by | Feb 7, 2020 8:50 am | Comments (0)
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GA-20
“We’re gonna warm it up like that coal-fired pizza,” said Steve Balkun, one half of Balkun Brothers, who were one half of a powerful two-band bill Thursday night at Cafe Nine that included Boston’s GA-20 and filled the misty February night with enough heat to chase the forecasted snow away.
by | Feb 6, 2020 4:58 pm | Comments (0)
“I was acquitted … Don’t forget what I asked you …”
by | Feb 6, 2020 12:40 pm | Comments (1)
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Observing Alexis Robbins’s Friday evening tap class, held on the top floor of Building 5 at Erector Square on Peck Street, one has to wonder if the people one floor below — and perhaps the people below them — are distracted by the sound. But one also has to wonder if those people, artists themselves, after all, might excuse the ruckus. It’s such a joyful noise.
by | Feb 5, 2020 10:33 pm | Comments (2)
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With results far clearer than those partially reported in Iowa, residents on the east side of town completed a months’ long process and used a version of ranked choice voting to approve a wide range of projects to improve the Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood.
Continue reading ‘Q Meadows Approves Butterflies, Traffic Calming, Historic Markers’
by | Feb 5, 2020 2:19 pm | Comments (0)
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On Tuesday evening, the students in the Academic Theatre Company at James Hillhouse High School were airborne. They were doing a strenuous warm-up for their rehearsal of The Wiz — which will be playing at Hillhouse High School from March 19 to March 22 — and learning to sing and fly at the same time.
by | Feb 4, 2020 1:21 pm | Comments (0)
Abigail Wilcox
The Inner You.
Abigail Wilcox’s The Inner You is part anatomical drawing, part phantasmagoria. It somehow illustrates both the physical nature of the gray matter of the brain and the qualities of the uncountable thoughts inside it. Those thoughts could encompass just about anything: sharp cityscapes, bubbles in churned water, blue guitars, a dinosaur.
by | Feb 3, 2020 1:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Carina Gormley on Grand: “My favorite walk.”
The four-block stretch of Grand Avenue between Olive Street and Wallace Street is scattered with empty lots, storefront churches, social service nonprofits, and Italian eateries, all overshadowed by a towering highway overpass and a rich working-class history.
It’s Carina Gormley’s favorite walk in New Haven. She sees the city’s past and present in each step.
by | Feb 3, 2020 1:02 pm | Comments (0)
Jon Kessler
It Takes a Global Village Idiot.
People walking by Artspace since December have been treated to It Takes a Global Village Idiot, the chaotic kinetic sculpture by Jon Kessler that serves as a gateway to the rest of Strange Loops, the exhibit running at Artspace through Feb. 29. Curated by Johannes DeYoung and Federico Solmi, the exhibit seeks to explore “the social and psychological impacts of rapid technological change, and the consequential ways in which contemporary notions of self might be transforming.” The exhibit itself just might prove to be as distracting as a constantly pinging cell phone — and that’s part of the point.
by | Jan 31, 2020 4:34 pm | Comments (0)
“Here Comes The Killers/Snake Oil,” the first song on Killer Kin’s Bad, Bad, Minds! starts with a grinding, strutting guitar, ominous enough already. Then the drums crash in, a distortion-drenched tremolo guitar, somewhere between punk and surf.
Even before the singer starts chanting out the first lines of the first verse — “here comes the killers / here comes the kin” — it promises danger. But it also promises something else: fun.
by | Jan 31, 2020 8:41 am | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Jan 30, 2020 5:47 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Jan 30, 2020 5:34 pm | Comments (0)
I want to testify against Donald Trump …
by | Jan 30, 2020 12:50 pm | Comments (0)
Matthew Best
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.
by | Jan 29, 2020 4:00 pm | Comments (32)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Slave Play Teacher Put On Leave; Parent: “Scapegoating” Not The Answer’
by | Jan 28, 2020 4:09 pm | Comments (8)
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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.
by | Jan 28, 2020 3:56 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
by | Jan 28, 2020 1:12 pm | Comments (2)
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.
Continue reading ‘Artists Reveal Hong Kong Behind The Headlines’
by | Jan 28, 2020 1:11 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Jan 27, 2020 11:52 am | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Jan 24, 2020 8:48 am | Comments (0)
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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.”
Continue reading ‘Sketch Tha Cataclysm Draws A Self-Portrait’
by | Jan 24, 2020 8:39 am | Comments (0)
Political judgment …
by | Jan 23, 2020 1:19 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Westville Bowl Wins Street Closure Permission’
by | Jan 23, 2020 1:18 pm | Comments (0)
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.
by | Jan 22, 2020 8:37 am | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Jan 21, 2020 3:19 pm | Comments (9)
(Opinion) The map was created by Yale junior Meera Rothman. She can be reached at meera.rothman@yale.edu.
This countermap, entitled “The Yale Bubble,” depicts the interactions and disparities between Yale and New Haven.