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Customer Yazmin: These plants are worth the trip from Thomaston.
Janay Prim makes the half-hour drive from Bridgeport to New Haven at least once per month, just to visit Bark & Vine Indoor Plants shop at 49 Orange St.
“This is my second time here this week,” Prim said on Friday afternoon, her basket full of plants to add to the “Jacklyn” plant she bought the day before. “I get a cute little dopamine hit every time I come here. It’s like my therapy. It’s so cute and homey. I’m obsessed with it.”
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David Sepulveda |
Jun 9, 2025 10:56 am
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Before/after comparison of 33 Crown St., which is now an 18-unit "mass timber" apartment building.
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Jeff Spiritos (second from left) leads a May 20 tour of the furniture store-turned-apartment building.
A four-story brick building facade from 1877 — now sandwiched between two layers of modernist architectural elements — only hints at the forward-facing transformation that has taken place inside 33 Crown St.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 2, 2025 11:21 am
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The Cadavers.
On Friday night Cafe Nine served up a double dose of legendary local bands, as Lost Generation and The Cadavers each offered a set that heated up an already steamy room full of fans and friends with a host of hard and fast songs that got the crowd moving, moshing, and mad for more.
Dooley‑O vs. Hugh Betta Firehouse 12 45 Crown St. May 25
Records, heads, and hips turned Sunday afternoon as DJs Dooley‑O and Hugh Betta spun back-to-back sets at The Bar at Firehouse 12 on Crown Street, playing old-school (with a little bit of new-school) hip hop, R&B, and house tracks in the underground lounge.
The event was set up as a bit of a versus: Dooley‑O vs. Hugh Betta. But if you came thinking you’d witnessed a real showdown, you’d be wrong.
“Let the people think what they want to think,” Dooley‑O said as he prepared to replace one record with another on his turntable. “The ‘VS’ stands for Vegan Soul food.”
He was waiting on a plate of vegan fish and grits from Chef Skyller, who took over Firehouse 12’s kitchen for the afternoon.
New Haven kicked off the festival season Friday evening with the Spring Night Market. The celebration, hosted by the Town Green Special Services District, began at 5, and for the next five hours with live music, vendors, and service providers activated 9th Square.
Over 100 vendors in all participated — a record, continuing a pattern of steady growth since the event’s 2018 inaugural, according to Town Green Executive Director Win Davis. Upwards of 6,000 people attended Friday night. (Click here to see a list of vendors.)
Design of the new lab-and-office building that might now not be built.
The site of New Haven’s next planned biosciences office and lab tower will remain an empty lot for now — as Yale pulls back its biotech investments in light of possible federal funding cuts.
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Laura Glesby |
Mar 6, 2025 12:05 pm
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Juancarlos Soto leading a tour of the Pride Center's new home in 2024.
Juancarlos Soto is stepping down from his role as executive director of the New Haven Pride Center, after two and a half years at the community center’s helm.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 24, 2025 12:55 pm
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Allie Burnet.
Midway through her set with her band, the Proven Winners, Allie Burnet asked to do one song by herself. In a break from her original material, she launched into a cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s “Black Boys on Mopeds,” a 1990 song about police brutality that has aged all too well.
To give the song a final twist, Burnet changed one line. In 1990, O’Connor sang, “These are dangerous days / to say what you feel is to dig your own grave.” Burnet altered the second half of that line: “To be who you are is to stand in your grave.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 30, 2025 10:28 am
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Chris Brunetti of Trench CT.
Rage found an outlet in voices and beats as three Connecticut bands — Remedies, Trench CT, and Psycho Brat — took to the stage at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night. With newspaper headlines full of political tension, the bands’ sets of hardcore and punk made a place for release.
The latest design for 450-ish apartments planned for State St.
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Newman Architects' Paul Santos: Looking for mix of traditional and modern.
(Updated) A development team’s plan to build nearly 450 apartments atop a publicly owned parking lot on State Street inched forward — with a second community meeting, a refined design and an estimated price tag of $125 million.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 17, 2024 9:36 am
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Matt Wilson.
Drummer Matt Wilson had much to say at Firehouse 12 on Friday night, but there was one word he used the most. He used it when bassist Paul Sikivie unfurled a series of ideas on his instrument, again when Sikivie and reeds player Jeff Lederer played as if they were talking, again when all three of them executed an elegant turn of phrase. Again and again, that word was “beautiful.”
Mayor Elicker and Spinnaker VP Frank Caico (center) ...
... celebrate new apartments at the "Anthem at Square 10" ...
... as property manager Alves (right) shows off common area "plant wall."
Brian Alves reached back in time to his teenage years attending concerts by Aerosmith and Huey Lewis and the News at the Coliseum — as he gave reporters a tour of the shiny new mixed-use building that has risen from the ex-venue’s ashes, complete with 200 apartments, ground-floor retail space, a pool, a gym, and a common room buttressed by a “real life plant wall.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Dec 6, 2024 12:15 pm
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Tommy V and David Ramos.
There are people who talk about helping and change and making the world a better place one day, and then there’s Joey Batts and the CT hip hop community, who for the past 11 years have gathered for a series of shows at multiple venues throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts to actually do it. Hip Hop for the Homeless began its annual December run raising funds and collecting donations for local groups on Thursday night.
First stop: New Haven’s Cafe Nine, where host for the evening Sketch tha Cataclysm brought forth a healthy and harmonious collection of CT-based hip hop artists to entertain for a worthy cause: Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 8, 2024 4:31 pm
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Sterling Valentine dances out his stress.
Xiomarie LaBeija reminds the crowd: In case nobody told you today, you're special.
Legal rights may be fragile, but community isn’t.
That message resounded through a post-election gathering at the New Haven Pride Center on Thursday evening, where attendees reeling from Donald Trump’s presidential victory found a salve in art, dance, drag, mindfulness, and mutual support.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 5, 2024 7:55 am
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Allen Lowe.
On Friday night, the latest show in Firehouse 12’s fall concert series featured a journey through the American music of the 20th century before the rise of hip hop, as imaginatively seen through the eyes of one of jazz’s most central figures, Louis Armstrong. In walking decades in the icon’s shoes, it was also a trip through the latest compositional ideas of musician and writer Allen Lowe.
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Oct 18, 2024 1:37 pm
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Olmo-Rivera, Zumwalt-Hathaway, and Werlin.
What happens when a Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen volunteer and New Haven arts and culture scene superfan decides to combine the two things near and dear to his heart? The New Haven Cares Festival of Arts and Music is born.
The brain child of Andrew Zumwalt-Hathaway, this newly created fundraising event will transform some of the city’s hottest night spots into places where donations can be collected for the annual DESK Thanksgiving For All program, offering both good will and a good time.
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Oct 10, 2024 3:17 pm
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Looking through the Chapel Street window glass at an empty Elm City Market.
(Updated) Elm City Market has officially closed its 360 State St. location — in advance of the grocery store’s planned move to a smaller space a few blocks away at the “Square 10” development at the former Coliseum site.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 30, 2024 8:37 am
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Taylor Ho Bynum.
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there. “I cannot imagine my life without it,” he said, from his collaborations with Anthony Braxton to his numerous performances there with other groups. On Friday, however, he was there with UK-based pianist Alexander Hawkins, as part of the Crown Street bar- recording studio-performance space’s fall jazz series, running now into December.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 19, 2024 9:36 am
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Jangly, catchy riffs. Yearning melodies. Rhythms designed for dancing. Three bands — Floater Verses, Toy Cities, and Los Shadows — deployed all three elements to great effect at Cafe Nine Wednesday night, adding up to one of the poppiest nights the club on State and Crown has booked in recent memory.
Kent Mawhinney and Alexis Kang: Give pinot noir a chance.
Hundreds of new residents will soon be allowed to move into on-the-rise apartments at the ex-Coliseum property — but they won’t be allowed to walk downstairs to buy alcohol at a “high-end” liquor store on site.
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Marisa Torrieri |
Aug 30, 2024 9:39 am
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Jammin out at Cafe 9 on a Sunday afternoon.
Turkey Vulture — a metal/punk duo of Milford-based couple Jessie May (vocals, guitar) and Jim Clegg (drums) — typically spend Sunday afternoons entertaining their two toddler sons. So when May growled into the mic and ripped into a distorted-guitar riff at Cafe Nine on a recent Sunday afternoon in early August, it felt wholly cathartic.
