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Robert Smith on his dirt bike

Octane High

Every now and then, the streets of New Haven are swept by motorized monsoons. Packs of dirt bikes and ATVs zoom down the street, moving through traffic like murmurations of...

Octane High

Every now and then, the streets of New Haven are swept by motorized monsoons. Packs of dirt bikes and ATVs zoom down the street, moving through traffic like murmurations of...

PH Balance

PH Balance

There’s at least one “Electric Chair” still active in New Haven, but it’s not an agent of capital punishment. It’s an agent of physical improvement. It rests near three “Reformers,”...

PH Balance

There’s at least one “Electric Chair” still active in New Haven, but it’s not an agent of capital punishment. It’s an agent of physical improvement. It rests near three “Reformers,”...

Heat Handled

Heat Handled

“Open up your chest like a flower petal blooming.” “Drop your head back, arms back, look back, fall back, way back, go back, go back, go back more.” “Whole body...

Heat Handled

“Open up your chest like a flower petal blooming.” “Drop your head back, arms back, look back, fall back, way back, go back, go back, go back more.” “Whole body...

Health and Auto

Health and Auto

Roving enterprises are hot these days, with food trucks and carts making up the biggest share of New Haven’s mobile services ecosystem. But some industrious locals have dabbled in smaller...

Health and Auto

Roving enterprises are hot these days, with food trucks and carts making up the biggest share of New Haven’s mobile services ecosystem. But some industrious locals have dabbled in smaller...

Luis "Wiso" Gonzales

One-Seater

When people drive past Luis “Wiso” Gonzales’s barbershop, they often do a double-take. “Sacan pictures because no pueden creer,” Gonzales says in Spanglish. They take pictures because they can’t believe...

One-Seater

When people drive past Luis “Wiso” Gonzales’s barbershop, they often do a double-take. “Sacan pictures because no pueden creer,” Gonzales says in Spanglish. They take pictures because they can’t believe...

Jessica Gaus, PoleFly Aerial Fitness

Pole Positions

There’s a stigma surrounding pole dancing—as though it’s an inherently indecent act, performed only in dark, seedy rooms by clothes-shedding performers for the benefit of watchers waving bills. Local fitness...

Pole Positions

There’s a stigma surrounding pole dancing—as though it’s an inherently indecent act, performed only in dark, seedy rooms by clothes-shedding performers for the benefit of watchers waving bills. Local fitness...