by | Mar 23, 2023 10:00 am | Comments (0)
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.
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by | Mar 23, 2023 8:54 am | Comments (0)
Joseph Keckler’s video installation Ghost Song (which can be viewed in its entirety here) describes an erotic encounter with a spirit that is made hilarious by the multiple layers of incongruous media Keckler uses to create the story. It is funny enough that the encounter — “I had sex with a ghost,” the subtitles plainly read — is described in ludicrous detail (“different poses, like elderly aerobics. My ghost was a body worker. I held my arms in the air like a lost raver”). Funnier still that, after a more traditional ghost story opening, Keckler conveys the story in Italian, sung as light opera. The more seriously he emotes, the funnier it gets.
by | Mar 22, 2023 9:40 am | Comments (2)
Alejandro Hernández, Camila Moreno, Mónica Sánchez, and Alma Martinez.
Armida has a proposition for the family in front of her. She wants to make Hason, who already works for her, more of a business partner. Hason is game. He’s been working for this opportunity for a while now. Acan, his son, is also ready. He’s been getting used to his life in Los Angeles. But Medea, Acan’s mother, isn’t so sure. She worries about what Hason may be giving up. She and Tita, the family’s matron, worry that maybe Armida’s designs on Hason extend past the professional. In that moment, there is a sense that the family, which has held together through several hardships, might just start coming back. And Medea doesn’t know what to do.
by | Mar 22, 2023 8:56 am | Comments (0)
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Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur introduces "Through A Glass Darkly"
Best Video went big with its newest film series Tuesday night, bringing the first of three films by legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to a welcoming crowd. The series opened with Through A Glass Darkly, the 1961 film that is considered the first in a trilogy of Bergman films that explore similar themes of God and spirituality. The next two films, The Silence and Winter Light, will be shown on March 28 and April 4, respectively. According to event coordinator Teo Hernandez, it was something he has wanted to do for a while.
by | Mar 21, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (16)
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Ivana Lewis paints beside her mom, Shauniqua Davis, at a Wilson Library event.
The Wilson Library branch is a “second home” to Helen and her children — especially to 7‑year-old Eli, who devours every animal-themed book he can find.
In spare moments, Wilson staff members set aside volumes they think Eli will like. But most days, they’re kept busy with adults needing job applications or a place to rest their head while inebriated.
So Wilson staff, regulars, and allies are calling on the city to fund a full-time children’s librarian at Wilson — the only branch in the city to lack the funding for one.
by | Mar 21, 2023 8:15 am | Comments (2)
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Nzima Hutchings at Monday's "Fred Hampton 101" workshop.
The thoughts and deeds of a young fallen revolutionary became fuel for poetic pursuits Monday evening at Possible Futures, the bookstore and meeting place on Edgewood Avenue, as Nyzae James and Nzima Hutchings led a dozen participants through “Fred Hampton 101,” a presentation that was part history, part poetry workshop, and all community building.
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by | Mar 20, 2023 11:37 am | Comments (0)
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Women paying tribute at Sunday's event (clockwise from top left): Ethnic Heritage Center Walk New Haven Coordinator and JHSGNH Past President Rhoda Zahler Samuel, close Schiff friends Rachel Leff and Sara Fraim, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Executive Director Elizabeth Rose, JHSGNH President Marjorie Drucker, Yale Alumni Magazine Editor Kathrin Day Lassila (holding Yale Medal awarded to Schiff).
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven (JHSGNH) kicked off a tradition Sunday: An annual Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program. The event took place at New Haven Museum in conjunction with an exhibit about “Trailblazing Jewish Women” from New Haven and Connecticut. The first event honored Schiff herself, the “people’s historian” who served the City of New Haven as well as Yale and helped found the JHSGNH, and who died last year at the age of 84. Following is the published JHSGNH tribute to Schiff, written by Carole Bass.
by | Mar 20, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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Zombii.
On Saturday, punk musician Jeremy Zombii and friends from nine local pop, rock and ska bands came together to honor the memory of Zombii’s sister, Rebecca Lorch, and celebrate her incredible, odds-defying life — which included her rise to the level of “America’s Strongest Woman” just a few years after a bad motorcycle accident threatened her ability to ever walk again — at a nine-hour concert at The Cellar on Treadwell.
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by | Mar 17, 2023 9:03 am | Comments (0)
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Nelson on the set of Barbecue after rehearsal.
A family has gathered in a park. They’re worried about one of their siblings, who has yet to arrive. But it’s clear each of them has their own problems, too. Their conversation is fraught with personal history, some of it harrowing, most of it hilarious.
There’s a scene break. Now the family is back — same pavilion in a park, same cooler, same grill, same clothes. Except that now, all the family members are Black. They pick up right where the White family left off. As if they’re the same family, but different too. Something weird is going on.
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by | Mar 17, 2023 8:44 am | Comments (4)
On Your Feet! The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
The music and musical backstories that New Haveners carry around from the last century are popping back up at the Shubert Theatre this spring, still vibrant and relevant to a changing world.
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by | Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am | Comments (1)
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Warren Leftridge, Finn Crumlish, Amelia Tamborra-Walton.
Seymour, who works in a flower shop, has found an unusual plant. He stumbled across it during a total eclipse and has brought it to the store, where it’s attracting customers. His boss, Mr. Mushnik is pleased. But Seymour has discovered a terrible secret: the plant only grows by being fed human blood, and is ever hungry for more. Plus, it seems to be able to talk. What is Seymour going to do? And how will all of this affect the relationship he hopes to have with his co-worker, Audrey?
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by | Mar 16, 2023 8:30 am | Comments (2)
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“It is a rude Hitlerian dictatorship run by an unbalanced person.”
by | Mar 15, 2023 6:47 pm | Comments (8)
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Crew prepares to start shooting scene.
The star pooch.
Wooster Square became Brooklyn Wednesday as a film crew took over a block of Chapel Street.
by | Mar 15, 2023 8:55 am | Comments (1)
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Maeve and the Monsoons.
Amelia Maurer’s surreal image evokes power and magic, a sense of fearlessness. The viewer is the intruder in this scenario; the subject is a guardian, and she’s holding all the cards. The piece is striking enough on its own. Presenting it as the cover art for an imaginary album only magnifies its allure. It suggests that the associated music is strange and visionary. You haven’t heard anything like it, but you want to.
by | Mar 14, 2023 9:02 am | Comments (15)
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Lloyd.
For Nick Lloyd, owner and chief engineer of Firehouse 12 on Crown Street, the announcement of the space’s spring concert series — kicking off March 24 and running every Friday through June 23 — is both a return and a rejuvenation. As in the past, the concert series features many of the leading lights of the experimental music scene, locally, regionally, and nationally. Those groups, however, will get to play in a renovated space that reflects, after two decades, Lloyd’s even surer sense of what a concert venue can sound like, and what it can do for players and audience alike.
by | Mar 14, 2023 8:54 am | Comments (0)
Guo, Miller, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.
There are two responses to the notion that classical music’s canon is too narrow. The first is to turn one’s back on the canon entirely, and the second is to dig deeper into the canon, looking for lesser-known works from famous composers.
by | Mar 13, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (3)
Danielle Deadwyler and Jalyn Hall in Till.
Arnold Gorlick saw one of the best leading-actress performances on the screen — then was outraged not to see it acknowledged Sunday night at the Oscars.
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by | Mar 13, 2023 8:59 am | Comments (0)
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The Jovial Crew.
Rick Spencer eyed the growing crowd at Cafe Nine Sunday afternoon after the St. Patrick’s Day parade, a healthy mix of parade-goers, families, and groups of friends, as The Jovial Crew took the purple-lit stage at the club on the corner of State and Crown.
“Good evening,” he said, gesturing toward the band. “I’m Shane MacGowan. This is Dolores O’Riordan, Bono, and Van Morrison.” The references to famous Irish singers drew appreciative laughter from the crowd, and set the tone for the show to follow, as The Jovial Crew turned Cafe Nine into a regular Irish pub, right on time for the holiday.
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Robert Greenberg getting lost in New Haven history with St. Thomas students.
Marveling at a relic of Long Wharf commercial history: "William Lanson in 1812 stood next to this book."
A dozen sixth graders took a step back in time — to the 1810s expansion of Long Wharf, to the 1909 planting of the Lincoln Oak, to the 1927 crafting of the Lender bagel — in a tour of an emerging new museum dedicated to New Haven history’s ephemera.
by | Mar 10, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (0)
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Perennial at Gather.
Four acts packed the room Thursday night at Gather, from coffee counter to chalkboard walls to bookshelves lined with everything from Eric Carle to Descartes. The lineup included Square Loop from Worcester, Mass., touring in support of their latest album, as well as local acts Perennial, Snowpiler, and Tj Redding.
by | Mar 10, 2023 8:30 am | Comments (0)
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"Even if they accuse me of crimes ... I'll still be a candidate." "I am sun warrior ... I am his justice ... and I am his vengeance."
by | Mar 9, 2023 2:19 pm | Comments (14)
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Here to stay: The Koffee? outdoor parking-space patio.
Duncan Goodall won’t need to dismantle an outdoor dining patio this Friday and rebuild it five weeks later, thanks to a reprieve from City Hall.
by | Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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Career office clerk Shirley Love joins school choir in "Lift Every Voice and Sing," performed at Black History assembly and celebration.
Hill Regional Career High School’s auditorium rang like a rolling sea as students lifted their voices to sing the Black National Anthem alongside school staffer Shirley Love, whose voice left the school full of the hope.
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by | Mar 9, 2023 8:39 am | Comments (0)
The paths of light streak across the darkness, like the afterglow of the sun across your retina after you close your eyes on a summer day. Or perhaps like the smoky path in the air left behind by a kid waving a sparkler on the Fourth of July, or a flashlight. It’s actually the sun dancing across water, but for artist Phyllis Crowley, it’s not the source of the light that matters. It’s the shapes the light leaves behind, a record of the way it moved — and the way it suggests a meaning, just out of reach.
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