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Wave Gallery

A Gifted Gallery

“The elements have stayed more or less the same,” says Phylis Satin, starting to explain why WAVE, the shop she’s run in New Haven for over 25 years, is like...

A Gifted Gallery

“The elements have stayed more or less the same,” says Phylis Satin, starting to explain why WAVE, the shop she’s run in New Haven for over 25 years, is like...

Fig Cooking School

A Cook In Every Kitchen

They say Shakyamuni Buddha found enlightenment under a fig tree. Heide Lang’s goals at Fig Cooking School are only slightly less lofty. The school’s motto is “Find your inner gourmet,”...

A Cook In Every Kitchen

They say Shakyamuni Buddha found enlightenment under a fig tree. Heide Lang’s goals at Fig Cooking School are only slightly less lofty. The school’s motto is “Find your inner gourmet,”...

Métaphore

The French+ Connection

Métaphore derives its style from France, Italy, Sweden and Belgium and has dispensed its “European home” wares from three different locations in downtown New Haven over the past five years....

The French+ Connection

Métaphore derives its style from France, Italy, Sweden and Belgium and has dispensed its “European home” wares from three different locations in downtown New Haven over the past five years....

Pollen

A Hive Mind

Ben Gardner’s day might sound oddly bucolic for an area resident and business owner. On a recent Thursday, sunrise found him in his backyard, collecting chicken eggs and tending to...

A Hive Mind

Ben Gardner’s day might sound oddly bucolic for an area resident and business owner. On a recent Thursday, sunrise found him in his backyard, collecting chicken eggs and tending to...

Chris Randall, New Haven Land Trust

Trusting in the Land

Once you know who Chris Randall is, it seems as if he’s everywhere. And everywhere he is, so is the New Haven Land Trust. Randall is a photographer, gardener, community...

Trusting in the Land

Once you know who Chris Randall is, it seems as if he’s everywhere. And everywhere he is, so is the New Haven Land Trust. Randall is a photographer, gardener, community...

George Zito, Rubber Match

Deep-Seated

For 40 years now—34 of them in the same Whalley Avenue location at the corner of Sperry Street—the Rubber Match furniture dealer and “countercultural variety store” has dealt in a...

Deep-Seated

For 40 years now—34 of them in the same Whalley Avenue location at the corner of Sperry Street—the Rubber Match furniture dealer and “countercultural variety store” has dealt in a...