It’s hard to keep from smiling when you’re tap dancing. I learned that the easy way during (more…)
Hips and Salsa
The 800 block of Chapel Street, just east of the Green, teems most days with pedestrians going somewhere in a hurry. Little do most of them know that, up a flight of stairs at address 817, they could be stepping and strutting while their stresses do the walking. Active but relaxed—that’s how Alisa Bowens, owner […]
A Kick in the Paints
I met with artist and instructor Kwadwo Adae at his Adae Fine Art Academy on Chapel Street during one of the hottest days of the year. The urban asphalt baked in the sun. The air was thick and languorous. Everyone who had dared to venture outside seemed miserable. The heat rose to Adae’s second-floor walk-up […]
Enlightened by Eli
Bill Brown is joining time, space, bits of woods and New Haven history before a room of field-tripping fourth graders. (more…)