A blog about New Haven
It’s Wednesday night and you’ve got this itch to do something. But you don’t feel like going to the usual bars and staring vacantly into your iPhone. Yet tucked away in an unassuming Italian restaurant, something magical is happening. Hips are swaying. Women are twirling around, their vibrant dresses glittering under the lights. Men, dressed in … Read more
First of all, let me say that I am by no means an expert in New Haven. But it turns out that any idiot can start up a blog and just start typing so here we are. Together. I’ve been in New Haven for about six and a half years and in that time, I’ve … Read more
The sun is shining through the elm trees as the smell of hot dogs wafts from street carts. The stagehands are building a massive new stage on the Green. A young man ambles slowly in front of a moving bus for no reason. Yep, it’s summer in New Haven. And that means it’s a glorious … Read more
Here at Between Two Rocks, we can’t possibly provide near constant descriptions of how to poison your liver or how to clog your arteries. I can’t just bitch about parking my entire life (hah, I totally can and will). Josh can’t just buy a house every week (he can, I only get paid in hugs). … Read more
Last week, a reader emailed me asking for help with something, and it’s a request I’ve gotten quite a few times before: How do I, a post-college adult, make new friends in New Haven? Now, I’m not an expert in friend-making. But I do know quite a few people, and it’s not just the unadulterated … Read more
About a third of the way through Other People’s Money, opening at Long Wharf Theatre tonight, I wondered to myself if this tale of greed, excess, and loyalty, written in 1986, was really still relevant today. After all, we’ve seen Wall Street. We’ve seen it in The Big Short and The Wolf of Wall Street and … Read more
In case you haven’t noticed, New Haven has some retail space for lease. (Side note: Looks like Red Tomato isn’t long for this world, which is 0% surprising.) In fact, you can’t throw a rock without hitting an empty restaurant/bar spot downtown. While some, like the ol’ Kelly’s/Black Bear/Tavern NH Black Hole, seem to have been … Read more
In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been pretty excited for Barcade for a long while now. Maybe too excited. But the long wait is over. It’s May 2016 and there is an actual, real-life Barcade right here in our own New Haven, Connecticut. So, does it match the hype? Is it everything we dreamed of and … Read more
Situated in the middle of New Haven’s Nine Squares, The Green is the centerpiece of downtown New Haven. Surrounded by office buildings, restaurants, bars, and the towering Gothic buildings of Yale University, it is the central hub through which New Haven travels. Even CT Transit uses New Haven Green as its central transit hub through which … Read more
First, let me say: I love New Haven. I think it’s a very cool small city with a lot going for it. We’ve got pizza and culture and Yale and a beach and a carny Ferris wheel during Christmas. But it could always be better. Being a small city, we sometimes lack certain infrastructures of … Read more
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