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Hand Lent To Cuban Jews

by Sharon Hakakian | Jun 13, 2007 10:33 am

“One moment, you could be standing in front of one of the most beautiful buildings,” Stephanie Wain was saying, “but if you walked only one block away, the sights of broken-down cars and disrepair fill the streets.”

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Hundreds Audition for Indiana Jones

by Georgia Kral | Jun 12, 2007 9:45 am | Comments (2)

New Haven was filled with hopeful Indiana Jones fans and actors , as hundreds of people lined Temple Street from Crown to Chapel, waiting for their big chance to be an extra in the Indiana Jones sequel to be filmed in part in New Haven.

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Latino Art Market Heats up in Fair Haven

by Allan Appel | Jun 10, 2007 9:46 pm | Comments (1)

“This guy is really in a zone,” said Charlie Diaz. “I mean just look at the man’s eyes, and his face. Oh yeah, those hands are playing the conga all by themselves. I can even tell you what make the conga is.”

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Anyone Want a 24’x4’ Erector Set Boat?

by Allan Appel | Jun 10, 2007 9:40 pm | Comments (1)

These enterprising Farmington Canal walkers, including 13-year-old Annakate Schatz and her family, were among the lucky few who will be able to visit Slovenian artist Matej Vogrincic’s transformation of New Haven’s forgotten section of canal into a site-specific art work up close. On Saturday afternoon, they walked the canal bed from Hillhouse Avenue to where it ends at Grove and Orange in one of the Festival of Arts & Ideas’s engrossing walking tours.

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Festival Begins As A Spike Lee Joint

by Georgia Kral | Jun 10, 2007 9:21 pm

When Spike Lee walked onto the stage on the New Haven Green in a white suit and thick tortoise shell plastic specs, the crowd went wild. It was a perfect New Haven moment: It had rained all day, yet thousands of loyal fans crowded the green with lawn chairs and umbrellas to see Spike Lee and hear Terence Blanchard perform the music from Lee’s movies—and to kick off an annual two-plus weeks of worldwide sounds and discussion throughout the city.

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“Your City of Summer” Unveiled

by Georgia Kral | Jun 7, 2007 10:35 am | Comments (3)

Civic boosters—including Anne P. Worcester of Market New Haven, Alderman Yusuf I. Shah and Yale Vice-President Bruce Alexander, chairman of Market New Haven (pictured)—gathered at the Union League Cafe to unveil a summer’s worth of concerts and other public events in town, including concerts on the green with Los Lonely Boys and Regina Bell. The slogan: “Your City of Summer.”

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In Their Own Words

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 7, 2007 9:45 am

German Jewish refugee and longtime New Haven resident Irm Wessel (pictured) attended the Wooster Square press conference Wednesday night in solidarity with today’s immigrants and against federal immigration raids that took place throughout the city. Click here to listen what she had to say.

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New Haven Marks 500 Sundays of Peace

by Allan Appel | Jun 3, 2007 10:28 am | Comments (1)

By the estimates of these members of the Connecticut Peace Coalition, this was a red-letter day, the 500th Sunday the group has been holding their vigil and signs up high. They began, according to Patty Nuelsen, second from left, about ten years ago when U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq. “Maybe we’ve missed at most four or five Sundays in all these years.”

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