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CDs at Exile on Main Street

Going on Records

A decade or two ago, talking about Exile on Main Street might have involved describing what made the record shop different from others in the region. That discussion doesn’t really...

Going on Records

A decade or two ago, talking about Exile on Main Street might have involved describing what made the record shop different from others in the region. That discussion doesn’t really...

Yale University Art Gallery

Masters of Fine Art

Oh, to live in New Haven when art is in bloom! For weeks, tourists have been flocking to see the new and improved Yale University Art Gallery. One of the...

Masters of Fine Art

Oh, to live in New Haven when art is in bloom! For weeks, tourists have been flocking to see the new and improved Yale University Art Gallery. One of the...

Bonsai Trees

Making Like a Tree

The art of bonsai (pronounced “bone-sai”—not “bahn-zai,” the way most of us tend to say it—and literally meaning “plantings in tray”) might seem pretty straightforward. Most people know—perhaps from observing...

Making Like a Tree

The art of bonsai (pronounced “bone-sai”—not “bahn-zai,” the way most of us tend to say it—and literally meaning “plantings in tray”) might seem pretty straightforward. Most people know—perhaps from observing...

Trivia Night at Anna Liffey’s

A Thirst for Knowledge

“What is that? A marmot?” says Guy Townsend, as we scrutinize a photo of a brown, fuzzy animal resembling a beaver. But it couldn’t be a beaver. That’s too easy....

A Thirst for Knowledge

“What is that? A marmot?” says Guy Townsend, as we scrutinize a photo of a brown, fuzzy animal resembling a beaver. But it couldn’t be a beaver. That’s too easy....

from Architecture in Dialogue at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Let’s Talk

I went into the Architecture in Dialogue exhibit at Yale’s Beinecke Library, which runs through this Friday, December 14, expecting to think about buildings and bridges and feats of engineering...

Let’s Talk

I went into the Architecture in Dialogue exhibit at Yale’s Beinecke Library, which runs through this Friday, December 14, expecting to think about buildings and bridges and feats of engineering...

Joyeüx Noël: Christmas in Canada

Crèche-ing Through the Snow

Brooklyn-based garage rock band The Fleshtones have a song on their Christmas-spirited album Stocking Stuffers called “Canadian Christmas”: I remember a time not so long ago Pushing my way through...

Crèche-ing Through the Snow

Brooklyn-based garage rock band The Fleshtones have a song on their Christmas-spirited album Stocking Stuffers called “Canadian Christmas”: I remember a time not so long ago Pushing my way through...