Buoyed By History, Pride Month Soars Into New Haven

APNH  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  LGBTQ  |  New Haven Pride Center  |  Pride Month Lucy Gellman | June 3rd, 2025

Peg Oliveira, who didn't think of herself as a trailblazer when she and Jen Vickery got married outside of New Haven City Hall on Nov. 12, 2008. She joked about the number of people who had been saying that they "found" her this year—because she never left New Haven, and has no intention to. Lucy Gellman Photos.

A "Community Cultivator”Gets Her Due

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community Lucy Gellman | June 3rd, 2025

Juneteenth Flag Returns To The Green

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Juneteenth  |  New Haven Green Lucy Gellman | June 2nd, 2025

"A Glorious Homecoming," As Freddy Fixer Makes A Place For Everyone

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  Elm City Freddy Fixer Parade  |  Newhallville Lucy Gellman | June 2nd, 2025

Daedream Feels The Love

Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  James Hillhouse High School  |  Mauro Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School  |  Musical Theater Lucy Gellman | May 29th, 2025

Strange Ways Serves Up A New Haven Pizza (Club) Collab

Arts & Culture  |  Economic Development  |  Ninth Square  |  Pizza  |  Strange Ways  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | May 28th, 2025

West Rock/West Hills Celebrates An Early Summer

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  International Festival of Arts & Ideas  |  Neighborhoods  |  West Hills  |  West Rock Lucy Gellman | May 27th, 2025

Jordan Cunningham and Alder Honda Smith, who he will forever call "Ms. Honda," a term of respect, no matter how old he gets. Lucy Gellman Photos.

MASH Band Plays A Perfectly Imperfect "A+"

Arts & Culture  |  Education & Youth  |  Mauro Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School  |  Music  |  New Haven Public Schools  |  Westville Lucy Gellman | May 26th, 2025

Amelia Matthews and Adrianiz Lopez Martinez, both seventh graders at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School. Lucy Gellman Photos.

For A New Haven Playwright, Rite & Ritual At Last Take Center Stage

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Collective Consciousness Theatre  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Incarceration  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Theater Lucy Gellman | May 22nd, 2025

Curtis Brown Photography.