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Leaves in Peace

Leaves in Peace

A photo essay. The summit of East Rock Park is a popular spot this time of year, offering a dramatic survey of the city’s annual leaf change, particularly at sunset....

Leaves in Peace

A photo essay. The summit of East Rock Park is a popular spot this time of year, offering a dramatic survey of the city’s annual leaf change, particularly at sunset....

108 Monkeys

Om Room

There are 108 beads on a mala, as well as on a rosary. There are 108 sounds in the Sanskrit alphabet, 108 names for Buddha and 108 stitches around a...

Om Room

There are 108 beads on a mala, as well as on a rosary. There are 108 sounds in the Sanskrit alphabet, 108 names for Buddha and 108 stitches around a...

Crossing the Lines

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the National Security Agency, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real...

Crossing the Lines

Once upon a time, decades before wireless internet and smartphones and out-of-control digital surveillance by the National Security Agency, phone lines were actual lines, and wiretapping meant tapping into real...

Puppets‘ Progress

Puppets‘ Progress

Muffy Pendergast expects about 300 heads at Westville’s Halloween parade this Sunday, and that’s not even counting the puppets. It’s the annual Giant Puppet and People-Making-Mayhem Parade, whose newest inanimate...

Puppets‘ Progress

Muffy Pendergast expects about 300 heads at Westville’s Halloween parade this Sunday, and that’s not even counting the puppets. It’s the annual Giant Puppet and People-Making-Mayhem Parade, whose newest inanimate...

Creature Features

Creature Features

Yale has gaggles of gargoyles—on 34 buildings, in hundreds of styles, peering over doorways, crouched on windowsills, jumping out of unexpected places, whimsically yet macabrely giving earthly structures a touch...

Creature Features

Yale has gaggles of gargoyles—on 34 buildings, in hundreds of styles, peering over doorways, crouched on windowsills, jumping out of unexpected places, whimsically yet macabrely giving earthly structures a touch...

Makers‘ Mark

Makers‘ Mark

J.R. Logan has seen a lot of broken drones in his day. The makerspace Logan co-founded, MakeHaven, opened its doors in early 2012, and by 2015 a small band of...

Makers‘ Mark

J.R. Logan has seen a lot of broken drones in his day. The makerspace Logan co-founded, MakeHaven, opened its doors in early 2012, and by 2015 a small band of...