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Oct 12, 2023 8:51 am
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The TV Girl All-Star Traveling Band.
A line snaked around Toad’s Place into the courtyard off of York Street on Monday evening as “Lonely Girls” and “boys who act their age” filed into the venue, headlined by TV Girl, a California-based indie pop band that took the internet by storm this year with a series of viral hits.
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Abiba Biao |
Oct 11, 2023 12:00 pm
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Maya McDuffie (left) instructing young Hamden dancers.
Sitting on Lia Davila’s office floor, directly in front of her desk and constantly in her line of sight, is a row of five trophies. The trophies, which stretch all the way up to her chest, serve as a reminder of the grind, grit, and glory her students put in over the summer at the Turn It Up Dance Challenge in Orlando, Fl. in order to bring those awards home to Hamden.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 11, 2023 8:46 am
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Joy Bush
Suspended Disbelief.
Photographer Joy Bush’s piece, Suspended Disbelief, leans into the surrealism and humor of taking two images and combining them into one. On one level, the match is incongruous; one of them, it takes a second to notice, is upside-down. On another level, though, it works as a cohesive whole, inviting the brain to make sense of what it’s seeing. One plant could be the roots of the other, drawing nutrition from the sky below. In a way, that improbable idea works as an introduction to the larger effort at hand. “Process,” the show Suspended Disbelief is a part of, is itself a part of a larger effort among New Haven’s visual artists to bring back City-Wide Open Studios, happening this month all across town.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 10, 2023 4:51 pm
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Norm Clement uses sage to cleanse attendees of negative energies.
Monday’s Indigenous Peoples' Day cultural celebration on the New Haven Green.
Sage smoke, traditional dancing, and a “prayer of the four directions” filled the Green Monday afternoon as dozens gathered for an annual ceremony honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Wine Down CT’s end-of-summer event, Dear Summer, went down Sunday evening. If you get a chance to go to their next event, get your ticket early because they sell out fast, and I see why. Wine Down CT — which, according to Aislin Magazine, started hosting lusciously curated events as a riff on Wine Down Wednesdays, popularized by the TV show Insecure — throws fabulous day parties that draw hundreds of people to hang out, taste great food, vibe to good DJs and live music, imbibe scrumptious libations and generally have a good time.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 10, 2023 10:18 am
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Emonie Jackson, mastering pop art with Hillhouse art teacher Rebecca LeQuire.
Carlos Kirklan: Art is "an escape," and a chance to create.
With pop artist Keith Haring in mind, Hillhouse High School junior Emonie Jackson imagined up a chicken leg, to-go cup, and ketchup bottle all with arms and legs — and then penned those images to paper, honing her own creative style and skills amid her classroom’s dive into recent art history.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 10, 2023 8:32 am
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At Friday's "Vol. Boo" art opening.
The Volume Two collective at Never Ending Books threw open its doors Friday night for a seasonal art opening running at the space at 810 State St. through the end of the month — not of fall foliage and decorative gourds, but of ghosts, ghouls, and other visions of the macabre, as New Haven prepares for what is, in some ways, its most celebrated community holiday. The exhibition, called “Vol. Boo,” is a collaborative art show featuring the work of 15 artists who all took the chance, some playfully, some seriously, to explore and illuminate the darker side of life.
David Generoso by the ex-Columbus statue's plinth: "We think it was was something that was stolen from us unjustly."
A half-dozen members of a group called the Italian-American Defense League gathered in Wooster Square Park to celebrate Columbus Day — and to renew their call for a return of the long-gone statue depicting that federal holiday’s namesake.
The group charged with coming up with a new Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture for that same spot of Wooster Square Park, meanwhile, has now raised $320,000 out of its $400,000 goal.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 9, 2023 8:51 am
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Bones and more.
Are you in the market for a pair of snake bone earrings or maybe even a lizard wet specimen? Or maybe you’re more into resin earrings or keychains of your favorite pop culture icons, but you still want to check out some taxidermy creatures and gravestone rubbings as well? All that and way more were waiting for you and purveyors of the odd, the weird, and the wonderfully obscure at the third annual New England Antiques and Oddities Exhibition, held this past Sunday afternoon at the Annex YMA Lounge and Hall on Woodward Avenue.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 6, 2023 9:41 am
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In ways that photographs can’t capture, the installation of “Impossible Souls” — running now through Oct. 29 on the second floor of the Hilles Gallery of Creative Arts Workshop at 80 Audubon St. — makes moving through the gallery feel almost like swimming. Along with the art on the walls, and the art on large columns, numerous pieces are suspended from the ceiling in such a way that they drift and spin with the climate-controlled air. The overall effect quiets the space. It makes you move through the gallery with extra care, knowing that the art isn’t always where you might expect it to be.
Rashaan Boyd inside A Hustler's Vibe: "They’ve been looking for me so long, now [here I am!]”
Thanks to a combination of foot traffic and web traffic along with deep neighborhood roots, the newest entrepreneur on lower Edgewood Avenue is about to hit his 1,000th customer and has a new six-month lease in hand.
That entrepreneur, Rashaan Boyd, breathed new life into a vacant storefront at Day and Edgewood with his A Hustler’s Vibe clothing outlet and is going strong.
He is among the merchants the Independent is interviewing who are figuring out how to make small business work along largely residential stretches of Edgewood Avenue.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 5, 2023 11:07 pm
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A painted hinge, ready to be cleaned up on Wednesday night.
There’s an unusual and still little known new hospital in New Haven: It doesn’t accept most insurance, patients for the most part perform the treatments on themselves, and — most remarkably — it makes the old new again, well, at least look new, provided you are a hinge, doorknob, rosette, latch or lock.
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Sheila Carmon |
Oct 5, 2023 10:00 pm
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At the Sept. 29 New Haven Museum meetup, with author Michelle Hord.
The following photos were submitted by Links member Sheila Carmon about a Sept. 29 book signing and meet and greet with Daytime Emmy Award winner, author, and media executive Michelle Hord. The event was organized by the New Haven chapter of The Links, Incorporated.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 4, 2023 11:34 am
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Jihyun Lee
Doll Shelf.
The look of Jihyun Lee’s Doll Shelf partakes at once of the past and an imagined future.
The collection of objects has the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, the contents of the shelves of an old house, even maybe a beloved junk shop. But the red tint gives it a science fiction twist. They could be as much artifacts of the future as of the past. Or perhaps that tint transports us into the future, looking back at the fleeting present.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 4, 2023 8:20 am
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Can she?
For some people October means autumn is here, bringing with it pumpkin everything, apple picking, and sweater weather. For other people October means only one thing: it’s time to celebrate Halloween. Best Video Film and Cultural Center’s monthly film series is honoring the latter (though you can definitely purchase the requisite seasonal beverages there) with four horror movies, ones specifically chosen by their members.
The description online read: “In this ephemeral haven of sonic and poetic delights, the Afrogalactic Tea Party invites you to immerse yourself in a curated experience of taste and culture.”
The Sunday afternoon event at the flower and lifestyle shop Bloom on Central Avenue in Westville was part of the ongoing 6th Dimension Afrofuturism festival, a series of art exhibits, talks, screenings, and other gatherings running now through Oct. 25.
I love a tea party, and coupling one with Afrofuturism intrigued me, so I headed to the festival website to grab a ticket, which was pretty reasonable at $23. I wasn’t sure what to expect.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 3, 2023 8:19 am
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The sketches
Yet another downpour threatened to upset many events planned for Saturday, but not the meet-up for the New Haven Sketchers. The local club of artists, who meet up every week or so, had scheduled to gather at the Yale University Art Gallery to take in and take down the sights of Chapel Street and its surrounding stores and locations — and the weather and other adjustments to the norm did not deter them.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 2, 2023 8:33 am
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Westville Music Bowl said so long to the summer and another full season of outdoor concerts with their closing show Thursday night, headlined by none other than boygenius, a band with a name spelled in lowercase letters and stacked with uppercase talent. Singer-songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus have been touring the country in support of their first full-length album, the record, which was released in March 2023 with a variety of opening acts. On this night it was Palehound, who also released an album, Eye on the Bat, in July.
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Adam Matlock |
Oct 2, 2023 8:28 am
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Joyce Yang.
Towering C major chords from organ and orchestra in unison. Dazzling rhythmic interplay between soloist Joyce Yang and the orchestra. An energetic rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” resuming a tradition in Woolsey Hall. Thursday night’s debut of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 – 24 season was full of triumphant moments, even as it very meaningfully kicked off the orchestra’s final season under Music Director Alisdair Neale.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 28, 2023 7:59 am
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Still from Karen Carpenter: Starving for Perfection.
Black Barbie, and how that doll came to be. A queer Russian artist who protests the government in costumes made from junk and tape. A dive into the world of legendary jazz drummer Max Roach. Another look at music legend and New Haven native Karen Carpenter.
All of these subjects and more are featured in movies to be screened as part of the New Haven Documentary Film Festival, or NHDocs, which observes its 10th anniversary this year. The annual nonfiction film fest will screen over 100 movies in various locations across New Haven and Hamden, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 22.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 27, 2023 9:07 am
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The cover of Never Ending Poetry.
On the last page of the new poetry anthology Never Ending Poetry — a celebration of the first year of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry reading series that happens almost every Tuesday at Never Ending Books on State Street — there’s an incisive poem by Alice Prael about a barrel in a field on fire, melting plastic. “Polymers propagating / intimate inanity / inane intimacy,” she writes. “It’s poison but it’s warm.” On the same page is a poem called “Ode to Baby Jesus” by Julie Meehan. “You’ll get nailed down,” she writes, “but you’ll get up again / They’re never gunna nail you down.”
The juxtaposition is just fine by Brian Robinson, who runs Open Mic Surgery and put together the anthology. “I love that one poem is a beautiful, really elegant” piece, “and then the last poem is an adaptation of a Chumbawumba song about Jesus,” Robinson said. To him, “that’s the dichotomy” of Open Mic Surgery itself. “Nothing is off the table.”
It's official: Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas will permanently close next month.
New Haven’s last remaining commercial movie theater will go dark for good after Oct. 12, bringing to a close roughly two decades of screenings on Temple Street downtown.
