Daily Nutmeg

Dealing with cancer is an undoubtedly difficult task, one in which a positive support system of friends, family and a trusted medical team is critical.

For patients at Yale-New Haven’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, there’s fine art to ease their troubles …

The bistro tables are in bloom.

Lunchtime temperatures haven’t quite stabilized. On several days this past week it was plenty cloudy and chilly at 1 p.m. But, should you so desire, there are ample outdoor dining opportunities downtown. That goes …

It’s tempting to start with the fried clams at Lenny’s—crisp, buttery exterior housing the freshly caught bivalves within; crunchy, salty and slightly sweet, too.

Or with a cold Narragansett beer on a warm day, condensation on the outside of the …

Here’s all the dirt. Yalies tramp across New Haven Green Monday, kicking up dust in caps and gowns, then vamoose for parts unknown. A couple of Irishmen who were so poor as kids that they had to eat dirt for …

New Haven is blessed to be surrounded by cool climbing places. Within city limits there are the East and West Rocks. Then, not far beyond, is a formation whose very name seems less rocky, more comfy: Sleeping Giant.

Hikers don’t …