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Haven String Quartet at Yale Art Gallery.
“Think about the relationship between listening and looking.”
So encouraged Jessica Sack, curator of public education at the Yale University Art Gallery and organizer of “Playing Images,” at an event that combined artwork with the music of the Haven String Quartet.
Continue reading ‘Haven String Quartet Makes Painting An Experience’
by | May 31, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (2)
A strutting, triumphant anthem from Daniprobably. A sweet, country-inflected song of hope from Alexandra Burnet and the Stable Six. A rambunctious, sparking collaboration between Mightymoonchew and Dooley‑O. All these New Haven favorites and more appear alongside several other Connecticut bands in a state-spanning, 12-track compilation from Verso Records — a new nonprofit label attached to Westport Library that marketing manager and New Haven music scenester Brendan Toller hopes will become a harbinger for the future.
by | May 31, 2023 8:35 am | Comments (0)
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Robinson and unicorn.
Brian Robinson, organizer of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry open mic running for almost a year at Never Ending Books, walked into the State Street spot carrying a giant unicorn-shaped piñata. “You don’t leave a dog in the car.… I’m not going to leave a unicorn in the car,” he explained. “It could get hot.”
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by | May 30, 2023 8:53 am | Comments (4)
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Isaac Bloodworth.
His characters grace New Haven’s walls and windows. His puppets appear on New Haven’s stages. Now and again, he himself appears at community meetings and labor events, helping facilitate the conversation while also keeping an eye on the goal of creating more equity, more inclusion, and more compassion. In his art and action, Isaac Bloodworth has had a hand in shaping the direction the Elm City is moving in.
by | May 26, 2023 3:19 pm | Comments (2)
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The McKoy family wins the day at Celentano school art auction.
Not wanting to get outbid for a third year in a row, Nicole McKoy showed up to a Prospect Hill auction ready to spend big to be extra sure she’d win the drawings made by her two favorite artists — who just so happen to be her daughters.
by | May 26, 2023 8:17 am | Comments (0)
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Midnight Psychic.
Unapologetically pounding drum machines. Guitars and basses suffused with enough effects to meld with the keyboard washes in the background. Vocals floating in a sea of reverb. The sound of darkwave — a morose, sexy strain of music that rose out of punk and new wave in the early 1980s and has turned out to have a persistently long life — washed over Cafe Nine on Thursday night as three bands showed an eager audience how it was still done, four decades in.
by | May 26, 2023 8:00 am | Comments (0)
There goes an inexpensive life preserver.
by | May 25, 2023 5:01 pm | Comments (5)
Haseeb Mohammed whipped up an Indian take on chicken tacos Thursday to feed a crowd on Orange Street celebrating the enhanced rebirth of a popular fast-casual restaurant.
by | May 25, 2023 8:16 am | Comments (0)
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Herterochromia Iridium.
Esmeilyn Tejeda’s Herterochromia Iridium is the portrait of a man and an exercise in style. Tejeda’s attention to the details of her subject’s face and the abstractions she introduces work together to reveal something of the subject, his strength and his vulnerability. The painting is part of a series of Tejeda’s, and the aim of that series — “an exploration of how facial expressions give way to deeper personal insights, the challenges of removing our masks to reveal who we are when confronted with public scrutiny, and the juxtaposition between the facade we display versus the emotions we attempt to subdue” — shines through.
by | May 24, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (2)
Nicky (John Cassavetes) is squirreled away in a seedy hotel. He’s sure that the mob has a contract out on his life. He calls Mikey (Peter Falk) his childhood friend and the only ally he thinks he has left in the world. Mikey arrives to tell Nicky that he’s just being paranoid; everything’s going to be fine. The problem is, Nicky’s right. And Mikey just might be in on it.
by | May 24, 2023 8:00 am | Comments (0)
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Trey Moore.
“Love Drugs,” the first cut from the New Haven-based musician Trey Moore’s new album Psychedelic Love Drugs, starts as a smooth number, a sultry guitar, a gentle rhythm. “Reality,” Moore sings. “I want it now.” As if in response, the song kicks into a new mode, with swirling keyboards, a dirty drumbeat, lush strings. It’s a signal for what the album has in store; as the name implies, Psychedelic Love Drugs is about expansion — mentally and musically.
by | May 22, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (0)
Mali Obomsawin.
“It’s good to be in the building where we recorded this album,” said Mali Obomsawin at the beginning of her sextet’s set at Firehouse 12 on Friday night. “Feels full circle. It’s good to be back.”
by | May 19, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (5)
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Pilar Sanzari leads the flower planting at the newly built Kathy Carroll Playground at 660 Winchester.
Charla Nich and Kathy Carroll's daughter Kate Chivian on Friday.
Pilar Sanzari dug her gloved hands in some freshly poured soil to plant a colorful array of Shasta daisies, azaleas, petunias, and marigolds — as a vibrantly hued new playground took root behind her in honor of a beloved late Yale professor and substance use treatment researcher.
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by | May 19, 2023 8:39 am | Comments (0)
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David Sasso, at far left, recording the new album with Jacob's Ladder.
Hunkered at home with his Martin D28 guitar one Blursday evening during the lockdown depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, David Sasso heard familiar melodies come out a new way.
Fast forward to May 2023: Sasso returned home to debut a bluegrass take on a traditional Jewish prayer service, with an album of said music about to drop.
Continue reading ‘Ghost Of Bill Monroe Welcomes The Sabbath Queen’
by | May 19, 2023 8:00 am | Comments (0)
by | May 18, 2023 9:02 am | Comments (1)
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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.
by | May 17, 2023 8:55 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | May 16, 2023 11:29 am | Comments (8)
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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.
by | May 16, 2023 8:29 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | May 15, 2023 3:35 pm | Comments (9)
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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.
by | May 15, 2023 8:43 am | Comments (4)
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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.
by | May 15, 2023 8:36 am | Comments (3)
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.
by | May 12, 2023 4:59 pm | Comments (8)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Cross Culinary Champs Bring Home The Gold’
by | May 12, 2023 8:56 am | Comments (1)
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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.