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Taylor Mac, photographed by Ves Pitts

This Week in New Haven (June 8 - 14)

Arts and ideas and Arts & Ideas uplift New Haven this week, as summer tickles the tips of our tongues. Monday, June 8A free 2 p.m. talk today at the...

This Week in New Haven (June 8 - 14)

Arts and ideas and Arts & Ideas uplift New Haven this week, as summer tickles the tips of our tongues. Monday, June 8A free 2 p.m. talk today at the...

Crane Check

Crane Check

On a pizza slice of land between Canal, Prospect and Sachem Streets—with the first-bite tip pointing downtown, and the crusty points angling respectively up towards Dixwell and Yale’s Science Hill—tall...

Crane Check

On a pizza slice of land between Canal, Prospect and Sachem Streets—with the first-bite tip pointing downtown, and the crusty points angling respectively up towards Dixwell and Yale’s Science Hill—tall...

Brandon Smith at Joker’s Wild Comedy Club

Inside, Jokes

You expect a block known for its famed Italian restaurants to attract a few wiseguys, but not like this. From door to stage, the Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster...

Inside, Jokes

You expect a block known for its famed Italian restaurants to attract a few wiseguys, but not like this. From door to stage, the Joker’s Wild Comedy Club on Wooster...

Land Rover

Land Rover

When Lianne Audette was five, her father sailed her out onto the small lake near their New Jersey home, then jumped ship. Forced to sail back on her own, she...

Land Rover

When Lianne Audette was five, her father sailed her out onto the small lake near their New Jersey home, then jumped ship. Forced to sail back on her own, she...

Eric Mikita, a.k.a. Cers, tagging on Water Street

Tagging Along

Heading west on Water Street from Olive, with a long highway embankment on the left, you pass shuttered Mexican restaurant Cancun’s, its stucco blue trim now accenting plywood-covered windows. Beneath...

Tagging Along

Heading west on Water Street from Olive, with a long highway embankment on the left, you pass shuttered Mexican restaurant Cancun’s, its stucco blue trim now accenting plywood-covered windows. Beneath...

Lechon Asado and Ron Zacapa rum at Zafra Rum Bar, New Haven

Rum-Raisin‘

As a boy, Abel Zekiel Ramirez would watch and wait. He’d watch the big cruise ships come into port at Key West, Florida, then wait for their passengers to make...

Rum-Raisin‘

As a boy, Abel Zekiel Ramirez would watch and wait. He’d watch the big cruise ships come into port at Key West, Florida, then wait for their passengers to make...