by | Jun 20, 2022 8:25 am | Comments (2)
Yale Repertory Theatre was the setting on a chillier than typical Saturday in June for a cool combination of events presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, both featuring local designer and cool cat himself, Neville Wisdom.
by | Jun 17, 2022 5:34 pm | Comments (2)
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Nyasia Davis and Daniya Cox at graduation Friday: We did it for Mooka.
Davis' cap Friday picturing her father and best friend Mooka, who died in a car crash senior year.
She didn’t live to attend in person, but Camryn “Mooka” Gayle was there in spirit Friday to graduate along with her classmates from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School.
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by | Jun 17, 2022 3:01 pm | Comments (2)
Charlie Ludwig, Irv Rohinsky: Back then, the Sun came out at 11 p.m.
Mayoral proclamation honors a lifelong friendship.
Charles Ludwig and Irving Rohinsky celebrated a high school reunion for two on a park bench — as the lifelong friends and Commercial High School Class of 1945 graduates kept alive a tradition that has been going strong for 77 years.
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by | Jun 17, 2022 9:59 am | Comments (7)
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Domestic workers Thursday calling for rights and recognition.
Over 20 domestic workers and their families gathered in a church sanctuary to call for sick days, maternity leave, and healthcare — and to celebrate their day-to-day work, without which “the world stands still.”
by | Jun 17, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (0)
“The genius of a lot of Octavia’s work,” said Toshi Reagon about visionary science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is that the circumstances she describes in her books are “applicable to anyone at any time.” Reading Butler’s work, she said, the reader may think, “that could happen to me.” Or: “I hope that never happens.” Or: “I can imagine myself there.”
Continue reading ‘Opera Delivers Visionary Author's Urgent Message’
by | Jun 16, 2022 10:31 am | Comments (1)
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Kraftwerk at work Wednesday night at College Street Music Hall.
Another lonely night… stare at the TV screen…I don’t know what to do… I need a rendezvous.
Over a bass line you could feel in your chest, embellished with an array of colorful synths, the seminal techno German music group Kraftwerk played their 1970-track “Computer Love” to an audience at College Street Music Hall Wednesday, filled with fans who may have related more strongly to the lyrics than half a century ago when the song was first released.
The lyrics evoked an experience all too familiar: an unrelenting sense of alienation, that is unsolved by modern technologies, especially those that promise to connect us.
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by | Jun 16, 2022 8:55 am | Comments (1)
Origins and Future, detail.
Origins and Future spreads out across the floor of an upper gallery at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street. It’s composed of shapes that are fascinating and uncomfortable in equal measure. Are they the result of biology or technology? The stranger ends of the plant and animal kingdoms or something that was created in a lab? Or perhaps are they a mixture of both? Or, is it that the line between the natural and technological world is a lot more porous than we usually think it is?
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by | Jun 15, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (3)
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Rebecca Patterson, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra's principal cellist and a Neighborhood Music School instructor, plays "Sicilenne" by Maria Theresia von Paradis at Wednesday's announcement.
Four local non-profits will stand on stronger financial footing as they steward New Haven’s history, culture, and mental health care, thanks to a record $35 million donation to the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven.
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by | Jun 13, 2022 3:29 pm | Comments (0)
Early in Felon: An American Washi Tale, poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts talks about how, as a prisoner serving time for a carjacking, he heard his fellow prisoners calling to each other in the dark, looking for something to read. “Yo, send me a book!” they called out, and in the dark, he heard the paper slide across the cell block floor. It took him a while to muster the courage to ask for himself — “Yo, send me a book!” The poetry anthology that slipped under his door set him on the path to his freedom.
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by | Jun 13, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (6)
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Sunita Kalluri chats with friends Anushka Halder, Anurag Khandelwal, and Kallol Gupta.
The party was near the clouds Friday evening, as residents of 360 State Street apartments mingled about the building’s rooftop lawn for the first installment of Elm City Market’s summer celebration series.
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by | Jun 10, 2022 4:38 pm | Comments (4)
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Ruth-Ann Millwood (center left) at Friday's ceremony on the Green.
Reading from The Oath of Allegiance.
Ruth-Ann Millwood raised her right hand and, after pledging her “true faith and allegiance” to the country she has called home for more than half of her life, officially became a United States citizen.
by | Jun 9, 2022 8:45 am | Comments (1)
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Seny Tatchol Camara, giving instructions on how to strike the drum.
On a recent Saturday, the main hall of Yale’s Afro-American Cultural Center echoed with the sound of drums, playing driving, intricate rhythms together — compelling enough to bring someone in off the street to ask if she could join in. She was in luck: the drums were part of an African drumming and dancing class offered by the New Haven School of African Drum and Dance, which, after a long Covid-imposed hiatus, has resumed, holding classes Saturday afternoons and Monday evenings for the forseeable future.
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by | Jun 7, 2022 9:23 am | Comments (0)
The Board of Alders meeting Monday night..
It’s official: The nonprofits controlled by a man convicted of repeatedly raping his high school student will not receive the Board of Alders’ stamp of approval to receive state tax credits.
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by | Jun 4, 2022 8:49 pm | Comments (16)
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Protesters to Brett: Don't do it.
Infuriated by the Supreme Court’s likely reversal of Roe v. Wade and striking down of abortion rights, hundreds of Yale alumni gathered on campus to send a message to their former classmate, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “Change your vote.”
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by | May 30, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (9)
Book Trader Blue Hawaiian (coconut/vanilla) & Lilikoi (passion fruit) shave ice.
A chilled sweet taste of Hawaii has hit Chapel Street just in time for the summer heat — and to help a local business survive the pandemic with a new passion (fruit) lure.
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by | May 26, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (2)
A sculpture by artist Yvonne Shortt on display outside 51 Trumbull St.
Clockwise from upper left: ECOCA board members Suneet Talpade, Jeanne Criscola, Debbie Hesse, Jeanne Ciravolo.
A downtown visual arts nonprofit has closed on its purchase of the John Slade Ely House — warding off the building’s potential sale to a residential developer, with the help of a loan from two Fair Haven businessmen.
Continue reading ‘Property Roundup: Nonprofit Buys Ely House For $800K; LCI Buys Blighted 3-Family’
by | May 25, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (1)
The foggy, paranoid view through the peephole of a door to an apartment. A painting of a container ship erupting into flames. A gas can looking ready to be ignited. They come across as a dislocated parts of a whole, tiny fragments of something too big to comprehend all at once. They’re part of “Proximity,” a show running now in the gallery at Creative Arts Workshop through June 8, in which artists come to grips with the war in Ukraine, producing an exhibit that conveys the conflict’s harrowing immediacy and something of its historical context at the same time.
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by | May 24, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (1)
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Ribbon cut for TNP's three-year anniversary.
The Narrative Project (TNP) celebrated its three-year milestone of being “storytellers for good” who intentionally follow a model based on a grandmother’s living room.
by | May 23, 2022 8:21 am | Comments (0)
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“We gonna talk about war and genocide and PTSD and molestation. So it’s OK to laugh,” says Larry (Justin Gauthier), the amiable host of Between Two Knees, now playing at Yale Repertory Theatre through June 4. He reappears in a variety of guises and his deadpan commentary is one of the best things in the show. He enters the stage on a lift through a trapdoor, looking like an icon of Native American tribal lore, and he ends the show in a kind of glam Native American spacesuit, a way of saying that the people who were the earliest human inhabitants of the American continent will always be here, no matter what the future holds.
Continue reading ‘Yale Rep Holds Up A Dark Funhouse Mirror To History’
by | May 20, 2022 1:39 pm | Comments (4)
Project manager Linda Blaszka at work in new office.
Whenever designers feel stuck, all they have to do is look out the window for inspiration.
That’s among the reasons for the recent move of Newman Architects from longtime street-level digs to new offices 15 floors above 265 Church St.
by | May 15, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (0)
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Raheem DeVaughn performs at Shubert.
Freedom Fund 2022 honorees.
After a three-year hiatus, the annual Freedom Fundraiser held by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned full-force Thursday evening with a rhythmic and intimate remixed celebration at the Shubert Theater.
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by | May 12, 2022 4:49 pm | Comments (29)
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Student protesters marching downtown Thursday.
Three hundred students poured out of New Haven high schools onto city buses and the streets to the New Haven Green to issue a cry for help: We need more counselors, not cops, to help us deal with exploding mental-health concerns.
by | May 12, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (3)
Inside the Sandbox — a new space for art events at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven on Audubon Street — there’s a small garden growing, made not of plants, but fiber. There are ropes of vines fashioned from T‑shirts, leaves of pressed polyethylene, mossy mats of yarn. The project, titled “Unclassified,” is the work of artist Yolanda Davis, who, as the Arts Council’s artist in residence, started it in the fall. It now hangs in the Sandbox space like an enormous divider, a waterfall of foliage. Soon it will be taken down. And to Davis, it still isn’t really complete.
by | May 10, 2022 8:38 am | Comments (0)
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After a long pandemic-induced hiatus, the New Haven Theater Company has returned to its digs in the back of EBM Vintage on Chapel Street, with its first full-scale production in two years, as John Watson directs fellow members J. Kevin Smith and Susan Kulp in Sharr White’s Annapurna, which run Thursday through Saturday, May 12 to 14 and 19 to 21.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Theater Company Scales New Heights’
by | May 5, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (0)
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Adam Carmon in court with his teenage mugshot on screen.
As one of Adam Carmon’s lawyers summed up a case centered on dropped leads, concealed evidence, and “chicken scratch pencil behind a random guy’s photograph,” another squeezed Carmon’s shoulder.
Eight days of passionate argument revisiting the 1994 murder of a baby were coming to a close. Carmon’s fate now rests with a judge who must decide whether the revelations merit a new criminal trial.