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When people get their phones out and record The State House’s final shows this week, they’ll be joining a rich tradition of audiovisually preserving the city’s lost music venues. It’s quaint to think about today, but after the widespread adoption of home video technology—and before Star Trek-level camera phones appeared in our pockets—there was a […]

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Course of Events

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When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up in North Haven, witnessed many a bloody hockey game when the New Haven Blades took the ice. There were swing bands and circus acts, boxing […]

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Mark of the Beast

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New Haven was a hockey town for 76 years (more…)

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Entertainment Center

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Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (more…)

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Mark of the Beast

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New Haven was a hockey town for 76 years (more…)

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Entertainment Center

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Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. (more…)

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Under Construction

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“We are taking the town out of the 18th century and projecting it into the 21st.” Even for a politician, that was a hyperbolic way of casting New Haven’s urban renewal program (more…)

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Course of Events

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This 2018 story conjures a place of lore where the concept of social distancing would have been unthinkable. (more…)

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Course of Events

New Haven Arena in 1934 (depicted image held by the New Haven Museum)

When the Beach Boys played, there was “no point in sitting down, except perhaps to keep from fainting,” recalls Sarah Heath of Hamden. Her friend Michael Ross, who grew up in North Haven, witnessed many a bloody hockey game when the New Haven Blades took the ice. There were swing bands and circus acts, boxing […]

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Under Construction

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“We are taking the town out of the 18th century and projecting it into the 21st.” Even for a politician, that was a hyperbolic way of casting New Haven’s urban renewal program (more…)

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