by | Apr 1, 2022 10:55 am | Comments (1)
Librarian Matt Ulman offering guidance to Seung Ha and Kenneth Saito.
At a table in the brightly lit children’s section on the second level of Ives Main Library on Elm Street, two budding chess masters considered their next move.
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by | Mar 30, 2022 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
As the sun set, the playlist of mid-2000s slow emotional pop inside B Natural Kitchen made the experience of eating a “Warm Market Bowl” by the College Street window feel like a moment straight out of a rom-com — while the bowl itself offered respite from the chilly wind outside.
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by | Mar 29, 2022 4:41 pm | Comments (8)
Scratch that: Rendering of the originally proposed Whitney-Trumbull development.
A controversial application to build 150 apartments at Trumbull and Whitney has stalled after the City Plan Department rejected the developer’s application and removed it from an upcoming zoning meeting agenda.
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by | Mar 28, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Nick Di Maria Quartet.
New Haven has always been hungry for jazz, and as the city continues to open back up to more opportunities to hear it live, musician Nick Di Maria has added yet another night to his already busy roster for music lovers to enjoy jazz while having dinner and drinks. Friday Night at Jack’s debuted this past weekend on the corner of College and Crown at Jack’s Bar and Steakhouse from 7 to 9 p.m. Di Maria was there with his quartet to play the first show, though this is far from his first time playing there.
by | Mar 26, 2022 9:46 pm | Comments (18)
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Housing activists protest outside City Hall.
Camila Guiza-Chavez and Norm Clement lead the rally.
Fifty people gathered on the front steps of City Hall to call for New Haven to allocate a majority of the $115 million it received in federal Covid relief funding toward affordable housing.
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by | Mar 25, 2022 12:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Gold and Gateway community cut ribbon on new center.
While helping to cut the ribbon on a newly renamed Gateway Community College (GCC) counseling and wellness center, alum Kelsey Snedeker thought back to when she lost both her adoptive and biological mothers a few months apart — and how Gateway’s wellness center got her through school and her loss.
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by | Mar 25, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (7)
Clockwise from upper left: ECOCA board members Suneet Talpade, Jeanne Criscola, Debbie Hesse, Jeanne Ciravolo.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is officially buying the John Slade Ely House, the Elizabethan mansion on Trumbull Street that has served as a hub for the New Haven visual arts community since 1961. It’s purchasing the building from ACES for $800,000, fending off a bid from a developer for the same price.
“All the people that have been supportive of us are ecstatic that we’re in this position,” said Jeanne Criscola, ECOCA’s board president.
by | Mar 24, 2022 9:19 am | Comments (0)
Mark Rothko
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It’s only the form of it, the broad bands of color, that might give away that the painting above is by Mark Rothko, famous for his much more abstract work. The faces, the shapes of waves, of limbs, the fact that there are lines at all, aren’t Rothko’s style at all — or at least not the style we know him for. It’s all too tempting to map the general narrative of art history in the 20th century, from representational to abstract art, onto Rothko’s own personal history. In that context, we might think this is a painting Rothko made early in his life, before he discovered abstraction. We’d be wrong — he made it a year before he died. We think of Rothko and his contemporaries as abstract painters, but they were more than that. The story is more complicated.
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by | Mar 23, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (2)
Hoops, silks, and poles — and artists using them all to perform fantastical feats — are all part of Air Temple Takes New Haven, the latest show from New Haven-based aerial dance, circus and movement studio Air Temple Arts, running at Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street this Saturday and Sunday. The all-ages circus themed event is special for a few reasons. One is that it is the studio’s first in-person indoor show in 34 months.
Another is that it is the first one that features all of the Woodbridge studio’s staff. And they are thrilled for both.
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by | Mar 22, 2022 11:41 am | Comments (5)
Former pizza spot at 82-90 Wall St. today...
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... Yale's planned transformation of the site.
Yale’s plans to convert a former Wall Street pizza restaurant into classrooms and gathering spaces took a small step forward, as alders unanimously approved a resolution stating that the project won’t require any changes to the university’s central campus parking plan.
by | Mar 18, 2022 3:10 pm | Comments (7)
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Michael Gormany faces Alders Anna Festa, Ron Hurt, and Adam Marchand at Thursday night's budget hearing.
City Hall plans to grow and restructure its technology department to focus more on fending off cyber-attacks and adapting to an increasingly online world.
by | Mar 17, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (4)
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Event co-organizer Joliana Yee, at left, marking one-year anniversary of Atlanta killings.
The names were read aloud to a hushed crowd.
“Feng Daoyou. Hyun Jung Grant. Kim Sun Cha. Paul Andre Michels. Park Soon Chung. Tan Xiaojie. Delaine Ashley Yaun. Yue Ae Yong. And Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, who survived the incident.”
Then, a moment of silence.
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by | Mar 17, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (0)
Sarah Schneiderman
The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4.
The title of Sarah Schneiderman’s piece at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street — The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4 — makes the target of the artist’s intentions clear, and it gets at something about the overall effects of certain aspects of our healthcare system, creating a country awash in prescription medication and, as recent high-profile lawsuits have shown, far too many addicts in the process. But Schneiderman’s piece also gets at something even broader than that. Its depiction of the flag itself It aptly illustrates the way the past couple years has seen the nation change shape, bending and warping, struggling to turn into something else under the most fractious politics seen in a long time. Schneiderman kept her eyes on her intended subject, but touched on something deeper as well.
Continue reading ‘In Ely Center Exhibition, Artists Explore What Lies Beneath’
by | Mar 16, 2022 3:12 pm | Comments (26)
Rendering of Wall St. Pizza conversion.
Yale plans to transform the former home of Wall Street Pizza — and before that, Naples Pizza — into classrooms and gathering spaces.
by | Mar 15, 2022 1:28 pm | Comments (4)
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Demonstrators at Tuesday morning's rally.
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Childcare workers dance to "If You're Happy And You Know It."
Preschool teachers led a round of “If You’re Happy And You Know It” Tuesday morning — but this time it was adults, not kids, singing along. And they weren’t happy.
The 350 childcare workers and parents (and some young children) were gathered on the New Haven Green to make a point about a funding crisis affecting their classrooms, and to demand help from the state.
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by | Mar 14, 2022 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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Ministry at College Street.
The Industrial Strength Tour rolled through New Haven Friday night, boasting a trio of bands each with a career spanning approximately four decades. Ministry, Melvins and Corrosion Of Conformity are among some of the most influential and longest tenured in their respective heavy metal sub-genres, and in front of an engaged — and sometimes rowdy — audience at College Street Music Hall, they proved why.
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by | Mar 11, 2022 1:35 pm | Comments (8)
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Closed, but not for long: The spot at Park & Elm.
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Snapshots of Place 2 Be's other locations.
A Hartford-based brunch bar is planning to move to the former home of Box 63 on Elm Street, now that New Haven’s zoning board has OK’d the renewed sale of alcohol there.
by | Mar 11, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (9)
... alongside two recent electric additions to the state's bus fleet.
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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right) with bus drivers Jermaine and Sylvia...
Twenty-two new electric buses should hit the streets of New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Stamford over the next year and a half, thanks in part to a newly awarded $11.4 million federal grant to help the state transportation department wean itself off of fossil fuels.
by | Mar 7, 2022 2:51 pm | Comments (1)
Lisa Craggett, mother of New Haven gun violence victim Jacob Craggett, appearing in True Conviction episode.
Eight years after a murder upended their lives, members of a New Haven family are about to tell their story to a national audience.
by and | Mar 3, 2022 4:48 pm | Comments (8)
Evadney Taylor's word on College Street: It's complicated.
Evadney Taylor rushed to get to work on time while shuttling kids to school, navigating a botched breakfast take-out order, and figuring out how to fend off an eviction by a legal aid staffer while seven months pregnant.
by | Mar 2, 2022 4:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Ely Center board members Rashmi Talpade, Valerie Garlick, Jeanne Criscola, and Debbie Hesse.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is busy not just putting art on its walls — but looking for the money to keep the walls themselves. It has two weeks.
by | Mar 2, 2022 2:45 pm | Comments (7)
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The proposed zone change.
The Board of Alders’ legislation committee unanimously supported a request to rezone the lot at 78 Olive St. on Tuesday evening, inching one step closer to a 13-story apartment building at the site.
by | Mar 1, 2022 6:53 pm | Comments (43)
Rendering of project facade.
“This is absolutely ridiculous, who you people are. This is unbelievable. We’re trying to make a significant investment in your area. You really want the buildings that are there to continue to be there the way like this? You’re happy with the status quo?”
Jared Hutter — CEO and co-founder of real estate firm Aptitude Development — said that to the East Rock Community Management Team at a combative meeting Monday night.
He got as good as he gave.
by | Feb 28, 2022 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
Joshua Watkins, executive director of the Community Soup Kitchen.
Continue reading ‘Turbocharged Community Soup Kitchen Plans Return To Indoor Dining’
by | Feb 28, 2022 12:13 pm | Comments (5)
Courtesy Ely Center
The John Slade Ely House at 51 Trumbull St. — home to the Ely Center of Contemporary Art — is up for sale.
ECOCA founder Jeanne Criscola made the announcement Sunday evening.