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 …
This Week in New Haven (May 13 – 19)
This week in New Haven begins with the jamming Alpaca Gnomes and ends with the klezmer band Nu Haven Kapelye, with jazz and punk and symphonies in between. There’s a high school youth…
This Week in New Haven (May 6 – 12)
The school year is winding down, which means there’s a lot of concerts and performances marking the culminations of several years of study. Thespians at the Yale School of Drama stage full productions of new works by their classmates, as …
1st Impressions
The scarlet maple-keys betray,
What potent blood hath modest May;
What fiery force the earth renews,
The wealth of forms, the flush of hues…
—from “May-Day,” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1867…
This Week in New Haven (April 29 – May 5)
Youth has its fling in New Haven this week. The Kidstock benefit for United Community Nursery School on Saturday features a dozen acts, some of them children themselves. Green Day’s…
This Week in New Haven (April 22 – 28)
It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing in…
This Week in New Haven (April 15 – 21)
From a puppet show based on a prize-winning children’s book to a concert celebrating a Renaissance poet to a musical based on a Victor Hugo novel to a play based on a Virginia Woolf novel to a…
This Week in New Haven (April 8 – 14)
Theater in a department store. Brazilian dance music in a library. A Prairie Home companion at Southern Connecticut State University. The great outdoors, up against a wall, at the Yale Environmental Film Festival.…
This Week in New Haven (April 1 – 7)
Sorry, but not one of the items listed below is an April Fool’s prank. There really is that much to do in New Haven this week. You can hear Paul Giamatti speak, watch one of the most acclaimed documentaries of …
Primo Fascia
The word “Rolfing” sounds like something the body does to heal itself after a night of abandon—and that’s actually not far off, if you replace night with life.
Rolfing therapy pursues pain relief and optimal body function through “structural …









