Tag Archives: East Haven

This Week in New Haven (January 3 – 9)

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A “first night,” a number-two team and a trio of kings help count the week ahead.

Monday, January 3
Every night from 5 to 9 through the end of the month, Lyman Orchards (70 Lyman Rd, Middlefield; 860-349-6000) is hosting …

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This Week in New Haven (November 1 -7)

Voting Booths

Between Beinecke, ballots, a boathouse, Bobcats, Bulldogs, brewing, bestowals, birth scenes, baile and blocks of films, there are no Plan Bs. …

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This Week in New Haven (September 20 – 26)

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Fall into current affairs, live music, visual art and, you know, Fall. …

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Chapters and Verse

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Sitting at a table in the cheerful sun room of her East Haven home, sipping from a mug of coffee small enough to wrap her hand all the way around, poet Marilyn Nelson weaves one tale after another. …

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Hidden Depths

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Lake Saltonstall hides in plain sight, even though it’s nearly as long as the city of New Haven. …

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Beer We Go

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Since it opened in 2018, The Beeracks, a collaborative beer brewery in East Haven, has flown under the radar. The name, a play on “barracks,” is a little puzzling, and…

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Immaculate Confection

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Saint Patrick’s Day gets most of the attention in March, but the festival day of Saint Joseph falls just two days later—a celebration of the “foster father” of Jesus, a humble carpenter descended from King David. …

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This Week in New Haven (October 5 – 11)

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Nobody quite knows what a pandemic Halloween will feel like, but this week offers some early hints. …

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Storm Surge

Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico.(Photo by Sgt. Jose Ahiram Diaz-Ramos/PRNG-PAO)

“Puerto Rico,” the cell phone screen says. But the caller, Manuel Sierra, is speaking from New Haven. This is his home now, since Hurricane Maria drove his family from the island two years ago. Sierra is among approximately 3,000 Puerto …

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World Cups

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Behind a tiny, round window, green coffee beans rotate like chips of color in a kaleidoscope. …

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