Edgewood Park, Wednesday, March 25
by | Mar 25, 2020 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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Elison Jackson Returns With “Caught One In The Jaw”
by | Mar 25, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Elison Jackson.
“We’re lucky,” said Sam Perduta of Elison Jackson. “Paul” — as in, Paul Mayer, owner of Cafe Nine — “asked us to hop on a show at Cafe Nine a couple of weeks ago with the Yawpers, and it was really fun. I’m glad we said yes. It was one of our best shows, and I guess our last for a while.”
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Chefs Sweat; Hamden Venues Mapped
by | Mar 25, 2020 10:50 am | Comments (6)
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Moon Rocks owner Marni Esposito (at right): Doubts shop will survive.
With chairs stacked on tables after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered all dine-in restaurant service closed on March 16, most Hamden restaurateurs have managed to stay afloat for now with deliveries and takeout. But they’re scraping the bottom of the pan, they said, and some may soon be baking their last batches and flipping their last pies.
Covid-19 Deadline Verse
by | Mar 24, 2020 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
Hand Washing
Who doesn’t enjoy washing hands
With prompting even little kids do
Musicians Close The Social Distance
by | Mar 24, 2020 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
The art of stumbling onto concerts has almost never been easier as the local performance world takes to Facebook live.
Alex Burnet Sings The Spirit Of The Age
by | Mar 24, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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“Turns out this was a pretty big bite … but I’ll be bored when it’s done,” said Alex Burnet, singer and guitarist for Laundry Day, the Proud Flesh and others, of In This Day And Age, a solo EP he spontaneously decided to record over the past week. We spoke as Burnet was putting the finishing touches on his self-recorded and self-produced album, conceived of and put to tape entirely over the week since he was furloughed (of sorts) from his day job, cooking for Next Door on Humphrey Street.
Odes To A Pandemic
by | Mar 23, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (2)
Confessions of a Virus, #1
First of all, I am not out to get you, personally
I don’t even know who you are
Moodie Black Speaks Through The “Fuzz”
by | Mar 23, 2020 2:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Moodie Black
Ten days ago Kris Martinez of the Minneapolis-based Moodie Black — an artist on the New Haven-based record label Fake Four — was talking about noise rap and her next show in New Haven at The State House, which would precede an overseas tour that included a release show for the new album Fuzz. Since then, New Haven has gone virtually silent with cancelled shows and closed venues, and the future has gotten quite fuzzy for all performing artists. For Martinez, however, one thing is clear: The music lives on.
“Art Is Going To Save Us”
by | Mar 20, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (3)
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From his car, sidelined photog launches “Porch-Ritz” portrait project outside New Haveners’ homes — and helps keep a community stitched together, person by person.
Mercy Choir Gives Back With “Corinthian”
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:47 pm | Comments (0)
Cover art by Paul Belbusti
Corinthian album cover
“When we levitate we’ll levitate above the moon
When we levitate we’ll levitate above the moon
We’ll go in stages.
We’ll go in chains.
And then we’ll break free
The bird and the arrow”
And just like that, Paul Belbusti of Mercy Choir breaks free of expectation and ennui, bringing forth a new album, Corinthian, in which he lays himself bare lyrically as well as musically at a time when just about everyone else in the world is also feeling raw and exposed.
Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:29 pm | Comments (0)
Virus Deters High School Theater — For Now
by | Mar 18, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Oliveras.
J. Pierpont Finch is making sparks fly in the boardroom, giving them the old razzle dazzle. He’s got moves. He’s got flair. He’s got charts and buzzwords. The only thing he doesn’t have is a good idea. And the idea he does have, isn’t his. But does that even matter?
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Girls Launch Contest For Climate Action
by | Mar 18, 2020 12:34 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven Climate Movement’s Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event.
On Monday, March 9, from 4 to 5 p.m, at the courthouse steps at the corner of Elm and Church streets, New Haven Climate Movement held a Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event to have young women and girls share their thoughts and call for action on the growing climate disaster. Leaders of different youth climate organizations spoke alongside other high school age students. The Speak Out was followed by a social in the Library Performance Space with trivia, food, and educational videos. This event was organized in solidarity with International Women’s Day.
Sandra’s Delivers; Ahava Keeps Truckin’
by | Mar 17, 2020 10:12 pm | Comments (1)
Vegan Ahava owner Poreyah Benton prepares tofu wraps in her truck.
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Sandra’s Next Generation co-owners Miguel and Sandra Pittman.
How restaurant owners are adjusting to the COVID-19 sit-down shutdown.
Art Exhibit Broadcasts Live From Quarantine
by | Mar 17, 2020 10:09 am | Comments (0)
Posted by Brian Slattery on Sunday, March 15, 2020
How does one visit an art gallery in the midst of social isolation and quarantine? It seems all roads still, somehow, lead to Facebook.
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Coronavirus ... The Album
by | Mar 16, 2020 11:13 am | Comments (4)
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Grunerud.
Nick Grunerud, a.k.a. Underwear, starts off his latest release, CORONA, Light, The Coronavirus Musical, with what sounds almost like a public service announcement, echoing off the sides of apartment buildings. “Welcome to coronavirus, the album. You cannot wash your hands for 32 minutes. Enjoy!”
It’s an apt setup for “Phase I: Time to Waste,” which finds Grunerud assuming the mentality of someone who is already a little weary of the societal changes the virus has wrought. “So we don’t want to waste our time buying masks and Purell,” he sings. “We don’t want to waste our time doing nothing / We don’t want to waste our time buying masks for nothing.” It’s the last time that gets the treatment, as Grunerud repeats it and stacks harmonies on it. At a time when many are just asking what it is they should be doing, Grunerud is asking a somewhat more complicated question: What will our response to the outbreak mean?
Common Ground’s Green Approach Wins Recognition
by | Mar 13, 2020 11:47 am | Comments (2)
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Common Ground 10th graders Eliana Solano and Corey Boyd-Morton listen to visiting artist Kwadwo Adae.
Solano sketches a representation of the coronavirus COVID-19.
Eliana Solano sketched a virus with a diamond-shaped head and insect-like legs next to an Earth on fire, books, dollars and the word “expectations” in big block letters. The drawings partially filled a globe of anxieties and other thoughts held up by a small sketch of Solano herself.
Local artist Kwadwo Adae was warming the Common Ground High School class up for a group art project about climate change and its effects on students’ lives. Adae has visited the class weekly to build up to the project — one of numerous nontraditional, eco-conscious approaches that recently won the school a national award and a state seal of approval.
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300 Free Bowls Of Ramen > COVID-19
by | Mar 13, 2020 8:29 am | Comments (8)
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Free bowls of ramen at Menya-Gumi.
Customers line up outside of the new Orange Street restaurant.
Three hundred free bowls of ramen at a new Japanese restaurant on Orange Street trumped local lunch-goers’ concerns about going out to eat during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, as local restaurateurs scrambled to prepare for tough months ahead as people hunker down at home and public events are canceled.
Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Mar 12, 2020 4:45 pm | Comments (0)
Photographs Capture The Music
by | Mar 12, 2020 8:00 am | Comments (0)
It almost feels as though the camera is floating through space, and the violins are planets. There is a sense of rushing movement, of racing across the top of the instrument, as though the viewer were a molecule of air moved by the sound the instrument is making. And off in the distance, that sound seems to be made visible, a swirl of light like the aurora borealis. It could also be a digital effect. But it’s not.
NXTHVN Breaks Down The Myths
by | Mar 11, 2020 11:58 am | Comments (1)
In a studio somewhere, artist Jarrett Key stands in front of a blank canvas. Their hair is tied up in the shape of a brush. Without a word, they dip their hair into a small bucket of paint, then back up to the canvas behind them. They tilt their head back and begin to paint, without really being able to see what’s behind them.
It can feel trite to say that the process of creating a piece of art is part of the artwork, but Key’s movements are so balletic that in this case, the statement feels true. Understanding how the paintings were made gives more meaning to the finished paintings.
Dixwell Plaza Revivers Pressed On Details
by | Mar 11, 2020 7:43 am | Comments (12)
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Questioners at Tuesday night’s meeting (clockwise from top left); Dawn Wright, Kerry Ellington, Deniqua Washington, Prakeen Doodala.
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One proposed layout for a new Dixwell Plaza.
Dixwell neighbors, business owners, and community organizers pressed the local developers behind Dixwell Plaza’s planned $200 million overhaul to prioritize affordable housing and to minimize the displacement of existing retail, in a project that will be led in part by an architect who helped design Washington D.C.‘s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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QU, SCSU, Yale Move Classes Online
by | Mar 10, 2020 9:17 pm | Comments (0)
Local universities are telling students to stay home and resume classes online, at least for a while.
For Artists, Coronavirus Hits Bottom Line
by | Mar 10, 2020 12:16 pm | Comments (2)
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Isabella Mendes: Classes move online; live-streamed performances?
Performances in the immediate future are disappearing left and right. The prospects of other performances weeks or even months away are uncertain. For musicians and other artists who count on these events for income, the coronavirus outbreak has already taken a toll.
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Best Video Screens “Summer”
by | Mar 10, 2020 12:13 pm | Comments (0)
Two friends, Grace and Asta, are running through a summer house with a bundle of burning sage. It’s to drive the evil spirits from the house, says Asta’a mother Kate. Asta’s showing Grace how it’s done, as they bless walls and windows, doorways and floors. Then, in a hallway, Asta stops and screams. There’s a dead rabbit on the floor. How it got there, or what it means, is anyone’s guess. Kate brings the body outside. But the spirit seems to linger.