by | Feb 24, 2020 4:08 pm | Comments (3)
Emily Hays Photos
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.
by | Feb 24, 2020 4:06 pm | Comments (1)
Maya McFadden Photo
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.
by | Feb 24, 2020 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
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.
by | Feb 21, 2020 8:57 am | Comments (6)
Maya McFadden Photo
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.
by | Feb 21, 2020 8:54 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Feb 20, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
Emily Torla Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘CT BellyDance Salon Shimmies To The State House’
by | Feb 20, 2020 12:32 am | Comments (1)
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.
by | Feb 19, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
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.
by | Feb 19, 2020 9:02 am | Comments (0)
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Robert Nerone of Hard March.
Nine bands “cut loose and rocked out” Monday night at the Amity Teen Center’s (ATC) 25th Annual Battle of the Bands at the College Street Music Hall.
by | Feb 18, 2020 11:15 am | Comments (2)
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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by | Feb 18, 2020 11:14 am | Comments (0)
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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by | Feb 17, 2020 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
Yale Divinity School
Rendering of planned “Living Village.”
Soon you may be able to walk up Prospect Street — and enter utopia.
by | Feb 17, 2020 8:45 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
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.
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:37 am | Comments (6)
Allison Hadley Photos
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.
by | Feb 14, 2020 8:30 am | Comments (1)
T. Charles Erickson Photos
The Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin houses transgender survivor of Nazi Germany and East Germany Charlotte von Mahlsdorf’s collection of manufactured objects from the “founder’s period” of Germany — the 1870s through the start of World War I. Set in a “memory space” inside the museum, Long Wharf Theatre’s revival of I Am My Own Wife, the Tony and Pulitzer-winning one-person show by Doug Wright, creates an eerie space that is both inside and outside.
by | Feb 13, 2020 9:16 pm | Comments (0)
“Today is the beginning of the end of Donald Trump …”
by | Feb 13, 2020 12:57 pm | Comments (0)
Daniel Eugene
The lines are so close together and so meticulously drawn that they buzz by proximity to one another. The effect is disorienting, like an optical illusion, a trick, a puzzle. It gets that much more intense when you see that New Haven-based artist Daniel Eugene’s drawings can be interpreted as a maze — a series of patterns that invite you to take a closer look, and slowly but surely, have your vision rearranged just a little.
by | Feb 12, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (0)
Maya McFadden Photos
Assistant Principal Tianko Ellison: Idea grew over years.
Erin Palmer and Nicholas Clement with their display.
One thing the fire extinguisher, guitar, super soaker, and pressure cooker have in common? They were all invented by African Americans.
Thanks to the students of the Ross Woodward School, those and other African American inventions are showcased in a Black History Month gallery.
by | Feb 12, 2020 1:13 pm | Comments (5)
Thomas Breen photo
The new home of Pasta EATaliana at 121 Wooster St.
A Naples native and former head chef at Anthony’s Ocean View plans to open a new Italian restaurant at the heart of the city’s Little Italy.
by | Feb 12, 2020 1:12 pm | Comments (0)
The music helps create the atmosphere of floating, but the banners do the trick. Never mind that one of the windows leads to the street. With the tapestries hung in front of one wall and a stripe of color on the wall opposite them, it’s possible to think of yourself in a submarine — albeit a microscopic one, because the view outside is of plankton.
by | Feb 11, 2020 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
A steamboat is churning up the Amazon, heading for the city of Manaus. Florencia Grimaldi, a soprano, is going to sing at the opera house there, hoping to find a lost lover. Rosalba, a journalist, is there to try to write a book about Grimaldi, but falls in love with the nephew of the steamboat’s captain in the process. So far so good — until a storm rises and creates havoc. Will the ship make it to Manaus? Will Rosalba find love? Will Florencia find her lover?
by | Feb 10, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
Sperm Donor.
“Give me a minute and I’ll say something entertaining,” said Phil of Sperm Donor, the second act of a three-band bill at The State House on Sunday night that gave everyone who wasn’t in the mood for Oscar speeches a reason to leave the house and experience the kind of live music you feel in your bones.
by | Feb 10, 2020 9:00 am | Comments (0)
Shirley Chock stood in the upstairs ballroom of the New Haven Museum, her hands poised as if cradling a ball. In front of her, a few dozen people were doing the same. She smiled.
“Everyone is trying too hard,” she said. A ripple of appreciative laughter flowed through the room. “Your body is not just letting it happen.” She paused. “Tai chi tells your brain to stop getting in the way of the moment…. It’s not about trying to make these movements happen. We’re actually trying to not move at all. We’re moving through stillness.”
by | Feb 10, 2020 8:49 am | Comments (0)
Daniel Shoemaker Photos
“Best Video is my best place.” remarked Guinea-born guitarist and longtime New Haven resident Mamady Kouyate, who on Friday returned with his band, the Mandingo Ambassadors, to perform at Best Video Film and Cultural Center for the second time in under a year.
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by | Feb 7, 2020 8:51 am | Comments (1)
Allison Hadley Photos
“You know in The Grinch when he has a ‘wonderful, terrible idea? That’s how we’re feeling about learning all of this,” said Chris Evans, Mile Twelve’s guitarist. He and the rest of the band — David Benedict on mandolin, Catherine “BB” Bowness on banjo, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on fiddle, Evan Murphy on guitar and vocals, and Nate Sabat on bass and vocals — grinned ruefully at the packed house Thursday night at Best Video Film & Cultural Center in Hamden. He had just explained that to shake up their tight tour schedule, the band had decided to learn — and play at Best Video for the first time — the entirety of Tim O’Brien’s landmark bluegrass (country? acoustic?) album Fiddler’s Green, an album that clearly carried the heart of the band.