Valentine’s Day is Friday, and this week’s events make it extremely easy to remember the occasion. The steady thump-thump includes two limited-time shopping setups, a pair of…
This Week in New Haven (November 11 – 17)

Whether local or visiting, or rising or risen, New Haven embraces artists. This week, poets get fair hearings while visual artists inspire chit-chat…
This Week in New Haven (December 3 – 9)

The holiday spirit is in the air, as shown by the many, many, seasonal events which dot the New Haven calendar like snowflakes this week. Museums hold lectures, theaters stage world premieres, trumpeters blow classical and jazz riffs, arts groups …
Business As Unusual

Patrick Turiello and Leah Fabish have named their business entities well. LAYERXLAYER is the design company the pair started fresh out of college, while their new workspace and boutique on Chapel Street (near State) is called Plural Work/Shop.…
Co-Working Through It

When Project Storefronts began two years ago as a support network and stimulus program for creative small businesses that would have trouble starting up through more conventional channels, the first application the program received was from The Grove. It was …
New Stores From Closed Doors

When Project Storefronts began a couple of years ago, it was as a comment on the economy. The first phase of the project—which lets local artists reconceive desolate downtown storefronts for their own quasi-commercial creative needs—was a slew of art-enhanced …