Sara Tabin
Staff Reporter
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Fadiman hosts 10th annual reading

A Martin guitar, wine in Paris and a tattoo in Hebrew were brought to life through prose Wednesday evening during nationally acclaimed essayist Anne Fadiman’s 10th annual evening of readings featuring her Yale students.

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Art exhibit explores incarceration

Light turquoise walls covered with portraits and poetry transformed the Seton Art Gallery into a room designed to evoke the atmosphere of a jail cell.

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Public library hosts Mardi Gras party

The New Haven Free Public Library was not a quiet zone Tuesday night. Covered in streamers and flowers, the lobby of NHFPL played host to the library’s 15th Mardi Gras celebration.

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Newcomer celebrates black beauty in exhibit

Tucked away on the lower level of the New Haven Free Public Library, vibrant artwork depicting black women in joyous scenes will be on view until March 4.

NHPS launches optional Saturday school

New Haven Public Schools is working to combat the usual dread students feel for school on Saturday, combining math and reading sessions with fun and food at four New Haven schools.

Murphy seeks heating program funds

Sen. Chris Murphy visited the Community Action Agency of New Haven Monday not just to speak, but to listen. The senator came with the goal […]

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City maker space offers scholarships

This year, New Haven residents will have a new opportunity to meet their — inner — maker.

Exhibit turns hate into art

Over 4,000 copies of white supremacist literature were leaked to the Montana Human Rights Network from a hate group defector in 2003. The Network did not destroy the books. Instead, they transformed them into an art exhibit that will be in New Haven until Dec. 18.

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Antillean Manor under repair

With its paint peeling and its railings rusted, the Antillean Manor stands in disrepair on Day Street.

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YEI increases social innovation incentives

Over the past two years, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute has made concerted efforts to foster innovation on campus through the introduction of two new award incentives designed to tackle real world problems such as health care reform and climate change: the Yale College Dean’s Challenge on Social Innovation and the Miller Award.

Spending measure preserves SNAP

Congress secured three months’ worth of food stamps for 423,000 Connecticut recipients last Wednesday after approving a temporary spending plan. The government narrowly avoided a […]