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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 24, 2024 12:32 pm
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The Legacy Mobile Exhibitioninside the cARTie museum bus.
A small white bus was parked outside of NXTHVN, at 169 Henry St., its walls decorated with handwritten definitions of the word “legacy”: “legacy is saying cheers to the next generation,” “legacy is taking actions with purpose, and not stopping when faced with failure.”
The bus was part of the cARTie program, housing the Legacy Mobile Exhibition, which will be touring New Haven through Aug. 13.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2024 12:15 pm
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Thank you, water, on Whitney Ave.
Part architectural stunner, part essential public utility, the silver and glass structure of the Regional Water Authority’s water treatment plant was even more impressive up close than seen from Whitney Avenue across the street from the Lake Whitney Dam.
Just as impressive, as it turned out, were the inner workings of that plant and how it provides water to the city and elsewhere — as a group of 30 participants learned on a tour of the facility, guided by Jesse Culbertson, RWA water treatment team lead, as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 24, 2024 9:21 am
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The 7 Fingers in "Dual Reality."
The 7 Fingers, an acrobatic and theatrical company, was about to begin its performance of Arts & Ideas’ Duel Reality, a circus-like retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when a fight appeared to break out in the audience.
The ushers had split the crowd down the middle and given half the attendees a red wristband while the other half received blue. The problem: two audience members noticed that a third “audience member” was seated in the wrong section, wearing a blue wristband in the red half. They asked him to move. He resisted. Just as the audience started to get nervous that a real physical altercation was occurring, all would-be combatants ran up onto the stage. The show had already begun.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2024 9:05 am
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Agnete Wisti Lassen and Mohamad Hafez: "I cannot think of a more fulfilling engagement."
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Eternal Cities.
“I don’t like to speak,” artist Mohamad Hafez said to a packed audience at the Peabody Museum on Friday night. Since he became a public artist, he said, “I wanted my art to speak on my behalf,” and “I love it when institutions take the artwork, and they talk.”
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 21, 2024 12:00 pm
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Re-X Clinic attendees with their pickles.
The kitchen of MakeHaven was cramped and filled to the brim with the strong smell of vegetables, oil, and brine. Eight people gathered with Young Le Do on Thursday night to participate in a pickle-making workshop called Re‑X Clinic: In a Pickle!
Some people brought the contents of their fridge. Others darted across the street to Elm City Market to purchase vegetables and herbs. The group shared ingredients between them, until the air was as filled with camaraderie as the jars were filled with salt.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Jun 21, 2024 11:47 am
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At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a backroom hookah lounge.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2024 8:17 am
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Haitian-American band Jo. L. & Friends started their Thursday evening set on the Green with a barrage of drums, tight and pounding beats. An hour and a half later, the Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha announced its presence on the stage by ripping out rhythms on multiple drums.
Both musical gestures had the same effect. They were calls to gather. They set the tone for each band’s set. And they were a promise, that each band would stir the feet and heart, even as the sources of their musical traditions were over 5,000 miles apart.
Villains abound in Steven Brill’s new call to arms to rescue truth from internet disinformation agents and “pink slime” peddlers. My favorite villain is a piece of legislation.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 20, 2024 9:15 am
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A still from "Black Moon".
Cult Night! With Anthony, the newest monthly series at Best Video, offered its third showing Wednesday night and cultivated not only a discussion of what the film was about, but also multiple discussions of what constitutes a “cult” film in the first place.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 19, 2024 9:18 am
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Shrapknel.
Dying in hospice. Shedding the uniform known as your body. Name-checking Milford. All these topics and more flew through bar after bar of hip hop, as six acts from near and far burned through their sets to the delight of a good-sized audience who had come to hear them at Cafe Nine.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 19, 2024 9:13 am
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Brain Robinson: “Everyone should have the experience to be creative and test the waters."
When Brian Robinson entered the side room of Never Ending Books, he greeted everyone seated there as if they were old friends, and most of them probably were. Robinson’s weekly Tuesday night Open Mic Surgery event, a poetry open mic, is all about fostering community and poets building each other up, not just as poets, but as friends.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 18, 2024 2:09 pm
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Waiting for a pie from Sally's on Wooster St. ...
... as, right around the corner, Mykala Grace grabs two iced teas for maximum hydration at DESK's drop-in center.
Two lines that never meet form around lunchtime on one Wooster Square block: one for Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen’s drop-in center, the other for the world-famous Sally’s pizzeria.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 18, 2024 9:17 am
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What would you do to keep your reality intact? This was the question posed by composer, conductor, and jazz pianist Kevin Harris to a crowd of hundreds gathered in the Beinecke Library on Monday. By the light of illuminated bookshelves, New Haveners gathered to share in a musical and educational experience, inspired by the work of writer and activist James Baldwin and part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 17, 2024 1:26 pm
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Wadada Leo Smith: “I was born in Mississippi where the sunrise comes out of the ground."
Creative Musicians Improvisors Forum (CMIF) co-founder Wadada Leo Smith kept the audience at Firehouse 12 on Saturday enraptured as he detailed a life rooted in musical history, from Mississippi to California to Chicago to Europe to New Haven.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 17, 2024 9:20 am
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Reena Esmail.
A tapping of a tabla, a voice lifting up Hindi poetry, a striking of a cymbal, a chorale joined in harmony: all came together to evoke the image of water and the multitude of ways it affects our lives in Reena Esmail’s Malhaar: A Requiem for Water, performed at Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall early Saturday evening as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 17, 2024 9:17 am
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A pairing of two bands steeped in traditional music — Cécilia and the Ebony Hillbillies — showed the ways in which having deep roots in a particular musical style can lead to grounded explorations elsewhere, while also getting audiences out of their chairs and onto their dancing feet, during a Sunday afternoon concert on the Green as part of the opening weekend of Arts & Ideas.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jun 17, 2024 9:11 am
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Compagnia de’ Colombari's King Lear.
Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear at University Theatre — whose first performance was part of Friday night’s big kickoff for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas — doesn’t start, so much as the audience blinks and then it’s happening.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 14, 2024 9:23 am
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Brightening the dark at Never Ending Books.
Stan Nishimura announced his entrance with a fanfare from his trombone. Paul McGuire, on saxophone, answered with a wail. For a moment they made a game of matching notes and unmatching them. Then they moved into playing off one another, supporting one another, but breathing together, starting and ending their phrases together, turning the movement of air in and out of their lungs into their own rhythm section.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 13, 2024 12:27 pm
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Chia-Yu Joy Lu bowed a pastoral landscape into being — a gently sloping grassy expanse with a big sky and low horizon — when, suddenly, her right hand let loose a run of clipped, staccato notes, horses’ hooves running wild across the Green.
Lu offered that transporting musical experience for several dozen onlookers Thursday morning during a press conference celebrating Friday’s start of the 29th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
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Jun 13, 2024 11:27 am
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Co-owner Paul Crosby: "The dirty chai is a crowd favorite."
After eight years of slinging coffee on the streets of New Haven, the Jitter Bus has brought their dirty chais and espressos to a newly opened brick-and-mortar store on the northern end of Wooster Square.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 13, 2024 9:06 am
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Rocking hard from Australia to Hamden.
“Is anyone in love in the audience?” G Flip asked the packed house at a sold-out show at Space Ballroom on Wednesday night. There were a few vigorous nods, and then someone said the obvious; they were in love with G Flip.
“Thank you for coming!” G Flip said.
“Thank you for being here!” the audience member responded.
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Thomas Breen |
Jun 12, 2024 2:00 pm
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Youth & Rec’s Gwen Williams and Ronnie Huggins, ready for summer.
More than 700 young New Haveners have above-minimum-wage jobs waiting for them this summer if they accept employment offers from the city’s youth and rec department — thanks to a recent bump in funding for the city’s Youth @ Work program.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 12, 2024 9:12 am
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The pieces at first look just like abstract collages, but soon, fragments of meaning emerge. The shape of lips. A pattern of shadows. Finally, letters and words, but not enough of them to know exactly what they say, and certainly not enough to know where they’re from. The meaning and the source have been cut away, and they’re now out of reach. The viewer has to look to the accompanying labels to learn anything. It turns out the piece on the left is taken from Why We Can’t Wait, by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the one on the right is from The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison. King’s book was banned in South Africa during apartheid. The Bluest Eye had been banned from schools and libraries in the past few years in over 20 states — including Connecticut.
