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Apr 11, 2023 4:46 pm
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Now-former Ely Center employee Max Schmidt: "I think we can do better."
A now-former employee at a Trumbull Street visual arts gallery left his job after finding out about a board member’s decade-old child pornography arrest.
That employee is now speaking out about what he describes as an insensitive and unsupportive workplace, as well as an alleged exodus of board members sparked by their former colleague’s criminal record.
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Apr 11, 2023 8:16 am
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Townwide Tyler and DJ B to the T Jr. strike a pose.
Jazz floated in the air between whispers and animated conversations as people sipped wine and coffee and munched on pita chips and popcorn this past Thursday at Best Video. It was another installment of Lounge Night — a monthly event at the film and cultural center where, over the course of four hours, patrons are treated to movies, music, and conversations about both. On this night, the crowd was treated to three short films from the New Haven 48 Hour Film Project as well as music from DJs Townwide Tyler and B to the T Jr.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 10, 2023 12:47 pm
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Conversation facilitator Kim Weston: "I want young people, and children, and anyone who walks into this space to be safe."
A downtown visual art gallery has kicked off a public reckoning with how to become a “safe” workplace in the wake of resignations by several board members and an employee.
The present view of River St., looking east from James.
An art frame manufacturer plans to add jobs and build a new warehouse next to its bustling current Fair Haven site, while a block away a River Street movie studio plan appears to have stalled amid a corporate shakeup.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 5, 2023 8:52 am
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The cover of Fire Illuminations.
Even before trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith enters the musical room of “Ntozake Shange” — the first cut off Fire Illuminations, which Smith released last week — the music has left little doubt as to what’s going on. The beat is slow and dripping with grease, strong and powerful. The first phrase from Smith’s trumpet feel like a call to arms and a call to prayer at the same time. One by one, the rest of the instruments, guitars and basses, electronics, are gathered. They take their time, and at the same time have the feel of gorgeous inevitability. They’re moving in the same direction, toward a common destination. Even if that place is out of sight, they know it’s there.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 4, 2023 8:46 am
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It was Saturday morning and the technical crew was setting up lights, cameras, and microphones. The musicians in the band at Hamden Plains United Methodist Church, on the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Church Street in Hamden, had rehearsed their parts. In the pews in front of the altar, the Rev. Jeremiah Paul, pastor of Hamden Plains UMC, was running parts with the choir — in preparation to document a collaboration, and perhaps the beginning of a beautiful friendship, between Hamden Plains UMC and Yale Gospel Choir.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 31, 2023 9:01 am
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Corpse Flower
Kelly Kancyr of Corpse Flower was just doing her mic check from behind the drum kit Thursday night, but she had a message for the audience. “What’s up Cafe Nine?” she said. “New owner, still the same vibe. We love you, Cafe Nine!” So it seemed in the final days of club owner Paul Mayer’s run of the place. The club may be changing hands this weekend, when new owners Patrick Meyer, Jesse Burke, and Chris Meyer take the wheel. But it felt like just another good night of music for the live-music institution on State and Crown.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 30, 2023 8:32 am
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Sooyun Kim, Kate Arndt, Tanner Menees, Christine J. Lee, and Bridget Kibbey (l. to r.)
Min Young Kang, founder and artistic director of Kallos Chamber Music Series, smiled at the full house in the ballroom of the New Haven Lawn Club before Wednesday night’s concert began. “It always feels so great to come back here to share music with such a welcoming and warm audience like you,” she said. “Every single one of you plays a huge role in our performance, because we feed off our audiences.”
To the pawn shop customer who now has Robert Picagli’s early ‘60s-vintage Gibson B‑25 hollow body guitar: We’d like to introduce you to a little girl and her late grandfather.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 29, 2023 8:41 am
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Elephant Profile with Sun.
It’s an elephant in the valley of the Zambezi River in Zimbabwe, but it has been pulled out of time. It could be an image from the early history of photography, or a film still, or a postcard. But the image is actually quite recent, the years added to convey an urgent message.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 28, 2023 8:24 am
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Drill Music.
Emmanuel Massillon’s trumpet doesn’t have a mouthpiece. It can’t play. That’s the first hint that there’s a problem. Linger and look a little more, and you see that the misshapen bell of the horn is actually made from bullet casings. The title of the piece, Drill Music, suggests the indictment the artist is handing to that particular form of music. But something bigger and deeper is afoot as well.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 27, 2023 8:46 am
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A sample of Tierra Soap Co.'s offerings.
For some, a bar of soap is a common household item that helps them get their body clean. For Tierra Soap Co., a bar of soap has become a fusion of art, wellness, and culture as well as a way to connect to earth, nature, and community.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 27, 2023 8:37 am
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Ezra Furman.
Beloved indie rocker Ezra Furman — rounding out a national tour and soon to embark on an international one — prowled the Space Ballroom stage Sunday evening even before her set started. “Joy and resolve,” she said, setting the tone for her set and providing a fulcrum for an evening of music that tapped, in time, into all the emotions.
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Adam Matlock |
Mar 24, 2023 8:51 am
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Perry So.
Conductor and New Haven Symphony Orchestra music director candidate Perry So offered a concise answer to the question of what an orchestra can provide in response to the needs of current or potential classical music audiences: “A sense of engagement with the past. And a sense of optimism for the future.”
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Allan Appel |
Mar 23, 2023 2:08 pm
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Rendering of proposed new childcare campus at ex-Cine 4 site.
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David Symond, Jr., Allyx Schiavone, Margo Early, and Karin Patriquin on Wednesday.
The corn will keeping popping at the central ticketing-and-candy counter of the old Cine 4 movie theater — even as that entryway fixture is converted into a reception desk for a planned new early education campus now in the works on Middletown Avenue.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 23, 2023 10:00 am
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If you attended an HBCU — or want to learn more about the past 150 years of historically Black colleges and universities in this country — come out to the Q House on Friday for a screening of the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising.
