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McClure Plays McDonald's

The art of waiting isn’t hard to master — it only takes a lifetime.
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In the Financial District of Manhattan, the McDonald’s at 160 Broadway serves the usual hamburger fare. As cashiers at the first-floor register process orders within moments, Ron McClure contemplates his view from the crow’s nest window at his leisure, before sounding the piano keys of his next song.

Conviction

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At the New Haven Reentry Roundtable, activists and ex-offenders work together to ease the transition into life after prison. But can — or should — a conviction ever be erased?

MAGAZINE | Video: New Haven Reentry Roundtable

Reporter Nicole Levy talks to Timothy Rinaldi about his conviction record and life after incarceration for her Magazine feature on New Haven's Reentry Roundtable, a coalition that works to help ex-offenders rebuild their lives.

Long Wharf Theater stays by its namesake

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After contemplating a move to downtown New Haven in the dim light of the nation’s economic downturn, the Long Wharf Theatre has instead opted to renovate its current home.

Confirming Kagan's Ambition, Unraveling My Own

Personal Essay
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I spent a lot of time on bathroom breaks my sixth and senior year at Hunter College High School, the elite public secondary school in New York City that Kagan also attended.

To her Carillon

Poem

I sit across the subway car from me, my splayed fingers mask the jacket of the book in hand.

A Storyteller's Tale

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For aspiring comedians like Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez '07, storytelling is rapidly supplanting stand-up as the likeliest avenue to prominence. If he’s lucky enough to be chosen to perform and persuasive enough to enthrall his audience, literary agents, actors, and directors lurking among blasé hipsters may catapult him to stardom.

Studio Space - Preserving Madness

Studio Space - Preserving Madness

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