Sam Carlson Plays Right On "Tine"
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| Apr 19, 2024 9:04 am |Sam Carlson broke a string as he tuned up his Guild D‑50 acoustic guitar to perform live on radio. But no worries — he had a backup Guild M‑20 with him as well.
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| Apr 19, 2024 9:04 am |Sam Carlson broke a string as he tuned up his Guild D‑50 acoustic guitar to perform live on radio. But no worries — he had a backup Guild M‑20 with him as well.
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| Apr 18, 2024 12:19 pm |After a day of driving heavy machinery, Joe Ballaro plugged in his bass, and the show began.
One of the year’s 164,949 emergency calls to New Haven’s 911 center came from a man at the edge of a bridge. Kenya James answered it.
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| Apr 12, 2024 9:13 am |Charlie Widmer didn’t expect people to want to hear “What Do I Need With Love?” Now it’s the first of his songs some people will ever hear.
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| Apr 11, 2024 12:36 pm |In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too.
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| Apr 11, 2024 11:04 am |Charmain Yun wondered where life would take her next. A voice came to her with the answer.
“I heard something in my heart,” Yun recalled. “The phrase was, ‘Do what’s in front of you.’ At the time what was in front of me were the kids on my stoop.”
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| Apr 5, 2024 12:00 pm |Johnathan Moore was ready to add a layer of sound. He reached for the Boss RC 600 loop station pedal and … nothing.
Moore said nothing. He made no excuses. He kept the beat going. He pivoted to a new plan — and the music played on.
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| Apr 2, 2024 4:18 pm |Rafael Irizarry could afford to spend all day relaxing or hitting the links. Instead he’s running to become the first Latino to represent Greater New Haven in the U.S. Congress.
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| Mar 29, 2024 11:07 am |“If love is like an ocean,” MJ Bones was singing, “I’m lost at sea.”
Meanwhile, they sounded right at home, right where they belonged: Performing revelatory original songs on the ukulele, in New Haven.
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| Mar 27, 2024 4:57 pm |One night the town erupted in chanting and screaming and accusation. Then a conversation started.
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Michael Massey found Donald Trump in prison. Now he’s living straight — and running for Congress with a mission to boost the role of fellow ”Urban Black” Republicans in their party.
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| Mar 14, 2024 1:35 pm |Hi Pi Day!
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| Mar 14, 2024 12:30 pm |Emma Gill’s severed foot and severed head washed up on a beach. Three boys stumbled across them.
That was in 1898. Might new such discoveries loom as a new era of abortion prohibition looms?
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(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
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| Jan 24, 2024 12:12 pm |New Year’s/Inauguration Day
Twenty Twenty-Four
Boring speeches
Left us snoring
Like captives wilting
In the auditorium
For an hour. Plus an hour
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| Jan 18, 2024 11:23 am |Don’t listen to the new single from the Afro-Semitic Experience if you wish to remain mired in despair over the state of the world or the harshness dividing groups of people.
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Stephanie Thomas said she was “as shocked as everybody else” when she saw a video of a Bridgeport campaign worker allegedly hauling stacks of harvested absentee ballots into a drop box.
Joshua Elliott can see legal magic mushrooms for sale and ranked-choice ballots materializing in the distance.
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| Dec 19, 2023 4:35 pm |Candidates who ran for mayor under New Haven’s public-financing system raised 90 percent of their money from New Haveners, 28 percent more than clean-elections-defying rivals.
They also raised more local donations: over 47,000 (totaling over $4 million) from 2011 – 2023 versus some 16,000 donations worth $2.6 million for nonparticipants.
Those metrics emerge from a newly released study of the New Haven Democracy Fund, which has administered the city’s public-financing program since its 2007 inception.
In the wake of a state-spawned controversy over the reporting of New Haven marriages to federal immigration authorities, Gov. Ned Lamont declared that no “bureaucrat” should single out couples for discriminatory treatment because of their race, ethnicity, or nation of origin.
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| Dec 6, 2023 11:00 am |Attention LCI: Expect to hear from Brittiany Mabery-Niblack and Theresa Morant starting next month.
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| Dec 1, 2023 9:36 am |Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) What record store used to occupy part of the former York Square Cinemas building that Yale just bought at 57 – 9 Broadway?
A) Cutler’s Records & Tapes
B) Vinyl-torium
C) Group W Bench
D) Rhymes Records
E) Elm City Sounds
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| Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm |Three of New Haven’s alders-elect with Fair Haven connections said they’re pumped to get to work as part of a community “team” that tackles safe streets, affordable housing, and small business growth.
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| Nov 28, 2023 3:49 pm |The Rev. Bonita Grubbs has more big plans for Christian Community Action, the anti-poverty agency she runs.
She concluded that it’s time for someone else to put them into practice.
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