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Lisa Reisman |
Jul 4, 2022 9:23 am
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Tisha Hudson mixing her cream cheese frosting.
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Behold the Edible Couture strawberry shortcake cheesecake cupcake.
The strawberry crumble festive with summer. The frolicking dollop of cream cheese frosting. The luscious strawberry slice on top. It’s positively gleeful.
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Olivia Charis |
Jul 1, 2022 10:06 am
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Adae and his father next to the portrait of his late grandmother, at ConnCAT opening of the artist's first solo show.
Adae describes his portrait of his friend Kimberly Cherubin.
New Haveners are likely to know Kwadwo Adae’s work from his murals like the one of Dr. Edward Bouchet on the corner of Henry Street and Dixwell Avenue. Thursday evening, Adae brought his vibrant artwork and personage indoors — and a distinctive approach to connecting with community and nature along with him.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 1, 2022 9:20 am
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Dr. Martino was halfway through its set at the State House on Thursday night when Simone Puleo and Amy Shaw, who had been playing guitar and bass, respectively, suddenly switched instruments. Shaw then shot a smile toward the crowd.
“Any questions?” she said. “I’m taking questions. No? Good.”
The trio then ripped into another joyously raucous song, celebrating not only the band’s return to the State House stage, but a 10-day tour it was about to embark on with fellow Connecticut rockers Big Fang. There was thus a sense of things coming full circle, as the two bands had toured together before the pandemic, in 2019, but also starting new.
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Olivia Charis |
Jun 30, 2022 12:59 pm
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Cobalt Rhythm Kings kick off summer concert series
A soft summer sunset hit a crowd full of lawn chairs and to-go dinners nestled under rustling trees — as the wail of a harmonica harmonized with a bass guitar line and deep tenor vocals left a smooth blues echo down Lighthouse Road.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 30, 2022 9:15 am
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Lighthouse.
Positive energy flowed through Cafe Nine Wednesday night as three bands — Lighthouse, Lumot, and The Fivers — brought music that was filled with ups and downs, quiet and loud, and at the same time, conveyed a sense of equilibrium.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 30, 2022 9:00 am
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Album art for How To Be Alone
In the first single “run” from Evelyn Gray’s new album How To Be Alone, the singer/songwriter/musician explores a multitude of sounds as well as her mind, body, and soul. As Gray sings of fear and sleeplessness, the song eventually builds to a powerful guitar-laden climax that ends with Gray singing the lines “how many times must I say no? Now I’m done letting you run me.” But that is only the beginning.
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Olivia Gross |
Jun 29, 2022 9:29 am
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Fresh mozzarella naan with Italian seasoning.
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Mahesh Pirthiani, the new owner of Zaroka.
After 21 years of running his own 7/11 franchise, Mahesh Pirthiani was in need of a new project. Luckily, his favorite restaurant was looking for a new owner.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 29, 2022 9:16 am
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“Heartbreak Sounds,” the first track from Deep Meats I — the latest release from Ponybird, a.k.a. Jennifer Dauphinais — starts with a sound that is impossible to identify, buzzy and menacing, slowly unfurling a long, moody melody. Drums and electronic blips then conspire to create a rhythm, a harmonic structure, and Dauphinais steps to the mic, crooning with a sense of louche urgency.
“You used to feel important / And I used to dance all night / You could read with me with a glance / Til we’d stop to fuss and fight,” Dauphanais sings. “There’s what the world feels like to me / And what it feels like to you / And somewhere in between is the mess we got into.”
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Olivia Charis |
Jun 27, 2022 3:50 pm
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"Hispanic Identity: Between Two Words"
As viewers walk into NXTHVN gallery to view a new group exhibit, Sofia Carrillo’s contribution stands out as one of the only artworks not on the walls. Carrillo’s sculpture consists of two armchairs tied together by woven flags. Atop each chair rests a telephone. The chairs, Carrillo said, represent “the new versus the old generation.”
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jun 27, 2022 2:22 pm
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Don Randi, Christine Ohlman, Leah and Justin Randi, and Daniel Mizrahi.
So one day, I’m told about a young Motown act coming into the studio. I get there, and it’s a group called the Jackson Five. And a young man by the name of Michael comes and sits next to me at the piano and says, ‘Mr. Randi, could you show me what you just played?’ And this is what I played…
As keyboardist Don Randi told that story, the band, which had been vamping alongside, swung into the opening bars of the Jackson Five’s hit single, “ABC.” Randi plunked the familiar chords, as he did over 50 years ago on the original recording.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 27, 2022 9:45 am
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For its concluding day on Sunday, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas hosted or facilitated a slew of activities on the New Haven Green that kept people there from morning to night, beginning with circuses and magicians, continuing through jerk chicken and dancing, and ending with a drag show about the need to reconnect with a sense of pride.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2022 9:04 am
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Cassides' Diner.
Cassides’ Diner sits everywhere and nowhere; it could be on any number of city blocks around the Northeast, and at the same time, it’s hard to say from the picture where on that block it is situated. The building itself is also a little improbable. It carries the signs of both tough economic straits and real ingenuity, the result of someone taking what’s at hand and making something better out of it.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 23, 2022 1:17 pm
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Sister Thi Kim Uyen Do, OP, melds traditional and modern Vietnamese dance techniques at Wecnesday celebration.
Internationally-minded New Haveners gathered in the Ives Main Library Branch’s Orchid Cafe to celebrate 45 years of sister-city relationships with eight communities around the world — and a local culture that welcomes immigrants and travelers amid rising xenophobia.
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Courtney Luciana |
Jun 23, 2022 11:03 am
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Mark Lamoureux.
Walking home to Wooster Street from a cleaning at the dentist on the first day of summer, Mark Lamoureux planned to get to some student papers — then some stretch out at yoga, followed by some family time.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 23, 2022 8:54 am
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Halfway through his set on the New Haven Green as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas on Wednesday night, Ghanian-born musician and dancer Okaidja taught the small but stalwart audience assembled to see him a typical Ghanian greeting. Ago? he explained, was a way of asking if anyone was home when approaching a house. Amen, he continued, was the response from the person inside the house, indicating they were home. He explained then that he would sometimes use it to check in with the audience, to make sure they were still connected. It wasn’t necessary; though rain and unseasonable cold kept away many, those that showed up on the Green had come to listen.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 22, 2022 9:56 am
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At the start of Parable of the Sower — playing against Wednesday evening at the Shubert Theatre as part of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas — Toshi Reagon asks the audience two questions: whether they have been taking care of those around them, and whether they have been taking care of themselves. She pulls the theater move of being disappointed by a first, lackluster response, and then makes people respond again, more affirmingly, more enthusiastically. But what sounds like a self-help session takes a sharp turn when she adds that both are maybe “the only way we’re going to survive” — the next five, 10, 15, 20 years.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 22, 2022 9:52 am
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Leek chard fatayer made by Sanctuary Kitchen
Could 4,000-year-old recipes translate into a feast to tantalize the tastebuds of today’s dining aficionado? At the hands of chefs from New Haven’s own Sanctuary Kitchen, it turns out they more than satisfied. Around 30 diners gathered atRAWA Tuesday night for an International Festival of Arts and Ideas event where a three-course meal prepared by Sanctuary Kitchen was presented in conjunction with Yale Peabody Museum, inspired by writings from tablets that are a part of their Babylonian collection.
Artspace Executive Director Lisa Dent shows Sen. Blumenthal New Havener Leonard Galmon's Gloria.
New Haven’s annual “Open Studios” festival will have a farther reach and more space to display local artists’ work this year thanks to a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 21, 2022 8:53 am
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The image of a young Black person behind bars is freighted with decades — centuries — of cultural hurt, and artist Mosho knows it. As an accompanying note explains, the artist “deploys paint, plastic sheeting, and other materials to construct installations that explore issues of identity, community, and belonging.” Here Mosho takes the image and subverts it. Give the image more than a cursory glance and you see that the bars are melting away before the subject’s gaze. And that the hand that holds that dissolving bar, and is perhaps doing the dissolving, contains a galaxy within it, a sign of universal power and also nearly unknowable complexity. It’s an image that hints at liberation through exploration, of the universe and of the self at the same time.
Mayor Justin Elicker samples a chocolate espresso cocktail cupcake Monday at the Q House incubator kitchen (above), where baker Maxine Harris (below) displays a stand mixer she received from City Seed.
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It wasn’t too early in the morning to sample an artisanal beer-infused cupcake — or announce an infusion of federal dollars into a recipe for strengthening both public health and entrepreneurship in the Dixwell neighborhood.
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Olivia Gross |
Jun 20, 2022 8:49 am
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Hamden Food Truck Fest kicks off summer.
Seven thousand people gathered at Hamden Town Center Park for the annual Hamden Food Truck Festival, with 24 food trucks and tents set up to feed them.
