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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...

Mark Celentano and William Celentano Jr. at Celentano Funeral Home

Procession

For 90 years on Elm Street, the Celentano family and its funeral home have seen people come and go. They’ve seen the city change. Seen its factories emptied. Seen highways...

Procession

For 90 years on Elm Street, the Celentano family and its funeral home have seen people come and go. They’ve seen the city change. Seen its factories emptied. Seen highways...

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

“For millennia, civilization had been living in two dimensions: width and length,” Paul B. Farnsworth says. “With the advent of the safety elevator”—an innovation introduced in the early 1850s, which...

Ups and Downs (pt. 2)

“For millennia, civilization had been living in two dimensions: width and length,” Paul B. Farnsworth says. “With the advent of the safety elevator”—an innovation introduced in the early 1850s, which...