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Course Notes

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A delicious hot meal is even better on a rainy day. (more…)

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Passing Muster

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A photo essay. To view all nine images, including a couple of animated gifs, check out the email version. (more…)

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Cross Purposes

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There’s an element of time travel on Route 15. (more…)

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Floral Fixation

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One of my favorite harbingers of spring is the annual opening of Cheshire’s Tower Farms. From April through December, the garden center offers a parade of botanical delights from daffodils and pansies to ornamental grasses and fall mums, ending the year with an array of Christmas trees (mostly Frasier firs and some balsams). Overall, customers […]

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This Week in New Haven (April 8 – 14)

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Baseball, cherry blossoms and prom can only mean one thing: spring. (more…)

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Solar Power

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In downtown New Haven, Monday’s solar eclipse—where the moon progressively blocks, then reveals, the sun’s direct light—begins at 2:12 p.m. and finishes at 4:37, peaking at 3:27 with 90.74% “coverage.” The experience, which comes with both a safety warning and a FOMO warning, is sure to inspire astonishment, sublimity, humility and primal terror. Sounds fun, […]

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Photo Copies

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A photo essay. To view all 14 images, check out the email edition. (more…)

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Her Way

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It begins at Crescent Street in Beaver Hills.  (more…)

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Sliced Bread

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There’s nothing fancy about Corso’s Deli & Subs. Located in a squat mini mall on Route 1 in West Haven, the humble bones of the place—brick-red floor tiles gridded with dark grout, cement-block walls painted mostly white, old cases finished in mismatched faux wood, a letterboard menu filled with staples and classics—look like they haven’t […]

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This Week in New Haven (April 1 – 7)

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Brain food comes from talks, films and symposia—and from weird music, live wrestling and a “freakshow.” (more…)

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