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Mar 5, 2024 9:14 am
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T!lt.
“Castes,” the lead single from the New Haven-based T!lt’s new album, Death Do Us Part, starts with guitars weaving around each other, while drums and bass drop in to give the song a steady pulse. Mike Scialla’s plaintive vocal unspools a gentle song about heartbreak. “Was it something stuck inside my head?” he sings. “Was it something left unsaid?” Slide guitars swoop above and below like seagulls. It’s heartfelt and country-inflected, without entirely landing straight into country music.
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Maya McFadden |
Mar 4, 2024 2:18 pm
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Ellen Maust reads aloud to Mauro Sheridan second-grade class.
In a second-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan Interdistrict Magnet School students danced along to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” after learning about the “Queen of Soul.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 4, 2024 9:20 am
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Ira Sachs and Brian Meacham in conversation at Yale.
“My husband doesn’t want to dance with me,” filmmaker Tomas says to Agathe, who’s fresh off a breakup with her boyfriend. “I’ll dance with you,” she says. She does. What comes after is a sort of dance between Tomas, Agathe, and Tomas’s husband Martin in Passages, the latest film from acclaimed writer and director Ira Sachs that was screened as part of the Yale Film Archive’s Treasures From the Archive series this past Friday night.
It was another special occasion there for two reasons: One being that the film was shown in 35 mm — the only copy of it in existence, made especially for YFA — and two being that Sachs himself, a 1988 graduate of Yale, would be there for the screening and participating in a Q&A afterward.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 1, 2024 12:24 pm
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The Redberry Basil, Fruit Roll-Up, and "Fortitude" smoothies.
The thick, tawny mason jar smoothie I ordered from The Remedy’s Cultured Cafe on State Street looked, smelled and tasted like soft, cinnamon cream — despite the fact that it was filled with liver, pancreas, blood, tongue and heart.
It also had 2.5 mg of THC, a splash of CBD and CBG, maca- and ashwagandha-infused cashew butter, coconut yogurt and banana.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 1, 2024 10:23 am
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DJ P-Zo name-checks the crowd in the alder chambers.
New Haven hip hop pioneer DJ Terrible T had some pointed questions for his audience at the Hall of Records at 200 Orange St.
“What are we going to leave behind? What is hip hop going to mean to this little girl right here?” he asked, gesturing toward an audience member. “We can sit up here and talk about who we’ve been and who we DJed and how long we did it. But if we don’t leave a permanent, positive impression on our future — our children — what have we really accomplished?”
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 1, 2024 10:22 am
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Eight Feet Tall performing at my house.
Before performing, dancer Jackie O’Riley of Eight Feet Tall explained that the Irish dance the audience was about to witness had been thought extinct. Then “it was discovered there was one guy still teaching this dance” to neighbors and students in West Clare. “He was outside of the realm of competitive step dance, which meant that he had held onto his old repertoire,” O’Riley said. Modern folk dancers who visited him discovered he had a “vast repertoire” of dances “that hadn’t been seen in decades.” The audience, at a house concert I hosted in Hamden, was going to have to a chance to see.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 29, 2024 9:03 am
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“Suite 21” starts with a pulsing, menacing bass line, joined by crackling, skittering drums. Then organ and guitar create atmosphere, a hazy smoke. The stage is set. And Keila Myles is ready.
“Told you not to fuck with me you see,” she croons. “Now your ass is stuck with me you see / But I’m a peacemaker luckily you see / Piece maker more like cutlery you see.”
That gutting tone is altogether fitting for the latest video release from Keila Myles and the Moose Knuckles, who made it in time for NRP’s latest Tiny Desk Concert contest. The song is reworked, the take on it is new, but it’s about a crime perpetrated against Myles over a decade ago, the long hurt it caused — and how Myles learned how to survive and gather strength from it.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 28, 2024 9:34 am
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niko w. okoro and Erik Clemons.
A new art gallery is coming to the Lab at ConnCORP, on Newhall. The Orchid Gallery, organized by nico w. okoro of the bldg fund, is born out of conversations with area artists, with the goals of making a space for Black and Brown artists in the community to be seen and heard, supporting them in their professional development, and making a place where artists can come together.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 26, 2024 11:46 am
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Watch Friday’s fashion show above.
Long polka dot skirts from the ’50s, black leather jackets from the ’60s, and bell bottoms from the ’70s all made a return to Hill Regional Career High School as it celebrated Black fashion throughout the years.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 26, 2024 9:15 am
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James Paul Nadien sat behind the drums with an impish grin as violinist Sabrina Salamone tightened the hair on her bow. “F.I.M. 50!” he yelled. The crowd, a packed room at Never Ending Books on a Saturday, cheered. It was an appropriately direct introduction for the 50th installment of the F.I.M. concert series, which was started in April 2022 by guitarist Luke Rovinsky and bassist Caleb Duval and has quickly become a linchpin of the Elm City improvised music scene, joining the New Haven Improvisers Collective and the Instantiation series to solidify the next generation of players.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 26, 2024 8:58 am
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Alvin Carter, Sr. speaks during Part One: The Drummer's Path portion of Diaspora Stories: Hartford at Best Video.
The Hartford-based Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe returned to Best Video on Saturday to screen the completed three-part series Diaspora Stories: Hartford a year and a half after sharing a preview of the project at the venue during a performance in 2022. This time, in addition to showing the completed version, the band would also be adding to the soundtrack during the film, as well as performing before, after, and in between.
The band described Diaspora Stories: Hartford as “highlighting the history and intergenerational nature of Hartford’s African and African Diasporic arts community.” It consists of three parts. Part One, The Drummer’s Path, features “Abu” Alvin Carter, Sr., Alvin Carter, Jr., Inara Ramin, Assad Jackson, and Jocelyn Pleasant. The second part, Is It Hip Hop?, features Jolet Creary and Studio 860. Part Three, La Source, features Damian Curtis with The Lost Tribe.
A student gifts a book to the Little Free Library.
“Sometimes when you talk, the universe listens.”
That’s what Chris Walker, manager of the new LaundroMax on Whalley Avenue, said to me as we watched 25 kids sit still between rows of gleaming washing machines and a cacophony of dryers tumbling and buzzers going off — and prepare to hear a story read aloud at New Haven’s most innovative new branch library.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 23, 2024 9:20 am
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Nicol-Blifford, Schuck, and Andersen.
New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends with surprising, affecting depth. It runs Feb. 23, 24, 29, and March 1, 8, and 9 at the company’s space inside EBM Vintage, 839 Chapel St.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 22, 2024 3:09 pm
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91 Shelton Ave. to stay deteriorated on the outside ...
... and musically inspired on the inside.
City Plan commissioners killed a request to turn a dilapidated former factory serving as local artist studios into storage units — after deciding the development sounded like “dead space.”
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 22, 2024 9:41 am
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A giant squid seems to erupt from the floor of the gallery. Not far away, another wooden figure, more abstract, takes on a shape that could be leaning into the wood’s natural form and could have deviated far from it; from the finished product, it’s hard to say. Close by, there’s an abstract canvas with the contours of a cityscape, the hulking buildings rising from streetlights into darkness, all of it reflected in water. Unifying these works — by William Kent and Leo Jensen — are both the aesthetic sense of the era in which they were created and a more universal spirit of exploration. They’re what happened when the artists making them tried new things.
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Chris Volpe |
Feb 21, 2024 11:52 am
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Timmy Maia performs at the ball.
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Cindy Schofield and Jozzi Pizzolato dance up a storm.
Two hundred revelers helped the New Haven Free Public Library Foundation raise $50,000 Tuesday night at the annual Mardi Gras fundraising bash at the Elm Street main branch.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 21, 2024 9:34 am
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Roy Money
Emeishan View 2.
The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist pictures — the highest peak, the widest vista, the prettiest temple. Instead, he has an eye for the beauty in the details, the shape of the land, a mat of vegetation, curls of fog. Pictures of famous vistas might make us want to go there. Pictures like Money’s might give us more of a sense of what it’s like to already be there.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 21, 2024 8:48 am
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Ross Gay: "The hope is to be unmade in the process.”
Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness that brought them from rapt silence to riotous laughter and everywhere in between.
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Donald Brown |
Feb 20, 2024 11:09 am
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Long Wharf Theatre’s current production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge — running now through March 10 — marks not only a return to the “old neighborhood,” but also a return to a classic American play by a master of realist drama.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 16, 2024 9:28 am
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Shaunda Holloway’s Nature’s Children greets viewers as soon as they enter the second floor of the gallery at Creative Arts Workshop. Over the shoulder of that piece, Aisha Nailah’s HERstands ready, like an ally. From the doorway, it’s easy to see that the pieces in the show, by multiple artists, share affinities in form and color, as well as subject matter. The diversity of the voices is vast. But they’re all in the same cause together.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 15, 2024 12:40 pm
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Emojiis: Closed Valentine's Day, ordered to stay closed after 11.
A bar has been barred from expanding its hours — after a plea by the owners of Emojiis on Middletown Avenue got more thumbs down than smiley faces from local police and next-door neighbors.
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Michael Russem |
Feb 15, 2024 9:12 am
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Howard Gralla (pictured above; one of his books, below): A rare gift to mix beauty with utility.
Book designer Michael Russem gave the following eulogy at the recent funeral of Howard Gralla, a leader in the field who lived in Westville.
Yesterday morning I was in a used bookstore in Boston and spotted a book designed by Howard that I love: Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. It’s 9 × 12 inches, over 650 pages, and it weighs more than seven pounds.
This massive book had scores of Post-it notes poking out the top. The book was clearly well-used. Those Post-its were proof that Howard had done his job.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 14, 2024 4:42 pm
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U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Congressional staffer Lou Mangini, fest chief Shelley Quiala, and A&I staff at Wednesday's announcement.
The International Festival of Arts and Ideas has received a federal grant for $45,000 to support two of its events this June — adding to a larger pot of federal support for the organization as it lays out its lineup for the summer and charts its path forward as an organization for this year and beyond.
