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Peace Be with You

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A photo essay. To view all 23 images, check out the email edition.

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Good Questions

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Jimmy Smits. [Bleep]ing JIMMY SMITS! I knew it, of course, just not in time to answer the question, “What actor replaced David Caruso after he left the cast of NYPD Blue?”

Such is the fun and frustration of Trivia …

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State Housing

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Good Show

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Think the symphony isn’t for you? Rethink that. …

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Title Shots

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A photo essay. To view all 23 images, check out the email edition.

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Wish Fulfillment

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I’m not entirely proud to admit it, but one of the most enjoyable aspects of seeing Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here at Yale Rep was the discomfort I sensed in some of the men in the theater. Women have …

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Screen Time

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Starting last night, NHdocs, a.k.a. the New Haven Documentary Film Festival, is back. And with more than 100 features and shorts to choose from, moviegoers will have to make some tough choices over the next 10 days and nights.

Presented …

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Character Buildings

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If you’re a pop culture fanatic, the Barker Character, Comic and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire could be your Mecca. Think of any fictional (and many real-life) characters you’ve ever loved—Mickey Mouse, Popeye, Darth Vader, Betty Boop, SpongeBob, Superman, the Peanuts

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Arthouse Flicks

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Bad news: Criterion Cinemas, New Haven’s only commercial movie theater, is shutting down.

Good news: The city’s galleries are picking up the slack. …

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Movie Business

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During COVID, the big screen took a famously big hit. More than 2,000 theaters across the United States closed, according to an industry survey. People were no longer willing to sit in a big, dark room near a stranger who …

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