Edge of the Woods, the vegetarian market on Whalley Avenue, has my respect. It’s an independent family business with multiple departments and actual principles—a hard line to walk for one year let alone 47. It’s an even harder line to walk when one of those departments is a bakery, keeping two long cases filled with […]
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Field Notes
Last Friday, as the Peabody Museum reopened the last major component of a years-long renovation—its third floor—I felt a little like one of the many naturalists whose work has contributed to the museum, trying to observe and document my subject in a way that didn’t alter or interfere with it. What was I studying? Homo […]
This Week in New Haven (April 22 – 28)
To borrow from an esteemed guest appearing here Saturday: The rhythm this week is gonna get you. (more…)
T(hr)ee Totals
All mocktails are mock cocktails, but only a few, in my experience, are good enough to mock cocktails. Three of those can be found in downtown New Haven (more…)
Department Stories
Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts. (more…)
Family Line
The birth of Theresa Nast’s fourth child in 2018 led to the birth of a new direction in life. After several years as a bridal designer, she’d finally had enough of wedding-prep pressures. “I was (more…)
This Week in New Haven (April 15-21)
Fests, celebrations and “wars” meet a fair, a spotlight and a spectacular. (more…)
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