Normally, we spend our Mondays highlighting things to see and places to go in the week ahead. (more…)
States of Nature
[Ed. Note: After this story published, the Yale University Art Gallery announced it would be closing to the public from March 13 to April 15, 2020, due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.] On my way into the Yale University Art Gallery, I was accosted by a pair of strangers. (more…)
New Digs
A crowd of hundreds packed into the Great Hall of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, pressing against the railing of the central dinosaur display (more…)
This Week in New Haven (November 4 – 10)
Clocks have fallen back. Temperatures too. But New Haven moves ever forward, thanks to affordable fine dining, a municipal election and pop-up retail therapy. (more…)
Nothing to Fear
A photo essay. It’s hard not to have a happy Halloween in New Haven, a place that breezily subverts the motifs meant to menace us. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (September 2 – 8)
A dynamic week of duos includes two athletic contests, two comedy shows, two book talks and at least two beer nights. (more…)
Found in Translation
A young visitor to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibition was trying to make sense of what he’d just been told: that he was looking at the very first written language in the world. Ever. (more…)