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Fred Parris & The Five Satins

High Five

A brief history of doo-wop in New Haven: “The Five Satins. Ooooooh!” Brief enough for you? But such concision lacks the harmony, community, street smarts and nuance that Fred Parris...

High Five

A brief history of doo-wop in New Haven: “The Five Satins. Ooooooh!” Brief enough for you? But such concision lacks the harmony, community, street smarts and nuance that Fred Parris...

Cole Porter

Mining Cole

He was the top. He was delightful, delicious, de-lovely. Night and day, he was the one. And he was all that right here in New Haven for a little while...

Mining Cole

He was the top. He was delightful, delicious, de-lovely. Night and day, he was the one. And he was all that right here in New Haven for a little while...

L’homme Cirque

The Big Idea

For the finale of his one-man show L’homme Cirque, performed several times daily inside a small circus tent erected on New Haven Green, David Dimitri shoots himself out of a...

The Big Idea

For the finale of his one-man show L’homme Cirque, performed several times daily inside a small circus tent erected on New Haven Green, David Dimitri shoots himself out of a...

Linda Mooser, owner of Books & Company, and Lily

Good on Paperbacks

Books & Company, a “like-new used bookstore” in the Whitneyville area of Hamden, is a nookish spot to pick up some summer reading. Among their large half-priced selection of mysteries,...

Good on Paperbacks

Books & Company, a “like-new used bookstore” in the Whitneyville area of Hamden, is a nookish spot to pick up some summer reading. Among their large half-priced selection of mysteries,...

Stuck Elevator. Photographed by Kevin Berne.

Showtime

The face of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a place. There’s also a phrase or a name or a concept with which folks attempt to shorthand Arts...

Showtime

The face of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a place. There’s also a phrase or a name or a concept with which folks attempt to shorthand Arts...

Yale Summer Cabaret 2013

Team Players

In 1974, when the Yale Summer Cabaret began, there were still summer theaters throughout Connecticut, and the United States, with this well-established format: a company of actors doing five or...

Team Players

In 1974, when the Yale Summer Cabaret began, there were still summer theaters throughout Connecticut, and the United States, with this well-established format: a company of actors doing five or...