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Take Magazine stopped publishing with our February/March 2018 issue. All of our print and online articles are archived here.
CONNECTICUT
![Jon Bristol and friends at Elmwood Productions. Photo by Paul Specht](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Elmwood_small.jpg)
Quick Takes: No Strings Attached
West Hartford film studio Elmwood Productions makes movies starring a cast of puppets for a strictly grown-up audience.
MASSACHUSETTS
![Cedric Vise Douglas and Julz Roth, Black Madonna, 2017. Photo courtesy of Beyond Walls and Christopher Gaines of The Littlest Astronaut](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web_ST_BlackMadonna.jpg)
Street Take: Black Madonna
Public artwork created by Cedric “Vise” Douglas and Julz Roth for the Beyond Walls Mural Festival in Lynn, Massachusetts.
RHODE ISLAND
![Laura Cetilia plays an in-store set at Blue Bag Records in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Natasha Moustache](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web_LauraCetilia_HEADER.jpg)
Positive Space
When she’s not playing in symphonies, cellist Laura Cetilia leaves melody behind to explore improvised, experimental sound.
SPONSORED
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A Farewell from Take Magazine
A Farewell from Take Magazine
MAINE
![Finished Ayumi Horie pots. Photo by Aaron Flacke](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web_Ayumi-Horie_header.jpg)
Clay Date
Getting to know ceramicist/activist Ayumi Horie through eight (or so) objects in her Portland, Maine, home.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
![Sam Paolini, Spring Bizaare, detail, Wrong Brain poster](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web.WB_.HEADER.jpg)
Quick Takes: Wrong Brain Is Right-On
Thousands of unconventional and underrepresented creatives have a welcoming outlet in Wrong Brain on the New Hampshire Seacoast.
VERMONT
![For Misery Loves Co., Aaron Josinsky grows vegetables in his North Fork, Vermont garden that often end up on the menu, like in this Harvest Crudité. Photo by Dominic Perri](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/web_MLC_HEADER.jpg)
Cultivating Misery
It takes a tight-knit village of growers and foragers to make the hip, eccentric dishes of Vermont’s Misery Loves Co.
NEW ENGLAND
![Work by Daphne Board (shoes), American Bench Craft (journal cover), and Linny Kenney (aprons). Photo by Izzy Berdan](https://thetakemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/TIH-leather_web_header.jpg)
Take It Home: Looking Good in Leather
Care about looking good? Top your gotta-have-it list with NE-made bespoke shoes, a go-anywhere journal, and a handsome apron.
EVENTS
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Waiting ‘Your Turn’ in Ridgefield
{ Through Sunday, April 22nd } Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley unite in Your Turn, a shared exhibit in Ridgefield.
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New Haven’s Tattoo Legacy
{ Through Saturday, March 10th, 2018 } Explore New Haven’s mark on the tattoo world with Old School Ink at the New Haven Museum.