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Reporter Wooed, Shot, Mugged—& She Gets Her Story

by Paul Bass | Sep 29, 2006 8:52 am | Comments (1)

Who knew working for the Register was so thrilling?

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He Got The Story

by Paul Bass | Sep 22, 2006 11:41 am

Woody Guthrie might not have liked the new play at Long Wharf. Unless he looked hard for a concealed kernel of hope.

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“Norm” Hits the Shubert

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 22, 2006 10:18 am

Those who showed up to the Shubert to see George Wendt, the beloved Norm from “Cheers,” might have gotten a better look a few doors down at the Anchor Bar, where he was spotted earlier this week. His role in the classic Twelve Angry Men is minor, and others just don’t wow as Henry Fonda did, but the play’s still rich with insight into prejudice and pursuasive power.

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Liberals, Beware

by Paul Bass | Sep 21, 2006 12:47 pm

A newly opened farce in town updates a post-World War II script about fear frenzy. It makes us squirm more than it makes us laugh. What did you expect after 9/11? Reefer Madness? John Birch Pararnoid Blues?

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Reruns, On The Page

by Staff | Sep 21, 2006 10:16 am

Rereadings: Seventeen writers revisit books they love
Edited by Anne Fadiman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Reviewed by Richard Stack

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Gallery Questions The Authority of Physical Space

by Paul Bass | Sep 20, 2006 6:10 pm

Feminist ceramics? Yes, there is such a thing. And you’re looking at an example of it.

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Message: Fat Kids Cost Us Money

by Paul Bass | Sep 19, 2006 10:33 am | Comments (2)

Obesity has tripled for young kids in Connecticut. The pricetag to us: $856 million, and growing. So revealed this woman at a Graduate Club speech in downtown New Haven Tuesday.

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Little Peek, at The Little Theater

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 18, 2006 1:38 pm

A crowd filled Lincoln Street’s Little Theater Saturday for a sneak peek at “Family Affair,” a tough play about a lost fathers and lost second chances, based on a childhood in the New Haven projects — set in L.A.

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Music Helps “Mend a Broken World”

by Allan Appel | Sep 11, 2006 9:11 am

Ten-year old Monet Monterroso and her teacher Olga Shibtini of the Saturday Islamic School at the Bridgeport Islamic Community Center were among the more than 300 people across faiths and communities who gathered at Battell Chapel on the Yale campus Sunday night for a rousing fundraising concert to assist the civilian victims of violence in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon. The concert offered a sense of healing not just through the music, but through who showed up, and why.

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Bath Time

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 8, 2006 2:00 pm

The city’s Angel of Peace, relocated from East Rock to the New Haven Green during restoration, got a public bath Friday afternoon. Workers blasted corrosion off the statue with a power washer, said Francis Miller of ConservArt in Hamden.

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