“Life imitates art,” Oscar Wilde wrote, “more than art imitates art.” In New Haven, that art has often involved cartooning and caricature. It’s a fun place to be.
One of the most popular and controversial comic strip…
Tag Archives: Christopher Arnott
Elm City Whodunit
Peer into New Haven’s fictional case files with this page-turner, originally published September 19, 2012.
A few years ago, the New Haven Free Public Library distributed a hand-out: “Check Out These…
’pops Art
It was a very brave soul who proposed that a gleaming red, blue and yellow kinetic sculpture by Alexander Calder be placed on Yale’s Hewitt University Quadrangle near the back entrance of Woolsey Hall and a book’s-throw from the Beinecke …
This Week in New Haven (July 29 – August 4)
We gracefully leave an erratic July and acclimate to August. It has already turned abruptly cooler, and with the school year starting at the end of the month, you’ll see more activity on the streets than in recent weeks. College-friendly …
Sound It Out
The word “flagship” gets used loosely a lot, to mean “the most important one of a bunch of things.” But if you’re a centuries-old city which takes great pride in its waterfront, you might actually have a flagship that’s a …
Fair and Square
When the curators at New Haven Museum put its elaborate new exhibit Beyond the New Township: Wooster Square together, they were literally playing with blocks. One of the interactive aspects of the exhibit is a puzzle where you arrange colorful …
This Week in New Haven (July 22 – 28)
Magical comedy, disco nostalgia, mandolin modernists, a Tennessee Williams play set in Tokyo, bonsai trees at a literacy event… we’ve entered the fantastical netherworld of July in New Haven. Anything can happen, from read-ins to art installations (including Pop & …
The Show Must Go On
For years, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra produced an outdoor concert series in New Haven parks. These elaborate shows, as many as nine per summer, came to feature celebrity performers such as Marvin Hamlisch.
Also for years, the International Festival …
High Five
A brief history of doo-wop in New Haven:
“The Five Satins. Ooooooh!”
Brief enough for you? But such concision lacks the harmony, community, street smarts and nuance that Fred Parris and the rest of The Five Satins were all …
It’s a Gas
The long-awaited gas station at the Whalley Avenue Stop & Shop supermarket has opened, with seemingly little fanfare. Cars just pull in and fuel up as if the station has been there all the time. And why wouldn’t it have …
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