Inside a gymnasium in Shelton, a dozen or so recruits under the age of 10 are training to become Jedi peacekeepers in the galactic fight against the Dark Side. A Jedi master named Kato Kislo, wearing the neutral-toned, belted tunic …
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A Real Saint
For our vacation this week, we’re traveling back to some of our favorite recent stories, starting with this cooling blast of winter warmth. …
Pipes Dream
Bagpiper Durant McCurley considers himself a “street player” in a part of the country where holiday parades are heralded with pipes. But his itinerancy takes him to less expected places. …
Coify Klatch
Mark “Ferni” Fernicola, the house barber at Lucky Soul Tattoo in Woodbridge, is part of a small diaspora of Fernicola barbers in Greater New Haven. His cousins cut hair in Wallingford and North Haven. All three learned the trade …
Super Sub
Of all the signs outside Alma’s—advertising cigarettes, lottery tickets, an ATM—one is repeated three times: “DELI.” Tucked below the busy intersection of Whalley Avenue and Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, with its brick shell painted baby blue, the bodega also offers …
Star Tech
The Morrill Hall Planetarium at Southern Connecticut State University is a domed appendage of the otherwise rectilinear Morrill Hall, sharing its planetary curves with…
Party Work
The upstairs room at 168 York Street Cafe was filled with bodies bouncing, hands in the air, while the music thumped and pealed, rolling from chorus to chorus with locomotive reliability. But if you studied the DJ, a willowy, spectacled …
Director’s Cuts
The monitor in Karyl Evans’s North Haven office shows the thumbnailed building blocks of her most recent documentary. She’s showing me her editorial process, the part of filmmaking she likens to sculpting. “So I take everything they say and …
A Real Saint
One recent blustery afternoon, Santa came to town. He wore a coat the color of cranberry sauce and strolled along Chapel Street, causing small clamors of happy surprise among pedestrians going the other way. It was not unlike the appearance …
Door Handle
New Haven has better reason than most to get a handle on its doors. This dates back at least as far as the Revolutionary War, when British soldiers spent the first week of July 1779 raiding towns on the Connecticut …
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