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Feb 17, 2023 9:04 am
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It’s America in the 1940s, and World War II is still raging. Carmen Jones has started a fight in the parachute factory she works in, and it falls to Corporal Joe to escort her to jail, miles from the military base where both of them work. Joe is engaged to be married, and just wants to get his duty over with. Jones has other plans. She’s flirting with him — hard — as soon as they’re on the road away from the base. Then Joe makes a poor navigation choice and drives the Jeep into a stream, forcing them to walk from there. Little does he know that he doesn’t stand a chance against Jones’s seductive skills. Little does Jones know that it will prove her own undoing, too.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 16, 2023 8:25 am
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The Vultures had taken their places on stage, instruments in hand.
“Do you guys want to try something?” the sound person suggested, to make sure everything was working. None of the band members said anything.
“No?” the sound person said. “Okay!” She had read the band right, as the Vultures, with three words to say to the audience (“we’re the Vultures”) kicked into a set of fuzzed-out guitar, driving drums, and rumbling low end that immediately made the mood on Wednesday night, as the New Haven-based surf-punk heroes opened up for the skatepunk-dub duo Cardiel, originally from Venezuela and now on tour from Mexico City.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 15, 2023 8:56 am
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From hip hop to dream pop with a few stops in between, New Haven’s musicians have been hitting the studio recently, and coming up with a strong start to 2023 for recorded music in the Elm City.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 14, 2023 8:39 am
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Rita Hannafin
Sanctuary in the City.
The scene depicted in Rita Hannafin’s Sanctuary in the City could be of several places in the New Haven area, places that seem wilder than they should be given their proximity to people, whether it’s a stretch of the West River, or the Quinnipiac River before it reaches Fair Haven, or a part of the shoreline in West Haven.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 13, 2023 8:35 am
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Alexandra Burnet and The Proven Winners
“I missed the view from up here,” Alexandra Burnet said as she stood on the stage at Three Sheets Friday night. “I’ve thought about it every day for years.” Three years, to be exact, as Friday night saw the first multiple-band show at the Elm Street bar since before the pandemic began.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 10, 2023 9:12 am
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Erich Davis
Illumination
Erich Davis’s Illumination floats in the air at Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Ave. as if it were suspended in water, creating an atmosphere somewhere between cloud and kelp forest. It has a way of pulling in the works around it, making them feel a little more weightless as well, even more than they already are. This is entirely in keeping with the theme of the show — “Light” — running now at Kehler Liddell Gallery through Mar. 12, with an opening reception this Sunday, Feb. 12 at 2 p.m.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 9, 2023 8:44 am
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Loor at the State House on Saturday.
New Haven high-school student Miguel Loor, a.k.a. Retrosolo, found an online following for his music a few years ago, but truly found his place by planting his feet in the Elm City as a performer and show organizer, packing clubs and DIY spaces from Crunch House to Space Ballroom. Now, as he contemplates doing a few out-of-town shows, he also has a sense of things coming full circle.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 8, 2023 8:54 am
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The woman sits with a long gun in her hands, mouth open, part battle cry, part scream from the soul. In her tense stance, she looks ready to fight, but the sculpture is more than just a call to duty. The nails that are part of the sculpture are a clue: they connote neat dreadlocks, but are, in a literal sense, also metal being driven into the scalp. It’s clear she’s prepared for a long struggle, but also, she wonders why she has to do it, and perhaps from where she will draw the strength to carry on. That dichotomy extends to the gun she holds: does her fight involve using it or melting it down? Is it her tool or part of the source of the problem? Or both?
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Lisa Reisman |
Feb 7, 2023 9:25 am
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Manjares chef Wilson Coronel preparing seafood pasta marinara.
Clams. Shrimp. Escargot. Calamari.
All elements are crucial to Wilson Coronel’s seafood pasta marinara. But the secret to its exquisite flavor is in the sauce.
“You have to reduce it, so it’s not too much and the taste comes through,” Coronel said on a recent late afternoon in the pocket-sized kitchen of the Westville institution that is Manjares Cafe.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am
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Alexander Silver Angeloff and a sampling of his creations.
When you walk into The Cultured Café on State Street, you are greeted by the feeling that you’ve walked into as natural a habitat as you can find that is not actually outside. Philodendrons wind around glass jars full of fermenting vegetables on a wooden counter. Above, cotton ball-like clouds dot a blue sky ceiling. What the café serves is also as close to nature as it can be, courtesy of the café’s owner Alexander Silver Angeloff, who is trying to make the path into the world of natural health safe, welcoming, and delicious.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Feb 6, 2023 11:37 am
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Clotilda was the name of the last known slave ship to bring African captives to the U.S. just over 160 years ago.
It is also the title of Isaiah Providence’s newest film, which grapples with the “underlying history that goes on in the Black community” — and which was recently screened as part of a short film festival at an Audubon Street arts hub.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 6, 2023 8:50 am
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Photographer Ian Christmann with mural-size work in Mary Wade.
On Saturday afternoon, residents, families, and neighborhood dignitaries streamed in and out of Chatman Place at Mary Wade on Clinton Avenue in Fair Haven. They were there to check out an art show — and along the way, learned how art can create concrete connections to place and wellbeing.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 3, 2023 9:00 am
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As the Afro-Semitic Experience — the band headed by pianist Warren Byrd and bassist David Chevan exploring Black and Jewish religious music and the connections between them — readies for a year of concerts and recordings, it also finds itself marking a big anniversary: The band played its first concert, at Congregation Mishkan Israel, 25 years ago.
In the years since, it has recorded 11 albums and played concerts around the country. Band members have come and gone, and a couple have passed. But the creative camaraderie between Byrd and Chevan persists, as they continue to find common ground and work toward unity in the community.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 2, 2023 12:10 pm
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Stanley "Stan the Man" Welch and Jesse Hameen II on Wednesday.
Living local jazz legend and accomplished drummer Jesse Hameen II started out his musical career at the old Winchester School with a humble pair of instruments: his own two hands, which he put to work in a “hambone” body-percussion performance in the first show of what would become a decades-long career of finding the rhythm in his home city.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 2, 2023 8:40 am
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Stefan Christensen.
The healthy-sized audience at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night found itself treated to a night of improvised music that was somehow both energetic and soothing, harsh yet mellow, as three performances and a DJ set offered a chance to trance out from the cold.
At Tuesday's online book talk for Revolution in Our Time.
A dive into the history of the Black Panthers once again reverberated loudly into the present — from the Black Lives Matter movement to the backlash against critical race theory to the killing of Tyre Nichols — as educators and community members gathered online to hear award-winning author Kekla Magoon talk about her new book, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People.
Stetson Branch Librarian Diane Brown with Chris "Big Dog" Davis at WNHH FM.
Chris “Big Dog” Davis signed up to co-produce an update of a hit song Stevie Wonder wrote. Little did he know at first that he would also be recording the song with the legendary musician.
