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Aug 30, 2022 8:48 am
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Your Queer Plant Shop.
The outer edge of Pitkin Plaza on Sunday was lined with rare plants, bursts of pollinators, handmade leather goods, zines, and two birthday cakes of four different flavors. Nestled between vibrant murals, performers sang and folks from all around New Haven filled the brick park. One man next to a mural waved a cigar around in circles, dancing to the music Love n’ Co played. The band’s singer — Lovelind Richards — had various shades of blue painted across her eyes in thick bands. A leather worker from Beacon Craft Studio stitched a deep maroon leather piece with thick thread. It was East Rock House’s first birthday.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 29, 2022 9:27 am
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The music poured onto Temple Street all the way from the plaza in the middle of the block, directing and enticing a steady stream of pedestrians and shoppers to the long rows of canopies set up for the Black Wall Street Festival, an afternoon-long event designed to showcase a wide range of Black entrepreneurs.
Thanks to the robust turnout, a live band, and a pervasive sense of cheer, the festival was true to its name, turning Temple Street Plaza into something like bazaar meets block party.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 29, 2022 9:17 am
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Rev. Jeremiah Paul.
The Rev. Jeremiah Paul, pastor for Hamden Plains United Methodist Church, held his hand high as he spoke to the crowd assembled to hear him at Hamden’s Town Center Park on Friday evening. His audience were members of his congregation, but also from the greater New Haven community, a mix of languages, ages, cultures and creeds. Among them were artists selling their pieces and food truck vendors feeding the people.
“We had a little rain shower, which I consider a blessing from the heavens,” he said amiably. With the sun out, the show was ready to start.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 26, 2022 8:36 am
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A dozen students gathered around a long table in a second-floor studio in Creative Arts Workshop on Thursday evening, busily preparing strips of white fabric with woodblocks, clothespins, and rubber bands. CAW instructor Annie Trowbridge moved from one student to the other, pouring on ideas, humor, and enthusiasm. On the other side of the room, smelling of ammonia, was a bucket containing one of the most well-known and beloved natural dyes in the world. Before the class was over, that color would transform several yards of fabric and maybe change a perspective or two.
The Institute Library plans to embark on a comprehensive set of building repairs and improvements at its historic Chapel Street home, thanks to a recently approved $1.725 million grant from the state.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 25, 2022 8:55 am
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There’s a reason for the vibrant colors in Sarahi Zacatelco’s self-portrait. “That’s how I feel now,” Zacatelco said. “I’m a survivor,” she said, and those colors mean “freedom” — freedom from a bad situation she left behind, and freedom to accept the support of others she has found in New Haven. It’s also a celebration of the freedom “to work on myself and to work on my art. I left everything behind. All the depression. All the hard feelings. Everything.” It’s the same impulse that led her to make a painting of a pair of wings. “Now I’m flying,” she said. “Now I’m free.”
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 24, 2022 8:06 am
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The Tines.
“Collarbone,” the lead single from the latest album by the New Haven-based band The Tines, starts with a simple, steady drumbeat, a pulsing bass, a single guitar chord. It’s a sound that’s taking its time, leaving plenty of space. Having established the atmosphere, the instruments get down to work. The guitar fleshes out its ideas. The bass answers with a melody of its own. A keyboard wriggles in from a corner of the musical space. The drums add their own accents. An echoing voice then takes its place within the music. “Chin clamping down on collarbone / talking on the phone / talking on the phone,” it sings. “With the one who leaves you prone / makes you feel so known / makes you feel so known.”
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Olivia Gross |
Aug 23, 2022 9:30 am
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Waiting for the dance contest to start at Unity fest on Sunday.
A rebooted Dixwell community festival with decades-old roots offered free haircuts, free food, and bountiful calls for citywide unity in Goffe Street Park.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 23, 2022 8:55 am
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The gloriously trashy wonderland of garage-art "Auto."
A garage full of treasures. A squirrel on a tightrope. A tree full of wishes. These are among the discoveries that await those who embark on The Exchange, a treasure hunt of an art show that is the brainchild of New Haven-based artists Suzan Shutan and Howard el-Yasin of SomethingProjects.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 22, 2022 3:45 pm
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Ronecia Caserta: Eyeing "whatever's on clearance" on Monday.
Ronecia Caserta walked into EbLens looking for what most customers visiting the Whalley Avenue shoe store are eyeing these days: school-appropriate footwear that doesn’t break the bank.
Father-son duo Dexter and Isa Singleton practice drawing ...
... as Mendy Katz and Nir Bongart cook up some kosher burgers on Sunday.
Quiet. Neighborly. Diverse.
Beaver Hills residents and visitors hailed those community qualities as they turned out for an annual block party replete with CBD body butter, kosher hot dogs, a bouncy castle, and a whole lot of neighborhood love.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 22, 2022 9:00 am
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Downtown/Yale Alder Alex Guzhnay (third from left) with his family at Sunday's parade.
Sanjuanito dancers twirl their way up Church St.
Billowing yellow, blue and red flags and the panpipe-filled sounds of Sanjuanitodance music filled Church Street on Sunday, as the annual Ecuadorian Cultural Civic Parade returned downtown for the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 22, 2022 8:55 am
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L. Peter Callender as Prospero and Sarah Bowles as Ariel.
The play has just begun, and it’s as if the set is already being torn apart. There’s the sound of wind and thunder, the sight of sails fluttering in high wind as sailors struggle to maintain them. The people at the wheel of the ship are shouting to each other and to the crew. They don’t know what’s going to happen to them. But the man in the front and center of the stage does. Standing silent and serene, he’s controlling the storm, controlling the boat and the people on it. In the beginning, he controls everything.
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Colin Roberts |
Aug 22, 2022 8:46 am
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Rex.
On Friday night, Cafe Nine played host to a pair of bands — Snake Oil and Rex — that had both been out of commission for some time. The Connecticut- and New York-based Snake Oil hadn’t played since 2019. Rex’s current run of shows marked the first since their unceremonious split in the late 1990s. Before that, however, their trio of albums — rex, C and 3 — were pivotal in the development of the indie rock subgenre known as slowcore. With two-thirds of the records seeing a recent reissue, the formerly-Brooklyn-based-by-way-of-Maine band reunited to take their songs to a new generation of audiences.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 19, 2022 9:20 am
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Rania Das moved gracefully across the stage set up on the New Haven Green Thursday afternoon, her gestures precise yet fluid, graceful and controlled. They were about practicing a tradition that began in India over 2,000 years ago. They were telling a story, about a prankster god getting into mischief. But they were also about crossing thousands of miles, halfway around the world, to make connections to people here in New Haven.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 18, 2022 9:12 am
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Meridian Brothers.
The Meridian Brothers were already driving hard on a cumbia when bandleader Eblis Álvarez, who had been contributing a rhythmic guitar pattern to the groove, suddenly wrenched an echoing clatter out of the instrument — a sound that people unfamiliar with Álvarez’s work might not have known a guitar could make. But very few people in Cafe Nine on Wednesday night seemed new to the Meridian Brothers, a Colombian band that has steadily made fans worldwide on the strength of its recorded output from Bogotá. With pandemic restrictions lifted, the band was now on tour in the U.S. for the first time in years, and at the club on State and Crown, there was a sense of floodgates opening.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 17, 2022 9:15 am
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Davis performing Tuesday evening at Stetson Branch Library.
The first phrase of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” flowed from Chris “Big Dog” Davis’s fingertips, instantly familiar. But the chord voicings Davis put underneath it felt thoroughly modern.
As he proceeded through the classic of American music, Ace Livingston on bass and Dexter Pettaway, Sr. on drums fell in behind him. Together the trio made the classic a quick trip through the history of American jazz, from its murky origins to its up-to-the-minute contemporary form.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 16, 2022 1:55 pm
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Ma's House owner Cherisa Lloyd at new restaurant at former Lena's spot.
Ma's Favorite.
When Cherisa Lloyd enjoys the “Margie Special” at her new Westville soul food restaurant, she’s reminded of the love, strength, strong family values, and passion for cooking of her late mother, and best friend.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 16, 2022 8:45 am
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Ben-Salhuddin.
“Jディラ(Love Dilla)” starts with a stately, old-school groove, straight out of the ’70s. Suddenly it’s chopped up, turned inside out. The tempo speeds up, the old sound made into something new. It becomes a vehicle for a rapper’s insistent voice. It’s a narrative about wrestling demons, about running out of time. “It doesn’t really matter in the end ’cause when it’s said and done / the only one who’s winning in the end is Father Time / I’m truly sorry if I ever had to take your son / I’d send you flowers with a note I wrote, it’s so sublime,” he raps, as the music cascades around him, lush and frantic. He drops out, and makes a drama of being allowed back in to rap some more — which is when the music really gets dramatic.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Aug 15, 2022 9:50 am
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Scott Troublefield and New Vision.
Far out behind the crowded audience at Goffe Street Park, beyond still the stragglers who spread out among the opposing baseball diamond’s outfield, tucked just inside the entryway of the third-base dugout, a woman with gray hair and blue Nikes called out: “Amen!”
The Sunday sun had set, but the sound of gospel from the stage still echoed as far as Crescent Street. The woman, silhouetted by the park floodlights, said she was taking her church from all the way back there.
