• But he can rap. • Along with local hip hop artist Sketch tha Cataclysm (pictured) and fellow Chicago touring artists • At 3 Sheets concert. Brian Slattery reports.
Ex-Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons was keeping Black cowboy music alive, too — his way. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports from a stop on his “American Songster” tour.
Joel Schiavone, the sockless banjo-strumming real estate developer who launched New Haven’s downtown renaissance, has died at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy that will long outlive him.
Seven-year-old Meklit and five-year-old Bethlehem ran around the empty rooms of 455 Howard Ave., dodging the legs of parents and realtors and city workers. This two-family home would soon be theirs.
“We always wanted a big house,” Meklit said, minutes after her father won the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI’s) latest affordable housing lottery. “I always wanted this to happen.”
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A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.