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Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators student

Nature and Nurture

Something’s nature is the sum of its most fundamental attributes, an encapsulation of the features without which a thing would cease to be that thing. Capital-“n” Nature is something similar,...

Nature and Nurture

Something’s nature is the sum of its most fundamental attributes, an encapsulation of the features without which a thing would cease to be that thing. Capital-“n” Nature is something similar,...

Christian DiMenna at Lovecraft Tattoo

Friends in Needles

When the tattoo artists at Lovecraft need a bit of inspiration, they often look to their walls. Each of the four inkers has a dedicated work room, and, in a...

Friends in Needles

When the tattoo artists at Lovecraft need a bit of inspiration, they often look to their walls. Each of the four inkers has a dedicated work room, and, in a...

Jason Hammel, Mates of State

Bands Together

Last week we covered the birth of College Street Music Hall. Today we’re covering its baptism. On Saturday, the stage hosted its very first local lineup—in New Haven terms, a...

Bands Together

Last week we covered the birth of College Street Music Hall. Today we’re covering its baptism. On Saturday, the stage hosted its very first local lineup—in New Haven terms, a...

The Machine at College Street Music Hall

City‘s Hall

Lining up under a bright marquee. Descending through a dark space. Emerging into a tall, airy, 2,000-capacity room with big, full sound and powerful stage lights good for blowing your...

City‘s Hall

Lining up under a bright marquee. Descending through a dark space. Emerging into a tall, airy, 2,000-capacity room with big, full sound and powerful stage lights good for blowing your...

And... Action!

And... Action!

There’s Best Video, the 30-year-old movie rental shop nearing the end of a long theatrical run in Hamden. And there’s the sequel, already in production: the Best Video Film and...

And... Action!

There’s Best Video, the 30-year-old movie rental shop nearing the end of a long theatrical run in Hamden. And there’s the sequel, already in production: the Best Video Film and...

Photographed by Michael Angelis and Dan Mims

True Grit

Landscape painter Michael Angelis is a grounded kind of guy. “Oil paint is basically dirt,” he says of a medium accustomed to highfalutin treatments. “Anything that’s natural and gritty really...

True Grit

Landscape painter Michael Angelis is a grounded kind of guy. “Oil paint is basically dirt,” he says of a medium accustomed to highfalutin treatments. “Anything that’s natural and gritty really...