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NAACP Youth Officers Installed

by TOM FICKLIN | Apr 30, 2008 7:32 am

The Greater New Haven Youth Council installed officers Tuesday at a ceremony at Betsy Ross School. Click on the play arrow to watch highlights.

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Woman, Fire, Ambition, and Desire: The Performance of the Great Baga D’mba

by TOM FICKLIN | Apr 30, 2008 6:50 am

Seven scholars who have been studying “the multisensory D’mba performance” of the
Baga people brought their observations from Guinea to the Yale Art Gallery’s lecture hall Tuesday. Click on the play arrows to watch highlights.

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Powder in Lieu of Taxes?

by Allan Appel | Apr 28, 2008 7:53 am

The Second Company Governor’s Foot Guard of Connecticut did not stop for a latte as they paraded toward the Green.

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Shanna Melton’s Work Displayed

by TOM FICKLIN | Apr 23, 2008 7:32 am

Click on the slide show to see the work of Shanna Melton and photos of an exhibit of Melton’s Work Sunday at K-Net on Amity Road, sponsored by Universal Arts Movement.

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A Universal Performance

by TOM FICKLIN | Apr 22, 2008 8:22 am

The Unviersal Arts Movement performed at K-Net (134 Amity Rd.) Sunday. Click on the play arrow to watch highlights.
For info about the group’s upcoming fashion show (May 10), email here. For other event info, check the website or email Paul McKenzie.

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A Freed Slave’s Tale

by TOM FICKLIN | Apr 22, 2008 8:15 am

The tale of an enslaved African who earned his freedom in New England came back to life Monday — with a larger lesson.

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Back to the Future with Arts & Ideas, and the Big Read

by Allan Appel | Apr 22, 2008 7:52 am

Where can you find dances about spirituality by Connecticut women on roller skates, a talk by Maus‘s Art Spiegelman on the subculture of comics, and the American premiere of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone?

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“For Colored Girls,” A Chance to Shine

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 21, 2008 3:23 pm

With poise and chutzpah, seven city teens (including Angie Liana Laluz, at left) brought new life to a 1970s play about the struggles of black women. Melinda Tuhus reports.

“For Colored Girls”... A Chance to Shine

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 21, 2008 4:16 am | Comments (2)

Seven New Haven teens were praised for their poise and chutzpah as they brought new life to a 1970s play about the struggles of black women.

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London Calling

by Allan Appel | Apr 16, 2008 7:48 am | Comments (1)

Rob Uttley thought some of his British clients might find Center Church’s colonial crypt cool.

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