by | Aug 3, 2017 7:33 am | Comments (0)
The Diesel Lounge on Upper State Street is launching a series of monthly pop-up exhibitions that will be showcasing works from “The Other Side.”
However, seance-seekers and Madame Blavatsky aficionados, despair in advance. For there will likely be no spirits, ghosts, or zombies mingling among the lounge lizards.
by | Jul 18, 2017 7:35 am | Comments (0)
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The Sawtelles.
During the Sawtelles set at Never Ending Books on Saturday night an audience member every so often would yell “story” between songs if drummer Julie Sawtelle or guitarist Pete Riccio did not readily offer a little piece, as they most often do. However, this was a night when story and sharing came easily and naturally to each performer without much provocation.
It was another edition of the annual birthday party for The Sawtelles, celebrated each year during this month because both Sawtelle and Riccio — who are husband and wife as well as bandmates — each have a birthday in July.
by | Jun 22, 2017 7:20 am | Comments (14)
Chris Flanagan
A rendering of the inside of a rehabbed Ralph Walker.
By this time next year, New Haveners could be enjoying a rejuvenated, all weather ready Ralph Walker Skating Rink.
Continue reading ‘Skating Rink Ready For Year-Round Makeover’
by | Apr 10, 2017 7:38 am | Comments (0)
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The artist beside one of the all-untitled works in the show.
When he returned from a reception for his Neighborhood Walks exhibition back in 2015, photographer Tom Peterson experienced strange heart rhythms.
They turned out to be atrial fibrillation, which then led, shortly afterward, to a triple heart bypass.
Then in 2016, he had to deal with a carotid artery that wasn’t behaving.
It’s no wonder his new show — all white, calming minimalist photographs — is called “Solace.”
by | Jan 6, 2017 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
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“Golden Light”, archival pigment photo.
Remember the fun you had as a kid, maybe early in the morning before your parents got up, and you grabbed that colorful cardboard tube, ran to the window, pointed it up toward the sky, and turned and turned the end piece, making sparkly pieces of glass, plastic, or crystal rearrange themselves, reflecting light and making new patterns?
Give it a shake or another turn, and the pieces would flow again?
by | Jan 2, 2017 8:45 am | Comments (0)
Brian Robinson of The New Chastity stood in front of the packed house at Never Ending Books on Friday night, his phone in his hand. He joked that he had told his therapist he was going to write more songs about sex. He hit a button on his phone, which was hooked up to the PA, and voices — Robinson’s own, in rich harmony — flowed out.
“Wait. Not this one,” he said. He hit a button on his phone again, and another series of harmonies flowed out. This time Robinson took his position in front of the microphone as the other members of The New Chastity — Rob Breychak on guitar and Jason Sirianni on drums — dropped into a slow jam. The effect was luscious and unexpected, sexy and fun, the beginning of a night that felt like a long kiss-off to 2016 and a hopeful turn toward the future.
Continue reading ‘At The End Of The Year, They All Sang Together’
by | Sep 22, 2016 12:16 pm | Comments (1)
Blend Foxon Park White Birch soda and maple syrup together with smoked shallots, smoked jalapeños, and tart cherry juice. Add a little brown sugar and some salt and pepper. Simmer it down and you have the makings of the house, signature New Haven-style barbecue sauce at Bull & Swine.
by | Sep 22, 2016 8:48 am | Comments (23)
The site as it exists today.
A former State Street church and rectory are set to become home to six new apartments or condos next year.
by | Sep 6, 2016 2:23 pm | Comments (7)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
Half a dozen men greet BTWA students Tuesday.
Clambering off school buses just after 7:30 a.m., some students were excited to walk into Booker T. Washington Academy for the first day of school Tuesday. Others dragged their feet and rubbed sleepy eyes.
Either way, they got a high-five — and in some cases a bit of help regulating their emotions.
by | Jul 13, 2016 7:34 am | Comments (1)
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The Corsair complex.
The sprawling new luxury housing complex at State and Mechanic will get a tiny bit bigger — now that developers won permission to add three new apartments.
by | Jun 16, 2016 7:42 am | Comments (6)
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Old architecture meets new at 1050 State Street.
Proclaiming that “this isn’t just another project,” Andy Montelli, Post Road Residential founder and developer of Corsair, a new luxury residential complex at 1050 State St., has not only embraced a slice of New Haven manufacturing history in the project’s creation, but commissioned some of New Haven’s best-known artists and artisans for site-specific installations at Corsair that highlight local manufacturing and the spirit of a people building a nation.
by | May 9, 2016 7:20 am | Comments (1)
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Customers browse in the storefront at East Street Arts.
The unseasonable cold and threat of rain couldn’t keep teachers, administrators, students, and supporters away from celebrating the grand opening of East Street Arts and the 45th anniversary of Marrakech, the statewide nonprofit of which East Street Arts is a part.
by | Mar 8, 2016 8:24 am | Comments (9)
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James Street developersSalinas and O’Brien, at right, with East Rock Alder Jessica Holmes and City Hall’s Matt Smith Monday night.
The Board of Alders gave final approval to a deal to transform the defunct CT Transit bus garage on James Street, and it gave the OK for the city to accept a $1.2 million grant to advance bike ridership on the west side of town.
Continue reading ‘Alders OK “DISTRICT” Deal, Cycle Corridor’
by | Feb 19, 2016 8:39 am | Comments (1)
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Fuss & O’Neill Engineer Ron Bomengen presents clean-up plan.
Developers looking to transform the former CT Transit bus depot into a multimillion-dollar tech and innovation campus can start moving dirt this month — to demolish a huge piece of the existing building and to cart away contaminated dirt.
by | Feb 16, 2016 2:39 pm | Comments (1)
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Belbusti and Guillorn.
Musicians Paul Belbusti (a.k.a. Mercy Choir) and Lys Guillorn have split a lot of bills together. They even did an EP in 2013 called Trouble, in which Belbusti wrote the music and Guillorn wrote the words for the first song; then, for the second song, they switched roles. So in November, when Belbusti asked Guillorn if she wanted to collaborate in putting together a month-long Friday-night residency at Never Ending Books on State Street — a “variety show,” according to Belbusti — she agreed.
The result is the Wobbling Roof Revue, which features 28 acts performing 20-minute sets each across four Fridays in March, in a lineup that ranges from musicians and storytellers to a tarot reader, a comedian, and a trivia meister.
Continue reading ‘Wobbling Roof Revue Takes Over Never Ending Books’
by | Jan 25, 2016 1:01 pm | Comments (11)
New York Times food reviewer Sarah Gold knows so much about food that she is sure no one would ever enjoy eating the blackened tofu salad at New Haven’s Da Legna restaurant — even though she didn’t bother trying it before saying so.
Continue reading ‘Stupidest Comment Written This Week By A NYT Food Snob’
by | Dec 21, 2015 8:10 am | Comments (2)
“Most martial artists think capoeira is just a dance,” said Efraim Silva, “but it is really a very powerful hidden martial art.”
Continue reading ‘“I Am More Brazilian Than When I Was In Brazil”’
by | Aug 13, 2015 4:45 pm | Comments (8)
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Goatvillers Charlene McMillan and Padilla Nash take their first walk in six years across the State Street Bridge.
(Update Friday 5:05 p.m.: The bridge is open!)
A hole in the fresh blacktop of the rebuilt State Street Bridge gave celebrants an understandable moment of pause Thursday, one day before the long-closed span reopened to the public.
by | Jul 29, 2015 4:30 pm | Comments (1)
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For Fred Walker, kneading mountains of dough to prepare Chestnut Fine Foods & Confections’ classic French bread is a combination workout and therapy session.
Continue reading ‘Thanks To Chestnut, It Was A Good Bread Day’
by | Jun 29, 2015 7:52 am | Comments (9)
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If you open an Upper State Street honor box looking for a copy of a dead newspaper called the New Haven Advocate, you are likely to find a dead bird instead.
by | Jun 2, 2015 3:17 pm | Comments (20)
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Upper State Street restaurateur Allison DeRenzi struck an informal agreement for her employees to use empty spots in a neighbor’s parking lot across the street. She wants the city to be just as creative in finding long-term solutions.
Continue reading ‘City Considers Parking Meters For Upper State’
by | May 28, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (18)
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One of New Haven’s hottest new-media entrepreneurs and his landlord, a deep-pocket New York developer, are competing to turn a vacant former CT Transit bus garage into what the city envisions as a slice of Brooklyn.
Continue reading ‘Landlord, Tenant Vie To Revive State & James’
by | May 21, 2015 12:42 pm | Comments (16)
Tighe Bond
If you’ve ever been late to dinner on State Street because you couldn’t find a place to park, the search will soon get easier.
Continue reading ‘Parking Lot—aka Rain Garden/Bioswale—OK’d’
by | Jan 27, 2015 9:23 am | Comments (7)
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As Ray Willis and Joe Canzanella finished giving out tickets on State Street, a bartender ran out of JP Dempseys to her car yelling, “No, no, no, no, no, no!”
by | Dec 15, 2014 4:27 pm | Comments (18)
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Asked how long the State Street Bridge has been closed, Mezcal Restaurante Mexicano’s gregarious owner, Ricardo Trejo, rolled his eyes and sighed. “I’ve lost track of time,” he said.
Continue reading ‘State St. Bridge Debacle Nears $30M, & Counting’