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Home-Cooked Dining Out

Jesus Puerto

This is Cuban soul food. Home cooking. The meals and dishes and sides of plantains, rice, beans and stewed meat someone’s grandmother used to make, back when. In this case, Jesus Puerto’s grandmother.

“This is the food Jesus ate as …

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A Light On Her Feet

BalletHaven 1

Even (or perhaps particularly) when clad in ballet shoes, Mnikesa Whitaker is not to be messed with. “I’m focused on instilling a sense of discipline and work ethic into the girls. That’s what dance is about, and that’s what I’m …

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For Pet’s Sake

For Pet's Sake | photographed by Uma Ramiah

It’s a truly cavernous warehouse space, but it’s not just wares that are housed here. Indeed, 75 Hamilton Street is full of life: wags, barks, nips, growls and tugs. This is the home of A Dog’s Life, an impressive canine …

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Letting Your Hair Down, or Up

Salon Lulu

We’re a down-to-earth crew, we New Haveners. Our fair city is just big enough to feel urban yet small enough to be locally focused, home-grown, and low-key. But let’s admit it: we’re also a drop dead fabulous bunch. So if …

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An Apple-Carrot-Ginger a Day

Pure Health Lounge

If you’ve seen the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead, you might well have been tempted to forsake all solid foods plus fats, sugars, salts, carbs—all the fun stuff—for a full on, pureed, juiced-up cleanse. If you haven’t seen …

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The Whole Story

Bill Klar Healthy Living

Bill Klar wants you to eat dirt. “See, people just cut off these roots, and the skin, the leaves on top, and throw them away. I can’t even believe it. A little dirt is good, it’s a connection to the …

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Life By Chocolate

The spread at Chocopologie.

It’s threatening rain on a warm afternoon as Christian Wilke whips butterscotch sauce into cupcake batter, folding ingredients into a dusty pink kitchen mixer. All is quiet on Chapel Street: Yale undergraduates have gone home for the summer. But customers …

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Underpass Makeover

Ben Berkowitz and Chris Randall | Inside Out NHV

Drivers are slowing, sometimes just to crane their necks to get a peek at the action unfolding under the concrete slab of an underpass on State Street at Bradley. Or, they slow to avoid running over Ben Berkowitz and Chris …

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Pedal Pushers

Melinda Tuhus | Elm City Cycling

When asked to think of the great bicycling cities of the world, we think of Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Portland, maybe Montreal. But the kids (and the kids at heart) over at Elm City Cycling? They want New Haven on that list …

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By The Book

Stetson Branch Library

The Stetson Branch Library is in the unlikeliest of spots, tucked into an otherwise drab strip mall on Dixwell Avenue between Foote and Admiral Streets. But there it is, against all odds—punctuated by a bright splash of a mural spelling …

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