Daily Nutmeg

Dave Breton and Felicity Fries of Spotless Laundry

Clothes Calls

Felicity Fries can fold a t-shirt perfectly in the blink of an eye. Somehow, she slips a finger along an edge, pulls down on a corner and presto!—it’s a smooth,...

Clothes Calls

Felicity Fries can fold a t-shirt perfectly in the blink of an eye. Somehow, she slips a finger along an edge, pulls down on a corner and presto!—it’s a smooth,...

Wayne Escoffery

This Week in New Haven (April 22 - 28)

It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing...

This Week in New Haven (April 22 - 28)

It’s New Haven’s 375th birthday this week, and the soundtrack is jazz. The week offers such stellar practitioners of the artform as Willie Ruff (speaking about the links between line-singing...

West to East

West to East

A walk down Chapel Street, from downtown to Fair Haven, transports you on a grand, centuries-spanning odyssey from commerce to industry to nature. It involves newness and decay, giant buildings...

West to East

A walk down Chapel Street, from downtown to Fair Haven, transports you on a grand, centuries-spanning odyssey from commerce to industry to nature. It involves newness and decay, giant buildings...

Artspace

Art at Work

Ever think Artspace might be misnamed? The “space” part, we mean. This is an arts institution firmly grounded in the community. Its head’s not in the clouds. Oh, you think...

Art at Work

Ever think Artspace might be misnamed? The “space” part, we mean. This is an arts institution firmly grounded in the community. Its head’s not in the clouds. Oh, you think...

A boy and a chicken at Common Ground Urban Farm

From the Ground Up

It’s hard work catching a chicken. Kids squat and chase in pursuit, feathers fly, parents look on equally amused and alert. “I don’t think I have ever touched a chicken...

From the Ground Up

It’s hard work catching a chicken. Kids squat and chase in pursuit, feathers fly, parents look on equally amused and alert. “I don’t think I have ever touched a chicken...

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville and "Path of Stars"

Starring Roles

Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down. You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and...

Starring Roles

Next time you’re strolling through New Haven’s Ninth Square district, look down. You’ve probably walked by, or on, them before: 21 granite stars embedded in the sidewalks of Orange and...