Seven years ago, Frank LaSasso says he received a sign from God. He had worked as a car salesman for 25 years before a traumatic motorcycle accident made the long hours and high stress unbearable. In the midst of his prayers for a change, he tried to make a grooming appointment for one of his dogs, […]
Tag Archives: Orange
This Week in New Haven (August 29 – September 4)
Jazz and blues provide the cool, urbane soundtrack to a week marked by warm, country-style experiences. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (June 27 – July 3)
Entertainers aim to keep us on our toes, a former ballplayer seeks a measure of redemption and a big holiday gets an early start. (more…)
Magic Bond
In mid-October, magician Nelson Nicholson guided me through his estate in Orange. The puzzle box of a home, the result of 13 separate additions, was filled with artifacts from the golden age of magic—between 1890ish and 1920ish, before film had captured America’s collective imagination—and beyond. Dozens of handcuffs that had tried (and failed) to trap […]
This Week in New Haven (August 31 – September 6)
Labor Day weekend, synonymous with kicking back and enjoying yourself, is nigh. Accordingly, things get progressively celebratory this week in New Haven (more…)
Roll-Play
Instead of chewy, charred dough, a corn chip with vinegared rice. Instead of tomato sauce, spicy mayo. Instead of sausage, a slab of tuna. Instead of mozzarella, a four-ribbed fan of avocado. (more…)
Record Holders
Merle’s Record Rack in Orange is a record store in more ways than you’d think. At its main counter, a woman heard her dead mother’s voice for the first time in 50 years. Another woman’s (more…)
Nature and Nurture
Something’s nature is the sum of its most fundamental attributes, an encapsulation of the features without which a thing would cease to be that thing. Capital-“n” Nature is something similar, only its (more…)
This Week in New Haven (April 6 – 12)
Cultural and bodily nourishment come together this week. The latter means food: eating it, learning about it, then working off the excess. The former means history and the arts: reading Viking rune (more…)
Mouth to Mouth
“We have a favorite saying here: ‘You’re not famous until your head is on a PEZ dispenser,’” says Shawn Peterson, manager of the PEZ Visitor Center in Orange. Of course, PEZ itself is a cultural icon, and the center has its own in-house idol: Tall Boy, the world’s largest PEZ dispenser. As you enter the […]
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