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Miracle on Chapel Street

Miracle on Chapel Street

All things, even ancient and enduring ones, eventually perish. Old Heidelberg, the city’s oldest restaurant and bar when it closed in 1991 after an astonishing 234 years, was one more...

Miracle on Chapel Street

All things, even ancient and enduring ones, eventually perish. Old Heidelberg, the city’s oldest restaurant and bar when it closed in 1991 after an astonishing 234 years, was one more...

Super Bowl

Super Bowl

Before what was then the world’s largest stadium could open with the big Yale-Harvard game of 1914, it had to be built. Building the Yale Bowl meant solving an enormous...

Super Bowl

Before what was then the world’s largest stadium could open with the big Yale-Harvard game of 1914, it had to be built. Building the Yale Bowl meant solving an enormous...

Four of a Kind

Four of a Kind

Beethoven had been deaf for 20 years when he wrote his String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132—“one of the greatest string quartets,” cellist Philip Boulanger told a masked audience...

Four of a Kind

Beethoven had been deaf for 20 years when he wrote his String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132—“one of the greatest string quartets,” cellist Philip Boulanger told a masked audience...

This Week in New Haven (November 15 - 21)

This Week in New Haven (November 15 - 21)

Annual occasions for early holiday shopping and late-fall competition are right on time. Monday, November 15At 6 p.m. in Mitchell Library (37 Harrison St, New Haven; 203-946-8117), author and former...

This Week in New Haven (November 15 - 21)

Annual occasions for early holiday shopping and late-fall competition are right on time. Monday, November 15At 6 p.m. in Mitchell Library (37 Harrison St, New Haven; 203-946-8117), author and former...

Turning Pages

Turning Pages

Published 15 years after the tercentenary for which it was commissioned, Rollin G. Osterweis’s Three Centuries of New Haven (1953)—which you can access at local libraries or via archive.org—is broad...

Turning Pages

Published 15 years after the tercentenary for which it was commissioned, Rollin G. Osterweis’s Three Centuries of New Haven (1953)—which you can access at local libraries or via archive.org—is broad...

Subject Matters

Subject Matters

The Roaring Twenties brothel owner Pearl “Polly” Adler and the minister Henry Ward Beecher, “one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity,” have a few things in common. One...

Subject Matters

The Roaring Twenties brothel owner Pearl “Polly” Adler and the minister Henry Ward Beecher, “one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity,” have a few things in common. One...