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In its 382-year history, New Haven has often served as a sanctuary for those in need, from the Puritan settlers who viewed it as a religious and economic “haven” to the more than 2,000 refugees, asylum...
View ArticleThis Week in New Haven (March 16 – ?)
Normally, we spend our Mondays highlighting things to see and places to go in the week ahead. This week—given an unprecedented number of closures, cancellations, postponements and other evolving...
View ArticleVolume 5
August: when the most relaxed season of the year achieves its deepest calm; when the leaves on the trees ripen to their richest greens; and when we at Daily Nutmeg turn our gaze to stories we didn’t...
View ArticleRound and Around
The 78th Golden Globe Awards are coming this Sunday, honoring the best films and TV series of the prior 14 months as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Topped with a shimmering gold...
View ArticleCover to Cover
The Institute Library, founded as the Apprentices’ Literary Association in 1826, has occupied the same narrow Chapel Street building since 1878. Its stairs are grooved by countless footfalls, its...
View ArticleThis Week in New Haven (June 7 – 13)
Grow your ken, find some zen, leave your den. Wednesday, June 9 “The 15-Minute City: Imagining the Future of Transportation,” a free and virtual panel organized by the International Festival of Arts...
View ArticleStarstruck
Climb the Institute Library stairs and enter the constellations. Whether lit from within, as in antique boxes covered with blue transparencies, or from without, as in a View-Master reel held up to the...
View ArticleThis Week in New Haven (July 19 – 25)
Beach bar bingo and a floating music festival signal peak summer. Monday, July 19 From 7 to 9, Monday Night Bingo and “prizes every round!” are on the menu at Dive Bar & Restaurant (24 Ocean Ave,...
View ArticleThis Week in New Haven (October 25 – 31)
Bats, rituals, bones and, because this is New Haven, pizza mark a week that ends in Halloween, which this year has inspired so many ways to celebrate that we’re putting together a separate to-do list...
View ArticlePause Effect
Even before the rise of the internet and social media, “the speed with which the world went by us was not, I think, particularly considerate of pausing,” Stephen Kobasa says. But pausing is exactly...
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