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Young at Heart

Young at Heart

“The Sleeping Giant was awake. He must be awake because he was gone. Of course he might just be walking in his sleep.” So begins Eleanor Estes’s 1948 anthology The...

Young at Heart

“The Sleeping Giant was awake. He must be awake because he was gone. Of course he might just be walking in his sleep.” So begins Eleanor Estes’s 1948 anthology The...

Martha Willette Lewis

Headspaces

A photo essay. To view all 35 images, check out the email version. Last week’s Private Studios Weekend, the third of four weekends in this year’s City-Wide Open Studios, offered...

Headspaces

A photo essay. To view all 35 images, check out the email version. Last week’s Private Studios Weekend, the third of four weekends in this year’s City-Wide Open Studios, offered...

King of Jacks

King of Jacks

The Patch Master, all dressed in black and orange, lives in a basement apartment in West Haven. The blinds are drawn and the lights glow orange. Organ music plays, candles...

King of Jacks

The Patch Master, all dressed in black and orange, lives in a basement apartment in West Haven. The blinds are drawn and the lights glow orange. Organ music plays, candles...

Tim Moran Woodwinds

A Good Fit

Unlike auto mechanics who run computer diagnostics, or surgeons who operate while watching a monitor, Tim Moran is practicing a craft that’s hardly changed in 200 years. His work bench...

A Good Fit

Unlike auto mechanics who run computer diagnostics, or surgeons who operate while watching a monitor, Tim Moran is practicing a craft that’s hardly changed in 200 years. His work bench...

Garden Wall by Don Wunderlee

Fine Lines

56 blocks of chunky window glass. Gold stripes on a chartreuse couch. Squared-off floorboards from amber to auburn. Don Wunderlee’s Westville studio is alive with lines, most notably the wavering...

Fine Lines

56 blocks of chunky window glass. Gold stripes on a chartreuse couch. Squared-off floorboards from amber to auburn. Don Wunderlee’s Westville studio is alive with lines, most notably the wavering...

Enrico Colantoni (foreground) and the cast of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen, new translation by Paul Walsh, directed by James Bundy. Photo by Joan Marcus, 2017.

Oh the Humanity

Fake news. Groupthink. Entrenched party politics. Distrust in science. The bitter struggle between elites and everymen. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, now playing as a Yale Repertory production...

Oh the Humanity

Fake news. Groupthink. Entrenched party politics. Distrust in science. The bitter struggle between elites and everymen. Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, now playing as a Yale Repertory production...