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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 16, 2022 9:35 am
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Mo Niklz vending Mo Piklz.
New Haven hip hop scene stalwart DJ Mo Niklz is well known across the city, state, and country as a purveyor of hot beats, but in recent years he has become nearly as well known for his half sours, pickled pineapple, and yes, even beets. Seen most often on New Haven stages spinning tunes with accompanying video at dance parties and providing the sounds at live shows behind artists such as Ceschi Ramos and Sketch Tha Cataclysm, Niklz has added a new business venture to the mix: Mo Piklz. The pickled items began as merch being sold at live shows, have become a welcome addition to local farmer’s markets and other events, and are appearing next at the New Haven PRIDE celebration on the Green this Saturday, Sept. 17.
Glendower/Patriquin rendering of proposed Strong School redesign.
Two affordable housing developers are competing to transform the long-vacant former Strong School building into an artists’ community, public gathering space, and housing complex.
Lukman Alade Fakeye set up his tools and a block of African mahogany wood in a large workspace on an upper floor of the Sculpture Department of Yale’s School of Art. It was the first day of a week-long residency as the School of Art’s Fall 2022 Hayden Visiting Artist, during which time he would be creating a new sculpture and speaking with classes and individual students. Fakeye is in the sixth generation of his family’s lineage of Yorùbá woodcarvers, working within a larger tradition that extends back hundreds of years.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 15, 2022 9:44 am
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Iridessa Søul LaFlare performs for PRIDE.
Host Maddelynn Hatter broke in the crowd at Gotham Citi Cafe on Orange Street Wednesday night by establishing a few guidelines regarding drag shows.
“If you ever know any drag queens, you know the most important rule — other than to be able to paint your face — is to be kind,” she said. “All of the queens have passed the test. They are very kind. Which is good, because I am an awful person.”
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 14, 2022 9:03 am
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Kim Weston
The image appears to come apart at the seams in front of you. In one quadrant is a dancer, strong and in her element. But around her the image quick degrades. The colors break apart and crash into one. It’s just the sort of happy accident that some artists, like Kim Weston and JLS Gangwisch, seek out and exploit. “That image was a glitch. People thought we created it together but I thought it was perfect for this show. It’s where Jeffrey and I meet. There are no accidents. That image was supposed to be that way,” Weston said. “There’s such beauty in its technical disaster. Who says that’s not supposed to be there? Why isn’t my whole card destroyed? It was just that image. What energy source or force created that moment? And here, Jeffrey comes around and says he wants to do a show together.”
The show — “Cadence” — is running now at Kehler Liddell Gallery through Oct. 9.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 13, 2022 9:00 am
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Anne Doris-Eisner
Hidden Lives.
Hidden Lives, Anne Doris-Eisner’s piece submitted to the 2022 active members’ exhibit of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club — on view now until Oct. 8 at the gallery in Creative Arts Workshop on Audubon Street — is immediately recognizable as a natural form, a gnarled part of a tree. But somehow in the way Doris-Eisner has rendered the details of those textures, she has made room for abstraction as well. The more we look, the more we see: figures curled in the bark, shapes suggestive perhaps of more human forms. And, at the same time, it’s possible to stop trying to find anything in the shapes and just accept the texture for what it is, an intricate network of lines, interesting enough as it is to not require us to name it.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 12, 2022 4:23 pm
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The flag marks PRIDE New Haven, eight days of LGBTQIA+ events.
A rainbow burst through the Monday afternoon fog in the form of a Pride flag newly raised over the New Haven Green, marking the start of a week of LGBTQIA+ celebrations amid growing resistance towards transgender rights in the state and across the country.
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Lindsay Skedgell |
Sep 12, 2022 9:39 am
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At the edge of Edgerton Park on Saturday, peeking from beneath the reddened cliffside of East Rock, a small stage on a winding path lined with pines held the final song of Moonrise Cartel’s set. Next to them, a field opened up to a man in a brown wizard hat, a circle of pastel yoga mats where children embodied woodland animals through yogic poses, people juggling, and long ribbon silk fans that got carried and lifted by the day’s wind. As Moonrise Cartel finished their last song, the sound of a bell was heard from somewhere off in the field as the voices of Goodnight Moonshine rose up from over the hill. The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo was back, after a two-year hiatus.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 12, 2022 9:33 am
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Niyonu.
Niyonu Spann had her eyes closed, her hands reaching for the audience. The gesture mirrored the music swirling around her. In all of it was weight and longing, but also, strength and freedom. It was the heady sound of an experienced hand flying into uncharted territory, as on Friday night at the State House, Spann, a musician with a career spanning decades, was launching new music with a new ensemble, digging ever deeper and expanding on the musical and spiritual ideas that had fueled her for her entire life. Backed by a small choir of singers — Foluke Bennett, Paul Bryant Hudson, Ingrid Lakey, Cindy Mizell, and Diane Spann — as well as a band of John F. Adams on keys, Carl Carter on bass, Chris Wright on drums, and Eric Rey on conga, Spann created music of deep grooves, rich harmonies, and poetic lyrics that spoke to the spirit. Mizell regaled the audience with a scorching take on Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On?”
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Michael Barone |
Sep 9, 2022 2:43 pm
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Claudia Bell.
Claudia Bell, a mainstay of the original music scene in New Haven during the fertile late 1970s and 1980s as a music journalist and a bass player, died Aug. 14 at the age of 69 after a long bout with cancer. One of her pals and bandmates, Michael Barone, below offers reflections of her and what it meant to be in New Haven at the time.
Aaron Goode, top left, leading a canal history walking tour. Clockwise from top right: Walking south past Yale's Benjamin Franklin College; an Escape New Haven-built diorama of the canal's early railroad years; a turtle sculpture in the Newhallville "Learning Corridor."
New Haven thus year is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the incorporation of the Farmington Canal Company, and the canal’s rebirth as a pedestrian and cycling trail. Celebrate along with Aaron Goode by taking a trip on a crossword he put together for the occasion.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 9, 2022 11:14 am
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Michalsen.
Appreciation of nature. Acknowledgment of change. Grief at what’s being lost. But also, hope for the possibility of adaptation. These are the themes of a new set of climate concerts being organized by Dignity Music, a nonprofit helmed by musician and educator Ravenna Michalsen. The first one — slated for Saturday, Sept. 17 at Bethesda Lutheran Church — is intended to stir heart and mind together to action.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 8, 2022 9:10 am
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The walls of mActivity — like the walls of other New Haven-area businesses — keep getting a little brighter, thanks to an embrace of public art that is now transforming buildings outside and in. In the case of mActivity, the art is the result of series that began in 2017. Curated by Barbara Hawes, the series has hosted a wide array of New Haven-based artists, from public art maestro Kwadwo Adae to graffiti artist Michael Deangelo, from photographers Phyllis Crowley and Sean Kernan to painters Vienna Hinkson and William McCarthy.
For the rest of the month of September, visitors can now see the works of artists Esthea Kim and Eliza Shaw Valk, whose work mirrors the mood of the hottest season and, in keeping with the fitness center’s mission, captures some of the renewed spirit many have found in exercise during the pandemc.
Owners Yaakov Atia and Nadav Adad at Tuesday night's opening.
Yalies, townies, rabbis, and other members of New Haven’s growing Jewish community gathered over wine and appetizers to celebrate the grand opening of Ricotta, New Haven’s first kosher pizza restaurant and bakery.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 7, 2022 9:31 am
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Vivian is a literature professor from New York who has come to Reno to sort a few things out. It’s the 1950s. Her marriage, though amicable, has faded away on her. She yearns for something more, though she’s not sure what. It’s how she finds herself on a ranch, where she crosses paths with Cay, a woman 10 years younger than her who works at a casino and is not afraid to be who she is — defiant, unapologetic, walking the tightrope of living how she wants, and sleeping with who she wants, without getting into too much social trouble. There’s a connection between the two women, undeniably. But what does it mean for both of them, from such different worlds that neither wants to leave?
Pedestrians of the world unite! Stalls and Weber make synchronous TikToks on Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.
Two TikTok phenoms concerned with pedestrian safety set out from the outskirts of Ella T. Grasso Boulevard Sunday morning — with the intention of spotlighting one of New Haven’s, and the state of Connecticut’s, most dangerous stretches while on a viral walk.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 6, 2022 9:04 am
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“Here Again,” the first track from Saint James’s new EPUs and Your Friends, starts with a fuzzy chord dragged from the guitar’s strings, setting the mood right for the heavy drums and bass that fall in at the end of the measure. They’re accompanied by a slide guitar, a healthy heaping of twang, that feels right at home in the music but broadens the sound’s landscape. We’re not just in the Northeast anymore. We could be anywhere in America, or maybe passing through it. But Saint James isn’t exactly about windswept highways across the prairie. There’s menace there, too, embedded in the music and the lyrics: “Like a phony gun I am holding you up with a sense of revenge,” the singer states on the chorus, knowing helplessness and rage coiled together.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 1, 2022 8:35 am
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Site of proposed new Fair Haven Health building.
Fair Haven Community Health Care plans to build a new medical building focused on treating behavioral health issues and addressing “social determinants of health” at the corner of Grand Avenue and James Street, next door to the community health center’s current headquarters and main clinic.
If suggestions of Fair Haven neighbors come to fruition, the new building will be brightly colored, filled with plants, and adorned with local art reflecting Latino cultures.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 31, 2022 9:08 am
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After a two-year Covid hiatus, CT Folk returns this year with a changed Folk Festival and Green Expo. It’s still at Edgerton Park, and it still combines a music festival with a dedication to furthering environmental causes. But it’s now a two-day event — Sept. 10 and 11 — featuring its most diverse lineup yet, from solo singer-songwriters to R&B and jam bands to hip hop artists. If the shift seems abrupt, it shouldn’t; rather, it’s the fruition of an intention CT Folk stated years ago to expand its musical boundaries, exploring what folk music means and what it can be in 2022. For its organizers, the hope is that the festival can reach more and more people, in New Haven and beyond, and help turn the festival into a larger regional tentpole end-of-summer event.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 30, 2022 8:59 am
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Greenberg on top floor of former ACME building, with 19th-century elevator that was moved to 80 Hamilton.
A local museum nonprofit has purchased a Hamilton Street office and warehouse building that will now serve as the permanent home of New Haven artist and historian Robert Greenberg’s ever-expanding collection of Elm City artifacts, memorabilia, and ephemera.
