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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…

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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 …

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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. …

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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. …

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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…

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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. …

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Big Pictures

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Ebony McKelvey’s five-year-old daughter, Jules, pointed to an advertising poster at a mall one day and said, “Mom, that should be me up there.” …

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This Week in New Haven (October 21 – 27)

Photographed by Michael Marsland at the 2015 New Haven Reads Spelling Bee

It’s the normal extraordinary mix of cultural depths and delights—until the weekend, when, with Halloween less than a week away, the delights become paranormal. …

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Inexpensive Taste

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Inside the Thrift Shop at Yale New Haven Hospital, a customer emerges from the dressing room wearing a jacket and skirt of matching white leather. …

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Somebody New

Tim Parrish in his office at Southern Connecticut State University

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Tim Parrish is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy the following excerpt from Parrish’s novel The Jumper

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