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Tom Tomorrow Creates a Kids Book! Yay!

New Haven Advocate | October 13, 2009

"I love stepping outside the world of politics, that negativity, so I can do something happy," Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, says in a phone interview from his New Haven work studio.

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Tags: Dan Perkins, The Very Silly Mayor, children's books, Tom Tomorrow

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Q&A: Connecticut’s Budget Crisisnew

The CT legislature passed a months-overdue two-year budget last August, but eight months later the state is already $500 million in debt this year.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 04-13-2010 | Politics

Tags: Jodi Rell

Broadway's Next Big Hit Starts Now with the World Premiere of New Musical 'POP!'new

POP!, the Andy Warhol musical that's world-premiering at the Yale Repertory Theatre this month, takes place as a fever dream inside Warhol's head after the famed artist is shot inside his cavernous work studio The Factory on June 3, 1968.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 12-08-2009 | Theater

Tags: pop icons, Warhol, Drama, pop art, Edie Sedgwick, Yale

This Year's Rock Documentaries Are Funny, Moving, Exciting and Tragicnew

This year's crop of rock docs bring us talkes about Arthur Russell, the Monks, the '80s New Haven punk scene, the Hold Steady and Scott Walker.

New Haven Advocate | John Adamian, Christopher Arnott and Brianna Snyder | 06-30-2009 | Movies

Tags: It Happened ... But Nobody Noticed, Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, The Hold Steady: A Positive Rage, Wild Combination: The Arthur Russell Story, documentaries, rock music, Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

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Fortunately, Peter Hedges Decided Against Writing A 'Serious' Booknew

Peter Hedges’ novel The Heights is crying to be filmed. I assume it will be and I recommend everyone read it before you’re forced to buy a copy with a stupid movie tie-in cover.

New Haven Advocate | Eva Geertz | 03-16-2010 | Fiction

Tags: The Heights, Peter Hedges

T.C. Boyle, Still Goading the Opinionated After All These Yearsnew

A new collection of stories is something to get excited about. My appetite for Wild Child was whetted reading A Death in Kitchawank, in a recent New Yorker. I know that I plan to spend a few hours as a happy subject of literary manipulation, as soon as I lay hands on Boyle's latest.

New Haven Advocate | Eva Geertz | 02-02-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Wild Child and Other Stories, T.C. Boyle

Could a Controversial Book Cause a Miscarriage of Justice?new

'In the Middle of the Night' revisits the morning of July 23, 2007, when Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes (allegedly) invaded the home of Dr. William Petit, beating him with a baseball bat and raping, torturing and murdering his wife and two daughters.

New Haven Advocate | Craig Fehrman | 02-02-2010 | Books

Tags: Brian McDonald, In the Middle of the Night, Joshua Komisarjevsky, Steven Hayes, William Petit

Amy Bloom's (Mostly) New Stories Look for What Matters Mostnew

Amy Bloom's new collection is a revelation of the emotional violence and loss within friendship and complicated love. Many writers would do well to heed Bloom, who can compound the very essence of a relationship in a single phrase.

New Haven Advocate | Nora Nahid Khan | 01-19-2010 | Fiction

Tags: Amy Bloom, Where The God of Love Hangs Out, short stories

Philosopher Peter Singer Wants You to Give Away Your Moneynew

The premise of The Life You Can Save is simple: With so much conspicuous affluence in the world, especially in the U.S., there's no good reason for so much poverty to exist. Singer's solution? Give away a reasonable percentage of your money.

New Haven Advocate | John Stoehr | 10-27-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, tithing, poverty, Peter Singer, nonprofits

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