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York Square Cinema. The York Sq. is a New Haven tradition. It's cheap and shows good movies, sometimes artsy, sometimes not. This Friday and Saturday it will likely be packed with college students lacking a yen for intoxication and partying. All of the area's other movie theaters are in the suburbs, so this is just about the only game in town...
Toad's Place. Just around the corner from the York Sq. is Toad's Place, a late-night bar that also features up and coming musicians. For students over 21, Toad's offers a party scene more favorable than that found in the crowded suites of under grads. Yale alumni recall that Cindi Lauper, among others, got her start here. In the 70's she was so bad, they say, that she would sing the three or four songs in her repertoire, then apologize, then repeat. Since Cindy, a few big-time bands have played at Toad's. The Rolling...
...Wooster Sq., where locals say pizza was born, is home to about fifteen hearty Italian restaurants. President Clinton visited Wooster Sq. last month for dinner after receiving an honorary degree at Yale Law. New Haven's two most-famous brick-over pizza parlors, Sally's and Pepe's, are within a block of each other on Wooster Street. Don't miss the Italian pastry shops nearby...
...friends sensed in him an ability to move people that owed less to intellect than to the tug of sincerity. His sermons in those days were highly colorful and factually creative, to a point that would haunt him in later years. Heaven, he used to explain, measured 1,600 sq. mi.: "We are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Decades later, the vision has matured. "I think heaven is going to be a place beyond anything...
...sold his BMW and borrowed from friends to invest more than $300,000 in his fighter. Those days of debt are gone. This month, construction will begin on the $6.6 million house Bowe is building in Fort Washington, Maryland, where he moved 2 1/2 years ago. The ( 32,000-sq.-ft. mansion includes six bedrooms, a 25-seat movie theater, a four- lane bowling alley and a fully equipped...