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Dec 6, 2024 12:15 pm
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Tommy V and David Ramos.
There are people who talk about helping and change and making the world a better place one day, and then there’s Joey Batts and the CT hip hop community, who for the past 11 years have gathered for a series of shows at multiple venues throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts to actually do it. Hip Hop for the Homeless began its annual December run raising funds and collecting donations for local groups on Thursday night.
First stop: New Haven’s Cafe Nine, where host for the evening Sketch tha Cataclysm brought forth a healthy and harmonious collection of CT-based hip hop artists to entertain for a worthy cause: Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 8, 2024 4:31 pm
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Sterling Valentine dances out his stress.
Xiomarie LaBeija reminds the crowd: In case nobody told you today, you're special.
Legal rights may be fragile, but community isn’t.
That message resounded through a post-election gathering at the New Haven Pride Center on Thursday evening, where attendees reeling from Donald Trump’s presidential victory found a salve in art, dance, drag, mindfulness, and mutual support.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 5, 2024 7:55 am
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Allen Lowe.
On Friday night, the latest show in Firehouse 12’s fall concert series featured a journey through the American music of the 20th century before the rise of hip hop, as imaginatively seen through the eyes of one of jazz’s most central figures, Louis Armstrong. In walking decades in the icon’s shoes, it was also a trip through the latest compositional ideas of musician and writer Allen Lowe.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 18, 2024 1:37 pm
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Olmo-Rivera, Zumwalt-Hathaway, and Werlin.
What happens when a Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen volunteer and New Haven arts and culture scene superfan decides to combine the two things near and dear to his heart? The New Haven Cares Festival of Arts and Music is born.
The brain child of Andrew Zumwalt-Hathaway, this newly created fundraising event will transform some of the city’s hottest night spots into places where donations can be collected for the annual DESK Thanksgiving For All program, offering both good will and a good time.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 10, 2024 3:17 pm
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Looking through the Chapel Street window glass at an empty Elm City Market.
(Updated) Elm City Market has officially closed its 360 State St. location — in advance of the grocery store’s planned move to a smaller space a few blocks away at the “Square 10” development at the former Coliseum site.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 30, 2024 8:37 am
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Taylor Ho Bynum.
Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there. “I cannot imagine my life without it,” he said, from his collaborations with Anthony Braxton to his numerous performances there with other groups. On Friday, however, he was there with UK-based pianist Alexander Hawkins, as part of the Crown Street bar- recording studio-performance space’s fall jazz series, running now into December.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 19, 2024 9:36 am
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Jangly, catchy riffs. Yearning melodies. Rhythms designed for dancing. Three bands — Floater Verses, Toy Cities, and Los Shadows — deployed all three elements to great effect at Cafe Nine Wednesday night, adding up to one of the poppiest nights the club on State and Crown has booked in recent memory.
Kent Mawhinney and Alexis Kang: Give pinot noir a chance.
Hundreds of new residents will soon be allowed to move into on-the-rise apartments at the ex-Coliseum property — but they won’t be allowed to walk downstairs to buy alcohol at a “high-end” liquor store on site.
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Aug 30, 2024 9:39 am
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Jammin out at Cafe 9 on a Sunday afternoon.
Turkey Vulture — a metal/punk duo of Milford-based couple Jessie May (vocals, guitar) and Jim Clegg (drums) — typically spend Sunday afternoons entertaining their two toddler sons. So when May growled into the mic and ripped into a distorted-guitar riff at Cafe Nine on a recent Sunday afternoon in early August, it felt wholly cathartic.
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Aug 29, 2024 11:02 am
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Oren Mendieta and Angeline Rivera: Jobreel video "gives you that human communication that you can’t find on a resumé."
Sisters Elena and Emily Grewal: Putting new job hiring app to work.
With college on the horizon, Wilbur Cross High School seniors Oren Mendieta and Angeline Rivera are on the hunt for a job to cover tuition expenses — so they showed up to a Ninth Square job fair hosted by a new app looking to connect local employers and employees to-be.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 29, 2024 9:41 am
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Rappers, producers, and drummers came together at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown Wednesday night to celebrate the release of a new album, and give a sense of how the underground hip hop scene connects New Haven and New York.
Here comes the neighborhood: Potential buildings to come (in white) to transform the Ninth Square. (Cafe 9 is at center near bottom.)
Housing authority head Karen DuBois-Walton: "We need to be building more housing. That is how we move forward."
Builders are ready to un-pave parking lots — and erect hundreds of new mixed-income apartments downtown.
Two dozen officials announced that news Tuesday afternoon alongside developers during a press conference heralding newly inked agreements to redevelop a car-centric stretch of State and George streets.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 15, 2024 11:30 am
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Pat Stone performing with a full band at cafe nine.
“Thanks for coming out on this scorching Sunday,” said Billy Scovill of The Ambulance Chasers as they opened a three-band bill at Cafe Nine Sunday afternoon. It was indeed a scorcher outside, but the corner of State and Crown was the perfect place to cool off with icy drinks and a trio of CT-based bands playing the kind of rock that fires everyone up and almost makes you forget you have to go back to work the next day.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 11, 2024 9:17 am
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Madou Sidiki Diabaté and Salif Bamakora, with their koras at Cafe 9.
The chitchat at Cafe Nine on Wednesday might have been getting a little intense, but a flourish of notes from the 21-string kora of Madou Sidiki Diabaté was enough to silence them.
One by one the voices died down as Diabaté floated phrase after mesmerizing phrase into the air — modern yet informed by a West African culture thousands of years old.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 21, 2024 12:00 pm
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Re-X Clinic attendees with their pickles.
The kitchen of MakeHaven was cramped and filled to the brim with the strong smell of vegetables, oil, and brine. Eight people gathered with Young Le Do on Thursday night to participate in a pickle-making workshop called Re‑X Clinic: In a Pickle!
Some people brought the contents of their fridge. Others darted across the street to Elm City Market to purchase vegetables and herbs. The group shared ingredients between them, until the air was as filled with camaraderie as the jars were filled with salt.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 19, 2024 9:18 am
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Shrapknel.
Dying in hospice. Shedding the uniform known as your body. Name-checking Milford. All these topics and more flew through bar after bar of hip hop, as six acts from near and far burned through their sets to the delight of a good-sized audience who had come to hear them at Cafe Nine.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 17, 2024 1:26 pm
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Wadada Leo Smith: “I was born in Mississippi where the sunrise comes out of the ground."
Creative Musicians Improvisors Forum (CMIF) co-founder Wadada Leo Smith kept the audience at Firehouse 12 on Saturday enraptured as he detailed a life rooted in musical history, from Mississippi to California to Chicago to Europe to New Haven.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 17, 2024 10:56 am
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DESK director Werlin (center): Guided by "accessibility."
In order to operate a soon-to-be-renovated four-story hub of meals, healthcare, and gathering for unhoused clients, Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) is going to need an elevator.
And in order to dig an elevator shaft, the organization first needs to shore up the foundation of the parking garage next door.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 5, 2024 9:19 am
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Chloe.
Chloe, of the Hartford-based band Cvmrats, told stories about deceased friends and the difficulties of being mistaken for a train hopper, but everyone at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night knew the reason she — and all of them — were there. As the State Street club listed it, “on behalf of Chloe from Cvmrats, we are hosting a benefit show for her mom. All door proceeds are going to help support her current financial hardships and make a tough situation into hopefully something better.” As Chloe had posted on Instagram, the proceeds would “help my mom get back into stable housing” and “a better situation in general.”
Messer Chups performing this weekend in New Haven.
Spooky sounds emanated from Cafe Nine Saturday night. Instead of sending shivers up spines, it kept a crowd smiling and shuffling from side to side for a nonstop hour.
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Brian Slattery |
May 17, 2024 9:42 am
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Trashing Violet; "Put your earplugs in deep."
Marisa B. of Trashing Violet was nearing the end of her set, but in another sense, she and her band were just getting warmed up. “Put your earplugs in deep. You’ve been warned,” she said, as the band tore into its most visceral original yet, a song that started and ended with screams that the audience couldn’t help but respond to in kind.
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Brian Slattery |
May 9, 2024 9:19 am
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Ceschi (center) at Cafe9 Wednesday.
Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Homeless, and Ceschi performed for an enthusiastic audience in a show organized by Ceschi.
