by | Sep 6, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (3)
State Rep. Lemar at WNHH FM.
Roland Lemar has advice for Kamala Harris for her big presidential campaign debate next week: Stay the course.
Let the “ho” digs and name-calling and other insults slide by. Keep smiling. Stand above it. Let her opponent, Donald Trump, look small.
by | Aug 28, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
The History of Sound: Stories
By Ben Shattuck
Viking
July 9, 2024
306 pages
It’s a long story. And 12 short stories.
Ben Shattuck tells those dozen stories in his new collection called The History of Sound. The stories span three centuries. They interconnect in pairs — sometimes in passing, through an old painting or field recording buried under floor boards, sometimes more directly in traveling back in time to reveal the full story of a mystery that has been reinterpreted and rewritten by later generations.
In the process, Shattuck is telling us one story, about our legend-laden region of New England. And about telling stories, period.
by | Aug 27, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Bartlett-Josie on the floor of the Chicago United Center at last week's Democratic National Convention.
Christine Bartlett-Josie’s phone is ringing again. Just as in 2008.
Continue reading ‘Bartlett-Josie Sees Kamala-mentum Continuing After Convention’
by | Aug 15, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
For the first time, WNHH’s Tuesdays @ the Mediterranea Cafe concert series featured a saxophone, a harmonica, and a golden trumpet — though the last wasn’t making any sound.
That didn’t keep Snake Hill Blues lead singer Vaughn Collins from taking the miniature instrument from around his neck, pressing his fingers to the keys, and letting the imaginary horn blare among the real, rightly-sized instruments surrounding him.
by | Aug 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (45)
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Looney at WNHH: Bradley has lots of room.
Commercial air service at Tweed-New Haven Airport is growing nearly as fast as an SST — too fast, in the opinion of one influential neighbor.
by | Aug 2, 2024 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Dean Falcone and Shellye Valauskas at WNHH FM.
The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums.
Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured unplugged energy into a preview of what’s coming.
by | Jul 30, 2024 4:11 pm | Comments (20)
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Andrea DiLieto Zola at WNHH FM.
Andrea DiLieto Zola is knocking on Wooster Square doors asking voters to do something new this November — elect a New Haven Republican to the state legislature.
by | Jul 25, 2024 9:02 am | Comments (1)
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Author Joshua Perry at WNHH FM: Truth found in fiction.
Seraphim
By Joshua Perry
Melville House Publishing
262 pages
Ben is not Joshua.
by | Jul 23, 2024 5:00 pm | Comments (24)
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DTC Chair Vincent Mauro Jr. at WNHH FM.
Vincent Mauro Jr. is all in with his party’s new plan to elect Kamala Harris the next president of the United States.
He’s not down with how it all came about. In fact he has a gripe with his party.
Continue reading ‘Mauro Blasts National Party For Keeping Locals In Dark About Biden’
by | Jul 12, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Brian Ember in the WNHH FM studio.
Brian Ember started singing a verse he wrote 22 years ago, to a song he’s just now figuring out how to complete.
Continue reading ‘Decades Later, Brian Ember Finishes The Song’
by | Jul 11, 2024 12:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Steve Winter with pooch pal Toly on the campaign trail.
So you have a school that needs repairs.
You have a planet that needs fewer carbon emissions.
You have a neighborhood where people pay too much for electricity.
Steve Winter has an idea about how to address those three needs at once — and where to find buckets of money to do it.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Winter Has A Geo-Winterizing Idea’
by | Jul 10, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (16)
Madeline Negrón at WNHH FM.
Madeline Negrón knew she had challenges to tackle when she took over as New Haven’s schools superintendent. She didn’t know about all the sinks with no levers to turn water on and off or the broken HVAC systems leaving people shivering in the winter and sweating in the summer.
Continue reading ‘Settled In Job, Negrón Eyes Decaying School Buildings’
by | Jun 27, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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How the dollars and cents add up: Budget Lab founders Danny Yagan, Natasha Sarin and Martha Gimbel.
Martha Gimbel’s new New Haven-based think tank is preparing to help the country figure out a crucial question next year once the smoke clears from this year’s federal election campaigns.
by | Jun 26, 2024 8:59 am | Comments (0)
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Osmanu, at right, with political mentor Justin Farmer at WNHH FM.
Abdul Osmanu was a 14-year-old high school sophomore when he first geeked out on the state Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula.
Now he’s a 22-year-old candidate for state legislative office looking to apply what he learned to help public schools improve.
Continue reading ‘Osmanu Draws On "Lived Experience" For State Rep Campaign’
by | Jun 21, 2024 11:47 am | Comments (0)
At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a backroom hookah lounge.
by | Jun 20, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (5)
Author Brill (at right): "If we understand how truth has been so eviscerated, we can see how to restore it."
The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Can Do About It
By Steven Brill
Alfred A. Knopf
Villains abound in Steven Brill’s new call to arms to rescue truth from internet disinformation agents and “pink slime” peddlers. My favorite villain is a piece of legislation.
by | Jun 12, 2024 11:13 am | Comments (15)
State Rep. Juan Candelaria at WNHH FM.
Juan Candelaria knew many Latinos cringed at the term “Latinx.” Others wanted to make sure that people who identify as neither a man nor a woman have a word that recognizes them.
Continue reading ‘Candelaria: Dems Need "Inclusion" To Hold Onto Latino Vote’
by | Jun 10, 2024 1:23 pm | Comments (0)
James Wyrtzen and the Barnburners on WNHH FM.
For a half-hour, the backroom of Mediterranea transported across time and space, bringing blues-inspired classic rock to the modern age.
The harbingers? Three high school students, who by this point might qualify as veteran performers.
Continue reading ‘Barn Burned; Next-Gen Chords Emerge From Ashes’
by | Jun 7, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (0)
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Wally's Teo Hernandez, Lucas Hernandez, and Alex Blair perform at WNHH FM.
“Everything’s meant to be broken /
Everything’s meant to pass …”
Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact year, but he knows his heart was broken.
A decade or so later, he was singing those words with brothers Teo and Lucas Hernandez, sliding into pitch-perfect harmony they’ve honed since those school days.
After singing the chorus to the song, called “Hiding Behind The Moon,” Blair, on his Ovation guitar, and Teo, on his Martin, added a newfound twist: a chromatic descent influenced by Blair’s newfound interest in Bossa Nova music.
by | Jun 5, 2024 11:15 am | Comments (14)
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State legislative candidates Nyrell Moore and Johnnie McFadden at WNHH FM.
Nyrell Moore and Johnnie McFadden agree that voters in neighborhoods like the Hill should have a choice when they vote — and they’re presenting themselves as that choice this November.
Continue reading ‘2 Challenge Incumbent Dems For State Seats’
by | May 31, 2024 12:22 pm | Comments (0)
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Sketch Tha Cataclysm at WNHH FM.
Armando Acevedo clicked on a file from his phone. He unrolled a taped-together 10-page scroll. He started rapping the printed lyrics, summoning the insights of a noted 20th century Swiss psychologist married to 21st century beats.
by | May 29, 2024 4:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Seeking Conn.-grown solutions: Comptroller Scanlon pictured Tuesday during a stop at New Haven's Louis' Lunch.
Connecticut needs to pay doctors and hospitals more for Medicaid care. We also need to find a way to pay for it.
Sean Scanlon says he has an idea.
by | May 22, 2024 11:09 am | Comments (13)
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Filibuster-ready if needed: State Sen. Gary Winfield at WNHH FM.
Gary Winfield was ready to talk. And talk. And talk. For hours and hours.
He let his colleagues in the legislature know that he was ready to talk and talk and talk.
So he didn’t need to end up talking. He got the message across — and mission accomplished.
by | May 16, 2024 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands on the band’s first-ever EP.
by | May 15, 2024 11:00 am | Comments (10)
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Data Deep-Divers Jacob Hacker and Jonathan Cohen at WNHH FM.
The economy’s roaring, according to official measures like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
The economy’s ailing, and we’re all hurting, according to the human beings who live in it.
Maybe it’s time for a new way to measure the economy?