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Jul 25, 2022 8:49 am
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The Cult.
On Sunday night The Cult, led by vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, took their We Own The Night Tour to College Street Music Hall in downtown New Haven. With a plethora of material to choose from, the group — who creatively fused hard rock, new wave and goth in the ’80s and ’90s — played a set of fan favorites, drawing mainly from their trio of late-’80s hit records Love, Electric and Sonic Temple.
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Laura Glesby |
Jul 22, 2022 2:50 pm
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Ned Lamont announces bill in front of all-electric buses.
Gov. Ned Lamont inhaled the sweltering heat-wave air of the city with the country’s seventh-highest asthma prevalence — and touted a new state law aiming to make that air easier to breathe.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 20, 2022 8:56 am
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Ieshia Evans Protesting the Death of Alton Sterling (Baton Rouge, 9 July 2016).
The source photograph — by Reuters photographer Jonathan Bachman, of Black Lives Matter protester Ieshia Evans standing off against police in Baton Rouge, La., during a protest of the killing of Alton Sterling by police in 2016 — is already a capturing of opposites. The kinetic poses of the police, clearly in motion, versus Evans’s stillness. The heaviness of the officers’ body armor versus the light billowing of the hem of Evans’s dress. Marc Quinn’s treatment of the image, made in 2017, takes it all a step further. Cutting the image into quarters accentuates what’s going on, and hearkens back to triptychs and other more antiquated forms of history paintings. The streaks of paint thrown across the painting add to the immediacy of the action, but also call attention to the change in medium, from photography to painting. What does it mean to try to immortalize an image? Which is another way of asking: how do we remember history?
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Jul 19, 2022 4:48 pm
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Tony Rizzo on site on Orange Street in Tuesday's heat.
As Tony Rizzo sought shade to supervise workers laying the foundation for yet more new downtown apartments, he was reminded of the brick oven heat that serves as the inception of another New Haven production: Wood fired, thin crust pizza.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 19, 2022 8:21 am
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Sylvia J. Yanez
Hi, I'm Melting.
Sylvia J. Yanez’s Hi, I’m Melting has its sense of humor, starting from the title. It exudes a friendliness that draws a viewer in. But there’s something harrowing going on, too. There are the cracked patches of paint like angry scabs, the colors bleeding and running together seeming out of control. That the paint is roughly in the shape of the United States, and that it appears to be melting down, gives it an extra push into chilling territory, though explicitly commenting on the current political situation isn’t Yanez’s stated objective. The aim of her art is more personal, more social; maybe you could say deeper.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 18, 2022 9:26 am
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On Friday evening a group of percussionists gathered on the north end of the New Haven Green. They were mostly members of the bomba group Proyecto Cimarrón, and they were there to play for the community — and honor a musical luminary who, just before coming to the Green, gave them a lesson in the heritage of the music they were playing.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 15, 2022 8:43 am
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Bridget Riley
Blaze 4.
On one hand Blaze 4 is a simple design concept: a series of concentric circles, lines angled in alternating directions. The kind of thing that, in the hands of someone less attuned to detail, would be a muddled mess, or almost silly, like a picture of spiraling tweed. But in the hands of master contemporary artist Bridget Riley, it’s a buzzing, vertiginous image, the sort of thing that requires a warning label for people sensitive to strobes. It’s a perfect marriage of form and technique, and that the effect is so visceral is argument enough for why the Yale Center for British Art has dedicated two floors of the museum to a massive retrospective of the celebrated artist’s work, called “Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction” — and there are just two more weekends to see it before it closes on July 24.
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Thomas Breen |
Jul 8, 2022 2:48 pm
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Attorney Crump on Friday: Police violated Cox's constitutional rights.
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U.S. Attorney Vanessa Avery, with First Assistant U.S. Attorney Alfred Pavlis, after the meeting with Cox's family and lawyers on Friday.
Richard “Randy” Cox’s lawyers and family delivered a request Friday directly to Connecticut’s U.S. attorney: that her office launch its own investigation into whether New Haven cops violated the constitutional rights of the hospitalized 36-year-old New Havener.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 8, 2022 9:25 am
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The Roots.
A packed College Street Music Hall on Thursday night was treated to a three-act evening of deeply soulful music that encompassed New Haven music heroes Phat Astronaut and culminated in the now-seminal Philadephia hip hop act the Roots.
The 124-unit Liberty apartment building on Temple Street has sold for $29.1 million — becoming the latest large downtown residential complex to change hands for millions of dollars above its city-appraised value.
How 4 downtown development sites were supposed to look ...
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... and how they actually look today. Clockwise from top left: 80 Elm St.; 842-848 Chapel St.; 19 Elm St.; the former Coliseum site at Orange St., George St., State St., and MLK Blvd.
Three different developers promised to build over 460 apartments and 132 hotel rooms across four different city-approved projects downtown amid a building boom.
Years later, those projects remain unbuilt — and the lots they’re slated for are still empty and, in one case, strewn with rubble.
What happened? And will these developments ever get done?
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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 4, 2022 9:23 am
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Tisha Hudson mixing her cream cheese frosting.
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Behold the Edible Couture strawberry shortcake cheesecake cupcake.
The strawberry crumble festive with summer. The frolicking dollop of cream cheese frosting. The luscious strawberry slice on top. It’s positively gleeful.
Elicker bikes across Orange while U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Alder Carmen Rodriguez, neighbor Thomasine Shaw, and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz walk down the pedestrian crosswalk.
A Congresswoman, a mayor, an alder, a lieutenant governor, and a longtime Hill resident crossed Orange Street Monday morning — because, after a half-century, they finally could.
Left: Edison's back stairwell before cleanup; right: buckets absorb the leak in Edison's kids' bedroom.
Edison's check from court.
Hawa Edison will resume paying rent to her landlord for the first time in eight months — the first time in years since the ceiling of her kids’ bedroom has been intact and free of mold.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 27, 2022 9:45 am
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For its concluding day on Sunday, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas hosted or facilitated a slew of activities on the New Haven Green that kept people there from morning to night, beginning with circuses and magicians, continuing through jerk chicken and dancing, and ending with a drag show about the need to reconnect with a sense of pride.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 24, 2022 7:30 pm
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At Friday's protest downtown.
Hundreds of abortion rights protesters filled the federal courthouse steps downtown to decry the U.S. Supreme Court’s “outrageous” and “unacceptable” overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 23, 2022 1:17 pm
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Sister Thi Kim Uyen Do, OP, melds traditional and modern Vietnamese dance techniques at Wecnesday celebration.
Internationally-minded New Haveners gathered in the Ives Main Library Branch’s Orchid Cafe to celebrate 45 years of sister-city relationships with eight communities around the world — and a local culture that welcomes immigrants and travelers amid rising xenophobia.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 23, 2022 8:54 am
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Halfway through his set on the New Haven Green as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas on Wednesday night, Ghanian-born musician and dancer Okaidja taught the small but stalwart audience assembled to see him a typical Ghanian greeting. Ago? he explained, was a way of asking if anyone was home when approaching a house. Amen, he continued, was the response from the person inside the house, indicating they were home. He explained then that he would sometimes use it to check in with the audience, to make sure they were still connected. It wasn’t necessary; though rain and unseasonable cold kept away many, those that showed up on the Green had come to listen.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 22, 2022 9:56 am
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At the start of Parable of the Sower — playing against Wednesday evening at the Shubert Theatre as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas — Toshi Reagon asks the audience two questions: whether they have been taking care of those around them, and whether they have been taking care of themselves. She pulls the theater move of being disappointed by a first, lackluster response, and then makes people respond again, more affirmingly, more enthusiastically. But what sounds like a self-help session takes a sharp turn when she adds that both are maybe “the only way we’re going to survive” — the next five, 10, 15, 20 years.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 21, 2022 9:31 pm
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Life Safety Compliance Officer Frank Filardo and Fire Marshal Scott Dillon at the scene.
A 65-year-old man suffered first-degree burns from a fire in his downtown apartment, and at least nine households relocated to hotel rooms after the flames were quenched.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2022 8:53 am
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The image of a young Black person behind bars is freighted with decades — centuries — of cultural hurt, and artist Mosho knows it. As an accompanying note explains, the artist “deploys paint, plastic sheeting, and other materials to construct installations that explore issues of identity, community, and belonging.” Here Mosho takes the image and subverts it. Give the image more than a cursory glance and you see that the bars are melting away before the subject’s gaze. And that the hand that holds that dissolving bar, and is perhaps doing the dissolving, contains a galaxy within it, a sign of universal power and also nearly unknowable complexity. It’s an image that hints at liberation through exploration, of the universe and of the self at the same time.
The former Vito's Deli building, soon to house new apartments.
A Wyoming-based developer won permission to convert a vacant office and commercial building into nine new apartments — as long as he preserves at least part of the former Vito’s Deli storefront for some kind of groundfloor commercial use.
