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This Week in New Haven (May 5 - 11)

This Week in New Haven (May 5 - 11)

Spring and kites are in the air. Monday, May 5 - Cinco de MayoStarting as early as lunchtime, here are seven ways to celebrate. In Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, a 1...

This Week in New Haven (May 5 - 11)

Spring and kites are in the air. Monday, May 5 - Cinco de MayoStarting as early as lunchtime, here are seven ways to celebrate. In Yale’s Humanities Quadrangle, a 1...

Cinco de Monday

Cinco de Monday

In its origin place of Puebla, Mexico, Cinco de Mayo concerns the remarkable victory of a ragtag Mexican militia over imperial French forces on May 5, 1862. Wherever else it’s...

Cinco de Monday

In its origin place of Puebla, Mexico, Cinco de Mayo concerns the remarkable victory of a ragtag Mexican militia over imperial French forces on May 5, 1862. Wherever else it’s...

Birthday Blowout

Birthday Blowout

To celebrate New Haven’s 387th birthday last week, we plunked some waxy riddles onto an early colonial history-themed cake and invited you to blow them out, with each of three...

Birthday Blowout

To celebrate New Haven’s 387th birthday last week, we plunked some waxy riddles onto an early colonial history-themed cake and invited you to blow them out, with each of three...

Melting Spot

Melting Spot

Peruvian food is perhaps the most diverse and intriguing cuisine I’ve encountered, merging indigenous produce and dishes—potatoes, aji peppers, ceviche—with ingredients and techniques—French fries, ginger, rotisserie—from around the globe. At...

Melting Spot

Peruvian food is perhaps the most diverse and intriguing cuisine I’ve encountered, merging indigenous produce and dishes—potatoes, aji peppers, ceviche—with ingredients and techniques—French fries, ginger, rotisserie—from around the globe. At...

Iron Age

Iron Age

Like a mountain piled with strata, a city as old as New Haven is layered with the remains of its past. Sometimes a layer lies in plain view but goes...

Iron Age

Like a mountain piled with strata, a city as old as New Haven is layered with the remains of its past. Sometimes a layer lies in plain view but goes...

This Week in New Haven (April 28 - May 4)

This Week in New Haven (April 28 - May 4)

May arrives with time-traveling music, multiple-choice wrestling and a galaxy far, far away. Tuesday, April 29“The Case of the Quiz Night Killer,” a “pub trivia murder mystery challenge,” aims to...

This Week in New Haven (April 28 - May 4)

May arrives with time-traveling music, multiple-choice wrestling and a galaxy far, far away. Tuesday, April 29“The Case of the Quiz Night Killer,” a “pub trivia murder mystery challenge,” aims to...