New Haven’s Christmas season starts in earnest this week with several light-hearted holiday traditions. Thursday’s lights up the Green. Friday’s might…
This Week in New Haven (November 4 – 10)

Provocations aplenty this week: politicians to vote for, a proposal about the nature of mankind to listen to, depictions of radical weather events to ponder, and risqué poses to put to paper.…
Poetic License

If you’ve ever caught a Wednesday open mic night at The Space performance complex, 37-year-old performance poet Devlin Grunloh likely closed out the evening, reading just before last call. In 10 years, Grunloh has…
Big Bang

The Space—the rare all-ages concert stage that can attract national acts, and even rarer for being in the middle of Connecticut—just sort of happened.
The venue, which serves food and non-alcoholic beverages, occupies the center of an industrial lot off …
This Week in New Haven (May 20-26)

Here’s all the dirt. Yalies tramp across New Haven Green Monday, kicking up dust in caps and gowns, then vamoose for parts unknown. A couple of Irishmen who were so poor as kids that they had to eat dirt for …
This Week in New Haven (May 6 – 12)

The school year is winding down, which means there’s a lot of concerts and performances marking the culminations of several years of study. Thespians at the Yale School of Drama stage full productions of new works by their classmates, as …
This Week in New Haven (April 22 – 28)

It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing in…