Happy Thursday, New Haveners! Two days after the primary, I want to take a look back at how some of us snapped into political enthusiast mode last week, welcoming every Hillary surrogate in the book presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to the Elm City on the rare occasion of a Connecticut primary carrying real […]
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New Haven Moves – Lucy Gellman
Happy Thursday, New Haven! Many of you have been out and about celebrating spring, and so have I, reveling in the manifold ways Elm Citizens shake off their winter doldrums and embrace Daylight Saving Time. Below are photos celebrating two of those rites of spring: New Haven’s 12th annual AIDS Walk, held each year on […]
East Rock Morning – Lucy Gellman
Happy Thursday, New Haveners! In this topsy turvy April we’ve been having, I noticed that the city gets the most beautiful light in the mornings. Inspired by that, here are just a few shots taken in East Rock early(ish) in the day. Enjoy the sun, y’all.
Is New Haven Feeling the Bern? – Lucy Gellman
Last weekend, the Bernie Sanders CT team unofficially opened a Sanders HQ at Neverending Books in East Rock, a very cool hippy-dippy used bookstore that keeps the weirdest hours I’ve ever seen. On Sunday, I took a few shots of the office and canvassers for my job with the New Haven Independent, and I wanted […]
Anything But Ordinary – Lucy Gellman
Hey New Haveners! Lucy here, with a very short post this week. Wednesday night marked A New Beginning: exhibit + sale to benefit CAW at Ordinary. The idea was simple enough: bartender and Ordinary guru Tim Cabral likes fine art, especially when it comes in multiple dimensions. So do artists Lianne Audette and Sam Shevelkin, who work at Creative Arts Workshop (CAW) […]
Spring At Saint Thomas’ – Lucy Gellman
Hey New Haveners. This week, I’m back for a very short post about St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Whitney Avenue, more because I’ve discovered its hidden-gem-ness than anything to do with Easter. That’s just fortuitous timing. I ended up at St. Thomas’ Wednesday evening as part of an assignment for the New Haven Independent. Outside, […]
Hairspray! At Wilbur Cross – Lucy Gellman
From the moment Wilbur Cross student Jodi Walters, as teenage hairspray enthusiast Tracy Turnblad, springs out of bed to sing “Good Morning Baltimore” — greeting and dancing with even the rats on the street and the drunk who lives at her corner — you have a feeling that Hairspray, a story of social upheaval through […]