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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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Head for the Hills

The "Castle" at Sleeping Giant State Park

New Haven is blessed to be surrounded by cool climbing places. Within city limits there are the East and West Rocks. Then, not far beyond, is a formation whose very name seems less rocky, more comfy: Sleeping Giant.

Hikers don’t …

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Two-Street Way

Sidewalk down Howard Ave

A walk down Howe and along Howard takes you from downtown to down-to-the-sea-in-ships. It brings you past the old YMCA, wellness centers, the walls outside the highway and ultimately to the waterfront. This is one of those walks that …

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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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West in Show

Westville Village ArtWalk

We can analyze art any number of ways. We can assess form, content and how it connects with the viewer.

When casting our gaze on the Westville area’s annual ArtWalk, what’s worth noting is how this vibrant, multi-hued palette of …

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Fair Play

Eric Ting, director of Long Wharf Theatre's Clybourne Park

“I like smart actors,” Eric Ting says. He’s discussing the new production of the drama Clybourne Park he’s directing for the Long Wharf Theater. The show begins previews tonight, has its opening night May 15, and runs through June 2.…

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This Week in New Haven (May 6 – 12)

Trevor Powers a.k.a. Youth Lagoon

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 …

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One Man’s Treasure

Rob Greenberg

The tour of  Rob Greenberg’s private, maverick, singular, endlessly intriguing personal museum of New Haven history begins big and distant and gets progressively more detailed and more lovingly local. Greenberg spent much of his career in New York, so he …

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1st Impressions

Dancing around the Maypole

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…

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This Week in New Haven (April 29 – May 5)

The Guru

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…

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