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 …
This Week in New Haven (November 22 – 28)

New Haven’s Thanksgiving Week traditions—impudent live music, delightful model trains, locavorous gift shopping—return. …
Food Change

It was Nieda Abbas’s home cooking, more than anything, that got Caterina Passoni through her first year at Yale. …
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.…
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 …
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-…
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…
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…