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Raised Voices

Raised Voices

The titles of the works in Voicings, City Gallery’s new art show, are rich enough to make funny poems out of. Here’s a haiku using five of them: Whorl Out...

Raised Voices

The titles of the works in Voicings, City Gallery’s new art show, are rich enough to make funny poems out of. Here’s a haiku using five of them: Whorl Out...

Habakuk by Max Ernst

Conversation Piece

Yale’s architecture is aflutter with birds. Some are phoenixes, some are eagles, though for the most part owls rule the roost. Yet for the last two years, a mysterious newcomer...

Conversation Piece

Yale’s architecture is aflutter with birds. Some are phoenixes, some are eagles, though for the most part owls rule the roost. Yet for the last two years, a mysterious newcomer...

Sarah Pemberton Strong

Pipes and Dreams

Do you ever imagine the life of your plumber after he’s fixed your leaks and gone home for the evening? His ambitions? His secrets? What if he’s a poet, or...

Pipes and Dreams

Do you ever imagine the life of your plumber after he’s fixed your leaks and gone home for the evening? His ambitions? His secrets? What if he’s a poet, or...

Sports Haven

What are the Odds?

East of Ikea on Long Wharf Drive, not far from where the Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers spill into the New Haven harbor, a semi-industrial hinterland of Interstate flyovers, oil infrastructure...

What are the Odds?

East of Ikea on Long Wharf Drive, not far from where the Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers spill into the New Haven harbor, a semi-industrial hinterland of Interstate flyovers, oil infrastructure...

CD racks at Merle’s Record Rack

Record Holders

Merle’s Record Rack in Orange is a record store in more ways than you’d think. At its main counter, a woman heard her dead mother’s voice for the first time...

Record Holders

Merle’s Record Rack in Orange is a record store in more ways than you’d think. At its main counter, a woman heard her dead mother’s voice for the first time...

Torosaurus outside the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven

Power Animals

Round a few corners in downtown New Haven and you’re bound to see a piece of public art. Harder to spot is a certain category of it: sculptures of animals,...

Power Animals

Round a few corners in downtown New Haven and you’re bound to see a piece of public art. Harder to spot is a certain category of it: sculptures of animals,...