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Batman Returns

Batman Returns

Puns and punches flying below it, the bat signal shone over a New Haven skyline last night. Granted, it was a skyline made of foam or something, small enough to...

Batman Returns

Puns and punches flying below it, the bat signal shone over a New Haven skyline last night. Granted, it was a skyline made of foam or something, small enough to...

Irrepressible

Irrepressible

Imagine you’re a (pre-internet) publisher, but your ideas are too heretical or your approach is too independent, so you’re barred access to decent paper, a printing press or even a...

Irrepressible

Imagine you’re a (pre-internet) publisher, but your ideas are too heretical or your approach is too independent, so you’re barred access to decent paper, a printing press or even a...

The Ten Commandments (1923)

Sounds of Silents

A century ago, saying that there was a silent film screening downtown would be like saying “There’s something on television” today. There were numerous theaters within blocks of the New...

Sounds of Silents

A century ago, saying that there was a silent film screening downtown would be like saying “There’s something on television” today. There were numerous theaters within blocks of the New...

Hair-doers

Hair-doers

“You look ridiculous. We can fix that.” So said a sign last month outside The Hive Hair Studio, an upstart salon opened just last year on Whitney Avenue. An earlier...

Hair-doers

“You look ridiculous. We can fix that.” So said a sign last month outside The Hive Hair Studio, an upstart salon opened just last year on Whitney Avenue. An earlier...

Roger Sherman portrait in New Haven City Hall

Sherman‘s March

The second level of City Hall has a chronological gallery of portraits featuring New Haven’s past mayors. Up the stairs directly ahead of the main entrance, it’s hard to miss....

Sherman‘s March

The second level of City Hall has a chronological gallery of portraits featuring New Haven’s past mayors. Up the stairs directly ahead of the main entrance, it’s hard to miss....

Pirelli Tire Building

Concrete Plans

The Pirelli Tire Building looms long, color-shifting from tan to gray depending on the weather and time of day and your vantage point, with rows of windows at even intervals...

Concrete Plans

The Pirelli Tire Building looms long, color-shifting from tan to gray depending on the weather and time of day and your vantage point, with rows of windows at even intervals...