Frame Jobs
For Gabriel Da Silva (pictured right), co-owner of the Frame Shop and Westville Gallery with his wife, Inger (center), as well as the Da Silva Gallery next door, framing isn’t just slapping some wood...
View ArticlePlot Points
Placing Literature, which announced itself to the public during New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas this past summer, provides a novel service. It allows you to take scenes from...
View ArticleBean Counters
Ryan Taylor, owner of two-month-old The Coffee Pedaler in East Rock, is comparing footwear with a four-year-old girl. He bends down to inspect her shoes, sparkly and pink in the bright light of the...
View ArticlePipe Dreams
Put this in your pipe and smoke it: legal medical marijuana production is coming to Connecticut. In early 2014, the Department of Consumer Protection will dole out three producer’s licenses and between...
View ArticleA Look Before We Leap
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? That opening question of the nostalgia-riddled Scottish folk song “Auld Lang Syne,” literally meaning “Old Long Since,” is a rhetorical...
View ArticleA Way with Words
For graduate degrees in writing, locals have options. New Haven has two full-residency MFA programs: a playwriting track at Yale, and fiction and poetry concentrations at Southern Connecticut State....
View ArticleStreet-Smart
History is written in the streets of New Haven. There’s Ella T. Grasso Boulevard, named after Connecticut’s first female governor who, in 1975, was also the country’s first female governor to be...
View ArticleSketchers
Most Monday nights, a small band of New Haveners gathers to practice between the bright white walls of Artspace. The group is called Tiny Dictator, and its goal is to get big laughs. The means is...
View ArticleLook Out
We’re on vacation! For the rest of the week, enjoy Daily Nutmeg editions past, including this farsighted story from last August. It’s amazing how quickly you can go from grinding your teeth and...
View ArticleRear View
Daily Nutmeg’s covered a lot of ground since January 1, 2014. On January 2, writer Cara McDonough put the city’s tucked-away U.S. Coast Guard outpost onto New Haveners’ collective SONAR. Rescuing...
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