Daily Nutmeg

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...

SOUND Affect

Sounds Good

Music is powerful. It brings us to laughter and tears and into distant memories and places. New Haven-based singing group SOUND Affect has that sort of outlook about what music...

Sounds Good

Music is powerful. It brings us to laughter and tears and into distant memories and places. New Haven-based singing group SOUND Affect has that sort of outlook about what music...

Shantala Shivalingappa

For Your Previewing Pleasure

You can’t always tell that spring began two weeks ago. But when the International Festival of Arts & Ideas appears, there’s no doubt summer has arrived. A harbinger of balmier...

For Your Previewing Pleasure

You can’t always tell that spring began two weeks ago. But when the International Festival of Arts & Ideas appears, there’s no doubt summer has arrived. A harbinger of balmier...

Christy’s On Orange

Doing the Rounds

Behind the bar at Christy’s On Orange, a sign hangs before the drinkers perched on stools, pints in hand: Enter as strangers, leave as friends. “Did you see my sign?”...

Doing the Rounds

Behind the bar at Christy’s On Orange, a sign hangs before the drinkers perched on stools, pints in hand: Enter as strangers, leave as friends. “Did you see my sign?”...