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Jan 31, 2020 8:41 am
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Flores and Gladstone.
Before the curtain rises on Manahatta — now running at the Yale Repertory Theatre through Feb. 15 — there is an announcement in the theater, an acknowledgment that New Haven and Yale are built on Native American land, that other people were here first.
It’s an acknowledgment also heard at Long Wharf, at Arts Council events, and at smaller shows throughout town. Rarely, however, has the event that followed so ably showed the intense need for such an acknowledgment, and at the same time, demonstrated its near-futility compared to the monumental problem it seeks to address.
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Allan Appel |
Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm
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The Lacys, Cathy Graves, Mayor Elicker, and Alder Richard Furlow.
Forty different glazes for chicken wings — ranging from mango habanero to garlic parmesan — are just not enough for fledgling and creative restauranteurs Lachelle and Linwood Lacy.
They have a still-secret 41st sauce coming, combining the best of the previous 40. It is still in the research stage, meaning only family members get to try it.
Glazes and wings galore will also be ready for upcoming Super Bowl weekend.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 30, 2020 12:50 pm
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Shirley Temple Tornado.
The stripes of color Matthew Best paints are bold, yet a little haggard. It reads like quick work done by someone who knows what they’re doing. That impression continues when you see, on the walls of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street, that it isn’t alone.
Best has created a series of abstract paintings centered around the same formal themes, yet each with variations
“Matthew Best uses the painting process as a way to cope with the sheer uncertainty of life, his improvisational abstract works recording mental shifts and personal growth, move by move,” an accompanying note reads. It makes sense, and is an apt introduction to “The Daily,” a 16-person exhibition running until Feb. 16 that shows how artists can build a statement one day at a time.
Carmen Parker (standing in back) with husband Josh.
After finding out that her daughter’s teacher had been placed on administrative leave for planning a play that would have black children playing slaves, Carmen Parker had a message for the Hamden School District: The problem is not the teacher, it’s the system.
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Sam Gurwitt |
Jan 28, 2020 4:09 pm
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Parent Carmen Parker: “They sent my baby home a slave.”
A play aimed at introducing elementary school students to the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade has instead sparked concern about how race is taught today in Hamden schools.
Quinoa, brown rice, roasted brussels sprouts, and veggie meatballs were on Mayor Justin Elicker’s agenda Tuesday afternoon, along with a main course of promoting small business in New Haven.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 28, 2020 1:12 pm
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Kwok-hin Tang
Don’t Blame The Blossom.
A child running across a tiled plaza. The sounds of martial arts movies. The simple geography of a clock in a train station, but upside-down, so that would-be passengers scurry across the ceiling. Two men perched unaccountably high on a scaffold.
These are all fragments of life captured in “Hong Kong In Poor Images,” an art exhibit at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art — running now until Feb. 16 — that gives New Haveners a look at the teeming, changing city that lets us go deeper than the global city’s recent headlines.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 28, 2020 1:11 pm
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Patrick Dalton performing at Next Door.
New Haven-based musician Patrick Dalton laughed and smiled. “I’m not really sure why I’m here,” he said. Those who know him or has worked with him would not respond similarly; as a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, producer, and sound engineer, Dalton is one of the people who makes New Haven’s music scene tick, and is about to embark on both hosting an open mic at the State House and holding down a monthly series of solo shows at Next Door on Humphrey Street.
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Donald Brown |
Jan 27, 2020 11:52 am
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Ellis.
A mad hatter. Skating on thin ice. A man with two faces, condemned to hell. Alice, the show theater director Robert Wilson and musical artist Tom Waits adapted from Lewis Carroll’s surreal children’s story Alice in Wonderland, has almost never been performed in the U.S. Thanks to Logan Ellis, a third-year director in the Yale School of Drama, New Haven will get its chance to see it when Alice runs at the University Theater from Feb. 1 through Feb. 7.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 24, 2020 8:48 am
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It was toward the end of Sketch Tha Cataclysm‘s set, and he’d just finished an a cappella verse as DJ Mo Niklz fired up the next number, adding rhythms from his turntables. “The crowd has got me feeling open,” Sketch rapped. “And / the vibe has got me right and focused / And / The front and back in fact the whole way around / Know that when we come to rock, y’all can’t mess with the sound.”
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 23, 2020 1:19 pm
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Digital rendering of the future Westville Music Bowl.
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Langan Engineering VP Timonthy Onderko presents the parking plan for the Westville Bowl.
The operators of the planned new Westville Bowl outdoor music venue won permission to close down an adjacent block of Yale Avenue this summer on days when the former tennis stadium will host concerts.
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Jan 23, 2020 1:18 pm
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Hannah Brown
Design and binding for Lines, by William Wordsworth.
“Having books bound signifies respect for the book; it indicates that people not only love to read, but they view it an important occupation.” That’s Dostoyevsky, who would know; he had been exiled to Siberia for discussing and circulating banned books. The many ways that books can be clothed, hidden, decorated, and disguised form the spine of “Contemporary Designer Bookbindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert,” the bookbinding show now at the Yale Center for British Art on Chapel Street through March 29.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 22, 2020 8:37 am
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Konrad Dziemian and Eric Porcheddu.
“We’re trying something new here,” said Konrad Dziemian from the Cafe Nine stage Monday night. He and Eric Porcheddu played the inaugural show for Blue Note Mondays, a new series presented by the New Haven Jazz Underground.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 21, 2020 1:08 pm
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Ngoma.
Before the Peabody’s 24th annual Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Professional Poetry Slam began on Monday afternoon, poet and emcee Ngoma had a word for people who brought their children to see it.
“I’m going to warn you that we don’t censor people,” he said. “We don’t pull punches.” And for the next couple hours, none of the poets competing in the slam did.
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Allison Hadley |
Jan 20, 2020 1:24 pm
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Josh Kroscen, manager of Pine & Iron Axe Throwing — which opened on Chapel Street on Friday — was patient.
“Try keeping your arms straight, and make sure you’re following through,” he said to me.
I paused at the black line that lay between me and a brightly lit, infuriatingly pristine target, shifting my grip on the hatchet in the vain hope I would suddenly develop the skills to launch it effectively at this target. I stepped; I swung. The flat of the axe clattered against the target. More satisfying thunks rained down all around me from other groups in other lanes; I sighed and tried again.
Mayor Justin Elicker (center) posing with Joann Wilcox, Oliva Martson, Mike Brown, and Jason Burns at Three Sheets Thursday.
Local creatives turned out to Three Sheets bar not for a hardcore punk show or an underground art fest, but to petition the newly elected mayor to keep city dollars and cultural opportunities open to those who already live, work, and perform here.
Mayor Justin Elicker has tapped a state arts program manager with a background in promoting youth professional development and cultural equity to be the city’s next top arts and culture official.
