After trying spine poetry at home, I set out to see what I could build elsewhere. Starting at Grey Matter Books on York Street, I realized that curating a stack of books whose titles could add up to a poem was definitely more challenging when I didn’t know the inventory—and when there was so very […]
This Week in New Haven (November 22 – 28)
New Haven’s Thanksgiving Week traditions—impudent live music, delightful model trains, locavorous gift shopping—return. (more…)
Food Change
It was Nieda Abbas’s home cooking, more than anything, that got Caterina Passoni through her first year at Yale. (more…)
Stacked Deck
New Haven really stacks up. For example, in this city, you don’t have to work too hard to find a good stack of food. Vito’s sandwiches are reliable and comforting. Meat & Co.’s are complex and gourmet. (more…)
Critical Mass
Every other Wednesday evening, Book Trader Cafe’s usual mix of ones and twos makes room for a six or seven. The gatherers pull some tables together and borrow spare chairs. They shuffle papers and scribble notes. They utter (more…)
Power Animals
Round a few corners in downtown New Haven and you’re bound to see a piece of public art. What you’re unlikely to see is a certain category of it: sculptures of animals, or at least the non- (more…)
Storm Chasers
Like the movie, Juno the storm (a.k.a. Colbie) ended up delivering a more wholesome message than observers predicted. Powdery, wispy and drifting (more…)
Readers Digest
If you think about it, books and sandwiches have a lot in common. The outside packaging may be attractive, but it’s the filling that matters. Dave Duda understands that you shouldn’t judge either a novel (more…)