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.
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Mar 21, 2023 8:15 am
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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.
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.
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Marisa Torrieri |
Mar 20, 2023 8:43 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Mar 17, 2023 9:03 am
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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.
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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Brian Slattery |
Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Mar 15, 2023 8:55 am
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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 14, 2023 9:02 am
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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.
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Mar 14, 2023 8:54 am
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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.
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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Mar 13, 2023 8:59 am
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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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Mar 10, 2023 8:50 am
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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.
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Mar 9, 2023 9:04 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Mar 9, 2023 8:39 am
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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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Adam Matlock |
Mar 8, 2023 8:35 am
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Tania Miller.
“When programming for an orchestra, I believe in curating experiences that will have a profound impact. Programming in a way that brings people in,” said Tania Miller, candidate for music director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. “So we don’t start with music that is unreachable.”
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Donald Brown |
Mar 7, 2023 9:01 am
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Goldfish, the first full production by New Haven Theater Company since Annapurna last May, features a scenic design by director John Watson that truly sets the stage: on one side, a kitchen in a scrappy apartment where 19-year-old Albert Ledger (Nick Fetherston) lives with his father Leo (John Strano), a widower who has a problem holding onto money whenever there’s something to bet on; on the other side, a sumptuous house where a divorced mother, Margaret (Sandra E. Rodriguez), swills martinis in her pajamas and pearls, while sharing smokes with her daughter Lucy (Sara Courtemanche), also 19. In between is a shifting space — now library, now cafeteria, now bed, now bus stop — that serves as the upstate college, set amidst rolling hills, where Albert and Lucy meet and evolve a relationship.
The new normal? Duncan Goodall by his Koffee? outdoor patio.
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A winter fondue meal outside Choupette Crêperie & Cafè.
After maintaining street dining throughout the winter, four local restaurateurs now have five days to dismantle their patios for five weeks or face $250 daily fines.