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Axed and Answered

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“This is my effort to broker global peace between jocks and nerds,” jokes Akari Roudebush, guest relations coordinator at Pine & Iron Axe Throwing. She’s talking about Trivi-Axe, a…

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Holy Shito

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At Atticus Market, P&M Market or the Wooster Square Farmers’ Market, you might come across a selection of jars shouting a colorful message: “Oh Shito!” …

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Mixing and A-Mingling

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A nontraditional playlist, for a nontraditional Christmas: …

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Outside Tracks

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Long ago, the New Haven colony had outposts down the coast, as far away as what we now call Philadelphia. Today, New Haven’s diaspora goes in all directions, including…

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Heaven Can Wait

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What happens to a dream deferred? In the case of The Devil’s Diet, which identifies as a dessert bar but goes well beyond that, it returns…

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Record Players

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Round, grooved slabs with punchy inner labels and some heft to them. Hundreds of parallel lines forming bar codes of color on shelves or in crates. Rich, warm sound with crackles and pops of character spreading across the room. …

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’Borne and Raised

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The first notes of Airborne Charlie’s eponymous debut album, out today, materialize like raindrops on water, delicate and rippling. …

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Hotheaded

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Dave Bonet doesn’t speak like an angry person, but perhaps that’s because he lets his sauce do the talking. …

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Sub Hero

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A cartoon pig, blinged out and blazed up, gazes out from below the counter inside the new…

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Twist of Plate

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While arepas aren’t new to New Haven—High Street’s Rubamba and its ¡Ay Arepa! cart have been the vanguard—newcomer SOMOS specializes in the Venezuelan style. …

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