In Edgerton Park last Friday, before a performance of Elm Shakespeare Company’s The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, theatergoers were settling down with their lawn chairs and pizzas. Next to the reflective surface of the (more…)
Pieces of War
Despite a camouflage paint job, the West Haven Veterans Museum and Learning Center is easy to spot. (more…)
House of Repute
A few blocks from the Guilford Town Green, stately houses line quiet streets. Most have wide, sprawling lawns. Some have barns behind them, long since converted into garages or sheds. Many are quite old, from the Victorian era or (more…)
Vase to Vase
Every now and then, the Yale Center for British Art artfully challenges your ideas about what’s artful. (more…)
People-Powered
You can hear it echoing off the buildings of downtown, through the alleys and across the Green. It rings off the arches of the Temple Street Garage, sounds faintly through the windy corridor of Federal Plaza and bounces off the stony, glassy facade of the Yale University Art Gallery. Woo! Woohoo! It’s the unmistakable sound […]
Now and Then
When I spoke with historian Laura A. Macaluso, she was fresh from the trenches. (more…)
Here and Noir
Amy Bloom is familiar with New Haven’s underbelly, and not just because she edited and contributed to New Haven Noir, a new anthology of hard-boiled page-turners set in the Elm City. (more…)
Project Management
Editor’s note: Shortly after publishing this story, we learned that Sew Crafty is closing up shop. We regret any crafting hopes this news may dash! Sew Crafty, a New Haven craft studio, looks like Santa’s workshop if the elves were big on Pinterest. (more…)
Floating Boats
It was the second Wednesday in July, and a colorful crowd had lined up near the Mill River canoe launch in the College Woods section of East Rock Park. Supplied with paddles and bright red life jackets, they (more…)