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Thursday, December 26, 2024
3:00pm – 4:00pm
Host: LA VOZ HISPANA DE CT

Latino news, views, and music.

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Host: Cliff Furnald

5:00pm – 7:00pm
Host: Babz Rawls-Ivy

7:00pm – 8:00pm
Host: Jazz Haven with Stan the Man

8:00pm – 9:00pm
Host: MarceyLynn Jones

Not just a talk show! Community pioneer's stories that you can't google! non-googlable truths.

9:00pm – 10:00pm
Host: Paul Bass, Editor of the New Haven Independent

The New Haven Independent’s editor talks government, politics and current events with local newsmakers.

10:00pm – 11:00pm
Host: Cliff Furnald

11:00pm – 12:00am
Host: Tom Ficklin

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Santa Pause

We’re taking a publishing break until Jan. 2. Happy holidays! Thanks for reading and joining the conversation again this year. 

2024 Year-End Newz Quiz

What do you remember from 12 months of headlines?  Paul Bass reports. 

Clock Shop Sale Delayed Again

Arthur Delot-Vilain reports.

A Bedford Falls Funeral

Nora Grace-Flood finds new meaning in a stripped-down radio version of the holiday classic It’s A Wonderful Life.

Today’s Debates

CryptoStock Dumped Pol DumpedGunned DownThrown Out(Near) High DramaYet Again

Giant Steps

An English artist adopted by Detroit pushes back against what street art” should be. Review Crew’s Ryan Patrick Hooper reports.

Our Anthropomorphic Connection

Shines in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Jamil Ragland reports. 

Let’s See What They Did

ACLU seeks release of alleged prison excessive-force videos. Viktoria Sundqvist reports.

Ben M. Ligon, 95

Ben was a Korean War vet and known as a hard-working man.  Obit. 

How Angel
Brought Back Christmas

For Paula Pouncey and 415 Hill families.  Laura Glesby reports. 

That’s My AI

Stetson exhibit beams light on future.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Santa Delivers ... Dinner

At Life Haven shelter.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Bag O’ Books

Jewish books for sale, as the Jewish Historical Society downsizes to digitize.  Allan Appel reports. 

Draughn Chosen
To Run Housing Authority

Staff reports.

Man Of Influence

City’s poet laureate named New Haven Artist of the Year. Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Delayed Youth Shelter 
Receives $500K Boost

From alders, for $7.5M facility on Grand Ave.  Nathaniel Rosenberg reports. 

YNHH Gifts Cornell Scott $500K

For new Recovery and Wellness Center.  Staff reports. 

Esther Lavache, 55

Esther loved a good meal, her inner circle of sisters,” and spending time with her kids — no matter where they took her.  Obit. 

Oy! Bring On
The Holiday Tunes

Nu Haven Kapelye gets klezmer busy as Hanukkah approaches.  Paul Bass reports. 

Jazz Raindrops Fall

Jamil Ragland reports.

4-Alarm Holiday Joy

Santa meets up with 100 kids at 10 city firehouses.  Staff reports. 

Rosa Dishes
Red State Red Meat

Congresswoman charts billions red states could lose in disaster aid after Trump and President Musk” kill gov’t-funding resolution.  Paul Bass reports. 

Wreaths Across America 
Stops By Hillhouse

On the way to Arlington National Cemetery.  Lisa Rodriguez reports. 

UFO Spotted In 
Library’s Local History Room

The truth is out there — not necessarily about flying saucers, but definitely about New Haven’s past.  Allan Appel reports. 

Cross Environmental
Club Keeps Cleaning

Maya McFadden reports.

John Waters Survives

… fame and fortune, with soul intact. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood catches his Xmas stand-up tour.

NHPS Office Update: Still Empty

Maya McFadden reports.

That’s A Lot Of Green $

Feds send city $20M thru EPA’s Community Change Grants Program.  Staff reports. 

Missing Person

Staff reports.

Narcan Pouches,
AI Reports Cleared For Cops

Thanks to aldermanic approvals.  Nathaniel Rosenberg reports. 

Sorry, Jia Tolentino

Sweetgreen’s fast-casual salad bowls coming to vacant storefront at Shops at Yale.  Staff reports. 

Constance LaPalombara retrospective at CAW covers New Haven, Maine, and the Southwest.  Brian Slattery reports. 

Torn & Splattered

Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood encounters a new perspective on distressed fashion.

Ignore The Pans

Kraven is worth the hunt.  Jamil Ragland reports. 

Man Found Dead In YNHH Office

Circumstances still under investigation.  Dereen Shirnekhi and Paul Bass report. 

Dr. James Williams, 80

Dr. Williams was a Vietnam War veteran who was passionate about education and a member of the Knickerbocker Golf Club.  Obit. 

David George Conte, 78

David was a motorcyclist and public school teacher who was passionate about supporting students.  Obit. 

Tree Jazz

Firehouse 12 gets festive, with the help of the Christmas Tree‑O. Brian Slattery reports. 

Wait -- Is That Jalen?

Review Crew’s Emily Cohen reports on the celebrity lookalike contest phenomenon.

66 Songs On Route 66

Review Crew’s Matt Carney joins fellow middle-aged dads to catch Wilco’s double-night decades-spanning new tour.

New Havener Of The Year

Laura Glesby Photo

IfeMichelle Gardin shows off her James Baldwin earrings.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Then there are years marked by someone like IfeMichelle Gardin, who in 2024 exposed the questions that the answers hide” — as artists do, according to James Baldwin.

Gardin is authoring a new chapter of New Haven’s literary history in the form of Kulturally Lit, an organization that blossomed over the past year during what would have been James Baldwin’s 100th year of life.

Continue reading ‘New Havener Of The Year’

In 2024, Megalandlords Sold Big

Jabez Choi file photo

Ocean tenants union members protesting at 1455 State in July.

Two of the city’s largest landlords unloaded a combined 188 New Haven apartment buildings containing 589 rental units for more than $78 million this year — as a wide array of different buyers, new homeowners and out-of-town investors alike, moved in to fill the void.

Continue reading ‘In 2024, Megalandlords Sold Big’

Green Remakers Face Grave Question

Laura Glesby Photo

What about Mary? The gravestone of 3-year-old Mary Hillhouse Oswald preserved in Center Church on the Green's crypt.

When the city unveiled a proposal to build a fountain and a children’s garden” on the upper half of the New Haven Green, Nicholas Mignanelli had a question: What about the eight to ten thousand people buried inches beneath the ground?

Continue reading ‘Green Remakers Face Grave Question’