by | Nov 7, 2022 8:50 am | Comments (1)
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The world-renowned Shubert Theatre was home to some of New Haven’s own on Saturday night, as a show entitled Elm City’s Finest brought artists performing everything from bomba to dramatic monologues to rock ‘n’ roll to this first-of-its-kind event. The evening also included work displayed by local visual artists, food from local restaurants, and wares from local vendors.
by | Nov 4, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (0)
Films and filmmakers from Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, among other places, are coming to New Haven next week as the Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — known to all as LIFFY — returns for its 13th year of free and open-to-the-public films and events, in person with an online component after being virtual only for the past two years. No one could be happier about that than its founder and executive director Margherita Tortora, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese at Yale, who is looking forward to the return of in-person events, but has also kept the online opportunities available due to audience demand.
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by | Nov 4, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (0)
In the first scene of Bekah Brunstetter’s Going to a Place Where You Already Are — now on at New Haven Theater Company as a staged reading through the weekend of Nov. 3 through Nov. 5 — Roberta (Susan Kulp) and Joe (Ralph Buonocore) are sitting in the pews of a church, chatting amiably as the service starts. What they’re talking about is, in some ways, not as important as the fact that they are talking, with the ease and camaraderie of a couple happily together for years. They forget where they are, have to apologize to the people around them. After a minute or so, it finally occurs to Roberta to ask: whose funeral are they attending, again?
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by | Nov 3, 2022 1:09 pm | Comments (2)
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Tacos Los Gordos, bustling with culinary activity on Wednesday.
The shop's "Day of the Dead" ofrenda.
A downtown taco shop has reemerged from its temporary fire-induced closure with new life, plenty of pozole and quesadillas, and a Día de los Muertos altar remembering lost loved ones close to the head chef’s heart.
by | Oct 31, 2022 3:46 pm | Comments (10)
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A headstone marking the first burial at Grove Street Cemetery in 1797.
Grove Street Friends Chair Morand: This cemetery gives New Haveners "a sense of common groundedness."
Martha Townsend was laid to rest in Grove Street Cemetery 225 years ago this fall — becoming the first person to be interred in downtown’s foliage-dappled, history-rich burial ground.
Since then, thousands of notable New Haveners have joined her. They have left behind wisdom of the ages that remains relevant today.
by | Oct 31, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Fest Faves' owners, employees, and town supporters snip the opening ribbon.
Neon candied apples, plump corn dogs, flaky fried Oreos, and carousel jingles await customers of a new Whitney Avenue restaurant, where co-owner Victoria Streeto hopes to offer a time-traveling portal to childhood comforts and delights.
by | Oct 31, 2022 9:25 am | Comments (1)
Calendar cover.
Three Sheets New Haven is well known for its dog-friendly patio, and some of the dogs that frequent there have become as familiar to its patrons as some of the human regulars.
For the third time since the bar/restaurant’s inception, a calendar featuring 13 of those patio pups was created to help raise money for Friends of the New Haven Animal Shelter. On Sunday night, Three Sheets threw a Pup-O-Ween-themed release party to celebrate the 2023 edition of that calendar, complete with the first look at this year’s edition, raffles, and, in keeping with the holiday, costumed pooches.
by | Oct 27, 2022 4:03 pm | Comments (10)
The Wine Thief at 181 Crown: Boxing out "package" competitor.
A Crown Street wine shop has succeeded in stopping a booze-dispensing competitor from opening down the street, at least for now, according to a proposed agreement that would put an end to a months-long court case.
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by | Oct 27, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Board of Directors President Anderson: The search is on.
The city’s public library has hired a search firm to find a permanent replacement for the late City Librarian John Jessen roughly five months after the beloved city figure died of cancer.
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by | Oct 26, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (0)
Antonius-Tín Bui
Không Có Gì Bãng Mà Với Con.
Even from the outside of the building, it’s clear that the gallery at Creative Arts Workshop has been transformed, by a gigantic, shimmering web of fabric. The piece is by artist Antonius-Tín Bui, and it’s made from traditional Vietnamese garments, and as a note explains, they are “a safety net of embrace, the promise of renewal, and an undeniable statement of the Vietnamese people’s vibrancy and connectedness throughout past, present, and future generations.” The piece is also a flag welcoming visitors to not one, but two shows at CAW — “Băng Qua Nước: Across Land, Across Water” and “Common,” both running now through Nov. 26, with a reception scheduled for this evening at 5:30 p.m. — that are part of the ongoing Open Source Festival organized by Artspace.
by | Oct 24, 2022 4:12 pm | Comments (3)
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Dresses out, bongs in at 968 Chapel.
The former home of the original Ann Taylor clothing store — which now sports bongs and hookahs instead of upscale womenswear — has changed hands for $2.795 million.
Continue reading ‘Real Estate Roundup: Ann Taylor-Turned-Smoke Shop Building Sold For $2.8M’
by | Oct 21, 2022 9:18 am | Comments (9)
In-house-designed depiction of New Haven's skyline on a wall of Fuss & O'Neill's new 59 Elm St. office suite.
Engineers in the thick of building up the new New Haven set up shop themselves in the center of town.
by | Oct 21, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (12)
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Board Chair Maryann Ott with State Sen. Looney.
Institute Library Executive Director Jan Swiatek won’t have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning for much longer to worry about rain pouring through the historic Chapel Street bookspace’s roof — thanks to a major renovation-funding grant approved by the state.
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by | Oct 20, 2022 11:35 am | Comments (3)
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Dwayne Betts and Nicholas Dawidoff at public library book talk.
What makes a neighborhood unique? What makes a neighborhood “iconic”? What makes a neighborhood, well, a neighborhood?
After eight years of research and 500 interviews for his landmark new book about a Newhallville murder, author Nicholas Dawidoff found the answers to those questions in the many individual voices that — taken together — add up to something rich and profound.
by | Oct 17, 2022 10:45 am | Comments (7)
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Long Wharf Theatre leaders at Audubon St. fest Saturday.
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Bidding adieu to 222 Sargent stage on Friday.
Audubon Street burst into party mode Saturday as Long Wharf Theatre celebrated its move from a Sargent Drive stage to offices downtown — as well as the beginning of a new itinerant model of presenting works across various locations in Greater New Haven.
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by | Oct 17, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (3)
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Emma Pfitzer Price, Nate Janis, René Augesen, and Dan Donohue.
Edward Albee’s 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a classic of American theater. Its depiction of a middle-aged academic couple at a New England university joined by a younger couple for a night of nonstop drinking seems tailor-made for Yale, where James Bundy, the dean of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, directs a revival both respectful and gripping, through Oct. 29. It’s a play full of shifts in sympathy and understanding, as we realize — somewhat uncomfortably — that unlikeable people may have earned their manner from deep hurts and sorrows.
by | Oct 14, 2022 10:00 am | Comments (4)
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Robert Squillaro shows off J. Press's classic three-button roll.
Back in 1902, Richard Press’s Latvian immigrant grandfather Jacobi knocked on the doors of Yale dorm rooms to sell the students custom-made clothing.
Word spread about the stylish jackets with their unpadded shoulders and snazzy vents.
J. Press was born.
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by | Oct 14, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (10)
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Grad union backers gather on Hillhouse Thursday.
The sky opened up as the rally rounded onto Prospect Street, drenching hundreds of union-boosting Yalies and their allies as they marched towards Grove.
The downpour did little to dampen their spirits — or their voices. Though it did temporarily change their chant as they called for a union to represent graduate student-teachers.
What was: “What do we want?” “A union!” “When do we want it?” “Now!” transformed into: “Rain, rain, go away! We want to talk to Salovey!”
by | Oct 14, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (0)
The Queen's Artillery
Ascension to the Throne — Wassup and Coronation Day — Sequel to the Queen.
The paintings are as entertaining as they are provocative. It’s not just in the mixed materials that give each of the canvases three-dimensional elements, and bring the clothing to dazzling life, nor is it just in the knowing glances on the subjects’ faces. The titles of the paintings — Ascension to the Throne — Wassup and Coronation Day — Sequel to the Queen — give a clear sense of the inspiration behind the paintings. The old order, the paintings say, is coming to an end. A new aristocracy is coming; one that’s younger, Blacker, and, well, maybe more fun, too.
by | Oct 13, 2022 9:50 am | Comments (20)
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David Agosta with Zinn behind K of C museum on walking tour.
As cars rumbled along a milled-but-not-yet-repaved stretch of State Street behind the Knights of Columbus museum, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn urged the dozen downtown neighbors before him to engage in a little “crazy brainstorming.”
What could — what should — this roadway be when it no longer belongs to cars?
by | Oct 13, 2022 9:39 am | Comments (19)
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Scenes from ULA's Indigenous Peoples' Day gathering Wednesday.
“Our people live without borders,” John Lugo said in Spanish to a small crowd gathered on the corner of Church and Chapel to celebrate both migrants and indigenous people who call this land home.
Continue reading ‘"This Is Our Continent": ULA Honors Indigenous Peoples' Day On Green’
by | Oct 12, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (0)
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Beech Leaf Disease (detail).
Leila Daw’s Beech Leaf Disease may be a work in progress, but in its assemblage it packs a powerful punch.
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by | Oct 7, 2022 2:36 pm | Comments (1)
100 Crown St.: Sold for $1.4M.
A downtown landlord has purchased a 1903-built Crown Street commercial building for $1.4 million to make room for his realty firm as he builds out the newly opened “bioscience center” around the corner.
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by | Oct 7, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (5)
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Rick Altice: As overdoses rise, patients need safe equipment.
A Yale harm reduction-focused healthcare team has its sights set on installing a trio of vending machines around town that would dispense not candy bars and soda, but clean syringes, safe injection kits, and overdose reversal medication.
by | Oct 7, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (2)
Official Trailer - Greatest Radio Station in the World from Cob Carlson on Vimeo.
The broadcaster the New Yorker called “the greatest radio station in the world.” A musician who sounds like three musicians. The history of a certain bivalve in New Haven. The trial of a Black Panther. Climate change and air guitar. Films about all these and more will be finding their way to screens for 10 days this month as the New Haven Documentary Film Festival, now in its ninth year, returns to the Elm City from Oct. 13 to 23, screening feature films and shorts, hosting several musical performances, and featuring a student film competition — 116 films in all.
Continue reading ‘Film Festival Keeps Documentaries In Focus’