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06Dec

50 States of Coffee Shops

Blue State: New Haven, Conn. New Haven has plenty of places where Yale students can fuel up on coffee between classes, and although most offer a generous boost of caffeine, none can match the philanthropic generosity of Blue State. Since opening in 2004, the company's owners...
16Sep

College Night on Broadway expands reach

This Thursday, New Haven residents will once again clamor for ice cream, music and henna in a busy evening for students from Yale and surrounding universities alike. College Night on Broadway — a biannual event that promotes The Shops at Yale with discounts and free entertainment...
25Aug

The Ultimate Student Guide to Eating and Drinking at Yale

You’re sick of the dining hall’s monotonous meal rotation and their coffee sucks. You’re crashing after seven hours in Bass Library and you need sugar STAT. You’re drunk, it’s 3 am and you really need chow mein. You have the questions, we have the answers. Welcome...
19Aug

Chalk Art Festival In New Haven This Weekend

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) – The New Haven Chalk Art Festival is kicking off at CT Style. Artist Michael Micinilio demonstrates fun chalk art you can expect to see at the free event happening on Sunday from 10am-6pm at the Shops at Yale in New...
19Aug

First New Haven Chalk Festival to be held Aug. 20, 2016

Some city sidewalks will become temporary works of art during the first New Haven Chalk Festival, taking place 10 a.m.–6 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20 (rain date: Sunday, Aug. 21). The festival — to be held on Broadway Island, across from Apple and J.Crew — will...
12Aug

News 8 stopped by Arethusa Farm Dairy in New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The hot and humid weather means ice cream shops are busy. News 8 stopped by Arethusa Farm Dairy in New Haven, where customers ordering cones say that is their favorite way to cool off. John Whaley stopped in on Thursday morning....
26Jul

Milky Way

Milky Way

Since May, waffle cones with wiffle balls of ice cream have become frequent sights on Chapel Street. A rustic yet elegant sign marks the source: Arethusa Farm Dairy, spelled in gothic lettering around an etched cow. Inside, the store’s counters...
17Jul

New Haven Anchor Spa is back

The Anchor is back — way back. The storied dive bar, a favorite of college students and townies alike, is once again the Anchor Spa, the original iteration before it was the Anchor Restaurant. New owner Karl Franz Williams has reopened it 18 months after the restaurant...
15Jul

Ricky D’s Gets A Shack

Ricky D’s Gets A Shack

By Markeshia Ricks New Haven Independent Robin Willoughby was determined to find the man with the ribs. “I’d seen him on TV,” she said. A little sleuthing led her to a Facebook page and a phone number. “I was like, ‘I wonder if he’s open, because...
11Jul

Michael Micinilio Chalk Up

What do a snowman with a wine bottle, a baker flying on a measuring cup and a creepy, hollow-eyed businessman all have in common? Michael Micinilio.  For the past decade and a half, Micinilio’s been illustrating New Haven chalkboards with such strange, playful characters. Patrons of BAR...