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This Week in New Haven (November 2 – 8)

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Between different sorts of dance parties, a blisteringly busy music festival and dramatic, even operatic shows, the city’s music scene is unstoppable this week. (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (May 11 – 17)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Brick, screening Wednesday at the Whitney Humanities Center

Legacies loom large this week. A New York Yankee looks to preserve his. An employee of the Smithsonian discusses protecting others’. An arts (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (October 27 – November 2)

Jack White - "Blunderbuss" cover art

Amid celebrity appearances and other notable cultural events this week, the zombie elephant in the room is Halloween, which inspires a gutsy retail experiment in a tight space, a (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (September 22 – 28)

Brentano Quartet

There’s more than one “new” in New Haven this week. On Tuesday, a local musical institution-in-the-making makes its debut; Thursday, a short-run play gets its stateside premiere (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (October 28 – November 3)

Celebration of American Crafts

There’s high drama this week in New Haven. Several intriguing theatrical productions are staged around the city, just as the results of the investigation into the human skeleton unearthed by (more…)

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This Week in New Haven (April 1 – 7)

Edible Book Tea at Creative Arts Workshop

Sorry, but not one of the items listed below is an April Fool’s prank. There really is that much to do in New Haven this week. You can hear Paul Giamatti speak, watch one of the most acclaimed documentaries of the past year, and attend a talk about New Haven department stores—all for free. For […]

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This Week in New Haven (March 25 – 31)

Glen Matlock, original bassist of the Sex Pistols

Tolstoy would be proud. There’s a strange mix of war and peace in New Haven this week. There’s a Yale talk on “respect of human life” and a Yale screening of the new Evil Dead. There’s a soldier who balanced the horrors of his tour in Iraq by birdwatching. Cafe Nine offers some feisty ragtime on […]

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This Week in New Haven (February 25 – March 3)

Abraham Gomez-Delgado

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 into his teen years. There’s the return of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, which has redrawn […]

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This Week in New Haven (February 11 – 17)

Mary Poppins at YCBA

The city got clobbered with snow Friday and Saturday, which led to the cancellation of several notable events planned for the weekend. The coming week looks much more benign; nonetheless, it’s a timely reminder for readers to double-check with the venue or producer before going out when the weather is threatening. Let’s hope this week’s events […]

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This Week in New Haven (January 21 – 27)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s a week of peace, community, religious thought, great journeys and social concerns befitting the legacy of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. That includes everything from the “Religion and Film” series at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center to a trip halfway around the world (as presented by the Yale Philharmonia). King isn’t the only ’60s […]

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