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Ink Tank

Ink Tank

I pass by a red house on Main Street in Stratford every week. A sign dangles from the porch overhang. “FTS Gallery,” it reads, nestled into the canopy of a...

Ink Tank

I pass by a red house on Main Street in Stratford every week. A sign dangles from the porch overhang. “FTS Gallery,” it reads, nestled into the canopy of a...

For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration

Two moments last Thursday registered ominously in a time of gloomy thinking about the movie theater industry. First, Google couldn’t find the familiar Criterion Cinemas website (which, I later discovered,...

For Your Consideration

Two moments last Thursday registered ominously in a time of gloomy thinking about the movie theater industry. First, Google couldn’t find the familiar Criterion Cinemas website (which, I later discovered,...

High Five

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...

Party Work

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...

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...

Love Language

Love Language

For two decades, Carol Ruggiero filled pages and pages with her thoughts and memories, evoking images of a bygone era, and now they fill Pearls from Carol, the blue-bound book...

Love Language

For two decades, Carol Ruggiero filled pages and pages with her thoughts and memories, evoking images of a bygone era, and now they fill Pearls from Carol, the blue-bound book...

Now Blowing

Now Blowing

Nostalgic movies are hot soup on a cold day. So forgive me if, in this little meditation on today’s arctic blast, I ladle in some of my favorite feature presentations...

Now Blowing

Nostalgic movies are hot soup on a cold day. So forgive me if, in this little meditation on today’s arctic blast, I ladle in some of my favorite feature presentations...