Brian Meacham and student archivists. Yale Film Archive turned one of its screening events over to students Tuesday night as members of the Spring 2024 Film and Media Studies 604 class shared their archivist projects — which included everything from a not-so-silent Danish short that focused on the rain to a Looney Tunes cartoon that focused on a not-so-cool cat — with a room full of appreciative movie fans. “This is a really special evening,” said managing archivist Brian Meacham, who is also the instructor of that film archive class, which he has taught every oth ..read more

The Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen was first up Wednesday as the annual ​“Great Give” fundraising marathon — and WNHH FM’s annual Great Give radiothon — got underway. The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven runs the annual 36-hour fundraising events. Hundreds of nonprofits jointly seek donations over that period, competing for prizes and seeking cumulatively to raise millions of dollars overall for our communal efforts to feed, nurture, house, train, educate, and entertain. Click here to see all the groups participating and to make a donation. WNHHFM runs a radiothon ..read more

Eric Providence of Columbus House, one of the project's advisors, recalled coming home from prison over two decades ago and "knocking on doors" closed shut in an effort to rebuild his life. A new Yale study will provide one-on-one financial guidance to 238 New Haveners transitioning out of prison, while advocating for longer-term change to reduce poverty among formerly incarcerated people. The initiative, called the Recovery Finance Project, began recruiting formerly incarcerated participants who have struggled with mental health (including substance use disorder) at a press conferen ..read more

Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. ​“Orpheus,” he warns, ​“don’t come on too strong.” Orpheus extends his hand to Eurydice, offers flowers. ​“Come home with me,” he says, to audience laughter. ​“Who are you?” Eurydice responds. ​“The man who’s gonna marry you. I’m Orpheus,” he says. So begins the drama in Hadestown, the celebrated musical running now at the Shubert Theatre through May 5.With music, book and lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell, it’s a retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eur ..read more

An ATV crashed into a police cruiser in East Rock Park Sunday afternoon, leaving the ATV rider hospitalized with ​“serious injuries.” The New Haven Police Department posted a press release on X on Tuesday detailing the incident.  New Haven police received complaints of ATV riders across the city, and at 3:40 p.m. Sunday, officers responded to East Rock Park after hearing of a group of riders congregating there by way of Farnam Drive.  Farnam Drive has been closed to cars since 2020; it’s now exclusively meant for pedestrian use.  As police drov ..read more

Kolokotronis and Blau in Kolokotronis's city-condemned apartment. (Updated with city comment) The property manager of a church-owned apartment complex on Orange Street has ordered the two lead organizers of the building’s tenants union to move out or face eviction — from city-condemned rental units that they haven’t been able to live in for months. That’s the latest in the long-simmering, and now escalating, standoff between Emerson Apartments LLC and tenants Alexander Kolokotronis and James Blau. Kolokotronis and Blau learned late last week that ​“notices to quit” had been tape ..read more

Megan Fountain co-leads a seder, calls for a ceasefire. It is not enough that God took the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt, according to a group of pro-Palestine activists on Monday evening who turned a traditional Passover song on its head by singing ​“Lo dayeinu.” The Passover song ​“Dayeinu” typically states that it would have been enough had God only freed the Jewish people, or parted the sea for their escape, or given them the Torah on Sinai — suggesting that God went above and beyond to perform all of these miracles, as the Exodus story goes. But on Monday, anti ..read more

Stagger. A photographer encountering the supernatural. Forty days of rain after the loss of a son. A six-decade love note to Hong Kong. According to playwright Danielle Stagger, the Carlotta Festival of New Plays 2024 — running May 2 to May 10 at the Iseman Theatre on Chapel Street — features three ​“funky plays” that are ​“not what you might imagine coming from Yale playwriting.” Featuring the three students graduating with MFAs in playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, the festival was an annual part of New Haven’s theater season until the shutdown in ..read more

Jimmy Apuzzo and Joseph "Pino" Ciccone at the meat counter. Ex-business owners make the best employees, according to P&M Orange Street Market meat department manager and ex-business owner Jimmy Apuzzo, who’s retiring on May 15.  “I have almost a photographic memory,” Apuzzo, 69, said on a recent morning in the basement storeroom of the East Rock market where he began his working life on Dec. 6, 1967. He was 13. ​“I can walk into the cooler, look around, and instantly know what’s there and what’s not.” Apuzzo in the storeroom for the 57th year. Apuzzo sold the busin ..read more

Stacey Strange, Dani Bobbi Lee, Nicholas Strange. Exploring the malaise of being caught in travel limbo. Examining the foibles of other people and yourself, and the way they can begin to grate. Satisfying the desire to keep learning and growing as circus performers. All these factors went into Layovers, the latest show from Air Temple Arts, which will appear for two shows on May 4 at the ACESECA Arts Hall. ​“Though really,” said Stacey Strange, Air Temple Arts’ founder and creative director, ​“it was the suitcases.” Layovers follows three travelers — a musician (Stacey Strange ..read more