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Schandra Madha on the hot seat at Common Ground.
One of New Haven’s coolest places was also one of its hottest Thursday morning.
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Stanley "Stan the Man" Welch and Jesse Hameen II on Wednesday.
Living local jazz legend and accomplished drummer Jesse Hameen II started out his musical career at the old Winchester School with a humble pair of instruments: his own two hands, which he put to work in a “hambone” body-percussion performance in the first show of what would become a decades-long career of finding the rhythm in his home city.
Continue reading ‘Jazz Icon's Path From "Hambone" To Morse Hall’
by | Feb 1, 2023 5:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Beth Ewing left home Wednesday morning with a purpose.
by | Feb 1, 2023 11:19 am | Comments (0)
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Stetson Branch Librarian Diane Brown with Chris "Big Dog" Davis at WNHH FM.
Chris “Big Dog” Davis signed up to co-produce an update of a hit song Stevie Wonder wrote. Little did he know at first that he would also be recording the song with the legendary musician.
by | Jan 31, 2023 3:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Jack Deyo (above) drills hole for Wingstop sign (below, with colleagues Evan Curtin and TJ Telesco).
Six-foot-wide aluminum incarnations of the words “WING” and “STOP” rested on the Sherman Avenue sidewalk as three seasoned sign-installers scoped out the scene.
by | Jan 30, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Eugene J. Foreman Jr. looked surprisingly calm with his walkie-talkie out on the Beers Street sidewalk outside Augusta Lewis Troup School as a siren sounded and kids poured out of the building.
by | Jan 26, 2023 5:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Nancy Jordan with 18-month-old Tramire as she and fellow church parishioners delivered holiday gifts to his home two months after a stray bullet struck him on his family's front porch.
When Nancy Jordan does her “clap-out dance” at police headquarters Friday, she doesn’t plan to make people wait outside.
by | Jan 26, 2023 12:35 pm | Comments (14)
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TAC's David Dinielli and law student Eleanor Runde -- who worked on an amicus brief in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about tech platforms' legal liabilities -- at WNHH FM.
Consumer warning: If you want to publish a comment at the end of this story calling people names or lying about them committing horrible acts, tough luck. Your contributions don’t immediately get posted. They get reviewed and vetted according to rules of civility (not to mention libel law).
If, however, you have a terrorist video seeking to recruit people to blow up enemies whose religion or nationality you despise, or a lie-filled screed about someone you read about in the news, you can instantly publish it on YouTube. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm might even help you reach hateful loners all over the globe to take action of their own. And if some … unfortunate events follow, oh well. YouTube can continue doing that with more videos — as long as its parent company convinces U.S. Supreme Court justices to maintain its protection under a law passed nine years before the social-media video powerhouse was created.
by | Jan 25, 2023 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Lauren had a dual mission as she loaded her stuff Wednesday morning into a friend’s car headed for campus.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Sisterhood Is Wow-erful’
by | Jan 24, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Silas Harris had a spring in his step Tuesday morning after taking a first metaphorical step toward rebuilding his life.
by | Jan 23, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Four deliveries down. Eight to go.
by | Jan 20, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (31)
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Liam Brennan at WNHH FM.
New Haven can stop making drug arrests (while still confiscating fentanyl). It can stop making gun arrests (while confiscating more illegal guns). It can build needed new housing in places it never dreamed before, or change or even override zoning barriers. It can even teach kids how to read rather than teach them how not to read.
So says Liam Brennan. He bases those conclusions on his personal and professional life experiences. And he’d like to give New Haveners the chance to elect someone who intends to lead the city into that new era.
Continue reading ‘Mayoral “Explorer” Crafts Activist Platform’
by | Jan 19, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Kasheem “Kash” Knight returned to Dwight from the overnight shift to throw in a load of laundry, and keep working.
by | Jan 19, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Rob Forbes at WNHH FM with his new book.
Thomas Jefferson crossed out the letter “I” from a manuscript. And he almost got away with it. Robert Pierce Forbes discovered that cross-out more than three centuries later — and embarked on a quest to discover why.
by | Jan 17, 2023 4:39 pm | Comments (19)
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Shafiq Abdussabur at WNHH FM: Community grows face-to-face.
The city’s Board of Education should ditch the remote and resume meeting in person to tackle the school system’s challenges, in the view of Democratic mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur.
by | Jan 17, 2023 2:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: How An Olympian Keeps Running’
by | Jan 11, 2023 3:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Kirk Bankasingh checks on a load.
Inside the Wishy Washy Laundry Wednesday morning, Sparks’ eyes were sparkling.
by | Jan 10, 2023 5:24 pm | Comments (6)
Derrex Conner was on his way to the dump when he noticed a dozen bags trashing the curb on Elm Street between Beers and Orchard.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Dumped Trash Disappears’
by | Jan 9, 2023 3:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Kendall Francis arrives early for her job interview.
Kendall Francis got a new glimpse of her family’s hometown, as she pulled into New Haven to see if it will become her new hometown.
by | Jan 6, 2023 1:14 pm | Comments (2)
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New Haven Promise CEO Patricia Melton at WNHH FM.
The horizon has broadened for New Haven public-school “scholars.”
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Ready for updated round of Monopoly (from left): U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Taylor Swift, Prof. Florian Ederer, FTC Chairperson Lina Kahn.
Florian Ederer thought a skiing trip would offer a break from his day job monitoring the dangers of concentrated corporate power.
Even the slopes, it turns out, have become fertile ground for duplicitous duopoly.
by | Jan 4, 2023 12:57 pm | Comments (4)
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Officer Ashley McKernan was two hours into her second consecutive shift Wednesday morning when she finally found a moment to fuel back up for the next hours on the beat.
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Tom Goldenberg at WNHH FM.
ECA. To an ashram. To the bar at Pacifico. To McKinsey & Company. To … New Haven City Hall?
Continue reading ‘Meditator-Turned-Bartender-Turned-McKinsey Consultant Prepares Mayoral Run’
by | Dec 22, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
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Fred White Thursday outside the Whalley Wells Fargo.
A retired tool-and-die maker named Fred White kept moving Thursday, hopping on his music-amplified Kent Cruiser two-wheeler to navigate the busy Norton-Whalley intersection.