by | Apr 12, 2024 9:13 am | Comments (0)
Charlie Widmer performs on WNHH FM's "Acoustic Thursday @ Studio 51," opening with his new single.
Charlie Widmer didn’t expect people to want to hear “What Do I Need With Love?” Now it’s the first of his songs some people will ever hear.
by | Apr 11, 2024 12:36 pm | Comments (1)
In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too.
by | Apr 11, 2024 11:04 am | Comments (0)
CCA's Charmain Yun at WNHH FM.
Charmain Yun wondered where life would take her next. A voice came to her with the answer.
“I heard something in my heart,” Yun recalled. “The phrase was, ‘Do what’s in front of you.’ At the time what was in front of me were the kids on my stoop.”
Continue reading ‘CCA's New Chief Looks To Build On Anti-Poverty Mission’
by | Apr 5, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Johnathan Moore at WNHH FM. Below: Performing.
Johnathan Moore was ready to add a layer of sound. He reached for the Boss RC 600 loop station pedal and … nothing.
Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He kept the beat going. He pivoted to a new plan — and the music played on.
by | Apr 2, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
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Rafael Irizarry at WNH FM.
Rafael Irizarry could afford to spend all day relaxing or hitting the links. Instead he’s running to become the first Latino to represent Greater New Haven in the U.S. Congress.
by | Mar 29, 2024 11:07 am | Comments (0)
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MJ Bones in the WNHH FM studio.
“If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.”
Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on the ukulele, in New Haven.
by | Mar 27, 2024 4:57 pm | Comments (3)
Bridging generations, backgrounds: Rabbi Benjamin Scolnic, Council member Abdul Razak Osmanu.
One night the town erupted in chanting and screaming and accusation. Then a conversation started.
Continue reading ‘Rabbi, Pro-Ceasefire Council Member Seek Common Ground’
by | Mar 20, 2024 4:02 pm | Comments (39)
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Massey at WNHH FM: "Let people do what they want with their money."
Michael Massey found Donald Trump in prison. Now he’s living straight — and running for Congress with a mission to boost the role of fellow ”Urban Black” Republicans in their party.
by | Mar 14, 2024 1:35 pm | Comments (1)
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by | Mar 14, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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Author Biederman at WNHH FM, and her new book about a the underbelly of New Haven-Bridgeport's turn-of-the-century abortion trade.
Emma Gill’s severed foot and severed head washed up on a beach. Three boys stumbled across them.
That was in 1898. Might new such discoveries loom as a new era of abortion prohibition looms?
Continue reading ‘Tales From New Haven's Abortion Underground Yield Modern Warning’
by and | Mar 5, 2024 8:16 pm | Comments (26)
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Ward 18 challengers Zelema Harris and Sharon Braz congratulate Chris Avallone on his victory at Nathan Hale School.
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Victorious co-chair candidate Gary Hogan (at left) declared "a new Ward 28" in congratulating challenger Ephrat Lieblich (center) on a good race. Fellow victor Jess Corbett at right.
(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.
by | Feb 21, 2024 9:12 am | Comments (10)
Inside the Arvinas lab.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
by | Jan 24, 2024 12:12 pm | Comments (0)
Freewrite revolutionary: New Haven Poet Laureate Sharmont "Influence" Little at WNHH FM.
New Year’s/Inauguration Day
Twenty Twenty-Four
Boring speeches
Left us snoring
Like captives wilting
In the auditorium
For an hour. Plus an hour
by | Jan 18, 2024 11:23 am | Comments (1)
Don’t listen to the new single from the Afro-Semitic Experience if you wish to remain mired in despair over the state of the world or the harshness dividing groups of people.
Continue reading ‘Afro-Semitic Drops "Unity In The Community"’
by | Jan 10, 2024 9:03 am | Comments (15)
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas at WNHH FM.
Stephanie Thomas said she was “as shocked as everybody else” when she saw a video of a Bridgeport campaign worker allegedly hauling stacks of harvested absentee ballots into a drop box.
by | Jan 4, 2024 4:52 pm | Comments (13)
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State Rep. Josh Elliott at WNHH FM.
Joshua Elliott can see legal magic mushrooms for sale and ranked-choice ballots materializing in the distance.
Continue reading ‘Elliott Readies Next Legislative Steps Toward Freedom’
by | Dec 19, 2023 4:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Democracy Fund's Aaron Goode, Sarah Ficca, Aly Heimer at WNHH FM.
Candidates who ran for mayor under New Haven’s public-financing system raised 90 percent of their money from New Haveners, 28 percent more than clean-elections-defying rivals.
They also raised more local donations: over 47,000 (totaling over $4 million) from 2011 – 2023 versus some 16,000 donations worth $2.6 million for nonparticipants.
Those metrics emerge from a newly released study of the New Haven Democracy Fund, which has administered the city’s public-financing program since its 2007 inception.
by | Dec 18, 2023 12:22 pm | Comments (41)
In the wake of a state-spawned controversy over the reporting of New Haven marriages to federal immigration authorities, Gov. Ned Lamont declared that no “bureaucrat” should single out couples for discriminatory treatment because of their race, ethnicity, or nation of origin.
Continue reading ‘Lamont Slams New Haven Marriage Referrals’
by | Dec 6, 2023 11:00 am | Comments (3)
Alders-Elect Brittiany Mabery-Niblack and Theresa Morant at WNHH FM.
Attention LCI: Expect to hear from Brittiany Mabery-Niblack and Theresa Morant starting next month.
by | Dec 1, 2023 9:36 am | Comments (6)
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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) What record store used to occupy part of the former York Square Cinemas building that Yale just bought at 57 – 9 Broadway?
A) Cutler’s Records & Tapes
B) Vinyl-torium
C) Group W Bench
D) Rhymes Records
E) Elm City Sounds
by | Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm | Comments (5)
Alders-Elect Kiana Flores, Frank Redente, and Caroline Smith at WNHH FM.
Three of New Haven’s alders-elect with Fair Haven connections said they’re pumped to get to work as part of a community “team” that tackles safe streets, affordable housing, and small business growth.
by | Nov 28, 2023 3:49 pm | Comments (9)
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Grubbs: After 35 years, it was time.
The Rev. Bonita Grubbs has more big plans for Christian Community Action, the anti-poverty agency she runs.
She concluded that it’s time for someone else to put them into practice.
Continue reading ‘Anti-Poverty Champion Bonita Grubbs Retires’
by | Nov 27, 2023 11:48 am | Comments (0)
Next: Chris George and successor Maggie Mitchell Salem.
Running a $12 million-a-year nonprofit with 138 staffers helping resettle 1,000 refugees a year is a big enough challenge.
Add to that inheriting the helm of such an effort from a person who made all that possible over 18 years.
by | Nov 27, 2023 11:40 am | Comments (2)
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Marcia LaFemina, Yolanda Caldera-Durant, Ann Harrison at WNHH FM.
Some 86,000 jobs are going begging in Connecticut, many of them paying a living wage and not requiring a college degree. Thousands of people without college degrees need those jobs. So put those people in the jobs — simple, right?
Not so simple.
by | Nov 16, 2023 5:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Tzippy Shmilovitz.
The 5,591 miles separating New Haven and Tel Aviv got a lot farther since Oct. 7 for Tzippy Shmilovitz.
Continue reading ‘Israeli Correspondent Navigates Fears, Hope’