The venue for Long Wharf Theatre’s production of A View From The Bridge is actually viewable from two bridges. Staging at the Canal Dock Boathouse, the backdrop for the play by Arthur Miller is a view across New Haven Harbor, …
Romantic Connections
For today’s story, I intended to wander the vastness of the Yale University Art Gallery and curate from its variety a kind of cross-sectional Valentine’s Day exhibit. Thematic connections between seemingly disparate objects would hiss through the air and thunk …
Changing Tunes
I was anxious heading into my first karaoke night at The Cellar on Treadwell. I feared I’d encounter hours of off-key wailing followed by audience ridicule or, worse yet, long intimidating silences broken only by the occasional bold soul.…
Vital Organ
Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle 33 feet tall. …
Hilly Road
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” That was all Hilly Michaels would say, with a rueful laugh, when I asked him about his rocky 18-month romance with singer Marianne Faithfull. One could say it’s …
Title Shots
We’re celebrating 2023 by revisiting some of the year’s most memorable photo essays, each plucked from—and emblematic of—one of the four seasons.
After winter, spring and summer, now, at last, it’s autumn’s turn, with this October 26 essay…
Taken for a Ride
Good Game
We’re celebrating 2023 by revisiting some of the year’s most memorable photo essays, each plucked from—and emblematic of—one of the four seasons. First up? Winter, thanks to this icy March 14 photo essay. …
Outside Tracks
Long ago, the New Haven Colony had outposts down the coast, as far away as what we now call Philadelphia. Today, New Haven’s diaspora goes in all directions, including…
Script Notes III
First in January, then in July, I reeled off a series of movie and TV moments referencing New Haven.
Now, in December, I’ve got enough for a trilogy. And I hope you’ll agree: This third take is no …