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Blooming cherry blossoms in Wooster Square

Fruit of the Bloom

What’s a Cherry Blossom Festival without cherry blossoms? It’s still a festival—a bright, vibrant gathering which in New Haven is one of the first signs of spring. Trees don’t always...

Fruit of the Bloom

What’s a Cherry Blossom Festival without cherry blossoms? It’s still a festival—a bright, vibrant gathering which in New Haven is one of the first signs of spring. Trees don’t always...

Elaine Johnson, Personal Touch Organizing

Cleaning House

Aunt Josephine’s teddy bear collection. The slinky dress that will fit again…someday. Stacks of t-shirts, including that threadbare but irreplaceable souvenir from the Bon Jovi concert in ’87. You don’t...

Cleaning House

Aunt Josephine’s teddy bear collection. The slinky dress that will fit again…someday. Stacks of t-shirts, including that threadbare but irreplaceable souvenir from the Bon Jovi concert in ’87. You don’t...

Steve Scarpa, Sunnie Sette, and Chris Korenowski

Off-Script, by the Book

In February, Long Wharf Theatre opened its production of Sam Shepard’s comical tragedy The Curse of the Starving Class. It was the first time the theater had ever done a...

Off-Script, by the Book

In February, Long Wharf Theatre opened its production of Sam Shepard’s comical tragedy The Curse of the Starving Class. It was the first time the theater had ever done a...

Waterhouse Oyster Bar

Shuck and Awe

For the mollusk-obsessed, there’s more to the genuine oyster experience than the eating. For one thing, there’s a deep introspective decision to make at the moment of truth: Am I...

Shuck and Awe

For the mollusk-obsessed, there’s more to the genuine oyster experience than the eating. For one thing, there’s a deep introspective decision to make at the moment of truth: Am I...

A still from Musicwood

This Week in New Haven (April 8 - 14)

Theater in a department store. Brazilian dance music in a library. A Prairie Home companion at Southern Connecticut State University. The great outdoors, up against a wall, at the Yale...

This Week in New Haven (April 8 - 14)

Theater in a department store. Brazilian dance music in a library. A Prairie Home companion at Southern Connecticut State University. The great outdoors, up against a wall, at the Yale...

Merwin’s Art Shop

Up in Frames

Merwin’s has a new frame, and it’s not one of the store’s customized specials. It’s a chain link fence surrounding the construction site a few yards away from the famed...

Up in Frames

Merwin’s has a new frame, and it’s not one of the store’s customized specials. It’s a chain link fence surrounding the construction site a few yards away from the famed...