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The Art of Diplomacy Triumphs

by Paul Bass | May 25, 2006 3:16 pm

Russian and American government leaders may not be getting along well these days, but their museum counterparts are making history. At least the women who direct a Kremlin museum and New Haven’s Yale Center for British Art did.

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All Our Kinship

by Melissa Bailey | May 19, 2006 10:36 am

Jessica Sager (pictured, second from left), who co-founded All Our Kin with Janna Wagner, watched the room fill with well-wishers, including two New York Times Magazine writers, at the agency’s benefit dinner Thursday at Bentara Restaurant. The New-Haven based parent- and family- empowerment agency, which just got a new pad on Grand Avenue, is nearing its seventh birthday.

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Best Of New Haven, The Bash

by Paul Bass | May 18, 2006 10:05 am

The Advocate celebrated its “Best of New Haven“ poll results Wednesday night by unveiling a new T-shirt at a party at Bar, where people ate free pizza, grooved to live power pop, and, given the journos crawling around the place, had their pictures taken a lot. Click here to see who else was lucky enough to show up.

Dube Dude Does Dalí

by Tess Wheelwright | May 15, 2006 9:00 am

Hello, Dalí! That’s how playful art-lovers at a gala event at downtown Chapel Street’s White Space gallery greeted this man (aka Lewis Dube). Read on to see how they reviewed Dube’s impersonation and the hand-signed Dalí lithographs on display.

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Studio Stop: It’s In The Arranging, Too

by Tess Wheelwright | May 11, 2006 8:50 am

Featured Artist: K. Levni Sinanoglu, painter
Studio site: Erector Square, Peck Street

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Parents, Kids, & “Booktivities”

by Tess Wheelwright | May 8, 2006 11:33 am

Between beads strung and Mother’s Day-themed storybooks heard, Alexander Lomakin, 8, and Belie Lake, 5 (pictured with Mislal Andom, Belie’s mom) traded tales of how moms are celebrated in their first countries of Russia and Eritrea, as part of Saturday’s Parents and Communities for Kids (PACK) “booktivities” at the main public library. “Rather than parents just dropping kids off, this gives families an hour out together with books,” said librarian Sharon Lovett of the twice-monthly book club’s design and aim. Next fall, thanks to another year’s funding from the Wallace and the Community foundations, book-clubbers will read on in another location at the new Hill branch Wilson Library.

Ruby-Built Bridges

by Melinda Tuhus | May 4, 2006 7:42 am

These boys were just two of the hundreds of the adults and kids who came to the Omni Hotel Wednesday morning to pay tribute to an icon of the civil rights struggle, Ruby Bridges. She was the first grader who —” alone —” integrated a New Orleans public school in 1960. She’s been going into schools for the past 15 years, talking to students about undoing racism. She was the keynote speaker at The Clifford Beers Clinic 4th Annual Builders of Hope Breakfast.

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Maypole Mayhem

by Melinda Tuhus | May 2, 2006 7:32 am

The 20th annual May Day celebration on the Green was the most successful ever, in terms of attendance and variety of events. It didn’t hurt that the weather was perfect and that it coincided with another massive immigrants’ rights rally, but for most of the afternoon other issues and pastimes held sway.

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Three-Alarm Jazz Fire at Firehouse 12

by Regina DeAngelo | May 1, 2006 10:25 am | Comments (4)

Joe McPhee leans back and whales on his ornately etched baritone saxophone. Drummer Jay Rosen switches cadence mid-phrase, while Dominic Duval slides, taps and fans accompaniment on the upright bass. Between the saxophonist’s breaths, the room is quiet. No shifting chairs, no background conversation or clinking glasses. It’s just Trio X and its audience, wombed in the insulated performance space of Firehouse 12 on Crown Street in New Haven.

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