• At Martinez, Hillhouse, & Conte. • For Youth & Rec-led swim programming. • Cross, Career pools to stay closed for maintenance. Maya McFadden reports.
• But he can rap. • Along with local hip hop artist Sketch tha Cataclysm (pictured) and fellow Chicago touring artists • At 3 Sheets concert. Brian Slattery reports.
Ex-Chocolate Drop Dom Flemons was keeping Black cowboy music alive, too — his way. Review Crew’s Nora Grace-Flood reports from a stop on his “American Songster” tour.
“I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.”
It was a refrain I’d heard maybe hundreds of times at that point, the croon of Katie Crutchfield’s voice and the banjo backing her committed to memory. But Thursday night, as I heard it live and sang along with a crowd filling up Waxahatchee’s sold-out show at Toad’s Place, the song felt new.
As Mauro-Sheridan math teacher Sheila Lamb knocked on her seventh graders’ desks to urge them to participate in class, math coach Cortney Costa used her phone at the back of the classroom — not to play games, but to record Lamb’s model lesson.
Joel Schiavone, the sockless banjo-strumming real estate developer who launched New Haven’s downtown renaissance, has died at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy that will long outlive him.