A walk down Chapel Street, from downtown to Fair Haven, transports you on a grand, centuries-spanning odyssey from commerce to industry to nature. It involves newness and decay, giant buildings and holes in the ground, major cross streets, tracks and …
This Week in New Haven (March 4 – 10)
Party on! The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade happens March 10, while we’re still playing catch-up with Mardi Gras, with the New Haven Free Public Library’s big postponed-by-snowstorm…
This Week in New Haven (February 25 – March 3)
It’s an inventive week in New Haven, a city which is constantly reinventing itself. There’s a talk about important contraptions created in this city over the past couple of centuries. There’s a public discussion with a local inventor who’s barely …
This Week in New Haven (December 17 – 23)
The end of the year serves as a time for reflection and hopefulness. Everything from sung Latin Vespers to jazz to folk to rockabilly to ska to jam bands—a veritable history of music—helps to lighten the mood this week. There’s …
This Week in New Haven (December 10-16)
Take a breather from holiday gift-shopping and resolution-writing. Christmas and New Year are still weeks away. While we wish you a happy Hanukkah, enjoy the sheer variety and wintry dazzlement on tap in New Haven this week. School’s still in …
This Week in New Haven (October 15 – 21)
Take flight this week in New Haven with flamenco dancing, a documentary about singing doves and superheroes reading books to kids. Oh, and a time machine. Bon voyage!
Monday, October 15
The annual Post-It exhibit of the Student Arts League …
Talking Points
Renowned prankster Alan Abel has lived in Connecticut for decades, mostly in Fairfield County. He doesn’t pretend to know New Haven well.
“When we made [the 1971 mockumentary film] Is There Sex After Death?, it was played for the …












