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Wayne Escoffery

This Week in New Haven (April 22 - 28)

It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing...

This Week in New Haven (April 22 - 28)

It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing...

Artspace

Art at Work

Ever think Artspace might be misnamed? The “space” part, we mean. This is an arts institution firmly grounded in the community. Its head’s not in the clouds. Oh, you think...

Art at Work

Ever think Artspace might be misnamed? The “space” part, we mean. This is an arts institution firmly grounded in the community. Its head’s not in the clouds. Oh, you think...

A boy and a chicken at Common Ground Urban Farm

From the Ground Up

It’s hard work catching a chicken. Kids squat and chase in pursuit, feathers fly, parents look on equally amused and alert. “I don’t think I have ever touched a chicken...

From the Ground Up

It’s hard work catching a chicken. Kids squat and chase in pursuit, feathers fly, parents look on equally amused and alert. “I don’t think I have ever touched a chicken...

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and "Path of Stars"

Starring Roles

Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down. You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and...

Starring Roles

Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down. You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and...

Les Misérables at the Shubert

This Week in New Haven (April 15 - 21)

From a puppet show based on a prize-winning children’s book to a concert celebrating a Renaissance poet to a musical based on a Victor Hugo novel to a play based...

This Week in New Haven (April 15 - 21)

From a puppet show based on a prize-winning children’s book to a concert celebrating a Renaissance poet to a musical based on a Victor Hugo novel to a play based...

Blooming cherry blossoms in Wooster Square

Fruit of the Bloom

What’s a Cherry Blossom Festival without cherry blossoms? It’s still a festival—a bright, vibrant gathering which in New Haven is one of the first signs of spring. Trees don’t always...

Fruit of the Bloom

What’s a Cherry Blossom Festival without cherry blossoms? It’s still a festival—a bright, vibrant gathering which in New Haven is one of the first signs of spring. Trees don’t always...