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Feb 8, 2023 8:54 am
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The woman sits with a long gun in her hands, mouth open, part battle cry, part scream from the soul. In her tense stance, she looks ready to fight, but the sculpture is more than just a call to duty. The nails that are part of the sculpture are a clue: they connote neat dreadlocks, but are, in a literal sense, also metal being driven into the scalp. It’s clear she’s prepared for a long struggle, but also, she wonders why she has to do it, and perhaps from where she will draw the strength to carry on. That dichotomy extends to the gun she holds: does her fight involve using it or melting it down? Is it her tool or part of the source of the problem? Or both?
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Feb 6, 2023 11:37 am
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Clotilda was the name of the last known slave ship to bring African captives to the U.S. just over 160 years ago.
It is also the title of Isaiah Providence’s newest film, which grapples with the “underlying history that goes on in the Black community” — and which was recently screened as part of a short film festival at an Audubon Street arts hub.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 31, 2023 9:05 am
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The pieces, by Carol Boynton, Frank Bruckmann, Todd Lyon, and Diane Chandler, are hung side by side by side by side in the gallery. Even though the subjects are looking in the same general direction, in their animation and expression, they could be talking with one another. Each subject — women, men, Black, Brown, White — has been filtered through the eye and mind of the artist. Each artist has rendered the subject with the same care and attention, the same eye toward humanity, toward capturing something like the truth.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 30, 2023 10:46 am
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Artist Matos and Gov. Lamont: Talking ceramics, and Venezuela.
Inside Matos's studio.
All-star Orange Street ceramicist Kiara Matos got a high-profile visitor — but not a customer — on Friday, as Gov. Ned Lamont swung by to marvel at her pottery workshop, catch up on her small-business story, pose for a photo with one of her brightly hued bird sculptures, and then leave empty-handed.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 30, 2023 8:51 am
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Wushu demonstration and lion dancing at Saturday's Whitney Ave. fest.
A phalanx of focused martial arts students wheeled and turned on Whitney Avenue, kicking and striking powerful poses.
Lions bounded, bestowed blessings, and received gifts.
And, in a series of speeches, community leaders remarked on how the news of the past few years and the past few weeks — of the pandemic and the spate of shootings in California — made the festivities that much more important.
At Thursday's protest outside of Gateway Community College.
Gateway Community College student and Board of Regents student representative Alina Wheeler lives on the edge — of affording to be able to stay in school, of being “just poor enough” to have her healthcare covered as she works towards graduating.
She and fellow community college students in similarly precarious spots are now worried they might not be able to finish out their educations thanks to a potential increase in tuition that could be coming down the pike now that the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents has announced plans to raise tuition at state universities by 3 percent.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 24, 2023 8:50 am
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Still from "Forever 17."
One artist heads straight into the complexity of being queer in Hong Kong. Another heads out into the desert. And another heads into the dismal future. What all three artists — Kit Hung, January Yoon Cho, and Gary Sczerbaniewicz — have in common is a willingness to explore things that make them uncomfortable. And all three have solo shows at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, running now through Feb. 19 concurrently with a few other shows after ECOCA took a brief holiday hiatus.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 20, 2023 5:30 pm
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Rendering of Phase 1C's new lab-office building.
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Construction currently underway at the former Coliseum site.
The redevelopers of the ex-Coliseum site won city approval to build 120 more apartments, 657 new parking-garage spaces, and a new 11-story lab and office building — all as construction of another 200 new apartments right next door has already begun — in the latest chapter of the planned overhaul of a former-arena-turned-parking lot into “Square 10.”
Earmark Community Project Bucks: DeLauro, DESK board Chair Timothy Opstrup, board veep Alyse Sabina, and Steve Werlin at Wednesday's event.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro delivered a seven-figure homeless-helping check written from an account she created in Washington to a downtown New Haven homeless agency, confident that changing Capitol winds won’t stop more checks from heading this way in the future.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 17, 2023 7:43 pm
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Lisa Dent: Headed to Mass MoCA.
The head of one of New Haven’s leading downtown art galleries is leaving town for a new museum job in the Berkshires, nearly three years after she first stepped into the Ninth Square role.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 17, 2023 8:49 am
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Ngoma Hill at Monday's poetry slam.
On Monday afternoon, halfway through the Z Experience Poetry Slam, host Ngoma Hill remarked that this year — the event’s 27th — saw the event’s biggest turnout yet. It was a fitting return to in-person form for the slam, in honor of community organizer Zannette Lewis, as poets filled the O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall in the Yale Science Building and, for a few hours, turned it into one of the hottest slams on the East Coast.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 16, 2023 12:42 pm
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Hanan Hameen of Dance and Beyond Sunday at New Haven Museum.
Through words, music, and movement, storytellers, drummers, and dancers offered dozens of families a chance to find their place in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., the broader causes of social justice he dedicated his life to, and the rich culture he came out of.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jan 9, 2023 9:00 am
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Lauren Sellers working on her vision board (below) along with other members of the public at a library-hosted 2023 visioning event.
Lauren Sellers made short, careful cuts through shiny magazine paper, tracing along the edges of an image of an ice cream cone — all while mapping out a vision for how to be her best self in the year ahead.
A New York City-based developer has knocked down the vacant former Harold’s Bridal Shop building — as it moves ahead with a long-delayed plan to build up 96 new apartments at the downtown commercial site.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 3, 2023 9:02 am
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The image of beloved New Haven photographer David White, Jr. is an image that plays with time. It starts with the obvious anachronisms, from the instrument in White’s pocket to the sepia background, even as it’s clear that White is a modern man. The melted edges of the image, though, are another layer of history. They’re not digital artifacts, but the blurred edges of a process few people see anymore: the development of a Polaroid, and in this case, an especially hefty one — a 20 x 24 camera, “so rare only five were initially manufactured,” an accompanying note explains. The photograph was taken in 1993. Why the Polaroid? Why the anachronistic style? And why is it paired with an image from 1815?
360 State St.: Sold for $160M, appraised at $115M.
New Haven land records database
New Haven cut a $166 million break for out-of-town investors in the 10 biggest real estate deals of 2022 — leaving local taxpayers with the bill in a year that was supposed to start seeing the real estate boom pay local benefits.
The break came in the form of real estate tax appraisals that ended up far lower than the prices that buyers actually paid when they determined what the true values of high-end properties should be.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 22, 2022 9:05 am
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Liverpool Street Extension.
The image of people huddled together in a dark, circular tunnel could be coming from Kyiv or Mariupol, ripped from any number of newspapers covering the war in Ukraine. The expressiveness of the image, undoubtedly the work of an experienced photographer, conveys the misery, the desperation, the desire for it all to be over, in a single snapshot. But it’s not from Ukraine. It’s from London, in 1942.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 20, 2022 10:11 am
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Corie Betha marks the memory map at library workshop.
On the “Collective Memory Map,” most streets have no labels. Someone hand-drew the salt piles by the Mill River. Scantlebury Park could be identified only by the caption “Skateboarding happens here.”
Corie Betha peered at the map, orienting herself by the shapes of the unmarked streets, before uncapping an orange pen to add her own landmark. “1974 – 75 Betha & Henderson Ages 4 & 3 yrs old skating,” she wrote by the Yale ice rink, enshrining her and her sister’s last names alongside names of Yale buildings and longstanding businesses that others had preserved on paper.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 16, 2022 2:35 pm
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Keith Petrulis picking up a coffee from J'Quan Towns and Gigi Levesque Friday.
Keith Petrulis walked out of the frigid winter rain and into a State Street drop-in center to pick up his regular daily cup of hot coffee, cream and sugar — and to stand alongside fellow unhoused New Haveners and local homelessness service providers in advocating for more, permanent state aid for shelter from the cold.
Mario Franco, play money in hand, at Thursday's protest.
A group of highway service plaza workers and union organizers showed up to a Church Street office lobby with $1 million in “cash” as part of a holiday-season pressure campaign against alleged wage theft at Dunkin’ Donuts.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 14, 2022 8:45 am
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Tuesday evening at Three Sheets on Elm Street found not a band onstage, but a vast assortment of paper with arrays of compelling images on them — from owls to goat people to skeletal horses, as well as letters, dingbats, and geometric shapes — along with scissors, pieces of cardboard, and glue sticks. The tables and chairs in the room were full of people using those materials to make collages — and try what Three Sheets and Hershey, Penn.-based brewer Tröegs Independent Brewing had to offer.
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Laura Glesby |
Dec 12, 2022 9:33 pm
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Father and son, reunited.
Adam Carmon, right, hugs his son outside of prison for the first time.
After 29 years in prison, Adam Carmon walked out of the Church Street courthouse handcuff-free on Monday. His son, Najee, ran out after him. They hugged for a minute, tears streaming down their faces.
“You’re here. You’re here. You’re here,” murmured Najee, who had only ever seen his father in prison or in court.
