New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)

Mossburg misrepresents research on housing vouchers

2013-05-06 09:00:00

In her April 23 column, “Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor,” Marta H. Mossburg quoted me as saying that laws prohibiting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers “exacerbate” the problem of finding housing...

Walters Art Museum names new director, Julia Marciari-Alexander

2013-02-20 18:24:31

In naming Julia Marciari-Alexander as executive director on Wednesday, the Walters Art Museum board of directors entrusted one of Baltimore's most important arts institutions to a rising star — and signaled an emphasis on community engagement even...

Former student protesters remember civil rights battle over the Northwood Theatre

2013-02-16 09:36:00

Movie tickets at the Northwood Theatre cost just 90 cents back in 1963. But for some, the price of admission was considerably higher. It took years of picketing and nights in jail for hundreds of African-American college students and their supporters...

Dr. William Blake, UM School of Medicine professor

2013-02-08 12:25:00

Dr. William Dewey Blake, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine professor who was chairman of the department of physiology, died of cancer Sunday at his Bath, Maine, home. The former Bolton Hill resident was 94. Born in Summit, N.J., and...

Harold Newton Barr, Army radio operator

2012-12-30 15:57:00

Harold Newton Barr, a Baltimore resident and former Army radio operator who announced from a schoolhouse in Germany the death of Adolf Hitler, died at his home Dec. 22 of natural causes. He was 91. Mr. Barr was born March 4, 1921, in New Haven, Conn.,...

Kathryn Barry Truax, teacher

2012-12-05 12:57:44

Kathryn Barry Truax, an elementary school teacher recalled for her classroom presence, died of leukemia Dec. 2 at her Ruxton home. She was 30. Born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton, she was a 2000 graduate of the Bryn Mawr School, where she played...

Morgan breaks ground for $72 million business school

2012-11-28 15:26:50

Morgan State University officials broke ground Wednesday on a $72 million business school — the first step, they said, in a plan to expand the campus' western edge while improving a troubled shopping center. The 140,000-square-foot Earl G. Graves...

A place to call home

2012-11-26 03:00:00

The Baltimore City Police Department employs more people than any other department of city government, yet most of its officers live outside the city. Many residents like the idea of police officers living in their communities because they view them as...

Candlelight Concert Society's brassy 40th anniversary in Columbia

2012-11-22 20:52:00

The Candlelight Concert Society is tooting its own horn by commissioning a new piece of music to celebrate its 40th anniversary season. Paul Salerni's "Many Happy Returns" receives its world premiere performance by the Philadelphia Brass Quintet on...

'There's lots that can be done'

2012-10-25 10:50:00

In 2008, Paul Tough’s first book, “Whatever It Takes,” told the story of the Harlem Children’s Zone, a massive effort to leverage a pre-birth-through-high-school system of education services to change the trajectory of 10,000...

Harford County police blotter: Shots reported fired in Aberdeen

2012-10-25 14:27:00

Aberdeen Aberdeen police report: A brush fire was reported last Thursday at Route 715 and Hickory Drive. Someone broke a windshield on a vehicle Friday at West Bel Air Avenue and Baltimore Street. Money and medicine were stolen by a known suspect...

Same-sex marriage backers raise $3.2 million

2012-10-12 18:47:15

The main group supporting same-sex marriage in Maryland has raised $3.2 million and still has $1.2 million in its war chest to defend the law in the Nov. 6 referendum, according to a disclosure filed last night with the State Board of Elections. Among...

Dewberry hired John O�Dierna, PE, as manager of construction engineering and inspection services in the firm�s New Haven office.

2013-05-24 09:04:00

Jack Nicholson stars in this 1980 horror classic about a writer going insane in a snowbound hotel. Friday and Saturday, May 31 and June 1, at 11:30 p.m. at Criterion Cinemas in New Haven. R. $5.

2013-05-22 05:45:00

New Haven Advocate Best Of Party

2013-05-22 05:20:00