Issue 1: The Articles
You can read the articles from Volume 1, Issue 1 below. However, for all the bells and whistles (cartoons, “Horrorscopes,” listings, poetry, and artwork), you’ll have to pick up a print copy.
(At least until the next issue drops and this one hits the digital archives.)
News & Commentary
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For Charlie Nixon, nothing is beyond imagination. Even the most neglected piece of garbage has potential. “I’m going to use it for something,” he said, holding a short length of metal pipe that had been sawed in half and then discarded on the street. This was how I met him: a tall man with a…
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Once visitors clear its steep staircase and step inside, the Institute Library wraps them in an ageless calm. It’s easy to drift into another century. Oak drawers hold the library’s unique card catalogue, devised by a librarian who left in 1910 to duplicate his classification system for an Indian maharajah. Looking for a title from…
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It was news to me, but the purpose of CPR isn’t necessarily to revive a person. It’s actually about keeping the heart pumping, moving blood to vital organs, tagging in as an intermediary pulse until emergency services arrive. Movies made me think that CPR was only successful if a person woke up gasping—usually with a…
Letters
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(Written for readers holding a physical copy…) For some, it’s an old friend; to others it’s a strange paper pulled from a pile on the street. Either way, we’re happy you found us! What you’re holding—whether you’re sitting on a park bench or camped out at a table at Claire’s—is a re-imagined version of the…
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Arts & Culture
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Saturday afternoon, March 26, 2026. New Haven is hopping, mobbed in the best way. The Green is swarming with protesters, speakers, roving tuba players, and a steady stream of marchers holding signs reading “No Kings,” “Flush Trump” (golden toilet seat included), and “OMG GOP WTF??” It is a show of collective anger that is simultaneously…
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Bisected by Chapel Street, between High and York, two city blocks house local loci of visual culture. Both buildings are the brain children of Louis Kahn’s brutalist aesthetic: Yale University Art Gallery faces south, its facade meeting that of its sister, the Yale Center for British Art. The YCBA is the hub for the study…
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Joanna Mary Boyce Wells’ portrait of Fanny Eaton was never intended to be a portrait. Painted in 1861, the same year as the artist’s death, this work was created as a study of the model, Fanny Eaton, in preparation for a much larger and more involved piece. It was never meant to be adorned in…
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What is Life? by George Harrison… (without… music?) No soundtrack. No tune for a celebration. No conversation starter for a party. No teleportation device to take you back to the time your first love shared a song with you, and you shared an artist with them. Or to the time your dad dedicated a song…
Humor
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I’m not joking when I say that I knew the phrase “Think of me as dead” before I was ten. Most of my grandfather’s side of the family ceased to exist in the fall of 1975, when I was nine. At Easter, we were eating ham together in the traditional Italian-American basement of my great…
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The first Hartford Yard Goats game I went to was a blast. Immediately upon my arrival, I downed a Beer-Bat: a hollow novelty baseball bat filled with beer and bearing the Yard Goats logo towards the top. Hooray! (It’s one Yard of beer, Yard Goats-style.) In my folding seat with a few boisterous friends—two had…
Musician Profiles
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“I was just messing around with a guitar that my brother had given me for Christmas,” Shellye Valauskas remembers of the wide-necked hunk of wood handed off by her bass player brother, Ed. “It was a 12-string with six strings on it and he told me I had to learn to play the hard way.”…
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“Everywhere you go, someone is saying a negative thing. I cannot add to that negativity,” says Luke Rodney. “You’ve got to have a flip side to that. My glass is never half empty. It’s always half full. My glass always has something in it.” A musical storyteller, singer, cuatro player, and nimble drummer, Luke was…
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“It’s not about me,” says songwriter and guitarist Seth Adam. “It’s ‘how can I make people feel better?’ Whether it’s an angry song so they can take out their frustrations or writing something really personal that they can identify with: ‘Thank God someone else feels like that too.’” After drumming lessons in sixth grade, Seth…
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Greg Sherrod knew it was time for a change when he realized his boss at a daytime sales job was siphoning his accounts. “I’m watching my boss drive his Porsche every day and I’m out there selling my butt off,” he remembers. “Why am I selling for him when I could be selling myself?” Since…
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Odds are that you’ll meet Frank Critelli if you hang around the greater New Haven music scene for a week. Frank will tell you on the radio why a cool Connecticut band is worth your time. The cheerful compere of Meriden’s Olde Church Music Series is usually the guy with the bucket, collecting tips from…
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When he was a boy, his father lifted him onto a North Bronx bar and told him to sing. His grandfather scooped tips off the counter. He didn’t see a dime, but reckons he drank a thousand complimentary Shirley Temples. “That’s probably the most important training I had—perform on demand, like a child actor,” Kevin…