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Jul 30, 2024 9:10 am
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Shaunda Holloway and her pyrography piece, "One Thousand Faces."
For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have other people respond to your expression.
Those are the themes of her latest exhibition, “Faces at the Table,” in collaboration with Jasmine Nikole, which has been on display at Atticus Bookstore & Cafe from June 6 through Tuesday.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 29, 2024 9:37 am
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48 Hour Film Project team director Zach Fox: “Ketchup is harder to clean up than I thought it would be.”
The scene of the crime.
In the middle of the floor of director Zach Fox’s parents’ kitchen lay some fake blood, a real knife, and an avocado.
This was a crime scene, and the crime wasn’t only the murder of a helpless victim. It was also a crime against fashion.
Luckily, the fashion detectives were on the case. And soon, everybody would be watching them — as part of an annual competition to make a short movie in just two days.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 29, 2024 9:25 am
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TJ and Antony Sellitto-Budney with puppets.
What do felt, paper, string, feathers, eggs, and odd socks have in common? They can all be made into puppets, and they all came alive on Friday night during the Pinned & Sewtured Puppet Cabaret, hosted at Witch Bitch Thrift.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 25, 2024 9:25 am
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At the gallery: Sonal Soveni and her Blue Vein Mural.
On the table: a Kale-Caesar salad.
On the wall next to the entrance of The Table & Gallery, located at 1209 Chapel St., is the “Blue Vein Mural,” which encapsulates everything that the culinary and artistic space is all about.
The mural is made out of pages taken from two eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on patriarchy and the oppression of women, covered by flowing blue shapes that recall water droplets flung into the air. An educational message is transformed into a work that evokes cleansing and freedom, as well as the idea of going with the flow.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 24, 2024 9:19 am
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Even though the signs are in sync with one another, not offering contradictory information, the photograph conveys a sense of disorientation. You have to read them twice, maybe, to see that they line up. The inclusion of the house matters, too; it gives the disorientation context. What does it mean for the people who live on that block, that multiple signs tell people unfamiliar with the street layout that they’re not supposed to go there? What does it mean that there’s only one way off the block for the residents, a sense of limited options? Who made these decisions in the first place?
The picture is unsigned, but it was shot by one of 17 students from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School and High School in the Community for “New Haven Revisited,” a photography show running through July 31 in the gallery on the lower level of the Ives Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 23, 2024 9:26 am
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Can Yağız
Not today either, detail.
It’s not entirely clear what New Haven-based artist Can Yağız’s image is of, though in its first iteration it has just enough shape to suggest a prone human form. If it’s a person, are they sleeping or dying? In either case, the image itself is about decay, the loss of light, shape, defined borders. But there’s acceptance in it, too, an embrace and investigation of change.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 22, 2024 9:37 am
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“Calm and Full of Chaos,” the first song from Neon Black — the latest release from the New Haven-based hip hop unit Sotolish — starts off with a sound like a siren from the future blaring over a dank, driving beat, provided by producer Delish Music.
“Calm before the chaos / stepping off the ghost / arriving to the seance / OK boss, more money, more layoffs / can’t collect the checks, all this water’s for the brainwash,” Sotorios raps, sounding like a man broadcasting from the sewers, keeping his head just above water, his audio equipment just dry enough to function. It all sounds like the duo is plugged into something urgent and real. Are we ready to hear the message?
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 19, 2024 9:12 am
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Shula Weinstein
The Architect.
Even without knowing the name of the piece, the figure represented there looks like a mythological personage, a character freighted with symbols. It’s there in the decorations on her boots, and the way she walks through and astride the town at the same time. It’s there in the way she holds a building in her hand. In the artist’s style, she could be a giant, holding an actual building; she could also be showing us the vision she has in her head. Or maybe it’s a little bit of both.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 17, 2024 12:57 pm
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Lino Liuzzi with brother Nicola, co-founders of Liuzzi Cheese.
The aging room at Liuzzi cheese — what Lino built.
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx.
A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
So he took a train to New Haven station — and took his first steps towards building a Connecticut cheese empire.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 17, 2024 11:37 am
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Youth@Work high schoolers bring art to city parks ...
... and work to paint over inappropriate messages like "fuck it, fuck you."
Garfield the cat and a Hillhouse Academics Smurf popped up on two electrical boxes less than a mile apart — as local high schoolers hustled to paint over profanity-laden graffiti in city parks and street corners, in an effort to beautify New Haven this summer.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 17, 2024 9:30 am
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Boeing by Joyce Greenfield.
When you enter City Gallery, located at 994 State St., the first thing you notice is the vibrant painting in the window. Joyce Greenfield’s Boeing resembles an abstract plane, done in bright greens and blues. The colors evoke the natural tones of the earth, but the plane itself is manmade and mechanical, creating a dichotomy of natural versus human creation. There is a sense that the plane is a miniature planet, orbiting the earth.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 16, 2024 9:05 am
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Gallup, New Mexico.
It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his eyes, makes him seem as though he has a thousand stories, and maybe he’ll tell us one. But, the photographer reveals, he never did.
“At the height of the summer of 2020, we landed in Gallup, NM empty streets. An eerie desert silence mixed with the constant whistle and screeching metal on metal wheels and track of the never-ending present locomotive,” the photographer writes. “Here I encountered these two Native American gentlemen. We never spoke a word.”
City development official Carlos Eyzaguirre, Whalley leader Allen McCollum, Eddie Eckhaus, Rabbi Andre Malek, Mayor Justin Elicker at Monday's ribbon-cutting.
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Eckhaus's trademark super-stuffed felafel.
It’s a miracle how many toppings Eddie Eckhaus can stuff into a felafel sandwich. But he needed more than a miracle to make his felafel storefront succeed: He needed a maschgiach.
I.e. a rabbi who certifies that a restaurant serves kosher food.
Like Elijah the Prophet on the first night of Passover, that rabbi appeared at Eckhaus’s Lea’s Felafelhaus to-go storefront Monday for a ribbon-cutting bringing hopes for a business resurrection.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 15, 2024 11:30 am
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Pat Stone performing with a full band at cafe nine.
“Thanks for coming out on this scorching Sunday,” said Billy Scovill of The Ambulance Chasers as they opened a three-band bill at Cafe Nine Sunday afternoon. It was indeed a scorcher outside, but the corner of State and Crown was the perfect place to cool off with icy drinks and a trio of CT-based bands playing the kind of rock that fires everyone up and almost makes you forget you have to go back to work the next day.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 15, 2024 8:40 am
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Mildly Allergic.
Before getting off stage, Tony Mascolo of Wasteworld gave the crowd an earnest stare. “Does anyone need to use my amp?” he said. Someone from one of the other bands getting ready to play answered strongly in the affirmative. Mascolo nodded and left his amp where it was, helping someone in the next set out. The sharing of equipment — and in time, personnel — was a hallmark of the strong sense of camaraderie among the members of four bands that rocked Three Sheets on Friday, two of which had just a couple years ago started off playing house shows around the area and now were hitting stages.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 12, 2024 9:34 am
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Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma.
New Haven is a pretty easy place to find Italian food and fairs, but what about films? The Institute Library is satisfying that craving this summer with their new film series, “Ciao, Bella!” On Thursday night the second film of the three in the series — 1962’s Mamma Roma, directed by Pier Polo Pasolini — was screened among the stacks of their biography room. Library member John Hatch had the idea for the series and according to operations manager Eva Geertz, it was one she was happy to help come to fruition.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 12, 2024 8:31 am
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Alice Matthews, Jasmine Keegan, and Chris Chew clean a reproduction of Child with Dog.
There’s a lot of work that goes into curating and maintaining an art collection like that of the Yale Art Gallery, located at 1111 Chapel St., and usually, the public only gets to see the finished product. But on Thursday, the gallery offered a glimpse behind the curtain to see some of the conservation work that goes into taking care of its artwork in a Sidewalk Studio workshop.
Charlotte Anderholt’s cranberry tart pie with hazelnut crust.
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Harris, Ray, and Sarah Harris Wallman.
Harris Wallman only needed an hour to craft his delicious blueberry-mint-cream cheese pie for the summer’s first Hi-Fi Pie Fest. The base, made up of sugar cookie dough, had a cream cheese filling seasoned with lemon juice, lemon zest, and ginger. The pie couldn’t be complete without the pièce de résistance: a creamy blueberry sauce layered on top.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 11, 2024 9:17 am
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Madou Sidiki Diabaté and Salif Bamakora, with their koras at Cafe 9.
The chitchat at Cafe Nine on Wednesday might have been getting a little intense, but a flourish of notes from the 21-string kora of Madou Sidiki Diabaté was enough to silence them.
One by one the voices died down as Diabaté floated phrase after mesmerizing phrase into the air — modern yet informed by a West African culture thousands of years old.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 11, 2024 9:08 am
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Mamma Mia!
The crowd in Pitkin Plaza.
Several dozen people gathered in Pitkin Plaza on Wednesday night for Movies in the Plaza, a weekly summer movie night organized by the Town Green District.
The night’s screening was the beloved and absurd ABBA-based jukebox musical, Mamma Mia!
A strong wind kept the audience cool and provided the perfect backdrop for dramatic hair-flips and other musical staples as the crowd gathered on fold-up chairs and picnic blankets to answer the age-old question: who’s the father?
Justin Trudeau's half-brother promoting RFK Jr. and open-source peace-through-dance on Church Street.
An AI-generated reggae song blasted onto the Green Tuesday afternoon from atop a cross-country bus on a mission to elect a third-party presidential candidate — while bringing about world peace through “high-vibration” partying.
