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Changing the Channel

Changing the Channel

On a Sunday afternoon in 2007 in New Haven’s 9th Square, Lou Cox heard the unmistakable sound of spray paint outside his skateboard and hip-hop shop Channel 1, where a...

Changing the Channel

On a Sunday afternoon in 2007 in New Haven’s 9th Square, Lou Cox heard the unmistakable sound of spray paint outside his skateboard and hip-hop shop Channel 1, where a...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

This Week in New Haven (July 13 - 19)

Fasten your seat belts. Flights of one sort or another—space travel, crowd surfing, wine-tasting and the departure of a long-running exhibit—have us strapping in this week in New Haven. Monday,...

This Week in New Haven (July 13 - 19)

Fasten your seat belts. Flights of one sort or another—space travel, crowd surfing, wine-tasting and the departure of a long-running exhibit—have us strapping in this week in New Haven. Monday,...

Raised Voices

Raised Voices

The titles of the works in Voicings, City Gallery’s new art show, are rich enough to make funny poems out of. Here’s a haiku using five of them: Whorl Out...

Raised Voices

The titles of the works in Voicings, City Gallery’s new art show, are rich enough to make funny poems out of. Here’s a haiku using five of them: Whorl Out...

Congregation Mishkan Israel interior

Acts of Faith

It’s uncommon for a congregation to have had a rabbi with an FBI file, or to use a pulpit inaugurated by Martin Luther King Jr. Then again, Congregation Mishkan Israel...

Acts of Faith

It’s uncommon for a congregation to have had a rabbi with an FBI file, or to use a pulpit inaugurated by Martin Luther King Jr. Then again, Congregation Mishkan Israel...

Plant life in Edgewood Park

Living on the Edge

Nature doesn’t play favorites when it comes to which plants can go where. But man abides few tenants, plants or otherwise, within the spaces he carves out for himself. Take...

Living on the Edge

Nature doesn’t play favorites when it comes to which plants can go where. But man abides few tenants, plants or otherwise, within the spaces he carves out for himself. Take...

Habakuk by Max Ernst

Conversation Piece

Yale’s architecture is aflutter with birds. Some are phoenixes, some are eagles, though for the most part owls rule the roost. Yet for the last two years, a mysterious newcomer...

Conversation Piece

Yale’s architecture is aflutter with birds. Some are phoenixes, some are eagles, though for the most part owls rule the roost. Yet for the last two years, a mysterious newcomer...