Outdoor Torah Dedication Begins Havurah’s New Year

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  East Rock  |  Faith & Spirituality Lucy Gellman | September 19th, 2023

Soferet Stephanie Breitsman. Lucy Gellman Photos.

New Haven PRIDE Returns, Marking New Beginnings

APNH  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Diaper Bank of Connecticut  |  Downtown  |  LGBTQ  |  New Haven Free Public Library  |  New Haven Pride  |  New Haven Pride Center Lucy Gellman | September 18th, 2023

Alyssa Marie Cajigas Rivera Ortiz, development coordinator at the Center and Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Children of Marsha P. Johnson. Musician, organizer and fellow CMPJ Co-Director Erycka Ortiz is to her right. Lucy Gellman Photos.

At Co-Op, Parking Day Takes School Spirit Outside

Arts & Culture  |  Co-Op High School  |  Culture & Community  |  Downtown  |  Education & Youth Lucy Gellman | September 18th, 2023

Top: Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School juniors Giada Thomas, Willie Smokes, and Aniannalis Rivas. Bottom: Lugo's strings students in their first performance of the year. Lucy Gellman Photos.

New Haven Travels To The 6th Dimension

6th Dimension Festival  |  Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  ConnCORP  |  Culture & Community  |  Hamden  |  New Haven  |  Visual Arts Lucy Gellman | September 15th, 2023

Folk Fest Beats The Heat, Brings The Vibes

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  CT Folk Festival  |  Culture & Community  |  Edgerton Park Danielle Campbell | September 14th, 2023

New Haven Remembers Izzy Juda, Mayor Of The Towers

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  ElderPlay Project  |  Faith & Spirituality  |  Klezmer  |  Long Wharf Theatre  |  Music  |  The Hill  |  Tower One/Tower East Lucy Gellman | September 13th, 2023

Sylvia Rifkin and Isidor "Izzy" Juda at the Towers in 2021. Lucy Gellman Photos. The last photo in the story is from Lisa Reisman, courtesy of the New Haven Independent.

A First-Time Voter Marks His Birthday At The Polls

Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Mayoral Campaign 2023  |  New Haven Schools  |  Politics  |  Theater  |  Whalley/Edgewood/Beaver Hills Lucy Gellman | September 12th, 2023

Sara Armstrong Photo.

Elm City Names Its Inaugural Poet Laureate

Arts & Anti-racism  |  Arts & Culture  |  Culture & Community  |  Elicker Administration  |  Elm City LIT Fest  |  Kulturally Lit Lucy Gellman | September 12th, 2023

LIT Fest Brings Black Romance To Dixwell

Arts & Culture  |  Books  |  Culture & Community  |  Dixwell  |  Dixwell Community Q House  |  Elm City LIT Fest  |  Kulturally Lit  |  New Haven Free Public Library  |  Romance  |  Yale University Lucy Gellman | September 11th, 2023

Krystal Marquis and Margo Hendricks ("I'm a badge thief!" she joked of wearing author Nicole Jackson's badge during the presentation). Lucy Gellman Photos.