It sounds like someone’s polishing a thick window, but there’s an undertone like shots fired from a far-off laser-blaster, plus whirs and beeps and digital squeaks. This tiny commotion is coming from a cubic foot of futurism (more…)
Place Like Home
From bread to beef to beer, Wheelers Restaurant & Taproom in Woodbridge, located just a few feet past the New Haven border at 180 Amity Road, emphasizes local, organic and sustainable. Run by experienced yet fresh-faced (more…)
Semper Fi
A huge number of military veterans return from war and find a different kind of struggle awaiting them at home. Mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder and other impediments to rejoining civilian life—like (more…)
Life of the Party
If you want to find an African drum circle, learn to play the Irish penny whistle or the Indian hurdy gurdy, brush up on your New England contra or square dancing, get a few gardening tips, celebrate a change of the season, write a poem and/or create a clay pot, Dr. William Fischer—call him Bill—is […]
Something’s Cooking
As a little girl, Karen Lenahan loved food—preparing it, experimenting with it and, of course, eating it. Years and years before “foodie”-ism turned vogue (and then ubiquitous), Lenahan was already (more…)
Reinventions
For most people, having a non-functioning umbrella is an excuse to consign it to the trash can. Not so for the founding members of New Haven’s A Broken Umbrella Theatre, who named their troupe in part as a clever homage to a shared yet divergent heritage. Emerging from the Uninvited Guests Comedy Troupe at Muhlenberg College in […]
Faire Play
Chivalry isn’t dead—for the next couple weekends, anyway, and on the Guilford Fairgrounds, at least. Then and there, it’s the annual Robin Hood Springtime Festival, a souped-up Renaissance faire (more…)
Doll House
Dolls occupy a huge variety of spaces within the human psyche. Sometimes they’re playthings or sources of comfort. Other times they’re deeply creepy, a fact innumerable horror stories have exploited. Used as totems and (more…)
Cast and Crew
The website of The Orange Players—a theatrical troupe founded in Orange, Connecticut, in 1974—says it’s “the oldest continuously active community theatre group” in the state. (more…)