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Small Fortune

Small Fortune

When we last left Ivytown, the comic book city purportedly inspired by New Haven, we had just read Showcase #34, the anthology where it debuted in 1961. We saw Ivy...

Small Fortune

When we last left Ivytown, the comic book city purportedly inspired by New Haven, we had just read Showcase #34, the anthology where it debuted in 1961. We saw Ivy...

Edge States

Edge States

Live From the Edge presented by Long Wharf Theatre exists in finely honed edge states: on the shifting precipice of a set not in stone; near the upper limit of...

Edge States

Live From the Edge presented by Long Wharf Theatre exists in finely honed edge states: on the shifting precipice of a set not in stone; near the upper limit of...

Minor Spoilers

Minor Spoilers

Gardner Fox, the first writer of The Atom comics, didn’t put a ton of thought into naming the shops, the institutions or even the city he was inventing. The latter...

Minor Spoilers

Gardner Fox, the first writer of The Atom comics, didn’t put a ton of thought into naming the shops, the institutions or even the city he was inventing. The latter...

Re(li)gional Rail

Re(li)gional Rail

Sometimes a book’s title all but forces you to pluck it off the shelf. God and the New Haven Railway and Why Neither One Is Doing Very Well did that...

Re(li)gional Rail

Sometimes a book’s title all but forces you to pluck it off the shelf. God and the New Haven Railway and Why Neither One Is Doing Very Well did that...

Paper Chase

Paper Chase

The Jumping Frog, named for Mark Twain’s breakout short story and just a hop away from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, is a bookstore worth making the 45-minute leap...

Paper Chase

The Jumping Frog, named for Mark Twain’s breakout short story and just a hop away from the Mark Twain House in Hartford, is a bookstore worth making the 45-minute leap...

Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Experiencing Sea Chantey Night at the Griswold Inn had been on my list for so long that I’d allowed it take on mythic proportions. Like seeing a game at Fenway...

Maiden Voyage

Experiencing Sea Chantey Night at the Griswold Inn had been on my list for so long that I’d allowed it take on mythic proportions. Like seeing a game at Fenway...