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May 14, 2025 1:10 pm
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Teacher Michelle Herrera, 16-month-old Lilah Lubitz, and mom Zoe Lubitz were excited to show up for childcare workers across Connecticut Wednesday morning.
Schiavone (right) addresses the crowd.
“In New Haven, 85 percent of third graders are not reading at grade level. That’s not going to be solved in kindergarten,” said Allyx Schiavone, who spoke Wednesday morning to a crowd of over 200 early childhood advocates, teachers, and parents gathered on the Green.
“There is so much human and brain development that happens between 0 to 5,” she continued, “and so we have to give kids support earlier on.”
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May 14, 2025 10:00 am
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Ward 1 alder hopefuls Jake Siesel and Rhea McTiernan Huge.
Two Yale students are running for the role of downtown alder with hopes of boosting civic engagement in a ward with low local voter turnout and where the incumbent is not seeking reelection.
One candidate is a lifelong New Havener; the other is an “outsider” inspired by his frustration with the Civilian Review Board.
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May 13, 2025 11:45 am
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Maria Citarella
Living Magic.
Nosegay Institute Library 847 Chapel St. Through June 23
Living Magic, by Maria Citarella, is mounted unobtrusively on the front wall of the gallery, looking — at first glance, from a distance — like an orderly triptych, a study in greens. But as you approach, the lines in the piece grow more complex, and the three panels take on dimension, until you can see that the panels aren’t of paint, but of mosses and lichens. The piece comes to life, nudging over its own borders. It’s easy to imagine that if you came back in a month, the mosses would be bigger still, creeping onto the wall. A year later, maybe they’d take over the wall. In a century, maybe the entire gallery.
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May 13, 2025 10:49 am
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Garrett Wiese and Taesha Aurora share their findings with Iskander Guetta, one of the current tenants of 337 Crown.
Notice of demolition posted on 337 Crown.
Iskander Guetta had never taken much notice of the small door in his bedroom at 337 Crown St. — until he and his classmates pried it open and uncovered a fireplace sealed behind the wall.
The four Yale School of Architecture students — Guetta, Taesha Aurora, Garrett Wiese, and Metos Shtaloja — had been researching the 185-year-old house when they came across an early floor plan marking the fireplace’s location. The discovery resulted from their efforts to document the building’s history as Yale prepares to tear it down and construct a multi-story dramatic arts complex.
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May 12, 2025 9:22 am
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The Sullivan family, down from New Hampshire to St. Mary's to visit grandma Jeannie Barry (third from right).
Michelle Florez, and son Deo, at St. Francis on Ferry St.: “If the new pope can shine light on issues, clear people’s minds, and add some hope, that’s what his role should be."
The first American pope, as seen in lobby of St. Stan's.
Let the new pope, Leo XIV, consider elevating Catholic women to become deacons, Jeannie Barry said in the lobby of St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue.
Whoa! Not so fast, said Barry’s daughter, Emily Sullivan. Sullivan is a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College, in theology. “Women are equal in dignity but distinctive in their church roles,” she said. “And the church is bound by scripture and tradition.”
Or as Carlos Rodriguez put it more succinctly an hour earlier and at a different church across town, on his way into an 11:00 a.m. Spanish-language mass at St. Francis on Ferry Street in Fair Haven: “It doesn’t matter who the pope is. The pope is the pope and God is God.”
“It’s just so much fun to play,” drummer Reena Yu said, winding down from her surreal, groovy set with local rock band VVEBS Thursday night. The group joined other Connecticut band Bajzelle and The Great Googly Moogly from New York for three sets of rock & roll at the Elm Street bar Three Sheets.
Yu played to a room of bar regulars and rock fans, jumping and nodding in their long shorts and baseball caps. Somewhere beyond the crowd, in a back room with a pool table, a pair of long white ears might have perked up too.
One of the first bike riders to use the newly opened trail.
Welcome to Farmington Canal Phase IV.
Decades of advocacy, hard work, easement negotiations, delays, and persistence culminated Friday morning with a ribbon cutting in a tunnel under Whitney Avenue — marking the official opening of the final downtown stretch of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail.
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May 5, 2025 4:41 pm
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Crossing Chapel and High, where two-way traffic flow is coming soon.
Chapel-College walkers Bradyn Fleharty and Trent Page: If these changes make it safer to cross, then it's worth it.
Pedestrians at three downtown intersections no longer have to wait for red traffic lights in every direction before getting the white walking signal indicating it’s time to cross.
That’s one of several changes newly in place as the city works to convert a three-block stretch of Chapel Street from one-way to two-way vehicle traffic by the end of this month.
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May 5, 2025 11:52 am
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Takaat and Mountain Movers Three Sheets New Haven May 4, 2025
Ahmoudou Madassane of Takaat finished a long flourish on his guitar, raw and lyrical at the same time. Mikey Coltun answered with a drone on bass, supportive and grounding. Souleymane Ibrahim played a long swell on drums. Having created a wide-open musical landscape, the trio proceeded to charge through it on a galloping rhythm. The audience at Three Sheets — a crowded room, with everyone standing close together — swayed as if hit by a wave, already in tune.
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May 5, 2025 11:45 am
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Loosey LaDuca!
DJ Kasey Cortez lights up Club C*nt.
Toad’s Place has cemented itself in both regional and national lore for being a venue where legends come by for one night, pack the house, and blow the roof off. This has happened in the past with international stars like Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. On Friday night it happened with a more local name: Club C*nt.
The DJ-led dance event that began as a celebration with friends of the local zine Connectic*nt four years ago has grown into an all-out rager and the place to be seen.
Wilbur Cross drumline bass drum players Aniya, Andrea, and Talia were exhausted — and energized — as they kept the beat while marching down Chapel Street with hundreds of fellow New Haveners to mark an international day of worker solidarity.
Cider-making photos included in Rivera's BZA application.
New Haveners will soon-ish be able to enjoy locally made hard cider in the basement of a downtown office building — thanks to the entrepreneurship of fermented-apple-juice enthusiast and aerospace engineer Antonio Rivera.
Raffi, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and The Eagles filled the air at New Haven’s pin, patch, and oddities shop Strange Ways Saturday evening, but it wasn’t the sound system. Local band Typically Divergent was performing their annual Ecology and Neurodiversity concert, featuring covers of songs about loving and protecting our planet. Mellow voices sang familiar, folksy tunes, peppered here and there with clever ad-libs and harmonies.
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Apr 29, 2025 11:27 am
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CEO Gilles Tamagnan cuts the ribbon for XingImaging's new research facilities.
The NeuroExplorer PET scanner -- one of three in the world.
In the basement of 55 Church St. sits one of just three NeuroExplorer PET scanners in the world. Capable of producing images with significantly better resolution and sensitivity than its 20-year-old predecessor, the High Resolution Research Tomograph, the machine is the crown jewel of XingImaging’s new research facility inside the Elm City Bioscience Center.
XingImaging hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday afternoon to mark the official opening of its 24,000-square-foot research space at the downtown lab and office building — and to celebrate the work it plans to do with the help of that basement super-camera, especially in regards to better understanding Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
Some might say there’s been an unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented” in the past few years, but on Saturday night Ani DiFranco brought her “Unprecedented Sh!t” tour to College Street Music Hall and no one was complaining. In fact, the sold-out show became a celebration of sorts, where the much-revered singer/songwriter/author married the old and the new in a way that inspired hopefulness for the future.
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Apr 24, 2025 8:37 pm
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Gateway student, açaí bowl Sharmel Rivera.
Fepo Cafe co-owners Mark Mozdzer and Ezequiel Barboza cut the ribbon with Mayor Elicker.
Sharmel Rivera ate from a strawberry açaí bowl and prepared for an upcoming quiz in her U.S. history class — at a downtown cafe that has quickly become one of her favorite, and most conveniently located, places to grab a bite before or after class.
Eighteen-year-old cat Diggins rolled out of an exam room in a gray mesh stroller Monday morning, taking in the sights and sounds of the waiting room at Elm City Vet — a newly opened veterinary clinic located just a block away from the New Haven Green.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 22, 2025 2:57 pm
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Tracey Emin
You kept it coming.
“Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until the Morning” Yale Center for British Art Through Aug. 10.
The visceral style conveys everything, in all its contradictions and complexities. The figure is a woman on all fours, hair bedraggled, back arched. She’s in a position of extremity, but which extremity? It could be an excoriating portrait of the subjugation of women, or a portrait of exhaustion. It could also be a depiction of a woman in the throes of intense sexual pleasure. Which is it?
The title — You kept it coming — doesn’t help clear up the ambiguity. What does the “it” in the title really refer to?
Welcome to New Haven? The view of Union Station from Columbus and Church St. South, looking across the future "Union Square" site.
The walk between Union Station and downtown could become a little less forlorn — thanks to a new 20-foot-wide “promenade” the city is looking to build out on Church Street South.
Meanwhile, the city is also applying for a state grant to help slow down Orange Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 17, 2025 11:00 am
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Alexander Bushnik
Rhino with Teacups.
Alexander Bushnik’s Rhino with Teacups is whimsical enough that it’s easy to overlook the skill it must have taken to create it. But look again: How exactly does it stay together? Why doesn’t it tip right off the wall?
The balancing act on display in the piece is mirrored in the walls around it, displaying portraits, landscapes, and abstract canvases that in some ways couldn’t be farther apart in style, but are brought together and made into a cohesive whole.
Stanley Heller, Shelly Altman, Martha Hennessy, and Mark Colville.
A local peace organization convened at the downtown library Monday afternoon to hand out its inaugural Dorothy Day award to a pro-Palestinian protest leader who — without clear legal charges or due process — is currently imprisoned far from home.
