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Thursday, February 13, 2025
12:00am – 4:00am
Host: Brian Slattery

The New Haven Independent’s arts editor spins local — and only local — platters.

4:00am – 8:00am
Host: LA VOZ HISPANA DE CT

Latino news, views, and music.

8:00am – 9:00am
Host: Paul Bass, Editor of the New Haven Independent

The New Haven Independent’s editor talks government, politics and current events with local newsmakers.

9:00am – 11:00am
Host: Babz Rawls-Ivy

11:00am – 12:00pm
Host: MarceyLynn Jones

Not just a talk show! Community pioneer's stories that you can't google! non-googlable truths.

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Host: Paul Bass, Editor of the New Haven Independent

The New Haven Independent’s editor talks government, politics and current events with local newsmakers.

1:00pm – 3:00pm
Host: Tye Edge

Intimate conversations about the human condition

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Host: LA VOZ HISPANA DE CT

Latino news, views, and music.

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Host: Cliff Furnald

5:00pm – 7:00pm
Host: Babz Rawls-Ivy

7:00pm – 8:00pm
Host: Jazz Haven with Stan the Man

8:00pm – 9:00pm
Host: MarceyLynn Jones

Not just a talk show! Community pioneer's stories that you can't google! non-googlable truths.

9:00pm – 10:00pm
Host: Paul Bass, Editor of the New Haven Independent

The New Haven Independent’s editor talks government, politics and current events with local newsmakers.

10:00pm – 11:00pm
Host: Cliff Furnald

11:00pm – 12:00am
Host: Tom Ficklin

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Extra Extra

Blight Chains Broken

The Word on Grand Avenue.  Paul Bass reports. 

(S)nowhere To Hide

NHPS promises better supervision of snow-removal contractors after numerous failed” plow jobs.
• Contractor agrees with critique, blames district for late calls, and asks to be able to work with custodians union again.  Maya McFadden reports. 

Annette Glass, 76

Annette enjoyed playing cards, taking drives, and listening to music.  Obit. 

A Lifetime In 
Ten Campus Minutes

An ode to a bosom buddy, college pal, comic genius, and sympathetic friend in hospice.  Lary Bloom reports. 

I Spy With AI

Surveillance-inspired paintings capture society’s eerie slippage into an uncanny valley. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood weighs in.

From Dixwell To Kinshasa

And back again, as Music Haven and Toto Kisaku team up for a concert and immigrant storytelling. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Local Lawyers Face DOJ

In fight over Trump administration’s probe of Jan. 6 probe.  Zachary Groz reports. 

Shack Seniors
Get Some Love

At second annual Valentine luncheon.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Fun For The Whole Family!

Nora Grace-Flood reviews a state gun show, where children and Nazi literature abound. 

Ahhhh!

Killer Kin drowns out the Super Bowl at the Space Ballroom.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Choral Classic
Reborn At Woolsey

NHSO highlights Black American composers in moving program.  Adam Matlock reports. 

Nuyorican Superhero
Hits New Haven

Long Wharf Theatre’s El Coquí Espectacular” brings spandex and Puerto Rican mythology to SCSU Aster Aguilar reports. 

Fresh Starts Screened, 
Preached At Youth Prison

As Newhallville entrepreneur Marcus Harvin visits Cheshire to talk art and life after incarceration.  Lisa Reisman reports. 

Library’s Mardi Gras
To Honor Smith, Gallant

Staff reports.

Prine-Tuned Folk

At Jazzy’s Cabaret, Vance Gilbert channels a late singer-songwriter who helped set him on his path.  Staff reports. 

Who Really Wants
To Defund The Police?

And other pressing questions in the latest News From The Compost Heap direct from the Indy assignment desk.”  Paul Bass reports. 

223 Ticketed, 194 Towed

For violating citywide parking ban during weekend snowstorm.  Thomas Breen reports. 

The Snowy Day

As read by Edith Johnson, in classroom trip to Mauro-Sheridan. The Arts Paper’s Lucy Gellman reports.

Legal Notice

City Clerk press release announces new fraud alert system.  Read more. 

Pizza Celebrated, Again

Can’t stop, won’t stop, at National Pizza Day-adjacent gathering at BAR Arthur Delot-Vilain reports. 

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Mayor, union prez ink 6‑year police contract.  Zachary Groz reports. 

Today’s Legal Notice

Construction bids sought from small contractors and women and minority-owned businesses.  Read more. 

Desert Hearts Sizzle
As Snow Falls

During this month’s Queer Film Club pick.  Jisu Sheen reports. 

Artists Bloom In Darkness

& bring together shared heritage and search for connections, at Ely Center.  Brian Slattery reports. 

“Super Normal” Throne

An on-display designer toilet flushes minimalism out of sight and mind. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports.

Shoegaze Takes A Slowdive

At College Street.  Leo Slattery reports. 

What’s Up, Mock?

A Bugs-inspired alcohol-free libation lives on past Dry January at the Anchor.  Liz Grace reports. 

No Parking Ban. No School

And 23 city plow trucks out clearing the streets. Snow update.  Thomas Breen reports. 

Peter Pan Made Me
Feel Like a Kid Again

Jamil Ragland reports.

“Constitutional Crisis” Continues

Delauro, Dems decry Trump/Musk’s assault on foreign aid.
Jonathan D. Salant reports. 

Tong: Gender-Affirming
Care Is Lawful

AG joins 14 others in commitment to protect health care, after Trump executive order.  Staff reports. 

Wallace Brabham, 73

Wallace was a devout Jehovah’s Witness who was passionate about high-fidelity music and a fan of the New York Knicks.  Obit. 

Think Tanker: Budgetquake
Will Reverberate Everywhere

Paul Bass reports.

Still Badass After
All These Years

Review Crew’s Ryan Patrick Hooper catches a Twyla Tharp 60th anniversary performance.

Legal Notice

Public Safety Committee meeting 2/20. Read more. 

Legal Notice

From City Clerk’s office: Notice of Decision.  Read more. 

Dance Dance Resolution

In Millette Nunez’s Hillhouse dance and acro class.  Maya McFadden reports. 

Unsung Heroes’ Praises Sung

Catholic Worker, DESK win this year’s Wessel Prize.  Staff reports. 

Forgot About Facebook?

Film Archive screens The Social Network” amid current-day technocratic-political fest.  Karen Ponzio reports. 

Legal Notice

Finance Committee meeting agenda 2/10. Read more. 

Mandy Challengers Turn Eyes To State

Dereen Shirnekhi photo

Terri Ricks (in red), with Mark Griffin (right), thanks Mandy's Ari Hoffman and Sara Bigman and pushes for them to encourage other management companies to enact similar policies.

After winning a tenant-discrimination case that changed how Mandy Management approaches renters with criminal histories, Mark Griffin is ready to take his fair-housing fight to the state legislature — as he also awaits a full pardon for his decades-old misdemeanor conviction. 

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Zoners Nix Smoke Shop Next To Strip Club

Zachary Groz photo

Applicant Villanueva: Spot is a "gold mine"

Thomas Breen photo

Landlord Marty Halprin: Time to look for another potential tenant.

A new smoke shop won’t be able to open up next to a methadone clinic and a strip club — after city zoners stamped out the latest bid to convert a vacant storefront into a tobacco sales gold mine.”

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Special Ed Staff Shortages Spotlighted

Laura Glesby file photo

Typhanie Jackson: "There are some places where we have had some gaps."

High burnout rates, low pay, and insufficient state funding have led to an untenable shortage of special education staff in New Haven public schools.

School employees and parents conveyed that message to Education Committee alders — calling attention to lapsed services for some of the city’s highest-needs students.

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