Meaty red tomatoes that juice when you slice them, bulging green pods full of firm, sweet peas. They’re the stuff of dreams when the calendar says spring but the forecast says winter. …
This Week in New Haven (November 27 – December 3)

Policy discussions give way to fests, fairs and parties as dozens of decorous Christmas trees, including the big one in the center of town, are unveiled. …
House of Repute

A few blocks from the Guilford Town Green, stately houses line quiet streets. Most have wide, sprawling lawns. Some have barns behind them, long since converted into garages or sheds. Many are quite old, from the Victorian era or …
Open Seasoning

For hundreds of years, New Haveners have prized spices and herbs from far-off lands.
If our forebears were plopped into The Spice & Tea Exchange in Guilford, their heads would spin at the sight…
Explosions on the Ground

Then, it was organic. Now, it’s organized.
When it threw its first show in the Madison Arts Barn on April 20, 2002, Manic Presents was …
Books and Nooks

Breakwater Books has been in Guilford for 45 years. Founded by two Marions—last names Herald and Young—it began as a general interest bookstore but has slowly taken on the imprint of its buyers. …
This Week in New Haven (August 3 – 9)

A big name in jazz returns this week to the scene where he got his start, while local movie-makers take turns showing scenes on the silver screen…
Swift and Shore

Guilfordians walk among us.
Charlotte, a radiologist at Yale-New Haven Hospital, finds her twenty-minute commute from Guilford more bearable than the grind she endured living in Fairfield, when she regularly…