If you think about it, books and sandwiches have a lot in common. The outside packaging may be attractive, but it’s the filling that matters.
Dave Duda understands that you shouldn’t judge either a novel…
If you think about it, books and sandwiches have a lot in common. The outside packaging may be attractive, but it’s the filling that matters.
Dave Duda understands that you shouldn’t judge either a novel…
Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts.
Located at the hub of the city’s extensive network of …
“Life imitates art,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “more than art imitates art.” In New Haven, that art has often involved cartooning and caricature. It’s a fun place to be.
One of the most popular and controversial comic strip…
Peer into New Haven’s fictional case files with this page-turner, originally published September 19, 2012.
A few years ago, the New Haven Free Public Library distributed a hand-out: “Check Out These…
It was a very brave soul who proposed that a gleaming red, blue and yellow kinetic sculpture by Alexander Calder be placed on Yale’s Hewitt University Quadrangle near the back entrance of Woolsey Hall and a book’s-throw from the Beinecke …
The word “flagship” gets used loosely a lot, to mean “the most important one of a bunch of things.” But if you’re a centuries-old city which takes great pride in its waterfront, you might actually have a flagship that’s a …
When the curators at New Haven Museum put its elaborate new exhibit Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square together, they were literally playing with blocks. One of the interactive aspects of the exhibit is a puzzle where you arrange colorful …
For years, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra produced an outdoor concert series in New Haven parks. These elaborate shows, as many as nine per summer, came to feature celebrity performers such as Marvin Hamlisch.
Also for years, the International Festival …