by | Jan 13, 2020 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
Marjorie Wolfe
In the lens of Marjorie Wolfe‘s camera, the wind roils air and water together, driving the clouds through the sky and whipping up peaked waves into foamy surf. Her image captures the moment forever. But if she’d come back the next day — or even a few hours before or after — maybe it wouldn’t be there at all.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (7)
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Rosa (left) and Dell (right) with CMT stalwart Marge Wiener.
All that’s changing is … a vowel.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:28 pm | Comments (17)
CDN SMITH
Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch.
The city will soon go out to bid, again, for the long-planned and years-delayed Edgewood Cycletrack. Now the soonest cyclists can expect to ride the separated lane will be this summer.
by | Jan 9, 2020 2:27 pm | Comments (0)
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Westside CMT members raise their green cards in approval.
West siders gave the thumbs up — or rather raised green cards of support — to five nonprofits in their quest for support to nab a share of federal funding for local social services.
Continue reading ‘West Siders Back Quest For $$ To Help Kids, Families’
by | Dec 17, 2019 12:43 pm | Comments (0)
Amanda Duchen
The Menagerie.
Amanda Duchen’s aptly-named artwork, The Menagerie, is alive with energy, comical and dramatic. It’s possible to imagine her creature creations all in riotous conversation with one another. Or maybe they’re individual frames in a reel of film. The only problem: One of the frames is missing, and the space is marked “sold” with a red sticker. There’s another empty space in the grid nearby, marked with another red sticker that reads “I’ve been adopted!” It’s an acute reminder that Kehler Liddell Gallery’s last group show of the year, “Deck the Walls,” is also a sale. The art looks great on the walls, but in time for the holidays, you also get to take it with you.
by | Dec 16, 2019 6:34 pm | Comments (38)
Paul Bass Photo
Lopez: Shocked at shooting in such a “warm, safe neighborhood.”
Kenicha Lopez was at work Monday when she saw the text: Someone had fired bullets outside her child’s school.
“My heart was at 110 miles per minute,” Lopez said.
by | Dec 15, 2019 9:12 pm | Comments (3)
Allan Appel Photo
843-845 Whalley.
A long unused building in the heart of Westville’s village will become the home for expanded office spaces for a small multi-service child service agency, with slightly more parking required than previously envisioned.
by | Dec 12, 2019 3:51 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
Oxtail to go, with rice, beans, vegetables, and plantains
City’s Cathy Graves with Stone at opening.
Oxtail, curry goat already drawing loyal customers to Andrea Stone’s lifelong dream business. A spicy secret was revealed at the formal ribbon-cutting.
Continue reading ‘“Jamerican” Restaurant Debuts In Westville’
by | Dec 11, 2019 3:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Lt. Rose Dell at a recent community meeting.
Lt. Rose Dell is headed back to 1 Union Ave after a year building relationships with neighbors to tackle crime on the city’s west side.
by | Dec 9, 2019 3:06 pm | Comments (3)
A senior citizen withdrew $4,000 from the bank to pay two women who scammed her with a false promise of much more cash in return.
by | Dec 4, 2019 5:32 pm | Comments (2)
Contributed photos
Mrs. Mullins Shining Star panelists with siblings. Transatlantic Histories Program Director Thomas Thurston and teacher Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins in background.
The following article and photos came in from Davis Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins’ third grade students from the Davis Academy for Arts and Design Innovation let their academic light shine at the Harvard University Center for African Studies Association forum recently held in Cambridge, Mass.
Continue reading ‘Davis Street, South African Students Collaborate On Civil Rights History’
by | Dec 2, 2019 3:26 pm | Comments (3)
Three times in six days, drivers on the west side of town left keys inside their vehicles. All three vehicles were stolen.
by | Nov 27, 2019 9:03 am | Comments (0)
The piece is already playful enough, an energetic overlapping of fabric patterns and vivid colors. There are photographs of trees and what looks like a hotel room. There are also photographs of statues, but taken as if by a 12-year-old or someone with a fun sense of humor, because the cropping of the photos lops off the heads and draws the viewer’s eye to the statues’ naked posteriors. Then there’s the quote, emblazoned in white paint: “My stomach is the most violent of all of Italy.”
by | Nov 25, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (4)
Quick reflexes helped a cop grab an unpermitted black Taurus 709 slim firearm with six live rounds inside during a car stop at Chapel Street and Central Avenue; and a repeat thief made off with bottles of Natty Daddy and Jose Cuervo
by | Nov 23, 2019 8:53 pm | Comments (40)
Steve Hamm Photo
(Opinion) At a time when the social divide between the privileged class and regular people is growing ever wider, I decided to capture images of what it looks like when the elite are enjoying life in their natural habitat — in this case the 136th installment of “The Game” between Yale and Harvard football teams, which took place Saturday at the Yale Bowl.
Continue reading ‘Scenes From The Game: Protest & Privilege’
by | Nov 20, 2019 9:10 am | Comments (4)
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Woodbridge Avenue resident and meeting organizer Pamela Fahey.
Two messengers brought Westvilleans ideas for combating an uptick in neighborhood crime — community-powered ideas that don’t involve more cops, more arrests, or locking up young people.
by | Nov 18, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
A woman admitted she was “too drunk to drive” — after she crashed into a car on the Boulevard, then one at Marvel Road and West Elm.
Meanwhile, a burglar left some scatalogical traces behind after making off with a DVD player, a laptop, and over 1,000 DVDs from the apartment of a man who was in the hospital.
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:51 pm | Comments (1)
A Blake Street senior’s favor to a thirsty handyman ending up costing her. And a Fountain Street tenant learned that neighbors’ constant coital commotion is not a police matter.
by | Nov 11, 2019 12:51 pm | Comments (6)
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Brown-Dean reads from her new book at Kehler Liddell Gallery …
… and signs a copy for ConnCAT CEO Erik Clemons.
As you reflect on Veterans Day, Khalilah L. Brown-Dean asks you to think of Jimmie Lee Jackson and Leonard Matlovich.
And when you think of them she wants you to consider how their identities and the politics and policies that shaped their lives still have much to teach us today.
Continue reading ‘“Identity Politics” Illuminates Past, Present’
by | Nov 8, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (11)
David Sepulveda Photo
Dennis Serfilippi and Adam Marchand after the polls closed Tuesday.
Dennis Serfilippi ran for alder Tuesday as an independent in Ward 25 against incumbent Adam Marchand, who won the election. Serfilippi wrote the following article.
Driving home from Edgewood School on Election Night I realized there was unfinished business. I needed to find a way to express my gratitude and more importantly share my experiences of the day just passed.
by | Nov 7, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
Roy Money
Pond Elder and Remaining.
They’re pictures of the surfaces of water, of the roots systems of trees, but the scale the photographer chooses helps us look at them in a different way. Roy Money doesn’t pick landscapes that encourage us to take in the full view. They’re pictures of nature on a human scale, what you might see if you crouched down on a trail on the woods, or stopped to sit by a pond’s edge. But the sharp clarity of the images helps you see more detail than you might otherwise. It makes the roots of the tree look a little like a mountain range, or wrinkled fingers. It makes you look again.
by | Nov 5, 2019 10:22 pm | Comments (10)
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Dennis Serifilippi congratulates Adam Marchand at the Ward 25 polls.
Democrats swept all 30 races for Board of Alders seats in New Haven.
by | Nov 5, 2019 5:14 pm | Comments (0)
Clara Tolbert saw parents bringing their children with them to vote Tuesday — an experience she never had growing up in the Jim Crow South.
by | Nov 4, 2019 4:50 pm | Comments (1)
The winner of an OfferUp online auction brought a $4,940 check to McDonald’s. he rode away with a west side woman’s 2008 Nissan Sentra.
by | Nov 3, 2019 3:48 pm | Comments (17)
Paul Bass Photo
Urn Pendragon, Justin Elicker, Corey Evans, Erick Russell, State Rep. Robyn Porter at Sunday GOTV brunch: Harp’s name unspoken.
With 50 hours to go before the polls open, leading Democrats made the case for hitting the streets for mayoral candidate Justin Elicker — without making any case against the incumbent he seeks to unseat.