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Sweetness and Light

Sweetness and Light

“Classic rom-com” is the way Yale Repertory Theatre bills The Brightest Thing in the World, a commissioned world premiere by the playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. The play opens in a...

Sweetness and Light

“Classic rom-com” is the way Yale Repertory Theatre bills The Brightest Thing in the World, a commissioned world premiere by the playwright Leah Nanako Winkler. The play opens in a...

This Week in New Haven (December 5 - 11)

This Week in New Haven (December 5 - 11)

We haven’t spiked the egg nog yet, yet we’re starting to see double: two daughters of 20th-century icons, two celebrated guitarists from Africa and two city centers of heightened holiday...

This Week in New Haven (December 5 - 11)

We haven’t spiked the egg nog yet, yet we’re starting to see double: two daughters of 20th-century icons, two celebrated guitarists from Africa and two city centers of heightened holiday...

Christmas Presented

Christmas Presented

“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in...

Christmas Presented

“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in...

Gifts from Below

Gifts from Below

It was the day before Thanksgiving, and the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, a.k.a. the Olive Street Pantry, was buzzing. “Can I grab any...

Gifts from Below

It was the day before Thanksgiving, and the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, a.k.a. the Olive Street Pantry, was buzzing. “Can I grab any...

Magic Bond

Magic Bond

Seven years ago, magician Nelson Nicholson guided me through his Orange estate. The puzzle box of a home, the result of 13 separate additions, was filled with artifacts from the...

Magic Bond

Seven years ago, magician Nelson Nicholson guided me through his Orange estate. The puzzle box of a home, the result of 13 separate additions, was filled with artifacts from the...

Super Bowls

Super Bowls

I was extra hungry the other night, so I went to a place that seemed like it could satisfy whatever craving struck: Natural Kitchen in downtown Milford, where signature and...

Super Bowls

I was extra hungry the other night, so I went to a place that seemed like it could satisfy whatever craving struck: Natural Kitchen in downtown Milford, where signature and...