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Photo Copies

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A photo essay. To view all 14 images, check out the email edition.

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Her Way

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It begins at Crescent Street in Beaver Hills. …

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Sliced Bread

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There’s nothing fancy about Corso’s Deli & Subs. Located in a squat mini mall on Route 1 in West Haven, the humble bones of the place—brick-red floor tiles gridded with dark grout, cement-block walls painted mostly white, old …

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This Week in New Haven (April 1 – 7)

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Brain food comes from talks, films and symposia—and from weird music, live wrestling and a “freakshow.” …

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Forward March

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Here’s some March Madness for you: Yale is out, but UConn is so in that they just embarrassed the team that embarrassed Yale.

For fans who root for both the Bulldogs and the Huskies, it’s a kind of revenge. …

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Script Notes IV

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Three times last year, I reeled off a series of movie and TV moments referencing New Haven.

Now I’ve recorded enough for a fourth. And while things usually go south by this point in a franchise, I hope you’ll agree: …

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Escape Vehicle

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For a quick but deep escape from the grind, you can’t do better than Madison’s Hammonasset Beach State Park. Of the park’s many attractions—the campsites, the boardwalk, the nature center, the salt marsh—the popular headliner is the two-mile westerly …

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Works in Progress

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I had never fully considered the social and cultural content of the color pink until I saw Sheila Levrant de Bretteville’s 1974 broadside Pink. Designed for an American Institution of Graphic Arts exhibition, de Bretteville’s piece examined the color …

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This Week in New Haven (March 25 – 31)

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Yale follows its March Madness loss last night with the best revenge: living well, in this case by experiencing “new dimensions of connection,” a “guided compassion meditation” and the story of someone who “resisted the language of victimization.” …

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Taco Standing

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Milford’s Don Rene Taqueria says its tacos “must be considered in any discussion of our state’s best.” Challenge accepted.

This small restaurant along the Milford Green felt spare and open, with moody dark tables and leisurely ceiling fans. It doesn’t …

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