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Above and Below

Above and Below

In Above Us Only Sky, now on view at the Perspectives Gallery in Hamden’s Whitney Center retirement community, Lydia Viscardi’s Coverup series both obscures and reveals. In Coverup Hanky with...

Above and Below

In Above Us Only Sky, now on view at the Perspectives Gallery in Hamden’s Whitney Center retirement community, Lydia Viscardi’s Coverup series both obscures and reveals. In Coverup Hanky with...

Star Treatment

Star Treatment

A photo essay. To view all 25 photos (and at a better quality), check out the email edition of this story. Softly, amid distant stars, and boldly, amid giant books,...

Star Treatment

A photo essay. To view all 25 photos (and at a better quality), check out the email edition of this story. Softly, amid distant stars, and boldly, amid giant books,...

Pause Effect

Pause Effect

Even before the rise of the internet and social media, “the speed with which the world went by us was not, I think, particularly considerate of pausing,” Stephen Kobasa says....

Pause Effect

Even before the rise of the internet and social media, “the speed with which the world went by us was not, I think, particularly considerate of pausing,” Stephen Kobasa says....

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...

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...