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Apr 17, 2019 12:08 pm
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Nancy Eisenfeld
Circumstances Beyond Control.
The wall to the left draws your eye as soon as you enter City Gallery on Upper State Street. It’s covered floor to ceiling with artwork. In one sense, the works are abstract, studies of light and shade, colors that sometimes contrast and sometimes fade into each other. They’re explorations of what pigments can do. In another sense, though, they can be read as mimicking natural forms. Some could be patterns in frozen ice. Others could be portraits of moving liquid, or the details of a column of billowing smoke, the fire sparking underneath.
Martin with Atelier Cue’s Ioana Barac beneath the overpass.
These old grey concrete and frequently graffitied highway underpass walls won’t remain that way much longer.
That’s thanks to grants that the Upper State Street (Business) Association (USSA) and other neighborhood partners just received to spruce up the concrete with light and color, design and art, and remind folks of how it used to be before the highway sliced the area in two.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 19, 2019 1:11 pm
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Tom Peterson
Hidden Mysteries 6 and Hidden Mysteries 7.
At first, artist Tom Peterson’s images, entitled Hidden Mysteries, could be abstract textures of black and white, possible rendered by computer, a pattern of repeating fractals. Then it becomes clear: they’re actually photographs of the surface of water in low light. They’re natural patterns made into more intentional shapes by the act of photographing them and processing those images.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 11, 2019 8:35 am
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Adam Matlock and Chris Cretella.
Almost exactly a year ago musician Conor Perreault was at Never Ending Books starting a new experimental music series, which at the time did not have a name.
As of this past Saturday it still did not, but it was flourishing and filled with the types of musicians and music that can be difficult for some to label as well.
“I’m always trying to make it more free,” said Perreault, who also in this past year became co-organizer of the Elm City Noise festival. “I’m always encouraging people to let out what they’re holding back.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 13, 2019 11:29 pm
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Roberta Friedman
Hot Stuff.
Roberta Friedman’s Hot Stuff, true to its name, blazes with whirls and streaks of bold color, lancing across the paper. Here and there are corrosive interruptions that crackle with their own energy. It’s the product of a process using hot wax on a steel plate that required Friedman to work fast and embrace accidents — and allowed her a chance to express her current state of mind.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 9, 2018 2:33 pm
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September in Bangkok owner and head chef Winyu “Win” Seetamyae.
September in Bangkok is the best time to get rice, one of the mainstays of Thai cuisine. Winyu “Win” Seetamyae hopes New Haveners will consider any time of the year “September in Bangkok” when they have a hankering for Thai food.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 7, 2018 8:00 am
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Meg Bloom.
From the title of Meg Bloom’s and Howard el-Yasin’s collaborative exhibit, “Within These Walls” — up now at City Gallery on Upper State Street until Sept. 30 — you might be forgiven for thinking of a certain border wall that may or may not yet be built.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 9, 2018 8:34 am
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Michael Zack
Attendees.
Shadowy ciphers stand in a crowd, their relationships to each other unclear. Some of them are on their phones. Some are walking. Some are standing. Are they talking to one another or just passing by? Do they even notice one another?
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Brian Slattery |
May 21, 2018 2:09 pm
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Nancy Eisenfeld
Whirl.
A storm stretches a ragged arm of cloudy debris across the wall of City Gallery. Wire tangles in paper mist. Then it all converges in the storm’s eye, a maelstrom of wreckage and energy. It’s a sculpture about destruction, but it’s an act of creation, too, and a meditation on change.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 16, 2018 12:11 pm
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Hank Paper
Police and Musicians.
We’re on a sunlit stretch of a city block. From the architecture it could be any city center south of the United States, or someplace in Europe. That the building in the foreground is worn down helps narrow it down. But not as much as the subjects. There’s a policeman on the corner, looking vigilant. To his left, a group of musicians, guitars, shakers, an upright.
It’s Havana, and this image, for photographer Hank Paper, encapsulates his experience of Cuba as much as any picture he took.
Make no mistake, he said — Cuba is a dictatorship, and “when you have police on every corner, you’re not going to have crime.” But then “there are these musicians who convey a whole different spirit about the place.” The repressive politics and widespread poverty; the deep and vibrant culture that fascinates the world. “These are the two forces that we’re contending with.”
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Markeshia Ricks |
Feb 21, 2018 3:07 pm
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L’Orcio co-owners Francesco D’Amuri and Alison DeRenzi prepare to toast 15 years.
When Chef Francesco D’Amuri and Alison DeRenzi opened their restaurant L’Orcio on State Street 15 years ago, the winter months made them wonder what they had done moving away from Florence, Italy.
Khan and dome-buildiers at Booker T. Washington, which the state just named a “school of distinction.”
Science teacher Intisar Khan challenged her first-graders to build a dome, the way Roman engineers combined the arch and the circle and the way Bucky Fuller built his geodesic version two millennia later.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 14, 2018 8:12 am
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Joy Bush
Suspended Disbelief #6.
At first glance, maybe it’s an island on a clear day, reflected in still water. But then you see that no water is that still. The line between the halves is a little too sharp. Then you see that the bottom half isn’t the same as the top half. They’re not halves at all. It’s a land mass floating in midair.
The image is arresting, stunning, fascinating. What is going on?
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 12, 2018 8:33 am
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Human Flourishing
“It’s uncertain what the name of this series is going to be,” joked Conor Perreault as he discussed taking over the second Saturday of the month time slot at Never Ending Books that used to belong to the Uncertainty Music Series — which had come to the end of its run this past August. The Uncertainty Music Series had been devoted to experimental music.
So, it seems, will Perreault’s series. It doesn’t have a name. But it does have a mission.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Dec 21, 2017 8:42 am
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This information was submitted by the Rev. Kelcy G.L.Steele. Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion congregation on Dixwell Avenue donated over 300 toys to the students of Booker T. Washington Academy.
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Dec 13, 2017 3:38 pm
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Permit-seekers Joshua Santana and Ryan Taylor.
An Upper State Street coffee shop’s quest for a tavern license will move forward, while a proposed City Point restaurant’s application for a full liquor license will not.
The only time in her life Mary Lesser did not make art was was during a four-year-period she was at the Yale Law School and, simultaneously, raising two small boys.
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Oct 25, 2017 9:26 am
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Permit-seekers Joshua Santana and Ryan Taylor.
Upper State Street neighbors Tuesday night embraced a coffee shop’s proposed liquor license as a draw for museum curators and young families attending wine tastings. City Pointers blasted a separate proposed liquor license as a magnet for drunks and teens seeking cheap drinks.
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Christopher Peak |
Oct 13, 2017 11:46 am
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John Taylor high-fives an arriving student.
Principal Laura Main showed up to work around 6:30 a.m. to welcome kids with cartons of milk. She went home at 6:30 p.m. after meeting with a dozen parents and students to resolve an argument.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 11, 2017 7:42 am
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“Good morning America, how are you?” sang Expression Mondays East cohost Bobcat Carruthers, playing “City of New Orleans” — the Steeve Goodman song that Arlo Guthrie made famous — with guitarist Sal Fusco and Terence Clarke on harmonica.
Others in the audience answered with their own instruments, and another night of sharing and expression began.
