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This Week in New Haven (March 18 – 24)

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A big Monday tides us over ’til a big Thursday and a weekend of fun and profound moments. …

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Good Bones

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I never got over Brontosaurus excelsus (“noble thunder lizard” for those of us who don’t speak ancient Greek). I don’t know when I first visited Yale’s Peabody Museum, probably at age 4 or 5, but that ginormous dinosaur floored …

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Distant Relativity

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The Puritans who settled New Haven did so in part to worship as they pleased. But they weren’t necessarily willing to offer that freedom to others—especially Quakers, whose pacifism and egalitarianism were deeply heretical, and whose tactics were needling and …

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Taking Its Course

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The centerpiece of the Wepawaug Conservation Area is the Wepawaug River. As a hiker, you can more or less follow its retreat from a reservoir at the edge of Orange to its gentler meeting with Race Brook closer to the …

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Formal Visit

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Vintage clothing stores make me feel a little melancholy, in a Toy Story 3 sort of way. They’re stocked with objects that were once madly loved by someone but then got cast aside.

Also like Toy Story 3, Westville’s …

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This Week in New Haven (March 11 – 17)

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As temps top 60 degrees, New Haven is heating up anyway with a great mix of live music and—a week after the parade, following additional celebrations—St. Patrick’s Day. …

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Well Done

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Though it has a good name for a dive bar, The Well is not a dive bar. It’s a wine (and beer) bar with dive bar prices, a circular pad burrowed into the lower level of Yale’s still-new Schwarzman Center. …

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Early Risers

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If you’re a New Havener hoping to catch a good selection at Shef’s, you’d better set your alarm clock. This Cheshire bagelry opens at 6 a.m. most weekdays and 7 a.m. on weekends, and business is known to get …

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Hall Past

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Standing at the edge of the New Haven Green with its Victorian Gothic visage, New Haven City Hall strikes an immortal pose. So it’s hard to believe that its time was once up. …

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This Week in New Haven (March 4 – 10)

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March comes in like a lion, with primal roars and a communal pride. …

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