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Vote Early & Often—For Public Art

by Allan Appel | Aug 29, 2008 9:21 am

Election season is underway: Should the stage on the Green be transformed into a huge nomadic tent this winter , covered in colorful ribbons? Should three bell towers arise on the Green? Or should 9,000 lights on nine cubes evoke the Nine Squares? Click here for the full story.

Vote Early & Often—For Public Art

by Allan Appel | Aug 29, 2008 8:18 am | Comments (1)

Election season is underway: Should the stage on the Green be transformed into a huge nomadic tent this winter , covered in colorful ribbons? Should three bell towers arise on the Green? Or should 9,000 lights on nine cubes evoke the Nine Squares?

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“Green Drinks” Catching On

by Melinda Tuhus | Aug 21, 2008 7:52 am | Comments (8)

Nate Bixby was on his way in to Wednesday night’s Green Drinks at Geronimo’s on Crown Street; Julie Newman was on her way out. These two environmental movers and shakers chatted for a few minutes before going their separate ways — and demonstrated why this year-old event is catching on.

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Stars Come Out For 1st Food & Wine Fest

by Sarah Vanderbilt | Aug 21, 2008 7:36 am

Mayor John DeStefano stopped by New Haven’s first food and wine festival, held Wednesday night as part of the Pilot Pen tennis tournament. He put a question to Union League head chef Jean-Pierre Vuillermet: “Do you think this should be a stand-alone event?”

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28 Pizzas Consumed

by Paul Bass | Aug 14, 2008 1:40 pm | Comments (4)

And teens (such as Isabella Edwards, pictured) were celebrated on the Green at a lunchtime party inspired by Independent readers.

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Immigrants Celebrated in Fair Haven Cantata

by Allan Appel | Aug 11, 2008 2:00 pm | Comments (1)

“It made us feel proud, it was beautifully performed, and it was true.” Such was the dream review that Luz Santiago (left), Delia Vega and 15 other residents of Casa Otonal gave to “Migrants,” a bilingual cantata celebrating the Puerto Rican and Latino experience in America.

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Nagasaki in New Haven

by Melinda Tuhus | Aug 10, 2008 6:30 pm | Comments (4)

A group of cyclists rode the two-mile diameter circle extending out from the Green to mark what would have been the blast area — inside which all life would be destroyed — had the bomb the size of the one the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 dropped on New Haven. Organizer David Eliscu welcomed cyclists and explained their mission.

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It’s Called “Insane”

by Thomas MacMillan | Aug 8, 2008 11:11 am

“Chillin’ on the streets, youth in trouble. Slip and stumble, watch the cops double. Youth stays the same, stuck in the game, looked at with shame.”

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New Haven Idol?

by Sarah Vanderbilt | Aug 7, 2008 10:03 am | Comments (1)

At an open casting call, aspiring singers — some nervous, some brazenly confident — sung their hearts out before a panel of three judges. This was not the latest episode of American Idol, but an open casting call for kids aspiring to wow crowds at the Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament later this month.

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