Friday, September 17, 2004

A Little New Haven Blogging

So the good folks of New Haven's white middle class want to save the New Haven Coliseum, a sterling exemplar of 1960s high (that is, on drugs) modernist brutalism, from the wrecking ball. This morning's Yale Daily News runs a story about "Save the Coliseum" activist Kevin Tennyson, the curator of the "New Haven Travelling Hockey Museum," who wants to keep the 'very misunderstood' coliseum around for hockey games and rock concerts. The demolition plan is, according to Tennyson, "all a smoke screen to move that theater downtown" -- "that theater" being the famous Long Wharf. Tennyson: "The theater is more in tune to a select crowd."

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