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Mar 2, 2020 8:38 am
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The Olympics
Feb. 29 only comes around once every four years, and some people choose to celebrate it in a unique way. The State House not only chose to have a show on this day, but also booked one band with a long-standing dedication to that date, as well as three other bands more than ready to join in the fun. The Olympics headlined Saturday night. Along with that band was local legend The Vultures — making a rare appearance — with local punk partiers Flapjack Attack and Garbage Barge.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 28, 2020 1:27 pm
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Members of the audience taste Terry’s recipe.
While cooking up a savory carrot soup, nationally known “vegan eco-chef” and cookbook author Bryant Terry diced up a history lesson on the flavors and ingredients of African American food for Black History Month.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 28, 2020 1:26 pm
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Laura Clarke doesn’t know the exact number of people who have stopped in their sidewalk peregrinations to view the optical illusion art work down the Chapel Street alleyway leading to Temple Plaza. She believes it’s more than the number who attended Donald Trump’s inauguration.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 28, 2020 8:28 am
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You hear the crowd noise first in the opening seconds to “One More Dance,” the second track on Live at Brooklyn Bowl 2.7.20 — the latest in a string of recent releases by the New Haven-based band Eggy.
“What’s up, everybody?” a voice says. “We’re Eggy, we’re happy to be here.” An organ jumps into a pulsing, bubbly line. A guitar adds to the sunniness. The drums first keep time simply, then they and the bass drop into the syncopations the other instruments set up. A sung verse is just a setup for a long excursion, as guitar, keys, bass, and drums weave together with enough groove to keep things going for 12 minutes.
“Years ago they said goodbye,” the voices in the band sing. “But I still came for one last ride.”
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2020 3:26 pm
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Guitar found in the former clock factory on Hamilton Street.
Clocks. The Sex Ball. A punk club, then an R&B club. An indoor skate park. The state’s largest LGBTQ club.
All of these are part of the past of the old New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street.
In the present day, that factory complex is being cleaned up in preparation for development into housing, some of which is to include housing for artists. The reason for that concept — and the deeper history of artistic life in New Haven — is brought to sparkling, fascinating life in “Factory,” an exhibit that celebrated its opening on Friday and will run at the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue until Aug. 29.
Coronavirus emergency prep session Wednesday in the basement of the city government office building.
(Opinion) — For all the worth of Yale’s programs open to the public over the years, few have had the advantage of in-your-face timeliness. But one such program occurred this week, as the academic calendar collided with the worldwide health crisis.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 27, 2020 1:18 pm
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Wednesday night marked the first night of a new monthly hip hop show hosted by rapper and producer Chef the Chef. It was called the Cold Quest Underground Music Showcase, and Chef had come with merch to spread the word. “Please grab some free stickers and put them in places you shouldn’t put them,” he said.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 26, 2020 1:15 pm
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There was no mistaking the profession of Tony Falcone behind his painterly mask.
Of course, right off the library shelves, Sam-I-Am was there in his tall floppy hat, along with Uncle Sam in his.
They were accompanied by a variety of cats and flappers. Standing tall and sleek above them Kiki Lucia was in a slinky silver dress promoting trans rights and the fundamental importance of the franchise.
“My mother always said, ‘If you don’t vote, you can’t bitch,’” she reported.
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Allan Appel |
Feb 25, 2020 9:50 pm
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Shhhh! Last July 4’s fireworks atop East Rock.
“Quiet” fireworks for this July 4th?
They would certainly make the birds stay in their nests and please other animals and small children. But would it add up to a good ole Independence Day bash?
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 25, 2020 1:02 pm
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Elida Paiz Pineda took her shoes off and knelt next to them, then began banging on the floor with one of them. For the crowd assembled at 26 Mill St., it was like a judge calling a court to order.
Necks craned. An audience gathered, weaving its way among enormous sculptures of lint, bandannas, and plastic.
And as Pineda continued her performance piece, Rabia Mistica, Rabia Eterna, and more people came to take it in, it brought home that this exhibit’s opening day had created a real sense of community.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 24, 2020 11:04 pm
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The Zoo Story — a one-act, two-character play by now-canonical American playwright Edward Albee, now running at New Haven Theater Company through March 7 — is a short, sharp shock to the system. It begins when Jerry (Trevor Williams) approaches Peter (J. Kevin Smith), who is sitting on a bench in Central Park in New York City, reading.
“I’ve been to the zoo,” Jerry says. Peter, engrossed in reading, doesn’t hear him. Jerry repeats himself. Peter still doesn’t notice. Then Jerry gets a little hostile. “Mister, I’ve been to the zoo!” he says.
Alisa Bowens-Mercado (above) at launch of her new beer (below).
Tashawna Peete does not usually drink beer. But as she sat with her wife-to-be, Kim Jenkins, at Te Amo Tequila Bar & Tacos on Temple Street on Saturday, she decided the brand new Rhythm Blue might be her go-to lager.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 24, 2020 4:06 pm
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Chris Pacheco of Seacoast Mushrooms sells a bunch of blue oyster.
The flavors of seven sweet and savory food business ventures were sampled on the edge of Wooster Square Saturday at a Food Business Accelerator Farmers’ Market Showcase.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 24, 2020 1:06 pm
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GRIZZLOR
It was the last day of a long, noisy week. Fortunately there was a place in town that had a different type of noise to replace it, as Cafe Nine hosted three bands — Hylda, TRVSS, and GRIZZLOR — this past Friday night. All three were trios, and all three made enough raw and powerful sounds to replace any and all else in everyone’s brain for a few hours.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 21, 2020 8:57 am
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WEB Community Management Team Chair Nadine Horton.
The Whalley, Edgewood, and Beaver Hills neighborhoods are in for a number of community engagement-driven initiatives including a literacy festival, a community mural, park trail repairs, and a community garden.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 21, 2020 8:54 am
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Marc Hors
You don’t need to know the backstory to feel the effect. The story is in the girl’s eyes, in her body language. She has too many emotions in her face for someone so young; she has seen too much already. She’s a refugee — maybe from Syria, maybe from Afghanistan — and photographer Marc Hors took her picture when he visited the camp in Athens where she was living at the time. Hors’s images from that camp are the center of “Finding Home: A Campaign for Sanctuary,” running now at the Institute Library on Chapel Street until March 14. The exhibit, curated by Stephen Kobasa, seeks to move the needle toward New Haven declaring itself officially a sanctuary city, by appealing to the head and the heart.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 20, 2020 1:23 pm
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Elisheva performing at The State House in December.
Belly dance: the phrase alone is usually enough to elicit a variety of reactions — often from those unfamiliar with its extensive history and endless variations. Two dancers are hoping to make belly dance more familiar, offering a setting where both the seasoned performer and the emerging student can share an experience in a safe and fun environment with those who already appreciate the art form, as well as those who want to learn more about it.
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Donald Brown |
Feb 20, 2020 12:32 am
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Patrick Dunn as Kiki Lucia.
Is winter on the wane already? It’s the time of year when the Yale Cabaret announces the remaining shows of the spring semester. Artistic directors Zachry J. Bailey, Brandon E. Burton, Alex Vermillion, and managing director Jamie Totti have made their final selections for the 52nd season of the Yale Cabaret, which ends in late April. From this week until then, there are two more shows per month. And up this week is one of the shows that has earned its place by tradition and popular response: Dragaret.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 19, 2020 1:15 pm
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Etcetera Collaborative
Arabesque.
True to its name, Arabesque dances. It’s a mixed media collage of human figures and architectural forms, pairing up, falling apart, melting in and out of one another. The piece reflects the method used to create it. It’s a piece arising from the work of the Etcetera Collaborative, a group of eight artists who created pieces together in the 1980s — and had a hand in creating City Gallery on Upper State Street.
Artspace can continue anchoring Ninth Square’s visual arts scene for another decade, thanks to a new lease it signed with the landlord of its first-floor 5,000-square-foot gallery space and offices at the corner of Orange and Crown Streets.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 18, 2020 11:14 am
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Gar Waterman
Proboscoid from the Planet Rhinoplast.
Gar Waterman may have called the piece Proboscoid from the Planet Rhinoplast, in honor of a certain nasal prominence that emerges from the work. But the piece is far from extraterrestrial. Waterman sourced it from Fair Haven, and from New Haven’s own long industrial history.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 17, 2020 8:45 am
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Hank Hoffman.
“I’ll do my impresario thing, which is normal, and then I’ll do something which is not,” said Hank Hoffman, who on Saturday night not only played the part of executive director of Best Video Film and Cultural Center, but also stepped up to the stage on vocals and guitar for the band Happy Ending, which he has been a part of since 1983.
Another special role Hoffman played on this evening: birthday celebrant.
The band always plays a show annually near Hoffman’s birthday, but this year’s was a special one. Hoffman — famously a Beatles fan — was turning 64.
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Allison Hadley |
Feb 14, 2020 8:37 am
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PARK on Crown should be a familiar sign to any passersby on Crown Street for the last decade. The sign, that is. Whether they know it’s now also the sign for a new bar is another thing entirely.
