)
It’s a gorgeous June day In New Haven. As I sit outside and write this piece, the sun is glowing orange over Westville, with a beautiful summer breeze. Not humid as it has been earlier in the week.
That’s because of the dew point. Mike Collins taught me that.
by | Jun 25, 2010 7:03 am | Comments (0)
New Haven public library intern Chelsea Gizzi sent in this write-up about the library’s Summer Reading Challenge:
by | Jun 23, 2010 4:29 pm | Comments (1)
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Extras who showed up to appear in a movie being filmed on Chapel Street didn’t know what the plot was, but they had a few clues: A book signing. Hidden cameras. Dogs on the moon.