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Behind Enemy Lines

by christopher grobe | Sep 30, 2007 4:38 pm

In Prayer for My Enemy, the new play that currently occupies Stage II at the Long Wharf Theatre, playwright Craig Lucas returns to some of his favorite themes—family strife, addiction, stifled rage, and repressed sexuality.  One assumes that the ideal spectator will exclaim, as one of his characters does in an eruption of interior monologue, “I am in love with your family’s suffering!”

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Panel: “Universal” Must Include Racial Equity

by Melinda Tuhus | Sep 30, 2007 3:59 pm | Comments (2)

Will (or can) universal health care eliminate racial disparities in access and treatment? That was the question up for discussion among health providers, politicians and policy wonks at a Friday morning forum at BRAMS Hall in the Hill.

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Gone Dishin’ for Fun, Fellowship and Community

by Gone Dishin' | Sep 30, 2007 3:11 pm

New Haven may be blessed with more energetic pro activists than any other city of its size and economy. Never is it more apparent than when the summer’s end signals that the brief hiatus from meetings and fund raisers is over; this September has been busy!

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Man Shot In Fair Haven

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 28, 2007 11:32 am | Comments (8)

A man was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the thigh and rear end at 201 Farren Ave. at 10:57 p.m. Thursday. He is suffering from non-life-threatening wounds. Police are speaking to witnesses, but have made no arrests.

Read on for more crime details, according to city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga.

The owner of the Golden Wok restaurant at 130 Pearl St. left the rear door open for ventilation at 11 p.m. Thursday. While he was out in back bagging groceries, a man in a white hooded sweatshirt snuck into the back door, showed a gun and demanded a clerk to open the cash register. The suspect took money and fled.

A woman reported being robbed at 11:36 p.m. Thursday on Winthrop Avenue. She told police she was grabbed around neck and robbed of her wallet by a 50-year-old man with salt-and-pepper hair and brown eyes.

A 64-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint by two men in their early 20s at 5 p.m. Thursday at Poplar and Exchange Streets.

A 15-year-old boy told police he was passing a group of six to seven teenagers at 7:45 p.m. at Bassett and Goodyear Streets in Newhallville when one teen, on a bicycle, approached him with a gun. The victim fled, escaping a mugging. Police later caught up with the suspect, got a positive ID, and detained him.

And at 10:21 p.m. Thursday in the Hill, a victim in front of a home at 23 Morris Street was robbed of a cell phone and cash. The assailants, two men, had their faces covered and were not caught.

Castaway #4: Jonny Rodgers Goes Solo

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Some know him for his legendary local band Mighty Purple. Others know him as the son of a local preacher man. I’ve always been intrigued by the fact that he’s the nephew of one of my favorite novelists. Now he’s recording new music, solo. On the latest edition of the Independent’s “Castaway” podcast, a conversation with the great Jonny Rodgers, we hear a sneak preview.

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When A Rose Is More Than A Rose

by Melinda Tuhus | Sep 28, 2007 8:10 am | Comments (7)

The Pardee Rose Garden is on the Hamden side of East Rock Park. So why are only New Haven students from the Sound School (as opposed to Sound School students from any other towns, including Hamden) allowed to participate in its hands-on programs? That question arose at the dedication Thursday morning of the Pardee Greenhouse, as some of those students bordered the red carpet.

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News From The Compost Heap

by Paul Bass | Sep 28, 2007 7:36 am

What’s that obscene talk on the police radio? Hmmm… For more polite commentary on the latest in the narcotics squad scandal, infant mortality, and the shafting of small downtown business owners, click on the play arrow above. It’s the latest edition of the Independent’s weekly opinionated v-log news summary. Click here, here, here and here (circa 2006) for background stories. Click here for past editions.

Baby Scalded

by Melissa Bailey | Sep 27, 2007 12:57 pm | Comments (15)

A one-year-old baby was rushed to the ER at 7:26 p.m. Wednesday. She had “very, very severe burns” covering the lower half of her body. The baby was flown by helicopter to a burn center in Boston. Police are investigating the cause of the incident, which occurred at 1349 Chapel St.

Read on for more crime details, according to city spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga.

Two men in masks and doo-rags burst into the Shanghai Chinese restaurant at 363 Whalley Ave. at 9:27 p.m. Wednesday. They grabbed the cash register and fled.

A man was sitting in his car on Fair Haven’s Atwater Street and Lombard Avenue in Fair Haven when a stranger jumped in the car and told him, “Run it!”. Another man stood outside the driver’s door and pointed a gun at the victim. When the driver refused to “run it,” one man told the other man to shoot. Luckily, the driver was able to get away, fleeing on foot as shots were fired in the air, missing him. Assailants fled with the car, which is still missing. The car is a gold 2000 Buick Century, four doors, license plate CT 879-TOF.

A woman was robbed by three teenage men as she walked on Fair Haven’s Atwater Street Wednesday at 11:07 p.m. She told police one man pointed a gun at her, one restrained her, and another served as a lookout as they robbed her of her purse containing a wallet, ID and cell phone. Police later recovered all the items except for the cell phone. The men were not caught.

And a man was robbed at gunpoint at Columbus Avenue and Liberty Street at 3:23 a.m. Thursday.

One Grand Compromise Struck

by Allan Appel | Sep 27, 2007 12:46 pm | Comments (1)

This cornice, along with the entablature with its eaves, will all remain on historic One Grand Avenue, Fair Haven’s gateway building, after developer David Vieau and community preservationists came to a meeting of minds.

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Students Quiet On Giuliani Support

by Nicole Allan | Sep 27, 2007 8:55 am

Either there aren’t many Rudy Giuliani supporters at Yale, or they don’t want to talk about it. Of the eight Yale students who turned out to rally behind the Republican’s presidential campaign, most were reluctant to speak publicly and be labeled conservative on a campus known as a liberal hotbed.

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