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Santa Lands, Weighs Wishes

by Allan Appel | Nov 30, 2007 8:20 am | Comments (2)

Arriving like a rock star on the back of a fire engine — with kids clamoring all about and microphones thrust at him every which way— Santa, aka Richard Acampora, helped kick off the holiday season downtown with the annual tree-lighting ceremony on the Green.

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Holiday Season Begins with a Boom… box

by Thomas MacMillan | Nov 20, 2007 8:50 am | Comments (2)

This holiday season, even tone-deaf New Haveners will be able go caroling…sort of. You don’t have to be able to carry a tune; you just have to carry a boombox.

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Gateway Remembers Afghan, Iraq Vets

by Melinda Tuhus | Nov 13, 2007 6:32 am

This man, a Vietnam vet and father of a soldier thrice-deployed to Iraq, struck a bell to commemorate each Connecticut service member killed in America’s two current wars. He said more should be done for returning vets.

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3 Vets Remembered

by Allan Appel | Nov 12, 2007 3:57 pm | Comments (2)

On the occasion of Veterans Day 2007, join us in communing with three very different New Havene vets, one young, one very old, and, yes, one who is dead.

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New Memorials and a Veterans Park Too?

by Allan Appel | Nov 12, 2007 3:48 pm

New Haven’s stark Vietnam Memorial down by Long Wharf may in Veterans Days to come be joined in the same harborside setting by an additional memorial to the city’s World War Two dead.

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Well Worth The Price

by christopher grobe | Nov 6, 2007 12:16 pm

The Death of a Salesman may be a “modern classic”.  The Crucible may appear on every high school English syllabus in America.  But The Price is arguably Arthur Miller’s best play—mixing in perfect proportion Miller’s fierce moral intellect, his knack for vivid characterization, his rich yet naturalistic dialogue, and his whimsical sense of humor. The production of the play running through Nov. 18 at the Long Wharf Theatre is itself truly superlative.

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Coming Soon: A Family Affair

by Allan Appel | Nov 6, 2007 12:09 pm | Comments (1)

Fair Haven’s Bregamos Theater Company is gearing up for its major production of the fall, A Family Affair, a play based on the novel by Alex Tyson (on the right), a former drug gang leader who grew up in the Quinnipiac projects.

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The Art of Artifice

by christopher grobe | Nov 5, 2007 5:18 pm

Merely to walk into the Yale Repertory Theater these days is a dizzying experience.  Covering the brick walls at the rear end of the stage are huge panels of fake brick.  A few feet in from the theater’s wall-mounted catwalk is a temporary catwalk mounted to a fake-brick wall.  Even the steps down from the stage into the audience lead not to the theater’s house-floor but to a slightly raised platform—a fake house-floor.

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Green Giant Invades The Green

by Thomas MacMillan | Nov 5, 2007 6:41 am

It weighs 11,900 pounds. It’s 55 feet tall. And it’s just taken up residency on the New Haven Green. The town’s annual Holiday tree is here.

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