The poet Carl Sandburg famously wrote that fog “comes on little cat feet.” …
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Extended Family
On the phone from Changsha, China, David Youtz, president of the Yale-China Association, describes the city: skyscrapers 60 to 70 stories high, traffic congestion, Western goods…
Camp Ground
It’s hard to imagine the game of football without yard lines and fourth downs and organized teams of 11. But before New Haven’s Walter Camp, the sport was missing all of those elements and more. …
Doctors’ Notes
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 has “thick orchestration,” conductor Robert Smith says. “The brass parts are really high up. They go fast and you have to double tongue and triple tongue. The strings are up in seventh position… The woodwinds have …
Shedding Light
The sun will set at 4:25 p.m. in New Haven today.
It’s the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, though it doesn’t have the earliest sunset. That already occurred on December 7, at 4:22 and change. …
This Week in New Haven (October 7 – 13)
An acclaimed poet, four bestselling fiction authors and an award-winning investigative journalist bring their writers’ voices off the pages and into New Haven on Tuesday, Wednesday…
This Week in New Haven (September 16 – 22)
The weather’s turning cooler, and so is New Haven. A much-respected under-the-radar band comes to Cafe Nine on Tuesday, the day before the Whitney Humanities Center presents an advance screening of the latest…
This Week in New Haven (December 31 – January 6)
Christmas Eve was a Monday understandably bereft of going-out opportunities. When New Year’s Eve falls on a Monday, on the other hand, it’s a whole different world—one which bodes well for a busy new year of shows, concerts, lectures, exhibits …
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