Today's Ted Toon
by | Feb 13, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (0)
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Three Sheets Brings Back The Bands
by | Feb 13, 2023 8:35 am | Comments (0)
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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.
Artists See The "Light" At Kehler Liddell
by | Feb 10, 2023 9:12 am | Comments (0)
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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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Reinaldo's Corner
by | Feb 10, 2023 8:30 am | Comments (0)
Retrosolo Finds Many Ways To Music
by | Feb 9, 2023 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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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.
Today's Ted Toons
by | Feb 8, 2023 10:57 am | Comments (0)
Artists Walk Toward Freedom At CAW
by | Feb 8, 2023 8:54 am | Comments (2)
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?
Today’s Special: Wilson’s Seafood Pasta
by | Feb 7, 2023 9:25 am | Comments (2)
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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.
Cultured Cafe Brews Up The Remedy
by | Feb 7, 2023 9:04 am | Comments (2)
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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.
Film Fest Brings Tri-State Talent To Audubon St.
by | Feb 6, 2023 11:37 am | Comments (2)
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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Artists Help Connect To Memory At Mary Wade Home
by | Feb 6, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (5)
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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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Invasion Of The Reel Snatchers
by | Feb 3, 2023 2:38 pm | Comments (2)
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One last spin through Ciné 4 film history.
Across a post-apocalyptic landscape on the outskirts of town, in a dark room on the second floor of an abandoned movie theater, footsteps echoed.
Had the zombies finally arrived for one last cinematic encounter?
Today's Toons
by | Feb 3, 2023 12:00 pm | Comments (2)
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Debt ceiling.
Cultural Bridge-Builders Celebrate 25 Years
by | Feb 3, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (0)
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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Jazz Icon's Path From "Hambone" To Morse Hall
by | Feb 2, 2023 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
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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Today's Ted Toon
by | Feb 2, 2023 11:00 am | Comments (5)
Musicians Make The Music The Message
by | Feb 2, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (0)
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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.
Black Panther History, Legacy Revisited
by | Feb 1, 2023 1:00 pm | Comments (30)
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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.
"Big Dog" Has A Big Stevie Moment
by | Feb 1, 2023 11:19 am | Comments (0)
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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.
Today's Ted Toon
by | Feb 1, 2023 8:49 am | Comments (0)
Hello, Halloumi! Pistachio 2 Opens
by | Jan 31, 2023 11:38 am | Comments (3)
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Rahaf Sayet about to press another pistachio halloumi panini.
Rahaf Sayet took two slices of blended whole wheat and sourdough bread from Whole G Bakery, layered on Cyprus-made cheese, and placed the sandwich in a panini press — crafting a local-foreign fusion meal that’s selling fast at a new Chapel Street Middle Eastern eatery.
Artists Portray The People In Full
by | Jan 31, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (1)
The pieces, by Carol Boynton, Frank Bruckmann, Todd Lyon, and Diane Chandler, are hung side by side by side by side in the gallery. Even though the subjects are looking in the same general direction, in their animation and expression, they could be talking with one another. Each subject — women, men, Black, Brown, White — has been filtered through the eye and mind of the artist. Each artist has rendered the subject with the same care and attention, the same eye toward humanity, toward capturing something like the truth.
Podcaster Gatecrashes Ivy League Anti-Semitism
by | Jan 30, 2023 12:34 pm | Comments (1)
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Mark Oppenheimer with his high school teacher and dean Alice Baxter on Sunday.
How about a written application — as opposed to an old boys’ nod from the rowing coach — and in-person interviews to detect your excessively Lower East Side manners?
How about a questionnaire requiring you to indicate, for example, what business your family is in? And written recommendations and aptitude tests?
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Guv Spins By Downtown Pottery Studio
by | Jan 30, 2023 10:46 am | Comments (3)
Artist Matos and Gov. Lamont: Talking ceramics, and Venezuela.
Inside Matos's studio.
All-star Orange Street ceramicist Kiara Matos got a high-profile visitor — but not a customer — on Friday, as Gov. Ned Lamont swung by to marvel at her pottery workshop, catch up on her small-business story, pose for a photo with one of her brightly hued bird sculptures, and then leave empty-handed.
Lunarfest Welcomes Year Of The Rabbit
by | Jan 30, 2023 8:51 am | Comments (1)
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Wushu demonstration and lion dancing at Saturday's Whitney Ave. fest.
A phalanx of focused martial arts students wheeled and turned on Whitney Avenue, kicking and striking powerful poses.
Lions bounded, bestowed blessings, and received gifts.
And, in a series of speeches, community leaders remarked on how the news of the past few years and the past few weeks — of the pandemic and the spate of shootings in California — made the festivities that much more important.