Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) Jazz french horn master and professor Willie Ruff died at the age of 92. What was the name of his award-winning memoir?
A) A Call to Assembly: The Autobiography of a Musical Storyteller
B) Behind The Iron Curtain In B Flat
C) The Mitchell-Ruff Duo: A Timeless Groove
D) From Dizzy To Duke: An Ivy Exploration
E) Play-Back
2) Alder Troy Streater filed suit against the city this week for his wrongful arrest on a murder charge. How much time did he spend in prison because of that arrest?
A) 4 years
B) 12 years
C) 20 years
D) 24 years
E) 30 years
F) He didn’t serve time
3) The state is sending money to New Haven to help the builder of a potential new biosciences tower do what in the emerging “Square 10” district?
A) Perform a market study of potential tenants
B) Dig up and cart away buried remnants of the old New Haven Coliseum
C) Subsidize rents for non-university-affiliated local start-ups
D) Create an outdoor public plaza/skating rink
4) What apartment complex plan just received $90 million in financing to begin construction?
A) Winchester Green
B) Winchester Place
C) Square 10 Place
D) Fussy Coffee Corner
E) The Mews On Orange
F) Multiverse Heights
5) What is this a picture of?
A) The dashboard of a new Tesla model currently under development
B) A new video game produced by New Haven designer Chooch Bailey
C) An upgraded SWAT drone model New Haven police are purchasing
D) The headset for a self-guided tour prepared for the reopening of the Peabody Museum
E) The cover of the latest album released by New Haven smooth jazz musician Gritz King
6) What was Yale’s first move after buying the 57 Broadway retail/residential building?
A) Bringing in a luxury lotion and crystals chain store
B) Opening a storefront “Boola Bagels” shop
C) Renaming the building after a hedge fund donor
D) Don’t know; they did it in secret
E) Notifying non-Yale-affiliated residential tenants that their leases won’t be renewed
7) Which of the following lines did Justin Elicker say Monday in his third inaugural address?
A) “Some of us are not as privileged as others. But our blood and bones are still sewn in the fabric of the American flag.”
B) “I made a mistake. I’m sorry. I learned from it.”
C) “When our nation seems more divided than ever, we say it doesn’t have to be that way. We can have differences and we can strongly disagree, but we can also be civil and we can treat each other with humanity and with dignity and respect.”
D) “I apologize to the 78 immigrant couples whose lives my administration threw into jeopardy by reporting them as ‘suspicious’ to federal authorities.”
E) “Is this mic on?”
8) Tyisha Walker-Myers was elected to her __ term as Board of Alders president.
A) 1st
B) 3rd
C) 4th
D) 5th
E) 6th
F) 15th
9) Who has replaced the Gil Hawkins band as the regular Wednesday night jazz headliner at the Owl Shop?
A) The George Baker Band
B) Punchlove
C) The Tyshawn Sorey Trio
D) The Nick Di Maria Quartet
E) The Kevin Saint James Band
10) What was the prime concern of City Plan Commissioners when they debated a proposal to allow a youth soccer facility to come to a vacant property on a deserted post-industrial stretch of River Street?
A) The kids might get injured
B) Too many kids might show up and spawn excessive parking
C) The building might collapse
D) Polluted air will exacerbate asthma rates
E) The zoning code might eventually allow a poultry-slaughtering facility to replace the soccer facility
Answers to the puzzle, along with links to the relevant news stories, appear after the following podcast of a“Headlines and Basslines” segment (music and more headline talk) of WNHH FM’s“Dateline New Haven” program. (Click here to subscribe or here to listen to other episodes of Dateline New Haven.)
Answers
1) A Jazz Master Willie Ruff Dies
2) D Alder Sues City For $100M
3) B $1M Snagged To Un-Bury Coliseum Detritus, Pave Way For Bioscience Tower
4) A $90M In Hand To Start Building “Winchester Green”
5) C Cops Get OK For New Drones•
6) E Yalies Can Stay. Townies Must Go
7) C 33 Dems Inaugurated; Poet Pleads For Democracy
8) D Walker-Myers Reelected Board Prez
Fussy Coffee Corner has a nice ring to it.
More seriously, most of the other retail spaces in that building have been empty since Winchester Lofts opened nearly ten years ago. Having mixed use buildings with ground floor retail is great when that space is filled. But the citys practice of requiring ground floor retail has resulted in a large number of storefronts that have been vacant for years. This is no ones interest.