Daily Nutmeg

Food Prep

Food Prep

Like any professional restaurant, The Owl Café’s kitchen is clean and well-stocked. It’s got a prep station for soups and salads and a separate area for cooking hot entrees. It...

Food Prep

Like any professional restaurant, The Owl Café’s kitchen is clean and well-stocked. It’s got a prep station for soups and salads and a separate area for cooking hot entrees. It...

Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico.(Photo by Sgt. Jose Ahiram Diaz-Ramos/PRNG-PAO)

Storm Surge

“Puerto Rico,” the cell phone screen says. But the caller, Manuel Sierra, is speaking from New Haven. This is his home now, since Hurricane Maria drove his family from the...

Storm Surge

“Puerto Rico,” the cell phone screen says. But the caller, Manuel Sierra, is speaking from New Haven. This is his home now, since Hurricane Maria drove his family from the...

Work-study

Work-study

New Haven is known for its eclectic mix of downtown architecture, from Colonial and Federal homes to Gothic churches, Modernist experiments and 21st-century “smart buildings.” Less conspicuous is another group...

Work-study

New Haven is known for its eclectic mix of downtown architecture, from Colonial and Federal homes to Gothic churches, Modernist experiments and 21st-century “smart buildings.” Less conspicuous is another group...

Western Union

Western Union

Chapel Street is New Haven’s longest single route, according to Doris B. Townshend’s The Streets of New Haven. But its western downtown end has a character all its own thanks...

Western Union

Chapel Street is New Haven’s longest single route, according to Doris B. Townshend’s The Streets of New Haven. But its western downtown end has a character all its own thanks...

Care to Dance?

Care to Dance?

Different partners offer different advice, but ultimately it all comes down to one thing: the dancing. Tuesday night’s style is fusion, “a sort of modern improvisational blend of a lot...

Care to Dance?

Different partners offer different advice, but ultimately it all comes down to one thing: the dancing. Tuesday night’s style is fusion, “a sort of modern improvisational blend of a lot...

Tales from the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt

What do Benedict Arnold’s first wife, Rutherford B. Hayes’s grandmother and James Hillhouse’s uncle have in common? They’re all buried in the crypt beneath Center Church on the Green. Managing...

Tales from the Crypt

What do Benedict Arnold’s first wife, Rutherford B. Hayes’s grandmother and James Hillhouse’s uncle have in common? They’re all buried in the crypt beneath Center Church on the Green. Managing...