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Never Ending’s Story

Never Ending Books

A lot of people wonder what goes on behind the doors of Never Ending Books’ mysterious storefront at 810 State Street (near Pearl). Roger Uihlein doesn’t mind you wondering. He keeps to himself a lot (though that hasn’t stopped him from being a perennial write-in candidate for Mayor of New Haven). The hipster hang-out he’s […]

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Earnest and Young

Rachel Heerema, Citywide Youth Coalition in New Haven

Melissa Waldron of the local environmental group Sweet Green Things had a youth-oriented urban farming project she wanted to get off the ground. She brought it to the Citywide Youth Coalition, she says, because CWYC Executive Director Rachel Heerema is “an amazing networker. She touches nerves throughout the city. She has her finger on the […]

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Music Haven Achieves Harmony

Music Haven

The Haven String Quartet’s upcoming “Out of Africa, Into Europe” concert is not the journey you’d imagine. The concert (Feb. 25 at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, then March 6 at SCSU) features the rhythmic “Mu Kkuybo Ery Omusallaba” by Ugandan composer Justinian Tamusuza and “White Man Sleeps” by post-modernist Kevin Volans (who was […]

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