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Steady Progress

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“Steady Eddie” was his nickname, and his record shows why. (more…)

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Situational Comedy

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Sir John Falstaff, a British knight just returned from war, slides into the pre-industrial DMs of two wealthy married women, hoping to use their attentions as rungs on the socioeconomic ladder. Instead, Mistress Ford and Mistress Page compare notes and embark on a mission of trickery and tomfoolery to humiliate their duplicitous suitor. It’s not […]

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Pride and Joy

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A photo essay. To view all 23 images and gifs, check out the email edition.  (more…)

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Suburban Planning

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Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers.  (more…)

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Star Tech

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The Morrill Hall Planetarium at Southern Connecticut State University is a domed appendage of the otherwise rectilinear Morrill Hall, sharing its planetary curves with (more…)

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Steady Progress

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“Steady Eddie” was his nickname, and his record shows why. Tennis player Eddie van Beverhoudt (pictured right, above) won the Greater New Haven City Open men’s singles title 18 times between 1949 and 1970 and enjoyed a run of more than 60 years as a player and coach. Born in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in […]

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Love of Country

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Early in our conversation, Roya Hakakian and I determine that we’re the same age, born a few months apart. Any similarity in our childhoods ends there. (more…)

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’20/’21

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Leilim Chang-Salazar loves graduations. The graduates’ sense of accomplishment, their families’ pride, the traditions, the pomp and circumstance—“I love it. It just makes me cry, even if it’s not even mine,” she says. (more…)

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Season’s Readings

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With the temperature hovering around freezing and many of us hunkered down at home, there’s one old-fashioned entertainment that endures without wi-fi, masks or six-foot measures (more…)

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Charted Space

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The light most recently crossed into New Haven sky on October 6 at 7:01 p.m. (more…)

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