This year’s transition to the next is uniquely muted, even if we can control the volume. …
This Week in New Haven (December 14 – 20)

Need a jolt of Christmas spirit? Gingerbread houses, holiday tales, yuletide music, glowing luminarias and, if the forecast is correct, mid-week snow are coming to the rescue. …
Inner Circles

What happens when you walk a labyrinth? “Sometimes, nothing!” Bill Ludwig says with a laugh. …
Charted Waters

Jonathan Waters sees art in the curve of a boat’s hull and the twist of a scrap of metal. He finds it, too, in…
Shop Talk

“I want you to think about the number of people who sat in our chairs,” says Lou Deserio, seated himself in the 45-year-old barbershop and hair salon he operates with his daughter, Louanne Deserio. …
Book Keepers

“It wasn’t that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here,” the author Susan Orlean writes in her 2018 book The Library Book. …
’Front Line

Connecticut has its fair share of rail trails—converted train beds for hiking and biking. Trolley trails are less common, but that’s just what you get with Branford’s Trolley Trail, a…