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Halfway through the first number from the Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere Quintet at Cafe Nine Wednesday night, the band already sounded like they’d be playing for hours. A first, highly energetic section of solos was winding down, and there was a brief pause in the music. As the others in the ensemble held a chord, drummer Ryan Sands stood up for a few seconds, just long enough to take off his coat, then hit the next beat without a hitch. It was a signal both that the music was getting hot, but also that the musicians were getting comfortable — as well they should.
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Brian Slattery |
May 17, 2023 8:55 am
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Danae.
Anastasia Mastilovic’s painting Danae may be named after a figure in Greek mythology, but her style makes the figure evocative of more. The woman could be a goddess or a mermaid. She could be in repose, or unleashing magical powers. Or perhaps it’s all a metaphor, about power, latent and dynamic, and how it can be used to transform the world.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 16, 2023 11:29 am
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NHV Noise magazine
Are you one of those people wishing there was an events calendar listing local shows and helping you navigate what’s going on in New Haven and beyond? Well, a new zine by the name of NHV Noise is coming to a performance space near you, full of writing, art, and yes, that calendar.
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May 16, 2023 8:29 am
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MIchelle Cann and Alisdair Neale.
An historic premiere. Significant anniversaries and, in some cases, a final concert for several members of the orchestra. An orchestra program featuring works entirely by Black American composers, not presented in February, when one of those composers was in the audience. Another work performed by a Grammy-winning classical pianist.
Friday night’s final concert for the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 – 23 Classics season at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts was loaded with significance.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 15, 2023 3:35 pm
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McDonald, Blumenthal, Le and Grayson boosting antitrust bill Monday.
Richmond Le stood outside the Shubert Theater in support of his favorite superstar and her worldwide fans who have both been affected by the bungled concert sales of an under-fire concert-broker — and spoke out in favor of legislation that would break ticket services’ stranglehold over music venues, artists and audiences.
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May 15, 2023 8:43 am
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A people-filled, car-free Orange St. at Friday's fest.
Throngs of New Haveners descended on the Ninth Square for hours on end for the latest Night Market, an “evening bazaar” that saw people of all ages fill the streets, stalls, and shops, dance on the sidewalk, and generally pass the time outdoors together.
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Brian Slattery |
May 15, 2023 8:36 am
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Luxuriating in a warm spring day, ArtWalk — organized by the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance — brought out a crowd on Saturday for a full afternoon of art, craft, music, theater, food, and community.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 12, 2023 4:59 pm
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Cross chefs-in-training show off their culinary chops at Friday's presser.
Punchy restaurant pitches and smoke from searing scallops filled Wilbur Cross Friday morning as students showed off lessons learned from participating in a nationwide youth culinary competition — and from living in a small city as culturally rich as the meals served up by the school’s award-winning cooking crew.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 12, 2023 8:56 am
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The State House Co-Owner Carlos Wells.
The closing of The State House has brought forth a wealth of emotions from the New Haven music community as it prepares for the end of the State Street venue’s five-year run as a Ninth Square powerhouse of productions, showcasing everything from heavy metal multiple band bills and R&B jam sessions to sequin-studded cabarets, puppet theater, and DJ-driven dance parties. With the last show currently scheduled for May 28, co-owner Carlos Wells hopes to concentrate on the next two weeks of shows that will take the venue to its end in a celebratory fashion.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 11, 2023 4:45 pm
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Katurah Bryant (left) helping imagine an Armory revival.
As the city embarks on roof repairs to keep the abandoned Goffe Street Armory from falling into further disrepair, Dixwell and Beaver Hills neighbors have begun dreaming about what could lie in the vacant historic building’s future.
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Brian Slattery |
May 10, 2023 8:50 am
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Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home starts with a perky voice on an answering machine, bright and insistent. The young woman on the other end is trying to get a hold of an older woman. The reason is a civic event, the dedication of a swimming pool, which is to be named after the older woman’s father. When the older woman — Janice — finally calls the young woman back, she is polite, but hesitant. There’s a little pain in her voice, and (the audience can see) more pain on her face. The phone call is bringing up difficult memories. Why would the renaming of a swimming pool do that?
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May 9, 2023 11:02 am
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The approved new Wooster Square monument.
A Wooster Square Park arts committee has raised $225,000 so far to help put up a new Italian heritage-celebrating sculpture in place of the long-gone Christopher Columbus statue — and is still looking for donations for a goal that now tops $300,000.
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Brian Slattery |
May 9, 2023 8:40 am
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Luz.
Luz, by Milena Alvarez, gets its effect first and foremost from the atmosphere the artist captures. It’s a picture that looks hot, a blazing afternoon. The people are keeping cool. The artist is part of the painting, as all three subjects are aware of her, which complicates things. Was the artist just taking their picture? Or was the artist interrupting something? The ambiguity is heightened by the subjects’ blurred faces. They seem relaxed enough, but we’ll never know what they’re thinking.
The Mary Wade Home parade & Fair Haven Day kickoff.
The Semilla Collective perform as part of Saturday's celebration.
Fair Haven overflowed with neighborly good cheer, tradition, and art as hundreds of city celebrants turned out for a costume-filled parade and a long joyous afternoon of Tlaxcalan and other Latino music and dance, free tacos and falafels, and plenty of family-oriented activities on Grand Avenue.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 8, 2023 8:35 am
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Anonymous Inc.
On Friday night under a full moon the New Haven-based record label Fake Four, Inc. brought a four-act bill to the State House built on friendships and a familial music community that also whipped the crowd into a frenzy.
Indigaux, Chris Conde, Myles Bullen, and the return of Ceschi and Anonymous Inc. was a homecoming of sorts, as Ceschi (a.k.a. Julio Ramos) has been on tour as of late with his newest band, The Codefendants. Anonymous Inc. — featuring brothers Julio and David Ramos and Max Heath — had not played live in four years. It was also their last time playing at the State House, which plans to close at the end of the month.
Elm City Montessori students lead a tour of Elm City Montessori's newest murals.
James Baldwin, Sylvia Rivera, and Harvey Milk are now watching over the halls of Elm City Montessori School — in newly unveiled mural portraits that fit in well with the Blake Street charter school’s anti-bias and anti-racist values.
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Brian Slattery |
May 5, 2023 9:13 am
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Flying Untied (detail).
The sky is full of planes. Not like it is at an airport, or ever an air show. No, in Keith Johnson’s Flying Untied, the atmosphere is littered with planes, as if they’ve been shaken all at once out of a gigantic cosmic bag, or as if a dozen air traffic controllers messed up at once and we’re in for the biggest cumulative air disaster the world has ever seen. Flying Untied succeeds in being both somewhat comical and a little threatening in this regard, an effect amplified by the fact that — apart from their proximity to one another — the planes seem totally natural.
(Updated) New Haven’s nonprofits have $3.5 million more to spend connecting and strengthening our community thanks to a 36-hour joint fundraising blowout.
Nair and Kesavalu Thursday inside Tikkaway soon-to-open "wow!!tikka."
Decades after starting their careers at the same Indian hotel, Gopi Nair and Kannan Kesavalu have reunited to revive cult-caliber fast-casual Indian dining on a reviving corner of New Haven’s Orange Street.
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Karen Ponzio |
May 4, 2023 8:49 am
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The official ribbon cutting commences.
Neighborhood Music School launched a new recording studio and debuted its own record label, Equitone Records, with a press conference, ribbon cutting, and, of course, live music.
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Brian Slattery |
May 4, 2023 8:42 am
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Carla Lia’s postcard-size piece, at first glance, seems altogether pleasant, a depiction of a girl with a heart-shaped balloon. But coming in close reveals layers of sharp humor. The picture is slipping out of the frame, which seems to be acting as a shredder to the image. Soon, it seems, girl and balloon will be in tatters. Which is where the text at the bottom comes in, feeling like a well-earned punchline: “from my cold, dead hands.”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 3, 2023 9:19 am
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Save The Sound's Roger Reynolds joins enviro allies in lamenting the still-polluted state of English Station (pictured above).
Local environmental advocates gathered in front of a graffiti-laden gate cutting off the contaminated former English Station power plant from the public — and lauded a recent move by the state’s attorney general pushing United Illuminating to finish cleaning up the site or pay a $2 million annual penalty.
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May 3, 2023 8:45 am
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Marty Tucker, a recently minted member of New Haven Theater Company, recalled how he was asked to join the troupe. “One night Kevin” — that is, J. Kevin Smith, NHTC’s president — “bought me a beer and said, ‘hey, I got a question for you.’ How are you going to say no after someone buys you a beer?”
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Nora Grace-Flood |
May 2, 2023 9:15 am
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Paul Boudreau and Greta Blau, left, founders of the first tenants' union in Hamden.
Unidad Latina En Accion Founder and May Day organizer John Lugo drives an Elicker scarecrow around town.
Hundreds of activists took to the streets to commemorate International Workers’ Day — and to celebrate local strides taken to solidify people power not just across jobs, but within New Haven apartments, homeless encampments, and shelters.
