Mags the Marvel Monkey didn’t seem to care that I just complimented her outfit. What outfit? She’s a monkey. I didn’t know what to do next.

“She wants a snack,” Marissa, a player, suggested.

I tilted my snack plate down to Mags, who had hands and feet on the carpeted floor, and handed over a naked cracker off of my snack plate. She took it hungrily, and skittered off.

State Speaker of the House Matt Ritter made an election-year stop in Westville Monday afternoon to celebrate new funding for improved lighting in Edgewood Park — and to endorse incumbent State Rep. Pat Dillon as she faces two Democratic primary challengers.

Westville business owner John Cavaliere joined neighbors on Wednesday for a pitch to the city’s parks commission: Add more lamp posts to Edgewood Park, between the tennis courts and West Rock Avenue.

In the year 1990, television network ABC rolled the dice…

Twin Peaks Pilot Episode Screening at Lyric Hall, in partnership with Best Video | New Haven | Jan. 20, 2026

A vacant graffiti covered building at the corner of Whalley Avenue and Fitch Street in New Haven photographed on January 16, 2025.

Photo by Arnold Gold/Hearst Connecticut Media

My wife and I recently attended a performance at the Lyric Hall in the West Rock section of New Haven.

Lyric Hall was coming back to life.  Behind the bar, Rai Bruton and Teo Hernández arranged a bowl of fresh popcorn and bottles of red and white wine, their hands a steady, streamlined ballet.

One thing John Cavaliere, owner of the Lyric Hall theater and antique store on Whalley Avenue, and the folks at Best Video in Hamden have long had in common is a love of classic film.