Plug in and turn up the amps. Here, vaguely chronologically, are the top 20 bands who shaped the sound of New Haven and have maintained the city’s image as the most creative original-music scene in Connecticut. (more…)
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Readers Digest
If you think about it, books and sandwiches have a lot in common. The outside packaging may be attractive, but it’s the filling that matters. Dave Duda understands that you shouldn’t judge either a novel (more…)
Department Stories
Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts. Located at the hub of the city’s extensive network of trolleys, and just a few blocks from the Yale campus and a bustling area of […]
Stars and Strips
“Life imitates art,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “more than art imitates art.” In New Haven, that art has often involved cartooning and caricature. It’s a fun place to be. One of the most popular and controversial comic strip (more…)
Elm City Whodunit
Peer into New Haven’s fictional case files with this page-turner, originally published September 19, 2012. A few years ago, the New Haven Free Public Library distributed a hand-out: “Check Out These (more…)
Starring: Elm City
Grab some popcorn for this decuple-feature, originally published on July 25, 2012. New Haven’s had an impressive Hollywood career, as suggested by these ten movies spanning over half a century. (more…)
’pops Art
It was a very brave soul who proposed that a gleaming red, blue and yellow kinetic sculpture by Alexander Calder be placed on Yale’s Hewitt University Quadrangle near the back entrance of Woolsey Hall and a book’s-throw from the Beinecke Library on Wall Street between High and College. Even at the age of 53, this […]
This Week in New Haven (July 29 – August 4)
We gracefully leave an erratic July and acclimate to August. It has already turned abruptly cooler, and with the school year starting at the end of the month, you’ll see more activity on the streets than in recent weeks. College-friendly bands are already on tour. You’ll detect a bit of a folk-music vibe this week […]
Sound It Out
The word “flagship” gets used loosely a lot, to mean “the most important one of a bunch of things.” But if you’re a centuries-old city which takes great pride in its waterfront, you might actually have a flagship that’s a ship. The official flagship of New Haven is the schooner Quinnipiack, owned and sailed by […]
Fair and Square
When the curators at New Haven Museum put its elaborate new exhibit Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square together, they were literally playing with blocks. One of the interactive aspects of the exhibit is a puzzle where you arrange colorful cubes. Properly connected, the blocks can show you clocks: large images of ads and photos […]
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