For our vacation this week, we’re traveling back to some favorite recent stories, including this exploration of a rare and strange place. (more…)
Play Rooms
Hearing about 91 Shelton Avenue, a.k.a. the New Haven Business Center, is an early rite of passage among the city’s independent musicians. For years the hulking ex-factory has quietly offered local bands something they can’t find anywhere else: an affordable, flexible place to be loud. My own band rehearses in one of the practice spaces […]
Ink Tank
I pass by a red house on Main Street in Stratford every week. A sign dangles from the porch overhang. “FTS Gallery,” it reads (more…)
It’s Electric
Riding a moped for the first time feels like flying. The Bandit I’ve borrowed, an electric version designed and constructed by Spark Cycleworks in North Branford, glides quietly and effortlessly up the inclined pavement, the excitement somehow muting the busy rumble of motors on nearby Route 80. It’s a “superhero feeling,” says Matt Schell, Spark’s […]
Hands Together
Back between a salon and an accountant’s office, a pair of plain garage doors off Edwards Street hides a creative wonderland: Wet Clay Works, a coworking ceramics studio where, in the back left corner, Ericka Saracho and Gabriela Margarita De Jesus of Bright Raven Studio work side by side turning humble clay into fine and […]
Sound Proof
“I remember making a Ports of Spain album in a closet in your house,” Sam Carlson says to Patrick Dalton on the fourth floor of 770 Chapel Street. While some tenants at 770 Chapel still refer to them as “the studio guys,” New Haven’s music scene knows them more precisely, as the principals of Sans […]
Looking Back
It’s been a year, and we’ve got the photos to prove it. Enjoy this chronological look back at 2022 through the eyes of Daily Nutmeg. Written by Dan Mims.
Plant Therapy
Dogs Joplin and Gino, their chain collars jingling, are the first to greet me as I enter Anika Stewart and Georgina Gross’s Hamden home, where shelves holding carefully positioned plants climb half the perimeter of the living room. The plants’ stems are maroon, light green, deep green, and their tendrils snake among the shelves, winding […]
Gifts from Below
It was the day before Thanksgiving, and the basement of the Episcopal Church of St. Paul & St. James, a.k.a. the Olive Street Pantry, was buzzing. (more…)