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Madison’s novel about New Haven, City of Elms, has been in the writing process for decades, according to the author, and is yet to be published. He recently won a Ruth Stone Hunger Mountain Prize from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and his poetry and writing have been published in literary magazines such as Sycamore Review and Connecticut Writer.

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The worst drivers, however, were found in Washington, D.C., where accident likelihood was 109 percent.

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New Haven and Bridgeport drivers average 6.7 years between accidents, and have approximately a 50-50 chance of getting into one anyway. Bridgeport slipped seven spaces down from last year, while New Haven slipped eight.

A Yale architecture class will learn a thing or two about living the high life this fall when it helps develop a winery in Spain.

Some other of Madison’s books and manuscripts are collected in Boston University’s Mugar Memorial Library. Madison has three published novels, a volume of poetry, and a one-act play. He and his wife Gi are also co-creative directors for their advertising agency Lone Wolf, Inc.

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“Song on the Green” recently won the Greater New Haven Community Chorus’ open poetry contest, and will be scored by Minnesota composer Jack Runestad to be performed by the chorus at its 50th anniversary concert next year.

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Scary Things

October is the month of Halloween and the best time to take in the moody sights of old New England’s sometimes spooky past. We already know that the remains of as many as thousands bodies are interred beneath New Haven Green from the early days when it was still a burial ground, and the possible haunting of the grave of Midnight Mary. Here are some other scary things of past and present.

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Since the early 1970s the name Jim Koplik, 64, has been synonymous with Connecticut rock-concert promotion, which he and long-time partner Shelly Finkel ruled for a decade. The pair promoted the legendary 1973 festival in Watkins Glen, N.Y. that drew more than 600,000 music fans to see the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers and the Band. Today Koplik still dominates the music scene in Connecticut for Live Nation, owner of the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford and the Meadows in Hartford, as well many concerts at the Mohegan Sun Casino. Finkel and Koplik split amicably in the late 1970s, the former becoming a boxing promoter. New Haven Magazine Publisher Mitchell Young, who as associate publisher of the Advocate weekly newspaper chain handled Koplik’s concert advertising throughout the 1970s, interviewed Koplik for ONE2ONE.

was a real long-haired liberal. I’m a shorter-haired liberal now.

Why did you want to promote concerts? It wasn’t that I needed the money. I was lucky that my father was a Park Avenue dentist so I never felt I needed money. I was very much into the politics of the day: I ran the Students for Robert Kennedy in Ohio. When he got assassinated in June of ’68, I was devastated. My best friend was really into music, and I was really into music. He said to me, ‘The only two things you really love other than politics are sports and music, and you’re not good enough to be in professional sports.’ So he said to me, ‘Why don’t we become concert promoters?’ It wasn’t even my idea; it was his. It was 1968, there were not too many rock concert promoters. I was 18.

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Where did you get your start in concert promotion? I started in 1968 in Columbus, Ohio. The first arena I ever did was the [20,000 seat] Cincinnati Garden in 1971 with [the band] Chicago. I still have the ad. The first in Connecticut that I did was 6,000 seats, at the New Haven Arena. I did a series of shows in 1972, then the arena closed [in ’72], the Coliseum opened in ’73, and I continued to do shows there.

What brought you to Connecticut originally? I grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. — a Westchester County boy. Went to Ohio State from ’68 to ‘71.

So you were there when Kent State happened in 1970. Were you involved in anti-war protests? I was very much involved and very much into it, I wasn’t a member of the SDS or anything, but I

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How did you enter the business as a teenager? We decided to head to New York and we walked into the William Morris Agency. The agents were only a few years older than us; it was a brand new business back then. They thought it’d be fun to watch these two goofballs come up. I knew a lot about music, and I impressed them with my knowledge of music. So the agent said, ‘Do you want to buy Steppenwolf, for $3,500 in Columbus, Ohio, at the auditorium down there. I had no idea if that was good or bad, so I said ‘Sure.’ Steppenwolf had [its first single] ‘Born to Be Wild’ out at the time. I remember writing the check for $1,750; we had to pay 50 percent up front. I had $2,500 from my bar mitzvah money, my friend had $2,500 from his bar mitzvah money, so we started our

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Wasn’t there a single promoter for almost every market with a big concert venue?

dad was pushing me through the door. He was really working the system to get me through it.

I remember the concert business was pretty cutthroat among promoters. Was there any blowback?

But nobody was really in Columbus; they were in Cleveland because that was a real market. But the secondary markets like Connecticut, Columbus and Cincinnati, there were a bevy of promoters that were messing around in those markets. But Don [Law] was in Boston, Bill Graham was in New York. The secondary markets didn’t have anybody who was religiously building those markets. I was in my teens still and I was still going to college. Initially I was in college for pre-dentist; my father was a successful dentist in New York, and he would tell me how he has this office waiting for me, and laid all this Jewish guilt on me that I had to be a dentist. That was painful. I really didn’t want to be a dentist. I didn’t have the guts to say it to my dad. I was a good boy, and I was going to get through it and be a dentist.

What happened when you told him you weren’t going to be a dentist?

Your son is in this business with you now. Did he ever say, ‘I don’t think this is right for me?’

I told my dad I was going to be a lawyer. Jewish parents wanted a professional. So I went right into law and I finished my junior and full senior year in pre-law and then started going to New York Law, out of Pace University. I was still doing my concert business and going to law school but I wasn’t getting great grades. It was painful, I’d have to leave in the morning to get to

The guy who was doing concerts in Columbus, although he lived in Cleveland, heard about my show and tried to crush me. He booked the Doors in for two shows [on the same date], and the day after that he put Peter, Paul & Mary in for two shows, and they were very big in 1968. So when I thought I had a real winner, I ended up breaking even on Steppenwolf because I got crushed the next two days. So I called the guy up in Cleveland and said, ‘Listen, you don’t want to come all the way down to Columbus for every show. I’ll run everything for you. I’ll put up half the money, and let’s be partners.” And he loved the idea. We were just in an auditorium where you make a few thousand dollars a show — not a lot of money — and he loved that he didn’t have to come from Cleveland down to Columbus. That’s how I never had any competition again in Columbus.

Not yet. I always tell him the story of my dad and what he did to me. I tell him the door is open but you don’t have to walk through the door. My

He started seeing a psychiatrist; he almost had a nervous breakdown. He couldn’t deal with it. It was very tough on me, and him and my mom. But the reason I didn’t become a dentist wasn’t by choice. I couldn’t get through my last science course. I needed 40 hours of sciences, I got through 37 of them. The last five-hour course was organic chemistry. I got through the lab, but I couldn’t get through the tests. The first time I failed; the second time I hired a teaching assistant to take it for me and we got caught, and I talked myself out of getting thrown out of college. And the third time I failed again.

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Columbus, and the concert would be at night. Then I’d come back later, so I’d miss two days of school for every concert I had.

When was this? 1971. I did everybody — Black Sabbath, Rod Stewart, Mountain, Traffic, Emerson Lake & Palmer, the Who. Back then it was not an arena business; it was a theater business. The big acts played theaters, and tickets were $5.

Did you get one big break? Chicago was the one that broke me big. I got very friendly with the band. I promoted them in Columbus and got very friendly with them. They were very much like me — suburban guys from Chicago. I was a suburban guy from New York. We took the same drugs, we had the same political feelings, both very left-wing. They gave me dates in Toledo, in Cincinnati, in Dayton — they started to make sure that I got whatever [shows] I wanted. The only city they couldn’t give me was Cleveland because that one promoter was there. Elton [John] did that for me, and the Beach Boys did that for me, too. I got very friendly with those artists and they gave me dates in other cities, which really kept me going. But I couldn’t go to law school. I couldn’t handle both, and I wasn’t getting good grades. I had to make a decision. I went home to my wife; I got married in 1971, two weeks after I graduated college. If my kids did that I’d kill ‘em. I had no job and my wife had no job. I can’t believe we did it. I can’t believe my parents let us. I’m still married to the same person 42 years later.

So you’re in an industry, especially in those days, overrun by groupies during the height of the sexual revolution — and here’s a promoter married for 42 years. It’s like you’re a fake! I never got into that stuff; that grossed me out. Hey — I did my share of drugs. But sleeping with another woman, that grossed me out. I had tons of opportunities, but if I came home my wife would see it

on my face. The drug thing, I was heavily into at the time.

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My wife said, ‘Which would you like to do?’ I wanted to be in the concert business. I never liked studying; law school was a struggle for me. But the concert business wasn’t a struggle and I was doing very well with it. That’s when I told my dad I was dropping out of law school, and that was a bad moment for me.

How did you end up in Connecticut? I graduated college in 1971 and I needed to find something closer. I wanted to pull out of Ohio and do concerts closer [to home in Westchester]. I couldn’t do New York, so I looked in Connecticut. I had grown up ten miles over the state line. I looked in Connecticut and there was one promoter doing a Jethro Tull show there in November of ’71. I didn’t know who the promoter was, and it didn’t matter. I had done Jethro Tull shows in Ohio, I was going to go to that date and speak to the manager, and the next time they came in it was going to be my show.

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So is that where you hooked up with Shelly Finkel, your longtime business partner? I had met a manager by the name of Shelly Finkel, who managed a band called Hammer. I had Hammer opening a bunch of my shows in Ohio. Shelly was a Brooklyn boy, a Jewish Brooklyn boy. When you’re in Ohio and you get swastikas put on your door and things like that, you gravitate toward Jews. All my friends were Jewish — and all of a sudden this guy from Brooklyn came, and we latched on to each other for a while and talked for a while. But for nine months or a year we didn’t speak to each other. I come up to the Jethro Tull show in 1971 and I sit there with Derek Sutton, the manager of Jethro Tull, and I tell them, ‘I’d like to start [booking] you.’ He says, ‘We’re very close to the promoter here — his name is Shelly Finkel.’ new haven

The names Koplik and Finkel did become synonymous with rock concerts in Connecticut.

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We tried to make Koplik-Finkel a brand. A friend [another promoter], first thing he taught me was, ‘Get your name well-known.’ Because if there’s ever a riot you can step up on stage and say who you are, and there’s a 50-50 chance you can stop it by just being the big guy in town who brings in all the concerts, and say, ‘Stop it.’ It has worked.

Koplik: “What we did (politically) back in the ‘60s and ‘70s was a seismic change.”

Who were the easiest artists for you to deal with? Today a lot of entertainers see themselves as business people, but then they worked hard to project a different image, right? Publicly, yes. I used to always get a kick out of Alice Cooper — me getting him a tee time, but not under his name because he didn’t want people to know he played golf. Robby Krieger of the Doors always played golf — but God forbid a member of the Doors playing golf! It was funny back then; they all had to be cool and hip. The nice people: Charlie Daniels, Doug Gray from Marshall Tucker, Mike Love and Carl Wilson from the Beach Boys, my boys in Chicago. They were all guys like me, it was weird. I had to like their music to hang out with them. Then after the show they were all looking to do something, and they were in New Haven. If I hung around after the show, we’d all do the same thing. We’d go to Toad’s, that being ‘77 or ’78. We’d go down to Mike’s [then Toad’s co-owner Spoerndle] office and do drugs, or else earlier we’d go to the New Haven hotel they stayed in, or the Holiday Inn or the Sheraton, and do drugs there. I hate to over-amp on drugs, but in the ’70s that was the currency we dealt with.

What did you tell your children about drugs? My son was born in ’81, my daughter in ’77. My daughter claims that she remembers me doing cocaine. She said, ‘I remember with a straw snorting it off the table.’ I never did that. ‘I always had a little bottle with a spoon, so you didn’t’ see me do that! Plus, I stopped in August of 1981. You were four.’ I never told them about anything but marijuana. My daughter has grown up to be 100-percent straight, and my son’s like me. But he’s 32, he’s got a good job, he does a very good job. I’m not going to tell my 32-yearold what to do, but they both grew up to be solid citizens. I was very honest with them about marijuana. Thank God they don’t do what I did. It would be terrible.

When you see entertainers today, do you think they’re as involved politically as they were in the 1960s and ‘70s? I believe what we did back in the ‘60s and ‘70s was a seismic change. Our culture/politics changed the world, we unquestionably changed the world. I don’t get the sense that, after Pearl Jam or Rage Against the Machine, I don’t get the sense from any band from 2000 on has really grabbed a political flag and run with it, that I can think of. But in our day, lots of bands did it. People look at Chicago today and think they’re the corniest, straightest guys in the world. But they had a manifesto in one of their albums about overthrowing the government. So back then, a band that people think is so conservative today, was very much on the edge.

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Why do you think that is? Do entertainers today simply want to be rich and famous? Well, I don’t meet that many new performers anymore. I feel very uncomfortable walking in as a 64-year-old man to a 24-year-old’s dressing room. I feel like I’m the narc I was afraid of when I was 24 walking into a dressing room. I’m thankful my son is in the business, and it’s his job to get friendly with the bands and the new agents and managers. I’m still friendly with the old bands, the old agents and the old managers. But the answer is that people are much more involved in themselves today — whether it’s playing video games, which is internal, not external. We used to sit down and play Monopoly. I saw in the news that Monopoly is a game that is unpopular now because it takes too long. They’re making a short Monopoly with no jail. The music business is a business of songs, not albums, anymore. I think the music business has always been a good mirror of our culture, but it’s a song culture today, not an album culture. It’s a snapshot culture, not a movie culture.

The only thing they do is they now have TelePrompTers. They can’t remember the [lyrics]. Almost every artist over the age of 60 has TelePrompTers. One of my kicks is when I have an old artist [is to] see where their TelePrompTers are.

When you staged Watkins Glen how many people did you think would come? We had our permit for 150,000 people. Shelly and I quietly thought we’d do maybe 200,000 people. But 200,000 people were already there the day

before [the festival began], so we knew. The Dead, the Allmans, and the Band all did their long soundchecks on Friday. We put them on in order of performance. The Dead played two and a half hours. I’m sitting with the guys in the Band, who were next, and they said, ‘We were just going to do four songs.’ They get up there and do an hour and a half. There were 200,000 people out there, so they really couldn’t do just four songs. Then I looked at the Allmans and said, ‘You guys can play as long as you want.’ And they did a two-and-a-half-hour set also. So we

Has technology really screwed up the music business? If Adele came in to do a concert, I would charge $95 for a ticket. If you just like ‘Skyfall,’ you’re not paying $95. You have to like a lot of songs, but our business is strong, so luckily it hasn’t affected the live business. I believe people are now satisfied with one or two songs and they don’t need the album. The truth of the matter is, I can name maybe ten or 12 albums that I think were great from start to finish. Otherwise half the album is filler.

But artists continue to put out ‘albums.’ It’s insane that these artists are still putting out albums; I don’t know why they do that. I would try to tailor my career towards the taste of America. What I would do is put out a song every two or three months, and I would never stop. Then you don’t have to worry about touring cycles. I think record companies still demand album sales. In last week’s Billboard, it said the album business is at its all-time low right now.

You promote a 1970s favorite, Bonnie Raitt. Are the audiences who go to see Bonnie Raitt now the same people who went to see her in 1973? Bonnie Raitt, yes. Paul McCartney, no. Bonnie Raitt [has] the same audience. She’s getting paid a lot of money because her audience is very loyal and will spend money on tickets. She’s done nothing new since she won all those Grammy’s 15 years or so ago.

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had about seven hours of music, which all we did was replicate the next day. We did make money on it. I was very happy. I think we were the first festival to make money.

Was it that everyone who missed out on Woodstock felt they had to go to Watkins Glen? That was one thing, for sure. Woodstock was a cultural event, but Watkins Glen didn’t change the world. It was the biggest concert in history, but it was not a cultural event. Woodstock was the first, it was three days, there were 40 or 50 acts and the culture of it was amazing.

Did you go to Woodstock? I was at my brother-in-law’s wedding that weekend, but I was not one to go sleep outside in a tent anyway. I had already been in the business, so seeing the acts wasn’t anything really that necessary for me.

Do you have a favorite band? The Beatles were my favorite band. Favorite American band is Chicago. I listened to a lot of Beach Boys, Chicago, Four Seasons, Allman Brothers, Crosby Stills & Nash…

Do you have current favorites? I like the Zack Brown Band; they’re an enormous favorite of mine. I listen to them frequently, I have nine songs on my iPod. Bruno Mars, I listen to him a lot. I have about seven or eight songs on my iPod. Those are really my two favorites now.

Is there an act you wanted to promote that you didn’t get and still regret? There are two. Jimi Hendrix. I had him booked and the night before he was in Cincinnati and had a bad drug overdose and had to cancel my show the next night in Columbus. I never got him back. And Led Zeppelin, who I had booked in West Palm Beach [Fla.] at a festival. I was getting my ass kicked because I was an idiot and booked it in the middle of the summer in West Palm Beach, and nobody wanted to go outside in the middle of the summer. I convinced Led Zeppelin I’d pay them to cancel the show because they would have lost more money if they played the show. And I never got a chance to promote them again.

Decades later those acts are still enormously inﬂuential. Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin are stars today. I think that music carries forward. It’s classic.

I hate it when my friends go, ‘There’s nothing today that’s going to be like Led Zeppelin.’ You’re so wrong. Look at Phish. Phish started in the early ‘90s so they’re already 25 years into their career and they’re selling out arenas still. Their music is going to last 40 years. First time I did Dave Matthews was 1995, so soon it will be 20 years. He’s still extraordinarily popular. We bring them back [to the Meadows] every year.

At a certain point you transitioned from your own company to working for LiveNation. How did you get there? In 1990, a good friend was a promoter in New Jersey, and was approached by Polygram Records to buy part of his company. He was going to go into New York and run a diversified division called Polygram Diversified, which was going to have a management company, a record company, a T-shirt company, a concert division and a Broadway division. He arranged for me to sell [what became 80 percent of] my business and I would run the concert division. Then in 1997 SFX Entertainment, which ended up selling to Clear Channel, approached us to sell the company. [My partner] didn’t want to sell. I owned the Meadows [Music Theater in Hartford] and SFX was interested in the [Meadows] because SFX broadcast [division]

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had seven radio stations up here including KISS [WKSS, 95.7 FM]. We sold the [the Meadows] to SFX, and moved my office to Hartford. So I left my own company. In 2001, SFX sold to Clear Channel Entertainment, and In 2005 Clear Channel spun off LiveNation.

Why did they do that? Clear Channel Radio was a drag on Clear Channel Entertainment. We started getting pressure that, ‘If you don’t play our record we’re not going to sell you the concert.’ We weren’t going to ruin the business of the radio stations by putting bad music on. There are a lot of acts that don’t have good records any more but still draw for a concert.

Today the artists run the business, not the promoters. How do they run the show with giants like LiveNation? In the old days they would come to me because I was the best guy in Connecticut. They knew they would end up selling the most tickets in Connecticut, and always get paid. Wherever I could I would influence the radio stations to play the music. That has now passed. It’s much more about the money. I feel today that the job of the promoter is not as appreciated as it was then. In fact, some bands do run their own shows. Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey promotes himself. He books the date, his production manager does the production, the building does the marketing and that’s it in New Jersey.

It’s got to be fun working with your son on a daily basis. But this is a culture business. Have you been able to transfer what we just talked about to your son? Growing up in my household, it was sort of osmosis that he got what was going on. I’d be on the phone at night, he’d be sitting around, I was talking to my wife, talking business to Shelly all the time. Talking, talking, talking. I remember the first time he wrote me a note, he was 13 years old. I saved the note and have it at home: ‘Just tell them the concert is cancelled.’ It referred to an Aerosmith show in New Haven that I was moving from January to August, and Aerosmith didn’t know what to say to the public, because Steven Tyler was screwed up on drugs and couldn’t make it. So that was that osmosis thing. He does fight me on things; there is that generational difference and he tends to think the old stuff is old and there’s a new way of doing things, and the old order is the old order and the new order is the new order. I thought it would be a lot smoother, but I’ve learned a lot. Sometimes he’s right, but most of the time I’m right. We work through it very nicely. v

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y 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning, the heat is already blanketing the ground. It’s mid-July in New England, with weather you’d likely see in a New Orleans’ September. The temperature must already be 85 if not 90 degrees. It’s steamy. Tyler Lewis lives in the Point Beach section of Milford, a stone’s throw from the waterfront. He has quite a bit of land for being so close to the beach, which is good for keeping his hives. Pulling his long white socks taut up over his shins, Lewis tosses a pair over: “You’re gonna need these so they don’t sting your ankles.” Heading out back to his garage, Lewis begins suiting up to enter the hive.

The smoker simulates a forest fire, Lewis notes. Because the bees’ natural instinct is to flee the hive to escape the fire, they gorge on honey in order to have enough energy to expend to fly out. This in turn fills their bellies so they cannot bend their abdomen to sting and calms them down considerably.

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Pulling out a frame from an upper box, Lewis holds it up to the sunlight. It’s covered in a thick coating of beeswax, where the furry brown worker bees have been busy depositing nectar and converting it to honey. Slipping the frame back into place, Lewis selects another frame, this one from the brood chamber. He points out the careful pattern of brood cells, where bee pupae are developing. The colony is healthy.

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“Beekeeping is just something I picked up when I was a kid,” he recounts. “I read a ten-page book on beekeeping and thought it was unusual and cool. I bought my first package of bees from a Sears & Roebuck catalogue when I was 11.” Although his first hive wasn’t successful, Lewis says he has learned that beekeeping involves significant trial and error, with new technologies and concepts developing constantly. But he adds that the challenges of beekeeping have grown along with the advances.

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“You used to be able to get a good healthy package of bees and a queen and begin your hives with little to no problems,” Lewis says. “But now there’s varroa mites, tracheal mites, wax moths, hive beetles.” And with erratic winters split with stretches of 55-degree weather followed by crippling nor’easters, unpredictable weather can easily destroy a colony. “It’s almost worse to have a winter with temperatures that are up and down” than one that’s uniformly cold, Lewis notes. “Because when it gets up in the 50s and it’s nice and sunny, bees venture out of the hive in search of food but then they can’t get back if the temperature drops and they can freeze to death.” The biggest threat to honey bees and the humans who keep them, according to Kirby Stafford III, chief entomologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven, continues to be the varroa mite, which can also transmit multiple bee viruses. Infection with Nosema and occasionally American foulbrood are issues as well. “Many of our beekeepers had substantial losses this past winter and this happened to both new

and experienced beekeepers,” Stafford explains. “Our commercial beekeepers, who have always provided all the pollination services for our farmers in-house, had to bring in bees from out of state for the first time that I am aware of. There was no one specific overriding cause for the losses; there were a number of reasons [e.g., varroa mite, Nosema infection, insufficient food for the winter, etc.], and in some cases the cause is unclear.”

Circling the patches of ragweed, knotweed and sumac growing in Lewis’ backyard, a trail of bees glistens in the sun like a ribbon of gold. Like many apiarists, Lewis is a hobbyist. Beekeeping is something he stumbled upon as a

Still, Lewis says, perhaps the most dire threat to his hives has been pesticides. “I have hives in six locations,” he says. “Last year, all of my hives were doing really well except for one. I had my hives in an area where the lawn was treated regularly with a bunch of different types of chemicals. All of my bees died.” Using an insect fogger, wintergreen and mineral oils, Lewis is able to naturally treat his hives for mites every three weeks. But he doesn’t treat for weeds.

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youngster that remains as “unusual and cool” 40 years later as it was when he was 11. But for others such as Marina Marchese — beekeeper, author, honey sommelier and owner of Red Bee Artisanal Honey — backyard beekeeping can be quite lucrative. If you had asked Marchese 16 years ago if she’d ever consider keeping bees for a living, she’d have laughed. She was an international designer, traveling between New York City and China. That is, until she tasted fresh honey straight from the beehive that would rock her world. “I was visiting a neighbor down the street who kept bees,” Marchese recalls. “He was showing me his hives and I was amazed at how well behaved the bees were when he opened the hive. They weren’t swarming, they weren’t stinging. “And then I tasted the honey,” she says. “Beautiful, delicate and light, glistening in the comb in the sun. It was divine.” Her neighbor then suggested that Marchese, too, ought to become a beekeeper. “This was before the farmers-market boom, before we were ‘green,’” she says. “I didn’t know anything about bees, but I figured I could handle a hive. So I bought a starter kit and a colony of 20,000 honeybees. I certainly didn’t set out to become a beekeeper.” Starting out at a local farmers market, Marchese packaged her newly bottled honey in beautiful glass jars. “People had never seen honey in pretty bottles,” she explains. “Everyone grew up with the plastic teddy bear in the grocery store, which isn’t even real honey.” Soon realizing that beekeeping was her life’s calling, she quit her full-time job in the corporate world and began hand-bottling artisanal honey under the Red Bee Honey label, named after the red cottage where her apiary is located.

In fact, across the country, backyard beekeeping clubs have reported doubling their memberships in recent years, Marchese says. Based in southwestern Connecticut, the Back Yard Beekeepers Association has some 300 members. The organization is firmly rooted in education and public outreach and awareness about beekeeping. “There are no laws in Connecticut for having bees, so we try to educate beekeepers on best practices, on being a good neighbor,” Marchese says. “We want to hold your hand as much as possible. We’re a resource for new beekeepers and for those who have been doing it for years.” Currently there are 708 registered beekeepers in Connecticut caring for 5,268 colonies, according to Kirby Stafford. Marchese says the advent of the “backyard beekeeper” and surge in interest in bees and beekeeping began in about 2006, when the disappearance of bees began getting publicity. “It took three or four years to trickle down to the masses and now people are really concerned about the disappearance of bees,” says Marchese. “When you see people like Williams Sonoma selling beehives and beekeeping kits, it’s more than a trend.”

According to Marchese, “homesteading” has become an ascendant movement nationwide, with a saturation of farmers markets in almost every city and town across the country combined with a widespread interest in self-sufficiency and local food sourcing. Harvesting vegetables straight from the gardens, keeping a backyard chicken coop for fresh eggs or keeping bees to savor honey straight from the comb have become among the more popular forms of homesteading in recent years. “Beekeeping sucks you in like Alice in Wonderland,” says Marchese. Now the co-author (with Kim Flottum) of The Honey Connoisseur, editor of Bee Culture magazine and Honeybee Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper, Marchese has turned a backyard pastime into a sweet career. Flying through the thick July air, unwavering and determined, a honeybee lands on a patch of clover. Doggedly returning to the hive to deposit the single drop of nectar, the bee ventures out, yet again, untiring for another. They say in the entire six weeks of a honeybee’s life, it will produce an eighth of a teaspoon of honey. In the late afternoon haze, watching the bees swirl dizzyingly around the flowers at Red Bee Apiary, it couldn’t be more clear that honey is perhaps the closest thing to liquid gold on the planet. v

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The cottage is nestled on an acre of sprawling gardens in Weston. Lush with clover and dandelions, herbs and wildflowers, it’s a bee’s paradise. Unlike commercial apiaries with thousands of colonies, Marchese knows exactly where each of her single-origin honeys come from. Employing the word “terroir” (French for “earth”), Marchese explains that the flavor and color of honey is a function of location, climate, soil and temperature. “You can taste and talk about honey like you can wine or olive oil,” she notes. Having just completing a two-year term as president of the Backyard Beekeepers Association, Marchese says that most beekeepers are hobbyists, keeping bees to produce honey, or raise queens, or to split colonies, to take photographs, or simply for something to do on the weekends.

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Nature’s Bounty At generations-old farms across the region, King Harvest has surely come By LYNN FREDRICKSEN

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“The teachers go online to our website and fill out the form,” Bob Rose explains. “We do a lot of school tours.”

In an effort to better meet their customers’ needs, the family has added some farm-related toys to their non-perishable line. “Our clientele is mostly small children and their grandparents,” says Rose. “We’re trying to test the water and diversify a little more.”

As heat and humidity give way to crisp, cool mornings, shorts and tank tops are tucked away in favor of jeans and sweatshirts and area farmers work to reap nature’s bounty as they harvest their crops. From Bishop’s Orchards in Guilford, to Rose Orchards in North Branford and Hindinger’s Farm in Hamden, each has carved its own niche in the richness of the season. And each, in its own way, has found a way to preserve the treasured traditions of the past while embracing technology to meet the needs of a growing community. In North Branford, the Rose family has been farming its 52-acres on Route 139 for 365 years. The operation is currently managed principally by Robert Rose, although his father, David Rose, is still very much in the picture. October is their

When the children arrive, they are treated to a wagon ride tour of the farm, pick some apples and pumpkins and go through a hay maze constructed of large bales of hay. Rose adds that at the end of the season the hay is ground up and applied to cover the strawberry beds for winter protection so nothing is wasted. “You have to,” Rose says of practicing frugality. Over the years the Rose family has endured economic devastations caused by harsh weather. Even just one week of extreme weather can have a fatal effect on a crop. Two years ago his pumpkin crop was covered in snow. With snowstorms coming earlier in the season and sometimes even in mid-autumn (the 2011 storm struck on October 29), his apple crop can be limited to three weeks or less. Typically the Roses plant about a dozen different crops, he says. “This is when we sell all the crops we’ve worked on since February,” Rose explains. “We start

Thus colorful farm toys like John Deere tractors are on the shelves. The Roses also sell some farmrelated implements such shovels, rakes and hoes. Indoors, Gladys Rose bakes a variety of fresh pies in addition to selling fruits and vegetables grown on the farm. “Everything is baked here,” Bob Rose notes. The market is open from April until Christmas. It’s hard work but it runs in the family — as it has for generations. Rose’s daughter works seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. — just like her father. “Our specialty is catering to families when they come in for ice cream in the evening,” Rose says. “They go see the goats and they’re free to run around.”

Many visitors enjoy the water wheel and a plastic bull where visitors can practice their lassoing skills. “It’s just one of the things about the whole atmosphere,” he says. “It’s the apple picking, feeding the animals — they really love it.” Rose admits he is especially pleased with this year’s corn maze. “It’s bigger this year,” he explains. “It’s a couple of acres in size. Toward the end of the season some kids have it memorized.”

In Hamden Liz Hindinger demonstrates enviable organizational skills as she keeps everything on track at her family’s farm at 835 Dunbar Hill Road. The Hindinger family has farmed there for 120 years and currently plants about 30 crops on 100 acres — half of which is dedicated to fruit, and the other half to vegetables. For the past four years the Hindingers have offered a Community Supported Agriculture program in which people buy shares of the crop at a fixed price in exchange for the produce when it is becomes available. It is an economical way for members of the community to get their fruits and vegetables while supporting a local farm.

This year the Hindingers have some 250 CSA participants.

experimenting with recipes which she shares with her customers.

It works like this: each December participants pay half of the rate to reserve their spot. In the spring, they pay the balance. Then once a week for the following 24 weeks, they pick up a box of food. The program ends at Thanksgiving.

“I gear this toward CSA people because if they’re overwhelmed by corn or fruit we can help them,” she says. “Especially with things like Brussels sprouts.”

“You have to like to cook,” Hindinger explains. “Sometimes you get a lot of stuff and have to put it to creative use.” The content of the box varies from week to week depending on the crop. This year, for example, because squash plants produced only male blossoms there was no yellow squash, Hindinger explains. A typical box provides enough fruit and vegetables to feed a family of three or four. On one particular week in August the CSA box contained a half peck of Paula Red apples, a half peck of peaches, a bunch of kale, onions and four quarts of tomatoes. “It varies throughout the season,” Hindinger explains. “This time of year it’s always two baskets of fruit.” Hindinger notes that a half-peck is approximately five pounds of fruit. Because some customers find that to be more food than they are likely to consume, Hindinger spends much of the winter months when she is cooped up indoors

Some CSA members opt to split their shares with a friend or neighbor. All CSA members receive a ten-percent discount on anything they buy at the store. That store is chock full of food and includes a colorful selection of seasonal gift items. For the fall, Hindinger has brought in a lot of applerelated items. “I always thought of ways to expand our product line and ‘giftables’ are a good way to do that,” Hindinger says. She’s also got an arrangement with Kelly’s Kone Konnection across town. Hindinger supplies the fruit and they use it to make the ice cream. Hindinger offers it for sale in her store along with a variety of jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and relishes — all private-label.

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the sixth generation of her family to operate the farm. Her father, Keith Bishop, and cousin, Jonathan Bishop, serve as co-CEOs. Upstairs from the busy farm market, the second-story conference room proudly displays two vintage signs. One reads, “Sweet Cider.” Another, “Bishop’s Ice.” Both hail from the earliest days of this familyrun farm. They add character to the modern meeting space while serving as a reminder of days gone by. “Pick-your-own is ‘agritainment’ — the coined phrase these days for farms and farm activities,” DellaVentura explains. “The farm market is our forte. We’re open 358 days a year and everything revolves around it.” But in the fall, with apples, pears, raspberries and pumpkins to harvest, a corn maze to open and 313 acres under active cultivation, Bishop’s is a hub of activity complete with wagon rides on

weekends and pick-your-own operating daily. The on-site bakery bakes a variety of pies daily and during Thanksgiving they will bake 6,000 to 7,000 pies in several varieties, including a couple of sugar-free options. “We also do a ‘Fruit of the Farm’ pie that varies,” DellaVentura explains. Growing up on the farm, DellaVentura says she always thought she’d be there. But once she started college as an elementaryeducation major, she got to thinking. “I wondered about the family business and what would happen when my father and Jonathan retired,” she recalls. “My greatgrandfather put so much into this. I appreciate it much more now.” One of the requirements for moving into a managerial role at the farm is that family members must work elsewhere for at least two years to gain experience in another

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Carlyn Buurman, five, and her six-year-old sister Mila Buurman, enjoy their ice cream treats at Rose Orchards farm in North Branford.

wanted to be back here. It’s nice to come back.” At the moment, she isn’t sure how many of her three siblings and seven cousins are interested in careers at the farm. And her seventhgeneration daughter is too young to have made a decision. As the farm market was evolving over the years from a farm stand to the full-service one-stop-shopping enterprise it is today, the family decided to open their own winery in 2005. “It developed as all the Connecticut wineries were popping up and becoming popular,” DellaVentura says. “We had an excess of fruit. So we do all fruit wine.” They started by taking their cider and fermenting it. From there, they started pairing it with fruit. Wines range from semi-dry to sweet. “People are pleasantly surprised by that,” DellaVentura says. “Once you get them to taste it, they open their eyes. It’s amazing.” The wines are named after local landmarks and things people from the shoreline would recognize. Sachem’s Twilight — a sparkling peach wine similar to a prosecco — is named in honor of Sachem’s Head. “And we have our hard ciders,” DellaVentura adds. “One of the first ones was Stonehouse White. It’s flavored with oak chips and named after the Whitfield House.” Among the wines available from Bishop’s Winery are: Happley Impeared, an apple pear wine; Amazing Grace, named for DellaVentura’s daughter; Red Barn Red; Whitfield’s Pearadox; Faulkner’s Spiced Apple; and Blushing Beauty Peach. In addition to selections from their own winery,

they also sell some from wineries along the Connecticut Wine Trail, including Sachem’s Picnic, a semisweet red from Hopkins Vineyards and Beacon Light No. 8, from the Philip Jamison Jones Winery. In addition to a variety of freshly baked cookies, a generous selection of organic spices, freshly made soups and other prepared foods, fresh exotic cheeses, fresh pasta and multiple olive oil choices, Bishop’s offer numerous hard-tofind specialty products and obscure ingredients. “We know our products,” says DellaVentura. “We do carry some of the same lines as the big chain stores, but we also carry a lot products made by other small businesses like some of the unknown yogurts. I think people appreciate customer service. We know a lot of our customers by name and we know their kids’ names.”

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Bishop’s also offer recipes both at the store and at the pick-yourown locations. Most of those are DellaVentura’s grandmother’s recipes. “People always ask for Barbara’s Blueberry Buckle,” she notes. “They always call for that.” Those pick-your-own locations have also evolved. In addition to digital scales to ensure accuracy, patrons can also pay by credit card in the field thanks to wireless technology. And, as always, Bishop’s continues to offer its traditional apple cider. Still pressed on the farm, it is now sent out by truck to be pasteurized at another facility. “It comes back pasteurized and bottled for us,” says DellaVentura. “And it’s still 100 percent apples with nothing added to it.” v

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Do You Want To Know a Secret?

Name:

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Year Founded: 1832 | Location: 64 High St. membership: Old money and political players like George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and John Kerry. Dirty secret: One of the last societies to admit women, Bones has lost much of its elite cachet in recent generations; still good if you want to get into banking or finance.

most New Haveners make no bones about Yale’s mysterious secret societies In an era of constant Tweets, updates and Wikileaks, it would seem that few secrets are safe. But the mysteries behind the unmarked façades of Yale’s secret societies in New Haven still inspire speculation and intense curiosity. What goes on inside those stone-clad “tombs”? Who is and isn’t a member? How much influence do the societies have over the nation’s power elite — including Secretary of State John Kerry, reportedly a member of uber-society Skull & Bones? The presence of the secret societies on Yale’s campus has become such a tourist magnet that the New Haven Preservation Trust last fall organized a $75-perperson tour of six tombs. More than 50 signed up and even got a chance to go inside the not-so-secret Elihu society, accompanied by a member. Here’s our unauthorized tour of some of the more visible societies — don’t tell!

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Year Founded: 1848 | Location: 78 Trumbull St. membership: Known for hard-partying members; alumni include the first American casualty of the Vietnam war. Dirty secret: Regarded as a poor relation to the more established societies, despite its impeccable tomb.

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ELIHU

Year Founded: 1903

| Location: 175 Elm St.

membership: Egalitarian and left-wing compared to other societies; alumni said to include former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman and architect Cesar Pelli.

ed. Wine merchants 1934 Dirty secret: It’ssince not that secret. Elihu alumni led a tour of the inside of their tomb last autumn for paying customers of the New Haven Preservation Trust.

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Year Founded: 1883 | Location: 214 York St. membership: Boarding-school types, including alumni A. Whitney Griswold and ex-Yale president Benno Schmidt. Dirty secret: Founded by those who couldn’t get into Skull & Bones and Scroll & Key.

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BOOK & SNAKE Year Founded: 1863 |Location: 145 High St. membership: Athletes and fraternity types; alumni said to include Bob Woodward and Henry Louis Gates. Dirty secret: Its tomb can’t compete with the grandeur across the street — the Egyptian Revival gateway to the Grove Street Cemetery.

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Branford - One floor living at its finest, beautiful 4 bedroom Ranch just shy of 3000 sq ft with magnificent detail, hardwood floors, marble, granite, hydro air, 4 zones, cofferd ceilings, 200 amp service, a/c, 3 car attached garage, fire place, patio backs up to wooded lot and much more... 549,900. Gena x 203

New Haven- Well kept Ranch in turn key condition with hardwood floors, new 6 panel doors, new windows, fire place, partially finished LL, great out door space with hot tub, above ground pool and 2 level deck. New roof and mechanicals. 159,000. Diana x 208

New Haven -Westville, Beautifully renovated and maintained two family on wide lot, lots of natural light, dining room with fire place, and built ins, spacious kitchens, new baths, upper unit with 5 bedrooms and 2 baths, carriage house makes great studio, walk to Westville village and library. 449,900. Jeff x 210

Cromwell- Fox Meadows, large 3 bedroom end unit condo with 2 car garage and fire place, new gas stove and refrig, front entrance over looks wooded area for privacy, lower level is partial finished for den or office, 2.1 baths, pool. 164,900. Gena x 203

Guilford - 1500 sq ft Cottage with 3 bedrooms, great location with beach and mooring rights, interesting space... you can create your own castle, open living room and dining room to kitchen, large first floor family room, wrap around deck off kitchen, south facing yard with brook. 370,000. Jeff x210

East Haven- Victoria Beach, Beautiful end unit with garage, updated kitchen cabinets, corian counters, stainless steel appliances, front load w/d, half bath with vessel sink, olive pit colored floors, master bath with limestone shower, new windows and slider to patio with views of Long Island Sound. 179,900. Gena x 203

Hamden - Spring Glen Gem! Beautifully updated, turn key remodeled kitchen with granite counters and SS appliances, open floor plan, spacious dining room, hardwood floors, fire place, new bathrooms, Home features 3 bedrooms plus office, lower level family room and walk up attic. 334,900. Katherine x 219

West Haven - Lovely one owner Brick Ranch style home has been very well cared for in Painters Park area, central air, loads of cabinets and storage space, beautiful screened in porch with Long Island Sound views. 219,000. Beth x 202

East Haven - Morgan Point Colonial, custom home on the marsh with water views, first floor great room with sliders to large deck great for bird watching and steps to the sandy beach, located on a cul-desac, walk out lower level family room, great spot to enjoy nature and the beach. 320,000. Jeff x 210

New Haven - Historic Wooster Street, Wooster Court Condominuims, two bedroom tnhouse, end unit with balcony over looking Wooster Street, newly remodeled kitchen and bathrooms, new hot water heater, newly painted, new windows, new hardwood floors, slider to balcony, car port. Walk to Yale, train, pizza and coffee. Better then renting! 174,900. Gena x 203

New Haven- Exceptional condo in 1871 French 2nd Empire Brownstone directly across from Historic Wooster Square, Superb details, new baths, updated kitchen, give the perfect blend of modern amenities combined with glorious architecture, high ceilings, fire place, 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, open floor plan. 279,900. Gena x 203

East Haven - Panorama Valley, 3 bedroom Raised Ranch on the North side of town, nice home tucked away at the end of a quiet road with no outlet, open floor plan, new bathrooms, lower level family room, 2 car garage, nice walking neighborhood with side walks, over half acre of land. 232,000. Jeff x210

East Haven- Shell Beach, direct views of Long Island Sound from your deck, living room, dining room and master bedroom, updated kitchen with SS appliances and granite counters, living room with fire place, master with deck and walk in closet, 2.1 baths, garage, gated complex with pool and private beach. 429,900. Gena x 203

East Haven - 1835 Greek revival home completely rebuilt in 2010, all systems, wiring, windows, insulation, roof, from top to bottom. 3 beds, 1.1 baths, over 2600 sq ft, garage/barn with loft, columned court yard accessible from kitchen, 16x37 family space den, a designers home, one of a kind! 549,900. Jeff x210

Waterbury - raised Ranch with 4 bedrooms, 2 fire places, central air, walk out lower level with family room, garage, nice yard, priced to sell at 159,900. Diana x 208

Hamden- 1926 George H. Grey home, later to be Paier school of Art, a stone Tudor with magnificent roof lines has been restored and updated with high end luxury amenities is a mini estate with in ground pool at the end of a cul-de-sac with in the Yale Prospect Hill area. Over 9,000 sq ft with 7 bedrooms and 10 baths, exposed beam ceiling conservatory, library and so much more.... 2,200,000. Gena x 203

New Haven - Annex Area, Bungalow style home over 1500 sq ft, with beautiful front porch, living room and dining room, 2 bedrooms and bath on first floor, 3rd bedroom on 2nd floor, south facing yard. Close to bus, parks and all amenities. Priced to sell! Jeff x210

New Haven- Rare 1 family Colonial on Wooster Square, Fantastic views of park, Interior completely gutted and remodeled, open floor plan, wide plank floors, French country kitchen with exposed beams, first floor bedroom with full bath, 2nd fl master suite with full bath and laundry, total 4/5 beds with 3 full baths, fantastic yard with grape arbor and so much more... 679,900. Gena x 203

New Haven - Magnificent transformation of this 1825 riverfront home, open flr plan, living room w/ fire place, dining room open to great kitchen with fire place, first floor family room opens to large deck overlooking river, master bedroom with cathedral ceiling and loft space, walk out basement with office and den. 3 beds, 3 baths, central air and garage. 499,900. Jeff x 210

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A power couple roost richly in the ‘Brooklyn of New Haven’

Unlike the cobbler’s children’s shoes, this architect’s home perfectly suits her growing family

When a wall or two came down inside, it made sense to completely open up the river-view wall (left) and give a perch for the cherry, soapstone and Photo: Lesley Roy stainless steel kitchen, creating a social hub and a view of the thrill of Fair Haven’s flow for the most oft-used room in the house.

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Street-facing: Wood, stone expressive windows and a composition of roof forms that reflect the floor plans serve up a home that belies its steep sloped site, falling away behind this facade.

By DUO DICKINSON

It’s perfectly natural for architects to want to control their environments. So their ofﬁces can be super-sleek, crafty or galleries for their work. But there is also a rich tradition of architects designing their own homes. In New Haven, Yale architecture deans Paul Rudolph and Charles Moore created fantastic in-town apartment renovations. Philip Johnson created his Glass House, Frank Lloyd Wright his Taliesin and house/studio in Chicago. Karin Patriquin is an architect in full mid-career expression. She designed the interior of Roia Restaurant in the Taft Hotel building in New Haven that opened this summer, and the Friends Center For Children, a “green” and budget-sensitive early childhood development facility in Fair Haven that opened this fall. But back in 1999 she found herself moving to the U.S. from her native Canada, where she had earned

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degrees from the University of Waterloo and McGill University (in architecture and music, respectively) and after stints working in architecture offices in Montreal, Toronto, Paris and Helsinki. While working as an architect in New York she met fellow international visitor (in this case from Italy) Angelo Accomando, a physician who was completing a residency in Rhode Island. Recounts Patriquin: “We fell in love and moved to the New Haven area. After living in a number of shoreline towns, we bought a property in Guilford for the beauty of the shoreline, proximity to good schools and the opportunity to live within walking distance to a New England town green.” Having found gainful employment at Cesar Pelli’s office in New Haven, Patriquin and her new husband had finally alighted at Home Base. Following the human imperative to nest — and the architect’s imperative to build — this young couple found a classic Sam Hill property in Guilford. “The property has a steep rocky slope, wetlands and is heavily wooded,” Patriquin explains. Wetlands abounded, the soils that allowed the septic system to function were limited to the most level part of the lot — but a house site was found.

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The vaulted kitchen/family dining space has enough openness to allow cooking and sit-down dining to occur simultaneously. Its oversized windows live up to the space and the site.

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Architect Patriquin and her husband’s favorite feature — an outdoor pizza oven.

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Architects are wont to plan, and Patriquin thought it all out in detail. She needed to have an office. They wanted to have children, so four bedrooms was a requirement (which also sized the septic). The site’s aggressive slope had some positive consequences: a garage could be tucked under one end of the home, invisible from the street. The basement is a full walk-out, naturally lit for future development. In addition, carefully planned grading meant a future pool could have its code-compliant barriers built into the retaining walls used to create a terrace. But the master planning to ultimately save money as the site was fully developed over a decade meant spending significant money to build those retaining walls while the concrete foundation walls were being poured.

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Those walls not only allowed for the pool to be created, but also a fabulous outdoor pizza oven per chef Angelo’s design, level land for gardens and a wee greenhouse for master gardener Angelo as well. The last bit of exterior development was a fabulous pergola/trellis completed this spring that shades the pool terrace. Money is an issue for virtually everyone who builds a new house, and with minimum requirements, and architects know that spending on durability up front saves dollars later. “The materials are stone and wood, both good local materials that will serve well over time,” Patriquin says. “Large windows on the south and east sides bring natural light throughout the house.” But rather than settle for decent stock windows Patriquin opted for classic custom solid mahogany turn/ tilt windows that seal tightly, while opening wide to let the air flow in milder seasons. She designed in long term durability with deep roof overhangs to the south, and follow time-honored passive solar design ethos that lets winter sun in to heat, but prevents summer sun from baking the interior.

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The signature entry/stair space connects virtually every other space in the home. Its Modern sensibility is highlighted with a steel-and-wood stair and isolated windows. Bared structure above fulfills the promise of this two-story sorting space.

The interior has a classic “contemporary” edge to it, softened

by various woods and some softened geometries. Structure is highlighted in expressed collar ties at the vaulted ceilings, and the central stair is a semi-techie steel-andwood construction made of distinct pieces and parts. A 14-foot-high outsized maple veneer “tapestry” wall opposite the front door inhabits the double-height entry, hiding the powder room and closet doors and forming a portal for access to the sunken living room. The home’s floor plans pirouette around the double-height entry/stair hub that separates office/guest from living room wing, and separates that wing from the family/kitchen on the first floor. The second-floor children’s bedrooms sit atop the office guest suite and the master suite above the living wing, allowing the kitchen/family wing to be vaulted. The base home was occupied in 2005, built by local artisan Brian Maresca, complete with a kitchen created by Kitchens by Gedney. The planning of the home allowed the greater planning of a family to flesh out its full function with the birth of a child following on the heels of occupancy and another to follow three years later. The home office became a library after Patriquin moved her office to New Haven when the children began to dominate home life. The unfinished basement is ready for full adolescent and teen occupation, the gardens are always expanding and evolving, but Karin Patriquin has violated the old saw that the cobbler’s children never have new shoes — unlike many of her fellow architects, she has completed her own home, and designed-in its evolution. This laudable anomaly is all the more distinctive because Patriquin does not consider herself to be an exclusively “residential” architect — as her diverse portfolio attests. “I like to consider myself a community architect,” she says. Well, every architect and her/his family have a place to live, as with most any community. And this family is a well-housed community indeed. v

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Living in a world where individuals are impacted by everyday uncertainties and environmental misfortunes may seem unsettling for many. News on governmental upheavals, natural disasters and contagious viruses lurking around a region may be triggers for caution and fear in a community. The American Cancer Society (ACS) estimates that 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer will have been diagnosed in the United States during calendar 2013, and that 39,620 women will die from the disease. Of those diagnosed, roughly 3,050 would be from Connecticut. Of that group, 460 will not win the fight for survival. Maysa M. Abu-Khalaf, MD, medical oncologist with Yale’s Smilow Cancer Hospital, says the Smilow Cancer Hospital Tumor Registry reported an estimated 1,730 new breast cancer 38 O c tOber 2013

patients were diagnosed and/ or treated in 2012 at Smilow and other cancer care centers. Considering the above, concern over the fact that Connecticut has the second highest incidence of breast cancer in the U.S. should not be cause for general panic. The reason for this high rate is based on a factor other than a supposed “risk” in the state: number of screenings. Connecticut’s mammography rate is seven percent above the national average, to be exact, according to Anees B. Chagpar, MD, director of Yale-New Haven Breast Center at Smilow, and member of the board of directors for the ACS’ New England Division. The issue at hand is not necessarily geography but resources and facilities for detecting the disease. There are still, of course, cases that go undetected until later stages that carry a higher mortality rate. So the obvious question is — why? “The issue is a lot of health centers don’t have screening on site,” says Juana Adams, area director of health initiatives for the ACS. “So they have to partner, and they may not have dollars for people who can’t afford the screening.”

A significant portion of Connecticut residents either do not have health insurance (more than 340,000 people, according to some estimates), are uneducated about the disease, or are simply afraid to get screened. Ruth Oratz, MD, FACP, a clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University, says women in higher socioeconomic brackets don’t necessarily have “more” breast cancer, but happen to go to the doctor more. “We count those patients more in areas where women have access to health care,” says Oratz. NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

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ACS is trying to identify whether this is due to that population getting screened less frequently, or because their breast cancers are more aggressive. Studies have shown that diagnoses for African-Americans are frequently detected at stages three or four, compared to stages one or two for other populations.

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Rose Ciardiello, 48, of Guilford was diagnosed with breast cancer ten years ago. She recalls her initial experience after learning of her diagnosis. “I was basically in shock,” says Ciardiello. “Probably in denial, too. All of my friends and everyone in my family kept insisting it would be ‘nothing.’” Ciardiello went on to explain that because her family history was negative for cancer and she was young, had delivered three babies she nursed for at least a year each, weighed 105 pounds, worked out six days a week and ate a healthy diet, the last thing she would expect to have would be cancer. A study that appeared in Cancer, a peerreviewed journal of the ACS, found that 71 percent of breast cancer deaths were among women who had never been screened or received irregular screening. A similar study in the same publication concluded that most deaths from breast cancer occur in younger women (who did not receive regular mammograms), and indicates that regular screening before age 50 should be encouraged. The study also reported that of all breast-cancer deaths, 50 percent occurred in women under age 50. “While the majority of the data regarding the benefit of mammography in saving lives is between the ages of 50 and 69,” says Chagpar,

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“it is clear that younger women do get more aggressive breast cancers in general, and we continue to recommend that women over the age of 40 should get annual mammograms.” Pusztai says because of screening guidelines, younger women have fewer screening mammograms, which makes “perfect sense” that more younger women were among those whose cancers proved mortal. He stresses one cannot conclude that screening younger will prevent the majority of deaths. He explains that the denser breast tissue in younger women is not only an obstruction to detecting cancer, but more aggressive cancers respond less effectively to therapy, and may grow rapidly between screenings, which leaves little window for early detection. “Because breast cancer is rare in woman in their early 40s and very rare in women in their 30s,” says Pusztai, “very large numbers would need to be screened to be able to show benefit from screening.” He added there can be additional cancers caused by yearly exposure to radiation.

According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): “The decision to start regular, biennial screening mammography before the age of 50 years should be an individual one and take patient context into account, including the patient’s values regarding specific benefits and harms.” A 2009 USPSTF study on the effects of mammography screening under different screening schedules revealed that screening biennially between ages 50 and 69 achieved a median 16.5-percent (range, 15 to 23 percent) reduction in breast cancer deaths versus no screening. In addition, initiating biennial screening at age 40 (versus age 50) reduced mortality by an additional three percent, consumed more resources and yielded more falsepositive results. Whether it is more efficacious to screen before or after age 50 continues to generate controversy.

With regard to health insurance, according to ACS, women in Connecticut with private insurance companies, Medicaid and public employee health plans are provided coverage and reimbursement for baseline screening at ages 35 to 39, and every year after age 40. Individual and group insurers are also required to provide coverage, if recommended by a physician, for ultrasound screening procedures based on the woman’s disease category under the American College of Radiology’s Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System. Abu-Khalaf explains in Connecticut, each mammography report provided to a patient must include information about breast density, and whether she might benefit from supplementary screening tests, which can include a breast ultrasound screening and/or a breast MRI examination, depending on individual risk factors. Considering the lifestyle risk factors identified by the ACS, such as having children over age 30, use of oral contraceptives, excessive (more than one drink daily) alcohol consumption, being overweight or exercising inadequately, uncertainty about what causes breast cancer remains high. But there is reassuring news. Chagpar notes that while the statistic that Connecticut has the second-highest incident of breast cancer in the nation is alarming, people should consider the state is also in the bottom half of the country in terms of mortality from this disease (the 35th-lowest mortality, according to Deming). Pusztai adds this mortality rate is below the national average “So we’re finding more cancers, but people are dying less,” Chagpar explains. “This means that we’re picking up cancers when they are most treatable and, for many women, curing this disease.” Abu-Khalaf says death rates for breast cancer have steadily decreased in women since 1990; a decrease that represents progress in early detection, improved treatment and possibly decreased incidence. “More and more patients are diagnosed with pre-invasive disease or small invasive breast cancers NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

as a result of screening and early detection,” says Abu-Khalaf. “This means a higher cure rate — and often less treatment.” Deming says that for low-income and/or uninsured Connecticut women, there are a number of programs. The state’s Department of Public Health (DPH) administers the Connecticut Breast and Cervical Early Detection Program, which is funded by both the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and DPH. Deming says free services are available to women who reside in households under 200 percent of the federal poverty level, among other criteria. Komen has selected a number of select (mostly urban) communities where the organization strives to wield a “strong presence.” These target communities include New Haven, Stamford, Wallingford, Hartford and East Hartford. Melinda L. Irwin, co-director of Yale’s Cancer Prevention & Control Research Program, discusses her organization’s research examining lifestyle factors and breast cancer prognosis. There are a number of randomized, controlled trials of weight loss and exercise on breast cancer outcomes illustrating the benefits of healthy behaviors. Adams says ACS is working with community health centers to engage them about increasing breast cancer screening rates, whether through systemic policy changes or other means. That change will be abetted in part by more widespread access to electronic medical records. The group wants to do outreach to more corporations and be able to award grant dollars to help increase these screening rates. Adams explains it is recommended for women to get a base-line screening between the ages of 35 and 39, so the initial results can be measured against screenings when the patients hit age 40. Although a woman that age may still have dense breast tissue, the screening results may show a difference in appearance if there is a breast lump. Komen recommends an annual mammogram for women ages 40 and older with average risk as well.

Oratz says because the incidence of cancer rises with age, most begin to show up in the 40s and 50s. “Ultimately,” Oratz says, “I think it would be great to identify the level of risk for each individual women — not only how frequently, but by what method.” Doctors agree the identification and treatment process is an individual one. Chagpar says Connecticut is one of the few states that offers a “truly multidisciplinary survivorship program” for breast-cancer patient, where they can be seen by an oncologist, physical therapist, nutritionist and social worker for a comprehensive visit and survivorship care plan. For example, Yale offers such programs, Pusztai notes.

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Boughton: ‘I wanted to investigate the living American composer, and bring the orchestra into the 21st century.’

StrikeUp the Band On October 3, music-lovers will invade that old barn that is Woolsey Hall to hear the inaugural concert of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 120th season. What they’ll hear opening night is a performance dubbed “Tchaikovsky Triumphant” for the culminating work on the program, the Russian composer’s dramatic Symphony No. 5.

They’ll also hear not one but two soloists playing with the nation’s fourth-oldest symphony orchestra, founded in 1894 by merchant Morris Steinert. Organist Thomas Murray will put Woolsey’s Newberry organ, one of the world’s most storied pipe organs, through its paces in a performance of Christopher Theofanidis’ Rex Tremendae Majestatis for organ, brass and percussion. Murray will be followed by 19-year-old violin soloist Chad Hoopes, whose brilliant virtuosity has earned him plaudits far beyond his years. Hoopes will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a work of daunting technical challenges that Hoopes will soon enter the studio to record for commercial release. In addition to the NHSO’s 120th birthday,

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Opening Night marks another milestone as well — the beginning of Music Director William Boughton’s seventh season at the helm. Under Englishman Boughton’s leadership the orchestra has measurably advanced as a musical ensemble, expanded its geographic footprint beyond greater New Haven in an effort to grow new audiences, and resumed making commercial recordings after a decades-long hiatus. It’s an impressive legacy assembled in the span of just a half-dozen brief seasons. Asked to summarize the state of the union embarking on the 2013-14 season, Boughton is thoughtful. “We’re reaching more people through our regionalization program,” he says. “We’re NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

extending out to place like Norwalk in the west, Hartford in the north, Clinton, New London and Essex in the east.” An encore performance of “Tchaikovsky Triumphant” will take place October 5 at Norwalk Concert Hall, a 1,000-seat venue (attached to Norwalk City Hall) with excellent acoustics for classical music. Later this autumn the orchestra will perform at Morgan High School in Clinton. For the holidays the NHSO is collaborating with the Trinity Choir of Men & Boys (founded in 1885, it is the Elm City’s only musical ensemble older than the symphony) to perform Benjamin Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas in Fairfield and Madison as well as at Trinity Church on the Green. The performances celebrate the centennial of the English composer’s birth. And in March a Wagner, Strauss and Beethoven will take place at Valley Regional High School in Deep River. “So the orchestra is getting to far more people,” says Boughton. “It is not so New Haven-centric.”

Hand-in-glove with expanding the geographic footprint to reach music lovers farther afield are educational initiatives designed to build new audiences from the cradle on up. As classical music education has all but disappeared from many public-school systems, this is a challenge faced by musical ensembles nationwide. “We spend so much time trying to earn a living,” Boughton says, “that we don’t feed the mind enough. And New Haven is so rich in the arts that the mission of all of us has to be to make the arts more accessible, more powerful and to give them meaning.” A 2011 bequest of $8 million from native New Havener Richard L. English (who gave an additional $12 million to four other Elm City non-profits) has made the NHSO’s outreach viable, “stabilized the orchestra financially and allowed us to take risks,” Boughton explains.

When he arrived, “The repertoire was based mainly around dead European composers,” Boughton says. “I wanted to investigate the living American composer, and bring the orchestra into the 21st century. “The staple diet of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky will always be with us — it’s fantastic, beautiful music and it should be performed,” says Boughton. “But we should also be here to live in our own time, to foster American composers and perform their music. We’re not a museum piece.” An example is this season’s first concert, which opens with a work by 46-year-old Yaleeducated (and current Yale faculty member) composer Christopher Theofanidis. For Boughton, “It’s the spirit and the intent that’s behind the notes that matters most. We’re not machines. We spend our lives as human beings being wrong. I never worry about the occasional wrong note.” v

Since his arrival the conductor has also worked to broaden the NHSO’s repertory.

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I ﬁrst saw Sarah Sokolovic in the 2009 Yale Cabaret production of Fly By Night, by Kim Rosenstock, Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly. I recognized instantly that she was someone extraordinary, and for her performance — as well as for the terriﬁc production — I attended a second time. I saw Sokolovic twice again (on consecutive weekends) in Playwright’s Horizons’ June 2011 production of The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, a musical by Joy Gregory, Gunnar Madsen and John Langs, based on a true story. As Betty Shagg, one of three exceptionally untalented teenagers whose father is determined that his girls will save the family by forming a rock band, Sokolovic was luminous, hilarious and heartbreaking — sometimes in the space of one line. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. In the autumn of 2011, Sokolovic performed in Broadway’s Relatively Speaking, three one-act comedies directed by John Turturro. As the understudy for the young bride in Woody Allen’s Honeymoon Motel, she went on for a long weekend that, she recalls, was “great fun.” In 2012, I saw Sokolovic’s portrayal of the simultaneously vulnerable and deeply unsettling Sharon in the Obie-award winning Detroit, by Lisa D’Amour, (again at Playwright’s Horizons). This performance definitively demonstrated Sokolovic’s astonishing range and depth as an actress. To paraphrase the title of a famous film, a star has been born. Sokolovic is certainly not the first preternaturally talented actress to emerge from the Yale School of Drama, but it’s especially thrilling to meet her at precisely this point in her career, when success (onstage and in film) is rushing toward her — and when she is calmly and confidently grateful for each new experience. In October, New Haven will be fortunate to witness Sokolovic playing the role of her young lifetime in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire: Stella (“for star,” says sister Blanche). And Sokolovic’s description NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

of her director, Mark Rucker, and the rehearsal experience demonstrates her spirit, both as an actor and as a human being.

Sokolovic is fully aware of the stature of the 1951 Elia Kazan film, but like her director, she views the script with fresh eyes.

“Mark, by nature, sees things in people as if he’s seeing them for the first time, and I say that with such reverence and love,” explains Sokolovic. “It’s a real gift. But of course at the same time he’s really knowledgeable — he really knows this play. Yet he comes at it with fresh eyes. He’s very playful and very gentle and very open. And he’s created this atmosphere of so much comfort and trust. You can really let yourself go and try anything. He’s been so wonderful to work with that I’m already mourning the loss of not having him around.”

“Because so many people have seen the movie or seen stage productions, these characters become so iconic that they appear less complicated,” she says. “In fact, they are very complicated people.” As with all of Tennessee Williams’ scripts, much of those complications reside in the stage directions — directions that can be crucial to actor and director. In the play’s first moments, Williams has Stella “happily and breathlessly” catching a package of meat that Stanley throws to her, and in this moment, says Sokolovic, the audience falls in love with the character.

Sokolovic speaks with similar love of her character Stella, and about the opportunity to work on a script of this magnitude.

Likewise, says Sokolovic, Stella is receptive to whatever Blanche throws. “She’s generous, nonjudgmental. It’s been delicious to explore the depth of her empathy for other people because she literally has life inside her, both practically and poetically speaking. Yet she also has the real obstacle of trying to navigate personalities that don’t necessarily fit together very well.

“I see her as a fighter and a survivor,” she says. “I find it very interesting to play characters who are in a time in their lives when the past and the present clash. The structure and the language are so specific that it’s almost as if there is a trail of breadcrumbs in the beginning.” Sokolovic explains that when returning to the play’s opening moments and scenes, you can see the clues to Stella’s final actions. “And that’s part of the joy of getting to work on a play like this. Every time you go back to the text you discover something new.”

“I’ve always seen her as a very sensual character, and I don’t just mean sex,” Sokolovic adds. “I mean music and language and life. And I’ve always imagined she takes pleasure in simple things like grapes and coffee and smells and flowers. She and I are very similar in that respect.”

Key too for Sokolovic is the reality that “This play is still shocking. It’s still surprising and still provocative.” And at the same time, “This play is really, really funny. People forget that.” Audiences will not be forgetting Sokolovic any time soon. After this performance, she’ll be appearing in several upcoming films, including a Spanish independent called La Vida Inesperada (The Unexpected Life) in which she has a lead and which also stars leading actors from Pedro Almodóvar’s I’m So Excited. In Every Secret Thing, featuring Elizabeth Banks, Dakota Fanning and Diane Lane, Sokolovic has a juicy supporting role. Sokolovic loves working in film: “I just go in, do my thing and it doesn’t feel that much different from theater to me,” she says. “You don’t get the luxury of doing something 100 times, but you just make the takes count as much as you can. You have to remember that it has to look like life, so you have to breathe and be in the moment.” Being in the moment — whether onstage, in film or across the table at the Book Trader Café on Chapel Street — is something Sokolovic has cultivated with daily running and a yoga practice dating back ten years. “I believe in a happy body,” she asserts. “Next, I’m hungry for a physical challenge.” But for now, “It’s great to be back in New Haven. I love this place. I love it.” v

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Many years ago I arrived in New Haven, bright-eyed and dewy-cheeked, from Massachusetts. There, in the Bay State, the word “wicked” has a meaning unknown to Englishspeakers in the other 49 states. It’s an intensifier, essentially meaning “very” — as in “wicked good” (really good).

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On the other hand, in this slender but amusing volume Wicked New Haven, Bridgeport author Michael J. Bielawa (who previous penned, you may not be surprised to learn, Wicked Bridgeport), employs the adjective in its original sense of evil or sinful. (Were I a gambling man, I would wager that, based on its rich history of sin, the Elm City is wicked more wicked than Bridgeport.) Sin and scandal have a rich history in the City of Elms. Stories of grave robbers stem from a time when cadaver research by medical students was deemed illegal and immoral, creating a lively (that is perhaps not the mot juste) black market in freshly interred human corpses. Then there are tales of lighthouses inhabited by madmen — of which apparently there were many. One was Nils Nilson (sometimes spelled Nelson), assistant keeper of the Southwest Ledge Lighthouse at the mouth of New Haven Harbor. “One particularly bleak autumn

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Readers will learn about Elias Turner, who Bielawa called the “Monarch of East Rock.” Turner was a hermit who in the early 19th century lived in a hovel atop the promontory that early Dutch explorers called Rodenberg, or “Red Mountain.” The author quotes an 1887 history of New Haven to describe Turner’s crude abode: “The hut was about 12 feet square and partly underground. His sooty hovel was built of earth and stone, with the entrance doubling as a chimney. His bed was composed of tree boughs and corn husks.”

Most locals know about Captain Kidd and his supposed buried treasure in the Thimble Islands. But “New England’s last pirate,” Bielawa writes, was William Delaney, a/k/a the Red Pirate or Cast Iron Bill. A century after the heyday of piracy, the New Haven native (born in 1851) earned a reputation that spanned the Pacific Ocean for psychopathic sadism and physical cruelty. When he was finally brought to justice and imprisoned in New York the physically imposing pirate (the barber who groomed him days before his execution reported that he had never seen a head

When he was found dead there on November 2, 1823 (the cause was officially noted as “a visitation from Mystic healer Samuel Sly was a member of a fanatical 19-century religious sect known as Wakemanites after Rhoda Wakeman, who dubbed herself ‘the Prophetress.’

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whose husband wants her dead — but Marion’s too busy to notice. The North London real estate market is booming, and she’s out to make a killing. Her loyal young protégé — a would-be suicide who can’t quite seal the deal — is happy to do her dirty work until he gets a better offer. When Marion discovers she can’t buy out a family from one of her properties, she instead takes ownership of their most prized possession. October 25-November 16 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $78. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org. Godspell, the timeless tale of friendship, loyalty and love. A new and up-to-date production from Stephen Schwartz. Score filled with the popular hits “Day By Day,” “Light of the World” and “Turn Back, O Man.” 8 p.m. October 25, 2 & 8 p.m. October 26, and 2 p.m. October 27 at Shubert Theater, 247 College St., New Haven. $100-$15. 203-562-5666, shubert.com. In The Visit, an impossibly wealthy woman returns to her poverty-stricken hometown. She promises its citizens a sum of money so vast it will return the town to its former glory — on one horrifying condition: the townspeople must kill the man who wronged her in her youth. Cole Lewis directs. 8 p.m. (2 p.m. Sat. matinee) October 29-November 2 at Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St., New Haven. $20. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org. The Seven-Year Itch is a funny farce from the 1950s. The play takes a humorous look at the problems of a typical married man whose wife and son have gone to the beach for the summer. Alone in the apartment, he is unprepared for the arrival of a stunning new upstairs neighbor. 7:30 p.m. Wed.Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. October 30- November 17 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 students, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse.com.

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working class brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski. Nerves fraying and beauty fading, Blanche is both repelled and intrigued by Stanley’s primal brutishness — even as he threatens to reveal her darkest secrets and destroy her illusions. This is Yale Rep’s first-ever production of Tennessee William’s Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece (see preview this issue). Staged by Mark Rucker, whose eight previous Rep productions include Tom Stoppard’s Rough Crossing in 2008. The cast features René Augesen (A Woman of No Importance) as Blanche and Joe Manganiello (HBO’s True Blood) as Stanley. Through October 12 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. $98. 203-432-1234, yalerep.org. Off-Broadway’s longest-running musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, explores the joys and foibles of dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws. 7:30 p.m. Wed.-Thurs., 8 pm. Fri.-Sat., 2 p.m. Wed. & Sun. through October 13 at Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton. $40 ($35 seniors, $20 students, $15 12 & under). 860-767-7318, ivorytonplayhouse.com. From the songbook of Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire is a musical about love and faith, struggle and success, rowdiness and redemption, home and family. More than two dozen classic hits including “I Walk The Line,” “A Boy Named Sue,” “Folsom Prison Blues” and the title song. 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sun. through October 20 at Seven Angels Theatre, 1 Plank Rd., Waterbury. $45.50. 203-757-4676, sevenangelstheatre.org. Frank Loesser’s musical Abbondanza! is a love story about a city bride who is wooed by an aging Italian grape farmer who nearly botches everything until his true goodness shines through. Songs include “Standing on the Corner” and “Somebody, Somewhere.” Through December 1 at Goodspeed Opera House, 6 Main St., East Haddam. $78-$37. 860-873-8668, goodspeed.org.

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Mask: Photographs by Rod Cook explores how the private condition is veiled by a façade or mask when presented to the public. Cook dove into the idea that how people outwardly represent themselves speaks more to how they wish to be received, rather than as an actual translation of what they consist of inside. October 10-November 10 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com. Dot Works 2000-2004: Paintings by artist Jerry Saladyga. October 10-November 10 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com. Clint Jukkala: Off Course and Alexis Granwell: Ghost Stories. Jukkala’s paintings combine color, geometry and textured surfaces to create images that are ostensibly abstract. His work suggests figures, architecture and landscape. Granwell presents sculptures and monumental prints depicting metaphysical structures that have an ancient quality with imagery that expands, erases and erupts. October 11-November 4 (opening reception 5-8 p.m. October 11; artists’ talk 2 p.m. October 19) at Giampietro Gallery, 315 Peck St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekdays except Mon.; 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-777-7760, giampietrogallery.com. Warp and Weft: Works on Paper, works by Anne Doris-Eisner. October 18-November 30 (artist reception 5:30-7:30 p.m. October 18) at Mary C. Daly, RSM Art Gallery, Mercy Center, 167 Neck Rd., Madison. Open Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. 203-245-0401, mercybythesea.org.

Guilford Art League’s 66th Juried Exhibition & Sale. Through October 5 at Mill Gallery, Guilford Art Center, 144 Church St., Guilford. Open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Sat, noon-4 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-453-6720, guilfordartcenter.org. Photography by Sven Martson: My Seventies and Hank Paper: New Italian Color. Through October 6 at Kehler Liddell Gallery, 873 Whalley Ave., New Haven. Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thurs.-Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sat.-Sun. Free. 203-389-9555, kehlerliddell.com. Christo and Wilkinson an exhibition of the conservation photography of Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson. Through October 18 at Keator Gallery, Hopkins School, 986 Forest Rd., New Haven. Open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. Free. 203-397-1001, hopkins.edu. Pat Goldstein: Food for Thought includes works of art that depict fresh produce, often inspired by visits to regional farmers’ markets. Manipulation of color, shape, line and composition is employed to translate the intensity of the artist’s personal vision. Through October 20 at Atticus Bookstore, 1082 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Fri & Sat. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Sun. 203-776-4040, atticusbookstorecafe.com. An Eclectic Collection features works by local artists with unique visions. Vibrant collage/mixed media, watercolor, oil, pastel and more. Traditional to contemporary paintings and pottery, including still life, landscapes and abstract art. Through October 26 at Elm City Artists Gallery, 55 Whitney Ave., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily except Sun. Free. 203-922-2359, elmcityartists.com. Focus on Our World Photography. Photographers Dan Mead and Sally Eagle offer a global perspective of wildlife, landscapes and cultures from around the world. Through October 28 at Paul Mellon Arts Center, 332 Christian St., Wallingford. Open 8:30 a.m. -8:30 p.m. daily. Free. 203-697-2398, choate.edu/artscenter.

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U-Phoria features work by artists in VAAG (the Arts Council’s Visual Arts Advisory Group). Through October 31 at the Gallery at Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Dr., Hamden. Open 4-7 p.m. Tues. & Thurs., 1-4 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org. Disturbing the Comfortable. The title of this exhibition is a take on the British street artist Banksy’s quote: “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable,” from which curator Hayward Gatling drew inspiration when assembling this show. Artists include Kwadwo Adae, Vito Bonanno, Leila Crocket, Lisa Daly, Uber Dami, Chuck Dorris, Mike Franzman, Barbara Harder, Jahmane, Dooley-O Jackson, Trevor Lyon, Jim Martin, Alan Neider, Mike Ross, Liz Pagano, Damian Paglia, Carla O’Grady Payson, Uma Terri Ramiah, Heidi Richard, Bill Saunders, JodiAnn Strmiska, Katro Storm and Jonathan Waters. Though November 1 at Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, 70 Audubon St. (2nd Fl.), New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. Free. 203-772-2788, newhavenarts.org. New England Landscape Invitational. A juried member/ invitational show in all four galleries of the Lyme Art Association. Through November 9 at Lyme Art Association, 90 Lyme St., Lyme. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 1-5 p.m. Sun. Free. 860-434-7802, lymeartassociation.org. Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art & Architecture in Los Angeles, curated by Sylvia Lavin. Artists whose projects will be on view include Carl Andre, Ed Moses, Peter Alexander, Michael Asher, James Turell, Maria Nordman, Robert Irwin, Frank Gehry, Richard Serra, Coy Howard, Craig Elwood, Peter Pearce, Morphosis, Bruce Nauman, Craig Hodgetts, Jeff Raskin, Ed Ruscha, Judy Chicago, Feminist Studio Workshop, Miriam Shapiro, Alison Knowles, Robert Kennard, Leonard Koren, Studio Works, Noah Purifoy, Paolo Soleri, Ray Kappe, Denise Scott Brown, Archigram, L.A. Fine Arts Squad, Bernard Tschumi, Eleanor Antin, Peter Kamnitzer, Cesar Pelli, Andrew Holmes, Elizabeth Orr and others. Through November 9 at Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 180 York St., New Haven. Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. Free. 203-432-2292, architecture.yale.edu. Water Music: Art of Barbara Putnam and Gar Waterman. Through November 17 at Contemporary Gallery, Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free). 203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org. I’ll Be Your Mirror, photographs by Kate O’Donovan Cook. Through November 17, 2013 at Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free). 203-7530381, mattatuckmuseum.org. Conversations: Paintings by Norman Sunshine. Through November 24 at Whittemore Gallery, Mattatuck Museum Arts &

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History Center, 144 W. Main St., Waterbury. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. Sun. $5 ($4 seniors, children under 16 free). 203-753-0381, mattatuckmuseum.org. Faces of China, 1981. Photographs by Tom Zetterstrom, whose photographs offer a glimpse of China’s people in only the third year of Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening Up.” Through December 6 at Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Gallery, 343 Washington Terrace, Middletown. Open noon-4 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Free. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa. The Alumni Show II looks back at four decades of Wesleyan artists. Featuring 17 artists whose work spans a broad range of contemporary practice and media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation art, video art, performance and film. Through December 8 at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, 283 Washington Ter., Middletown. Open noon-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. Free. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa. The Tenderness of Men in Suburbs. Photographs of the Boston suburbs as seen through the eyes of a 20-year-old artist, Laura Wexler, in the year 1968. Through December 18 at Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., New Haven. Open 3-5 p.m. Mon. & Wed. Free. 203-432-0670, yale.edu/whc. Francesco Vanni: Art in Late Renaissance Siena. The first monographic exhibition on this major artist includes more than 75 paintings and drawings as well as prints following his designs. Francesco Vanni (1563/64-1610) was the most important artist in Siena at the turn of the 17th century and a key figure in Italian Counter-Reformation painting. His works combine dazzling technical virtuosity and brilliant coloring with the naturalistic approach to subject matter more famous in the works of his contemporaries Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio. Vanni created altarpieces in every important church in Siena, and he also received commissions in Rome, most notably from Pope Clement VIII for a monumental altarpiece for the Basilica of Saint Peter. Through January 5 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-432-0600, artgallery. yale.edu. Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction is the first retrospective of abstract painter, teacher and writer Harry Holtzman (1912–1987). Drawing from the holdings of the Holtzman Trust, public collections, and private lenders, the exhibition brings new attention to the role Holtzman played in shaping abstract art in America from the 1920s to the 1980s. Through January 26 at Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat., 1-5 p.m. Sun. $9 ($8 seniors, $7 students, 12 & under free). 860-434-5542, ﬂogris.com. Many Things Placed Here & There: The Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection. This student-curated exhibition presents as a whole for the first time the New York collectors Dorothy

and Herbert Vogel’s vast and uniquely perceptive collection of contemporary art. It includes work by artists such as Robert Barry, Lois Dodd, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lucio Pozzi and Richard Tuttle. While the Vogel collection has been highly regarded for its Minimal, Postminimal and Conceptual objects, the selection on view at YUAG reﬂects the broader variety of work produced in New York during this period. Through January 26 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu. Still Life: 1970s Photorealism displays works associated with Photorealism — a movement comprising painters who took photography as their subject and sculptors who recreated the human body with surprising accuracy. A significant trend in 1970s art, Photorealism has sometimes been described since then as a more mechanical offshoot of 1960s Pop art. However, the works in Still Life make a compelling argument that Photorealists captured life in the 1970s with a grittier honesty than has previously been acknowledged. These works have renewed relevance as the ability of photography to capture “the real” has undergone dramatic changes and continues to develop in unanticipated ways. Through March 9 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu. Red Grooms: Larger than Life. This installation of oversized paintings and works on paper by American artist Red Grooms from the recent bequest of Charles B. Benenson (Yale College 1933) includes “Picasso Goes to Heaven” (1973), “Studio at the Rue des Grands-Augustins” (1990–96), and the great 27-footlong “Cedar Bar” (1986). Through March 9 at Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., New Haven. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Mon. (until 8 p.m. Thurs.) 1-6 p.m. Sun. Free. 203-4320600, artgallery.yale.edu.

Arts Festivals Autumn Outdoor Arts Festival with open studios in Madison, Clinton and Killingworth. Featured artists include painters, photographers, sculptors, potters/ceramicists, jewelry/ fabric designers, wood/glass/fiber/yarn/soap artisans, and mixed media artists. 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. October 12, noon-5 p.m. October 13 on the Madison Town Green. 860-663-5593, artscenterkillingworth.com. The 16th annual City-Wide Open Studios Passport Weekend takes place from noon-5 p.m. October 12-13. Open artist studios in dozens of locations throughout greater New Haven. Official map and guide is available at opening reception 5-8 p.m. October 4 at Artspace, 50 Orange St., New Haven.

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Competition Winner); BARTOK Concerto for Orchestra. 8 p.m. October 5 at Woolsey Hall, 400 College St., New Haven. $15-$10 (students $6-$3). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu. Enjoy a performance of music of Strozzi, Scarlatti, Cesti and others by soprano Ellen Hargis and archlutist Paul O’Dette in a matchless setting. 3 p.m. October 6 at Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven. $20 ($10 students). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Classical Peter Frankl kicks off the 2013-14 Horowitz Piano series with a Schubert program, including Drei Klavierstücke and Winterreise (with baritone Randall Scarlata). 8 p.m. October 2 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., $22-$9. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu. Under the baton of Music Director William Boughton, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra performs Christopher Theofanidis’ Rex Tremendae Magestatis, with Thomas Murray on the magnificent Newberry organ. Also, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64, and Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 with 19-year-old soloist Chad Hoopes. Presented by the NHSO and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. 7:30 p.m. October 3 at Woolsey Hall, 400 College St., New Haven. $69-$15. 203-865-0831, newhavensymphony.org. The Salt Marsh Opera Co. stages a new, full-scale production of Donizetti’s 1843 comic masterpiece Don Pasquale. 7 p.m. October 4, 3 p.m. October 6 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $65-$55. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. The Yale Symphony Orchestra performs. WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser (Dresden version); GLIERE Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (soloist Chelsea Lane, 2013 William Waite Concerto

The Yale Baroque Ensemble performs chamber music of J.S. Bach, including Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major for Unaccompanied Cello, BWV 1010; Sonata in G Major for Violin and Basso Continuo, BWV 1021; and Partita No. 2 in B minor for Unaccompanied Violin, BWV 1002. 5:30 p.m. October 8 at Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, 15 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The graduate Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale performs under the baton of guest conductor James Conlon. BRITTEN Sinfonia da Requiem; MAHLER Symphony No. 5. 8 p.m. October 18 at Woolsey Hall, 400 College St., New Haven. $15-$10 (students $6$3). 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu. As part of the Horowitz piano series, Robert Blocker performs Mozart, Schubert, Brahms. 8 p.m. October 23 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $22-$9. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu. In all the world, there’s no spectacle quite like the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s Annual Halloween Show. Trust us on this one. 11:59 p.m. October 31 at Woolsey Hall, 500 College St., New Haven. Free, but advance tickets only. 203-432-4140.

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Schola Cantorum, Yale’s premier graduate choral ensemble, perform J.S. Bach’s Cantatas BWV 97 and 205, with members of the Yale Baroque Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. October 13 at St. Mary’s Church, 5 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music. yale.edu.

David Bowie hasn’t performed in public for nearly a decade — but then that’s why we have tributes. The Wham Bam Bowie Band will play the Thin White Duke’s legendary Ziggy Stardust album in its entirety along with other classics and hits. Let all the children boogie. 9 p.m. October 1 at Toad’s Place, 300 York St., New Haven. $10. 203-624-8623, toadsplace.com.

The Takács String Quartet performs. BEETHOVEN Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4; JANÁCEK Quartet No. 2; SMETANA “From My Life.” 8 p.m. October 15 at Sprague Hall, 470 College St., New Haven. $35-$12. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

The Toasters are one of the longest running ska bands ever, and the momentum keeps going. Café Nine with The Hempsteadys and The Excitement Gang. 8 p.m. October 1 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., NH $10. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music presents Blue Heron, a professional vocal ensemble that combines a commitment to vivid live performance with the study of original source materials and historical performance practice of Renaissance music. 5:30 p.m. October 18 at Marquand Chapel, 409 Prospect St., New Haven. Free. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu.

Neo-soul purveyors The Internet are touring n support of second album Feel Good, blending experimental jazz and soul grooves with featherweight vocals. The group is supported by local experimental indie rockers José Oyola & the Astronauts. 8 p.m. October 1 at the Space, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $12 ($10 advance). 203-288-6400, thespace.tk. Former Miracle Legion frontman and Elm City native Mark Mulcahy will be the featured guest at this year’s LAMP Festival in the Ninth Square. Mulcahy will play a free show to close out the Friday night arts festival. 9 p.m. October 4 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. Free. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com.

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The Ellington Jazz Series at Yale will present Homegrown on Common Ground, featuring jazz, blues and art songs from the James Weldon Johnson collection at Yale’s Beinecke Library. 7 p.m. October 4 at Morse Recital Hall (in Sprague Hall), 470 College St., New Haven. $26-$6. 203-432-4158, music.yale.edu Vocalist Syd Straw began her career singing backup for Pat Benatar and has collaborated with alternative artists like Michael Stipe of REM and Matthew Sweet. She’ll take it to the small stage at the Nine. 8 p.m. October 9 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $10. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com. The music of John Lennon may well live on forever, and The Nutopians are part of the reason why. On what would have been the day after the late singer’s 73rd birthday, the group will perform “John Lennon Re-Imagined,” re-imagined renditions of songs from his Beatles and solo years. 7:30 p.m. October 10 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $45. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. Recently off a short-lived Beach Boys reunion tour, Brian Wilson will perform at the Oakdale joined by guitarist Jeff Beck and original Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks. 7:30 p.m. October 11 at Oakdale Theatre, 95 South Turnpike Rd., Wallingford. $75-$49.50. 203-265-1501, oakdale.com.

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Tim Berne’s Snakeoil acoustic quartet has earned accolades from the New York Times and The Guardian for its improvisation and harmonies. The group is performing in support of its second album, Shadow Man. 8:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. October 11 at Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St., New Haven. $18 (early show), $12 (late show). 203-785-0468. firehouse12.com. On a night that surely won’t last forever, pop-country folk singer Michael Johnson will give a performance with himself and his trusty nylon-string guitar at the Kate. The singer is known for his hits “Bluer Than Blue” and “Give Me Wings.” 8 p.m. October 11 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $25-$20. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. Indie rockers Ra Ra Riot is touring ahead of their new album Beta Love and stop in the Elm City for an intimate show on the Green, supported by Caveman and Cayucas. 7 p.m. October 12 at Center Church on the Green, 250 Temple St., New Haven. $18 ($20 advance). manicproductions.org. Legendary British bluesman John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers will bring it for an intimate show in Old Saybrook. 8 p.m. October 12 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main NEWHAVENMAGAZINE.COM

October 23 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com. Long-loved New Haven ska/pop/punk band Spring-Heeled Jack is back on the scene after a long hiatus punctuated by the occasional reunion show. They’ll play two nights at Spaceland to trot out some classics and new material, and will be joined by Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One, Nick & the Adversaries and Choke Puppy. 7 p.m. October 24-25 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $20. 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com GuitartownCT Productions presents bluegrass stars Rhonda Vincent & the Rage. Vincent has been called the “New Queen of Bluegrass” by the Wall Street Journal, and hers is the most awarded band in bluegrass history, blending country, bluegrass and gospel music. Vincent is a seven-time International Bluegrass Music Association award winner for “Female Singer of the Year.” 7:30 p.m. October 26 at Unitarian Society Hall, 700 Hartford Tpk., Hamden. $55$40, guitartownct.com.

The vocal ensemble Blue Heron perform ‘Music for Canturbury Cathedral’ October 18 at Marquand Chapel.

St., Old Saybrook. $75-$70. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. Eight-piece jazz ensemble Saxtet is a powerhouse of reeds — featuring five saxophonists with an energetic rhythm section, under the direction of Darren Litzie and featuring New York legend Andrew Beals. 4 p.m. October 13 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com. Former Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook was behind such honky-tonk New Wave hits as “Cool for Cats,” and “Tempted” during that band’s ‘80s heyday. He continues with his solo career and performances known for their frank, interactive approach. See him up close and personal at Café Nine. 8 p.m. October 14 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $25$20. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com. The Ice Choir melds abstract lyrics and synth-heavy technopop for multilayered compositions and a unique pop experience. The group is led by Kurt Feldman of neo-

shoegaze-pop band the Pains of Being Pure At Heart and Depreciation Guild;,9 p.m. October 16 at Bar, 254 Crown St., New Haven. Free. 203495-8924. barnightclub.com. Vaudvillian steampunk from some well-worn musicians in a vegetable oil-powered tour bus? The Fred Eaglesmith Traveling Steam Show brings with it a sense of the excitedly unexpected. 8 p.m. October 16 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $20-$18. 203-7898281, cafenine.com. Daphne Lee Martin has been earning the accolades and respect of her peers for her songwriting and roots music, having won Country Artist of the Year at the 2012 Connecticut Music Awards. She’ll start her tour with husband-and-wife bluegrass duo The Grahams right at home. 9 p.m. October 17 at Cafe Nine, 250 State St., New Haven. $5. 203-789-8281, cafenine.com. Cory Chisel’s music reﬂects the years of wisdom gleaned from his upbringing as a

preacher’s son in the wilds of Minnesota and Wisconsin, to his musical education in the blues, folk music and rock ‘n’ roll. He’ll stop in Hamden as part of the Wild Rovers Tour, with Invisibleman, Adriel Denae and up-and-comers The Candles. 7 p.m. October 19 at Spaceland Ballroom, 295 Treadwell St., Hamden. $15 ($12 advance). 203-288-6400, spacelandballroom.com. Nashville guitarist William Tyler is well known in indie rock and folk circles His debut solo album Behold the Spirit showcases a range of acoustic guitar styles backed with eclectic instrumentation and boosted by atypical arrangements. 9 p.m. October 23 at Bar, 254 Crown St., New Haven. Free. 203-495-8924. barnightclub.com. Local alt-rock heroes Atrina have been at it for a long time, and recently released a new album of melodic but noisy rock punctuated by shifting time signatures and jagged riffs. The group will be joined by fellow Elm City mainstays The Mountain Movers. 9 p.m.

It’s been a decade since Johnny Cash left us, but his legend lives on through tribute band Cash Is King, which performs the songs of the Man in Black, focusing on his Sun Records releases and legendary 1960s prison concerts, and even features period-specific costume changes and singer Vicky St. Pierre channeling June Carter Cash. 8 p.m. October 26 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $32-$30. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. The English do space-rock like no others. The aptly-named Space Ritual, itself an offshoot of the revered Hawkwind, play a free show on Crown Street that includes both new material and songs from their former band. 9 p.m. October 30 at Bar, 254 Crown St., New Haven. Free. 203-495-8924. barnightclub.com.

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as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. 2, 4 & 7 p.m. October 16 at Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook. $8. 877-503-1286, katharinehepburntheater.org. Laurence Olivier and Jane Fontaine star in Rebecca (1940, 130 min., USA). A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband’s dead first wife. Free pizza, too! 5 p.m. October 10 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. Registration. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

BELLES LETTRES The Mystery Book Club meets the first Wednesday to discuss a pre-selected book. Books are available for check out prior to the meeting. 3-4 p.m. October 2 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-483-6653, blackstone.lioninc.org/ booktalk.htm. Power of Pictures illustrates the depth and breadth of images in Beinecke’s collections, from woodcuts to photographs, diagrams to cartoons. It shows how pictures, as much as texts, can illuminate what we know about writers, readers, artists and ourselves. Through December 16 at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St., New Haven. Free. Open 9 a.m.-7 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri., noon-5 p.m. Sat. 203-432-2977, beineckelibrary@yale.edu. New members are welcomed to the Blackstone Library Second Tuesday Book Club. The group meets on the second Tuesday to discuss a pre-selected book. Books available for loan in advance of discussion. 6:45-8 p.m. October 8 at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. Free. 203-488-1441, ext. 318, blackstone.lioninc.org/booktalk.htm. Release your inner poet. Time Out for Poetry meets third Thursdays and welcomes those who wish to share an original short poem, recite a stanza or simply to listen. Ogden Nash, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Dr. Seuss and even the Burma Shave signs live again. 12:30-2 p.m. October 17 at Scranton Library, 801 Boston Post Rd., Madison. Free. 203-2457365. The Poetry Institute of New Haven hosts Poetry Open Mics each third Thursday Come hear an eclectic mix of poetic voices. 7 p.m. October 17 at Young Men’s Institute Library, 847 Chapel St., New Haven. Free. thepoetryinstitute.com.

CINEMA A Kate Classic film presentation is Sylvia Scarlett, a 1935 romantic comedy, directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The film was notorious

COMEDY Every Wednesday evening Joker’s Wild opens its stage to anyone who wants to try standup comedy — from brand-new comics to amateurs to seasoned pros. As Forrest Gump might say, each Open-Mic Night is kind of like a box of chocolates. 9 p.m. Wednesdays at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $5. 203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com. A double bill of funnymen Joey Vega & Kenny Garcia. 8 p.m. October 25, 8 & 10:30 p.m. October 26 at Joker’s Wild, 232 Wooster St., New Haven. $18. 203-773-0733, jokerswildclub.com.

CRAFTS Calling all knitters and crocheters! Meeting last Tuesdays, the Hagaman Library’s casual Knitting Circle is open to all who want to share tips and show off new projects. 6-8 p.m. October 29 at Hagaman Memorial Library, 227 Main St., East Haven. Free. 203-468-3890, hagamanlibrary.info.

CULINARY Consiglio’s Cooking Class Club. Chef Maureen Nuzzo explains and demonstrates how to prepare mouth-watering southern Italian dishes that have been passed down from generation to generation. October’s menu: homemade mulled cider, roasted pumpkin bisque with spiced crème fraiche, slow-braised short ribs over parmesan polenta with garlicky sautéed greens, apple cinnamon zeppoles, with caramel drizzle. 6:30 p.m. October 3, 10, 17 at Consiglio’s Restaurant, 165 Wooster St., New Haven. $65. Reservations. 203-865-4489, consiglios.com. City Farmers Markets New Haven. Eat local! Enjoy seasonal fruits, vegetables, and herbs from local farms including seafood, meat, milk, cheese, handcrafted bread and baked goods, honey, more. WOOSTER SQUARE: 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays through December 21 at Russo Park, corner Chapel St. and DePalma Ct. EDGEWOOD PARK: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sundays through December 22 at Whalley and West Rock Aves. DOWNTOWN: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesdays through November 27 on the Green at Temple & Chapel Sts. FAIR HAVEN: 2-6 p.m. Thursdays through October 31 at Grand Ave. & Poplar St. THE HILL: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Fridays through October 25 at Connecticut Mental Health Center, 34 Park St. 203-773-3736, cityseed.org.

DANCE Fall Thesis Dance Concert. A collection of new works presented by senior choreographers as part of their culminating projects for the dance major. 8 p.m. October 31-November 2 at Patricelli ’92 Theater, Wesleyan University, Middletown. $5-$4. 860-685-3355, wesleyan.edu/cfa.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS Smoke in the Valley 2013 includes a craft beer and chili festival, a home brew contest, music (headlined by the band Kung Fu) and a 5K road race. Event benefits local youth sports, emergency services and breast cancer research and education. Noon-4:30 p.m. October 5 at 10 Pine St., Seymour. $30 advance, $40 at door (21 and older). 203-437-1009, smokeinthevalley.com . The Derby/Shelton Rotary Club presents Shelton Day, a street festival featuring some 150 booths featuring local crafts, food, entertainment and other activities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. October 6 on Howe Ave., Shelton. Free. 203-567-0252, sheltonday.com. The Boothe Park Commission and the town of Stratford cohost the annual Great Pumpkin Festival, featuring the Great Pumpkin Carving Contest. Watch as carvers sculpt 100-pound pumpkins into works of art for cash prizes. Also, children’s costume parade (3 p.m.) with prizes, music, games, crafts, face painting, refreshments, blacksmith demonstrations, Moonbounces and horse-drawn hayrides. 1-5 p.m. October 19 at Boothe Park, 5800 Main St., Putney, Stratford. Free. 203-377-2119, boothememorialpark.org.

FAMILY EVENTS Each Tuesday the Yale Astronomy Department hosts a Planetarium Show. Weather permitting there is also public viewing of planets, nebulae, star clusters and whatever happens to be interesting in the sky. Viewable celestial objects change seasonally. 7 & 8 p.m. Tuesdays at Leitner Family Observatory, 355 Prospect St., New Haven. Free. cobb@astro.yale. edu, astro.yale.edu. Philatelists unite! Young people ages eight to 15 are invited to join the Hagaman Library’s monthly (first Saturdays) Stamp

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LECTURES America’s favorite ghost hunter, Lorraine Warren shares hair-raising stories of encounters with the supernatural — just in time for All Soul’s Eve! 8 p.m. October 30 at Lyman Center, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven. $10 ($8 SCSU faculty/staff ). 203-392-6154, lyman. southernct.edu.

MIND, BODY & SOUL The Ives library hosts weekly Library Yoga classes suitable for all levels. Walk-ins welcome. Bring a yoga mat. 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays at New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm St., New Haven. $5. 203-946-8835. Led by Nelie Doak, Yoga promotes a deep sense of physical, mental and emotional well-being. Classes are designed to help cultivate breath and body awareness, improve ﬂexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, detoxify the body and soothe the spirit. All levels welcome. Bring a yoga mat. 5-6:30 p.m. Fridays at Blackstone Library, 758 Main St., Branford. $10. 203-488-1441, ext. 313, yogidoakie@earthlink.net or events@blackstone. lioninc.org, blackstone.lioninc.org.

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Spectator Sports The Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the American Hockey League affiliate of the NHL’s New York Islanders, open their 2013-14 campaign with a five-game home stand at Webster Bank Arena. First up: the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, top farm club of the NHL champ Pittsburgh Penguins. 7 p.m. October 5 at Webster Bank Arena, 600 Main St., Bridgeport. $51.75-$23.90. 203-334-4625, soundtigers.com.

Cycling Elm City Cycling organizes Lulu’s Ride, weekly two- to four-hour rides for all levels (17-19 mph average). Cyclists leave at 10 a.m. from Lulu’s European Café as a single group; no one is dropped. 10 a.m. Sundays at Lulu’s European Café, 49 Cottage St., New Haven. Free. 203-773-9288, elmcitycycling.org. The Little Lulu (LL) is an alternative to the long-standing Sunday morning training ride. The route is usually 20-30 miles in length and the ride is no-drop, meaning that the group waits at hilltops and turns so that no rider is left behind. The LL is an opportunity for cyclists to get accustomed to riding in groups. Riders should come prepared with materials (tubes, tools, pumps and/or CO2 inﬂators) to repair ﬂats. 10 a.m. Sundays at Lulu’s European Café, 49 Cottage St., New Haven. Free. 203-7739288, paulproulx@sbcglobal.net, elmcitycycling.org.

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Road Races/Triathlons Help fight breast cancer by signing up for the Pounding the Pavement for Pink 5K. There’s even a “Best Pink Costume” award. 9 a.m. October 5 at River Street (starting line), Seymour. $25 advance, $30 race day. 203-668-3170, mdeming@ seymourpink.com. Join the throng for the 22nd running of the Great Pumpkin Classic, a four-mile road race, health walk and kids’ fun run. Proceeds, which typically attracts 600 to 700 runners, benefit the Trumbull High School Scholarship Foundation. 10 a.m. October 2o at Trumbull High School, 72 Strobel Rd., Trumbull. $25 ($20 students). greatpumpkinclassic.com Please send CALENDAR information to CALENDAR@conntact. com no later than six weeks preceding calendar month of event. Please include date, time, location, event description, cost and contact information. Photographs must be at least 300 dpi resolution and are published at discretion of NEW HAVEN magazine.

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district just as longtime anchor Au Bon Pain closed. Belgian food inspires the newcomer’s menu — French-accented sandwiches, salads and pastries along with waffles and Belgian beers. An expansive, tiled space greets the visitor, creating a light-filled and stylish ambience unique among the city’s cafés. Laptop zombies have their own corner well away from the main dining area, reminiscent of a college cafeteria in a good way with its wide tables and conversational vibe. Luckily the tables are far enough apart so that you don’t have to hear every detail of your neighbor’s squabble with his suitemate. Order your meal at the marble countertop, which stretches so far across the space it can be confusing to figure out where to order. Eventually you’ll figure out that you have to go past the pastries and

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The only down note was the pallid and somewhat flavorless bread.

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sandwich case to the cashier near the espresso machines — some signage might help. Those sandwiches, alluring in paper wrappers, hold their own in a city with an abundance of café lunch offerings. The turkey ($8) was amply portioned and impeccably fresh, loaded with bacon, slabs of fresh green avocado and a few slices of Swiss. The proportions were just right.

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Better on the yeasted front was a barely sweet brioche ($5), rich and spiked with a dab of tart apricot preserves. The petite brioches come in a variety of flavors and serve as a great alternative to sugar-bomb pastries and scones. A waffle, presented grandly in its own metal tray, arrived strewn with fresh fruit and a drizzle of caramel. So well done it was almost a ghost of itself, the waffle lent only a hint of crunch and sweetness to the toppings.

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ou can call it “McIndian” or “Subcontinental Subway,” but the food served at the new Tikkaway Fresh Indian Grill on Orange Street ends up tasting pretty darned good. The Elm City can call itself lucky to be the home of the first of Gopi Nair’s fast-food Indian eateries, the anchor of what he hopes to become a national chain. Nair’s innovation is to break down traditional Indian food into its components and let the diner create a personalized meal. Instead of proteins simmering in curry, you pick your own protein,

Gopi Nair recently opened his Orange Streetbased Tikkaway Grill - a fast food takeaway Indian restaurant that lets customers build their own meals with a variety of meats, vegetables, and sauces.

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sauce and components like vegetables and chutneys. With its bright colors and diverse staff and clientele, Tikkaway sets itself apart for most Elm City Indian eateries right when you walk in the door. Ordering is done at a counter and could benefit from some simplifying — it’s hard to tell what to do first after glancing at the overly busy menu board. Basically, choices include rice bowl, wrap or salad as a platform for your protein. Platform chosen, you move to a Subway-style array of mains, including lamb, chicken, Indian paneer cheese and chickpeas. Although it looked dubious in the lineup, my “lamb kebab” cubes ($6.95 for the bowl) were tender and flavorful, and chicken tikka ($6.25) was well-seared and juicy. Chickpea “chana” ($5.95) came partially mashed and sauced and was the biggest hit of all as the base of a rice bowl. Now for the creativity — matching your main with a sauce. Vindaloo sauce brings lots of spice with a vinegary bite, blending perfectly with the chickpeas. Milder korma sauce with a rich cashew base highlighted the lamb, and Madras perked up the chicken. We went wild with veggies, getting everything they offered.

What arrived in a cardboard container looked like muddle, but Tikkaway’s bright flavors and expert hand with cooking shone in every bite. A vibrant tamarind chutney brought out the freshness of toppings like sautéed cabbage and mushrooms and outshone every other version in town. The basmati rice was nicely done and perfectly offset the medley of flavor and texture. In all, a big hit with our diners. Feather-light papads, spiced crisps often served with Indian food, came in chip form as a side dish and added some salty savor to the flavors on the plate. Another side, a samosa pastry, arrived expertly fried but the potato filling lacked punch and texture. But a creamy mango lassi yogurt drink was among the best in town and was the perfect, slightly sweet finish to a spicy meal. Judging by the taste and quality of this debut eatery’s food, you may want to look into buying some Tikkaway stock if it ever goes public. In the meantime, grab some quarters for the meter and make a near-term investment in a meal at this innovative eatery.

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From Hammo to Lighthouse Point ON SCRE F EN or months I’ve noticed cars and trucks parked near the entrance to Hammonasset Beach State Park (right next to “No Parking” signs, I might add) as well as a large walkway under construction. I presumed this was to be a way for the residents of the pricey homes in the vicinity of the Surf Club to jog, bike or walk to the public beach, bypassing the Boston Post Road. When I saw the walkway near completion, I thought, “That’s an awful lot of effort and expense — and it’s in a state park.” I parked (legally) at the campground entrance, which seemed to be the closest logical spot to reach the walkway. The sign read “Shoreline Greenway Trail Under Construction.” An “aha” moment! I’d heard of the idea of the trail, which upon completion will be a 25-mile off-road path for walkers, runners and bicyclists along the shoreline but didn’t realize (until I started Googling) how far along the project was or that the “SGT” would run from Hammo to Lighthouse Point Park in New Haven.

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The walkway at Hammonasset officially opened on August 22. Even though the finishing touches haven’t been placed on the trail, it is still very walk-able and ski-able. The peninsula is a bit rough and rocky but would be fine for mountain bikers. This is an excellent area for birders and anyone who likes the smell of salt air.

Currently more than 40 percent of the trail route is approved, and of that, some sections are completed, some are being cleared and built, “and some are going through lengthy DEEP [the state’s Department of Energy & Environmental Protection] approval systems,” she adds.

According to my pedometer app, from the parking lot to where the trail meets up with Boston Post Road, the distance is 0.936 miles (that’s 1,906 steps). From there it’s an easy bike ride or walk to charming downtown Madison and neighborhoods with some impressive abodes.

At Lighthouse Point Park, the western-most trailhead, it will connect to the proposed New Haven Harborside Trail that will connect to the Farmington Canal Trail, which will eventually become part of the East Coast Greenway running from Florida to Maine. In Guilford, SGT will connect to the 200-mile New England Trail that originates in New Hampshire.

“This is a multi-year project — we have successes, roadblocks, challenges — and gradually we continue to do the impossible to make our dream happen: to build a 25-mile-long off-road pathway along the shoreline from New Haven’s Lighthouse Point to Hammonasset Beach State Park, where no roadbed exists like Rails To Trails or the Farmington Canal,” explains Outreach Team Chair Pam Bisbee Simonds (in a sentence that is itself nearly 25 miles long).

This long-term project is funded by local, state and federal grants, as well as contributions from corporations, foundations, service clubs and individuals. Green Team volunteers build and maintain the trail. Volunteer stewards check the conditions frequently. There is no paid staff — but a lot of love for the environment and recreation. To learn more visit wordpress. shorelinegreenwaytrail.org

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