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Gone Dishin’—for Divas

by Gone Dishin' | Feb 28, 2006 2:35 pm

Kehler Liddell Galleries has become the focal point for the new denizens of Ar-LOW and their newly created devotees. Saturday night, two of the new émigrés to Westville offered their time and talent to present a two-dimensional concert. Allison Kalloo and Lisa Cobham (pictured), backed by their musicians, alternated between jazz standards and operatic arias.

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Three Months, Three Big Ideas

by Paul Bass | Feb 28, 2006 12:58 pm | Comments (2)

How many people does it take to do the paperwork to recertify public-housing tenants? Three months into one of the hardest jobs in New Haven, housing authority chief Jim Miller (at right in photo) revealed the answer to a downtown audience Tuesday — by way of listing what he feels needs to change to turn around an agency with “troubled” perennially affixed to its name.

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“What Does It Mean To Be a Christian In The Face Of Torture?”

by Melinda Tuhus | Feb 28, 2006 10:22 am

Mark Colville is at it again. The Catholic Worker activist who lives on Rosette Street in the Hill was part of a contingent of 25 Catholic peace activists who journeyed to Cuba in December in an attempt to visit prisoners being held at Guantánamo Naval Base. He spoke on Monday evening at the parish house of Sacred Heart Church about his experience and what it now commands him to do.

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Democracy Comes to Town

by Tess Wheelwright | Feb 28, 2006 7:03 am | Comments (1)

Joyce Henry and Minaren Bozeman (pictured) came to Fair Haven Monday night to talk about how to make new voters and active citizens here in town. They got a lesson on civics in the Elm City: to get anything done around here, you’ve got to work along neighborhood lines.

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Backfire at LULAC

by Hernando Diosa/ La Voz Hispana | Feb 27, 2006 2:50 pm

Parents have rallied to the side of teacher Mar√ɬ≠a Maldonado (pictured) after her firing from a job at LULAC Head Start, a longstanding preschool program in Fair Haven. La Voz Hispana, a Spanish-language weekly, published two stories on the controversy. The first gives Maldonado’s side of her case and of conditions at LULAC. The second article offers the perspective of LULAC’s director on the history and current situation there.

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The Color of Pickle

by Gina Coggio | Feb 27, 2006 7:49 am | Comments (1)

The Independent’s schoolteacher diarist meets up with Brinn — at work, over dinner, and in a classroom for expelled students. Will she come back?

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History Squeezes Its Way In

by Michael Alexander | Feb 27, 2006 7:48 am | Comments (5)

The occasion was Black History Month, but present politics caught up with the past at a series of panels on “The State of Black New Haven” in Dixwell. Speakers at the event, including activist Barbara Fair (shown with Alderman Jorge Perez), did manage to discuss matters other than the governor’s race or the failings of the current mayor.

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Lower Chapel’s Looking “Yup”

by Paul Bass | Feb 24, 2006 1:30 pm

“This little miniskirt,” Ricardo Beamon was saying as he displayed a Sacred Bleu original, “costs $173.” Beamon and three lifelong buddies from New Haven have opened “Yuppy” boutique on scruffy lower Chapel — right next door to where the Nu Haven porn store just closed to make way for an upscale replacement.

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They Serve; Too, Lead

by Gone Dishin' | Feb 24, 2006 1:06 pm

The New Haven Country Club was definitely the place to be on Thursday morning. As gracious and elegant hosts, the staff and management set a bountiful table for the members of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and the guests of the sponsoring organizations, Albertus Magnus College, Fidelity Investments and the New Haven Register.

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Art Imitates Democracy

by | Feb 24, 2006 8:55 am | Comments (1)

Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery entertained more than one kind of design Thursday night as some 40 neighborhood residents and politicians gathered to ask developer Tim Mulcahey (pictured) direct and specific questions about the future of the upscale apartment complex he’s building at 446 Blake St. The developer said the apartments will become “a community in and of itself,” while some residents worried that the upscale apartments would inevitably gentrify into a segregated enclave of the wealthy.

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