In downtown New Haven, Monday’s solar eclipse—where the moon progressively blocks, then reveals, the sun’s direct light—begins at 2:12 p.m. and finishes at 4:37, peaking at 3:27 with 90.74% “coverage.” The experience, which comes with both a safety warning and a FOMO warning, is sure to inspire astonishment, sublimity, humility and primal terror. Sounds fun, […]
This Week in New Haven (December 13 – 19)
Icing and candles and balloons arrive a week before that big honorary birthday. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (September 20 – 26)
Fall into current affairs, live music, visual art and, you know, Fall. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (September 6 – 12)
The big race is today, but things really speed up over the weekend. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (August 16 – 22)
Toad’s Place returns, along with an oyster festival and a duck race. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (December 16 – 22)
Christmas is coming, but Hanukkah comes first as preparations, diversions and celebrations deck the week ahead. (more…)
Adaptive Evolution
It was lunchtime during the Arts & Ideas Festival, and people had gathered in clusters on the New Haven Green to be stirred up by familiar Motown and dance funk hits. The music was the breezily familiar stuff on the setlists of wedding and corporate party bands, but something was special about this band, both […]
This Week in New Haven (June 17 – 23)
Numerous outdoor concerts… A seaside soiree… The longest day of the year… Summer in New Haven both officially and empirically arrives. (more…)