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 13 – 19)
This week in New Haven begins with the jamming Alpaca Gnomes and ends with the klezmer band Nu Haven Kapelye, with jazz and punk and symphonies in between. There’s a high school youth…
This Week in New Haven (April 15 – 21)
From a puppet show based on a prize-winning children’s book to a concert celebrating a Renaissance poet to a musical based on a Victor Hugo novel to a play based on a Virginia Woolf novel to a…
This Week in New Haven (April 8 – 14)
Theater in a department store. Brazilian dance music in a library. A Prairie Home companion at Southern Connecticut State University. The great outdoors, up against a wall, at the Yale Environmental Film Festival.…
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 (February 18 – 24)
Last Monday’s column alerted readers that the major snowstorm (“Nemo,” if you insist) could impact some events in the New Haven area and indeed it did. The storm fall-out continues to…
This Week in New Haven (January 21 – 27)
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 …
This Week in New Haven (January 14 – 20)
Bob Dylan (in a “theatrical biography” at Lyric Hall), Robert Johnson (whose seminal blues style is feted by guitarist Rocky Lawrence), Radu Lupu (the renowned pianist)…









