Spring break at Yale means things are much quieter downtown this week… until they aren’t. Come Sunday afternoon, the city’s St. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (November 17 – 23)
Places of worship take their place behind New Haven’s proverbial pulpit this week, hosting a holiday shopping tradition of 22 years; an epic coming-together (more…)
This Week in New Haven (July 21 – 27)
Every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, it’s said. In that case, this week in New Haven tells a tale of music and food, with events explicitly marrying the two happening Monday, Thursday (more…)
Reinventions
For most people, having a non-functioning umbrella is an excuse to consign it to the trash can. Not so for the founding members of New Haven’s A Broken Umbrella Theatre, who named their troupe in part as a clever homage to a shared yet divergent heritage. Emerging from the Uninvited Guests Comedy Troupe at Muhlenberg College in […]
This Week in New Haven (April 29 – May 5)
Youth has its fling in New Haven this week. The Kidstock benefit for United Community Nursery School on Saturday features a dozen acts, some of them children themselves. Green Day’s (more…)
Upside Downtown
Call it Fright Aid. A former Rite Aid pharmacy building at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Dwight Street, vacant for several years, has been transformed for just a few weeks into an iParty Halloween Store. For a couple more weeks, you can wander shelves of werewolf fur, vampire fangs, spiderwebs, cauldrons and artificial blood. […]