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A Modernist Icon Reopens, Renewed

by Katie DeWitt | Nov 30, 2006 3:49 pm

Yale University and art gallery administrators, curators, and architects gathered in the newly renovated Louis Kahn building Thursday to celebrate the reopening of an icon of modernist architecture. Following a three-year, $44 million dollar renovation, the Yale University Art Gallery’s main building will reopen to the public on December 10.

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A Bar Challenges A Buddhist

by Paul Bass | Nov 30, 2006 2:34 pm | Comments (7)

Gunfire outside a bar in the heart of Westville Village has sparked a renewed organizing effort by fed-up neighbors like Padma Karma (pictured above with his boxer Boby), who runs a Buddhist center next door.

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Gentrifier Wins Over Affordable Housing Crew

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 30, 2006 1:29 pm | Comments (13)

The developer of a 19-story luxury condo tower downtown came face to face with affordable housing advocates this week —and won them over.

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Gone Dishin’ For Direction At The Arts Council

by Gone Dishin' | Nov 30, 2006 1:05 pm

The professional arts community turned out to meet, greet and welcome the new executive director of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Cindy Clair. Orchestrated by multi-talented key staffers, Bobbi Griffith, Soonil Chun and Barbara Feldman, the newly renovated Neighbohood Music School was a perfect venue for the gathering.

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Flood Hits SCSU Library

by Melinda Tuhus | Nov 30, 2006 12:10 pm

Problem: A late-semester flood hit the main library at Southern Connecticut State University. Periodicals and academic journals stored on the lowest two floors suffered water damage when a pipe burst .
The solution? Freeze ‘em.

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“One Step Closer To Accountability”

by Paul Bass | Nov 30, 2006 9:05 am | Comments (1)

So rejoiced the state’s health care advocate, Kevin Lembo (pictured), in referene to a judge’s ruling that HMOs must reveal how much of the $700 million they get in taxpayer money goes to run Connecticut’s health-care program for the poor, and how much goes to their own overhead and executive pay.

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Teens’ Curfew Message: Spend Time With Us, Instead

by Allan Appel | Nov 30, 2006 7:10 am | Comments (18)

Teens — and only teens — got to speak out about the proposed teen curfew at a government hearing, and speak out they did. Seventeen-year-old senior Sherrell Willis (pictured): “Curfew, curfew, curfew! All we hear from you [alders, adults] is curfew… Why do you think we shoot each other? To get attention… Parents need to understand no matter how their life is going: You made me, you need to spend time with me, no matter how tough your job is or how bad a day you had.”

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Community Leader Tapped For City Hall Post

by Paul Bass | Nov 29, 2006 3:16 pm | Comments (16)

As part of his continuing top-level City Hall shake-up, Mayor John DeStefano has hired Kica Matos (pictured) as his social-services chief, bringing one of the community’s leading activists to work from inside government.

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One Arrested; One More Shot

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 29, 2006 2:42 pm

A teenage boy is under arrest in connection to the shooting of a 14 year-old girl Monday. —Meanwhile, a rash of apparently unrelated shootings continued, with a fifth victim in 48 hours clinging to life in the hospital. —And a Yale student was mugged on Howe Street. Read on for more details, according to police spokeswoman Bonnie Winchester.

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Hope For a New QT

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 29, 2006 2:05 pm

A claw tore into the last chunk of decrepit old Q Terrace Wednesday, drawing applause from former tenants and a call for revival of the federal HOPE VI program.

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