Caseus in New Haven, CT Some people travel far and wide to find a restaurant dedicated to cheese. In Connecticut, we only have to go so far as New Haven to visit one of the most famous restaurants celebrating everyone’s favorite dairy … C…

In 2006, Connecticut enacted a 30% tax credit for essentially all forms of media production, including television shows, video games and films. Ever since, the state has been a growing hub for movie making talent. In 2010, MovieMaker magazine ranked Stamford the sixth best place for shooting films, leading both Philadelphia and Boston. Actors are [...]

One hundred years ago, late at night on April 14th, 1912, the unthinkable happened, the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship ever made, hit an iceberg and started to sink into the Atlantic. Fifteen hundred-fourteen would perish on the luxury ocean line…

Have you been inside your local library lately? If you haven’t, go in and take a look around, yes, I know you will be surrounded by those ancient things called books, but go in anyway and take it all in. I did this the other day at the gorgeous N…

The fourth installment of the Jurassic Park film franchise has been in pre-production purgatory since 2002. It could be a while until audiences are reacquainted with Jeff Goldblum’s anxious one –liners partnered with the screech of velociraptors. But back in the olden days (when everything was in black & white), dinosaurs roamed this very state. [...]

Make Do And Mend might currently reside in Boston, but they actually formed a little further south, in West Hartford. These guys have been making serious commotion in the post-hardcore scene since their 2006 debut, because their sound bears the grit that only bands from New England have. It’s a trait rooted in the hard [...]

One of the hardest things for me to write about for this series on New Haven is for stores such as idiom, and Tracy b Boutique. I am not a fashionista, and definitely not female.  But I do know style and elegance when I see it. And idiom offers women the apparel and accessories that [...]

When I started this campaign, the one store that intrigued me the most was Celtica. I was nit sure what I was going to see when I walked in there. Obviously, the whole green thing pops into mine. Possibly Notre Dame memorabilia, and of course, Guinness. needless to say, I was pretty far off on [...]

Tracy B started her shop 4 years ago, this past spring, she chose New Haven because  “New Haven has become a destination, and you can’t find a mix of people like this in a small city anywhere else in New England. I have lived in New Haven for a long time, I love New Haven, [...]

Are you a would be Postindustrial Urbanite? Maybe you are an Eclectic Urbanite? Maybe you just like a little Urbanism from time to time? Generally speaking, an urbanite is a person interested in and or living in densely populated areas such as a city like New Haven. Why? Well, that could be a matter of [...]

  Flights of Fancy, Downtown New Haven’s popular wine tasting and shopping event returns on Friday, July 29th, 2011 at 4 pm. The event, sponsored by The Wine Thief and The Study Hotel at Yale, is presented by the Broadway and Chapel Merchants Associations and features in-store wine tastings, special discounts and extraordinary giveaways at [...]

  Flights of Fancy, Downtown New Haven’s popular wine tasting and shopping event returns on Friday, July 29th, 2011 at 4 pm. The event, sponsored by The Wine Thief and The Study Hotel at Yale, is presented by the Broadway and Chapel Merchants Associations and features in-store wine tastings, special discounts and extraordinary giveaways at [...]

I suppose that’s a pretty bold statement, but judging by the lines that constantly form at the yogurt counter and often out the door, I don’t think that I will get many arguments on that one. Now what makes this High Street frozen yogurt spot so popular? Many things. How about the fact that it [...]

I remember my first trips to New haven from over for, uhm a long time ago. We’ll just say over four decades ago. It was t o the Chinese store that as far as I can remember was on Crown Street. I could be mistaken, as I was all of like four or five years [...]

University Properties announces the grand opening of 1804 Fashion Footwear at 1020 Chapel Street in Downtown New Haven. Join University Properties for the official ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, June 22nd at 11 am.   1804 Fashion Footwear was founded on the principle that women deserve to have access to great designer shoes which make [...]