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This Week in New Haven (December 29 – January 4)

Medusa by Jennifer Davies, photographed by Christopher Gardner

It’s a new year when the clock strikes 12 on Thursday morning. But it’s not a new New Haven, which is why it’s not quite surprising how varied…

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This Week in New Haven (September 1 – 7)

Conundrum by Karen Wheeler

Labor Day always heralds a big burst of activity in New Haven. Universities and other schools begin to build serious momentum following the long weekend’s relapse…

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This Week in New Haven (August 11 – 17)

Best Video screening area

Between a classic film featuring a leading man in his prime, a play staged in a park under the night sky and a professional tennis tournament boasting major talent, we’re seeing stars…

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This Week in New Haven (February 17 – 23)

"General George Washington Resigning his Commission" by John Trumbull

Wet snow in various stages of falling and sticking and melting turned New Haven into a persistent concrete marshland over the past several days. Just a touch of snow is forecast this…

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This Week in New Haven (June 10 – 16)

Los Straightjackets

College-based events are fewer and further between between the end of the academic year and the beginning of summer classes. Public schools, meanwhile, don’t get out until the end of the month. Still, you can totally feel the wave of …

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This Week in New Haven (May 20-26)

Howard Platt and Jarlath Conroy in A Couple of Blaguards at Long Wharf

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 …

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This Week in New Haven (May 13 – 19)

"Columbus in the New World" at Yale Center for British Art

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…

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This Week in New Haven (February 25 – March 3)

Abraham Gomez-Delgado

It’s an inventive week in New Haven, a city which is constantly reinventing itself. There’s a talk about important contraptions created in this city over the past couple of centuries. There’s a public discussion with a local inventor who’s barely …

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This Week in New Haven (December 17 – 23)

Christine Ohlman, the Beehive Queen

The end of the year serves as a time for reflection and hopefulness. Everything from sung Latin Vespers to jazz to folk to rockabilly to ska to jam bands—a veritable history of music—helps to lighten the mood this week. There’s …

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Giving Thanks

Autumn foliage in New Haven

There are many ways to give thanks in—and to—New Haven at this time of year. The selection below involves really bad rhymes and puns. You can thank us later.

Tanks-giving
Claes Oldenburg’s public art sculpture Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks

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