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Dec 6, 2024 12:15 pm
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Tommy V and David Ramos.
There are people who talk about helping and change and making the world a better place one day, and then there’s Joey Batts and the CT hip hop community, who for the past 11 years have gathered for a series of shows at multiple venues throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts to actually do it. Hip Hop for the Homeless began its annual December run raising funds and collecting donations for local groups on Thursday night.
First stop: New Haven’s Cafe Nine, where host for the evening Sketch tha Cataclysm brought forth a healthy and harmonious collection of CT-based hip hop artists to entertain for a worthy cause: Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen.
Chris “Big Dog” Davis is returning to Dixwell’s Stetson Branch Library to bring a rainbow of holiday-season hope — with the help of a Hollywood Walk of Fame singer and actress.
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Dec 6, 2024 7:35 am
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A cold December temperature didn’t keep crowds away as New Haven celebrated its 111th tree lighting on the New Haven Green Thursday night, with an evening of festivities that included food and craft vendors, live music from bands and choirs, amusement park rides and activities for kids, and a visit from Santa Claus.
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Jamil Ragland |
Dec 5, 2024 11:28 am
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Cardinals Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) and Bellini (Stanley Tucci) talk before the conclave begins.
Conclave Real Art Ways Hartford Dec. 4, 2024
I was excited to see that Conclave had returned to Real Art Ways for a second run in their theater. I missed it the first time it was available, and was determined to see favorite actors like John Lithgow and Stanley Tucci on the big screen.
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Maya McFadden |
Dec 5, 2024 9:26 am
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At Betsy Ross's Winter Fest: High school performers, coming soon.
Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School (BRAMS) will have an inaugural ninth grade class next year — as the district works to transition the 5 – 8th grade middle school to a 7 – 12th grade high school in order to better accommodate students’ high demand for arts instruction.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 4, 2024 9:23 am
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Craig Frederick
Breath.
Craig Frederick’s Breath looks lighter than its materials. If it were a sea creature, it appears like it could be spiraling through the water. If it were in flight, it could seem like it was made of paper, corkscrewing through the air. It makes space for itself in the gallery, as if it’s just passing through, and we happen to be there when it stops for a minute.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 3, 2024 8:58 am
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"Mind/Matter" show panel: Something's not quite right here ...
Look once, and it’s just an upside-down face of a woman smiling. But look again, perhaps a third time, and a few details seem off. Something’s wrong, definitely wrong, even if you can’t quite figure out what it is.
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Jamil Ragland |
Dec 2, 2024 10:30 am
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Moana (Auli'i Cravalho) looks out towards her destiny
Moana 2 Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 XD and IMAX Manchester December 1, 2024
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Moana 2 picks up three years after the events of the first movie. The titular hero (Auli’i Cravalho returns, just as good as the first time) is now a Wayfinder for her people, and must team up with her demigod friend Maui (Dwyane Johnson, always a pleasure) and crew of misfits to find a lost island hidden by the vengeful god Nalo.
Yale's proposed dramatic arts building, circa 2029 ...
... to be located at York and Crown.
All the world’s a stage — for Yale, which plans to construct a new seven-story, 188,000 square-foot building for its drama school and the Yale Repertory Theater, to be located at the northwest corner of Crown and York streets.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 2, 2024 8:12 am
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After 16 years of albums, tours, collaborations and compilations, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos — the New Haven-based musician who cut a burning swath though indie hip hop and folk and started a record label in the process — is done. This spring saw a final East Coast tour, and November featured a final swing through the West Coast, culminating in a return home for a sold-out show at Space Ballroom.
His newest album, released in November — Bring Us the Head of Francisco False, Part 2, which completes Part 1, released in April, and finishes a cycle of albums that started with Sad, Fat Luck in 2019 — explains why. And doesn’t. And doesn’t have to. It’s a wrenching goodbye and a wistful farewell, a reintroduction and moment of liberation, all at once. As a final gesture on a long arc of artistic work, it’s a firework thrown into the sun, and it leaves us bathing in the glow of a thousand colors.
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Jamil Ragland |
Nov 27, 2024 12:06 pm
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Jim Lenn holding an Ovation Guitar
Ovation Guitars Manchester Public Library Manchester Nov. 25, 2024
I went to the Manchester Public Library on a chilly Monday evening to hear a lecture about the Connecticut-made guitar that saved the music industry. Little did I know that I was also in for a delightful concert too.
Best Video's Rai Bruton, with Lyric Hall's John Cavaliere: “Places like this and Best Video will only last if we work together.”
Lyric Hall Theater came full circle on Tuesday night as the beloved Westville venue partnered with Best Video for the first night of its new monthly film series for New Haven movie fans.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 26, 2024 8:27 am
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Parlay Droner, with his "toys."
Music on stage. Art on the walls. Pizza and drinks on the table. Pickles in the corner. The latest installment of Mood Maker Mondays at The Cellar on Treadwell in Hamden featured all of the above, mixed together for a healthy-sized Monday night crowd who came out to hear experimental musician Parlay Droner and veteran surf rockers the Vulture, partake of Jam City Pizza’s Detroit-style pizza, check out the fantastical art of Thomas Drew, and sample the vinegar delights of Mo Piklz.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 25, 2024 8:27 am
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Sharmont "Influence" Little: "Humanity has never been given by a Greek god."
A symphony orchestra in a vast concert hall. Ballet dancers, barefoot. A spoken-word poet and a singer. A traditional African drummer.
These elements all came together in concert, as a collaboration among the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO), New Haven poet laureate Sharmont “Influence” Little, and members of the New Haven-area Tia Russell Dance Studio added up to a past-honoring, forward-thinking presentation of Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus that was both an embodiment and celebration of creativity.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 22, 2024 7:58 am
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Allie Sandt and Teddy Holly.
From the stage at Never Ending Books on Thursday night, Trae Sheehan asked if there were “any introverts in the crowd.” He was met with complete silence. He beamed.
“See, I try that at every show, and audiences fail,” by cheering, he explained. The cheer, he said, was a sign that they couldn’t be introverts; the silence felt all too right. “This one goes out to you,” he said.
Sheehan was part of a three-act bill at Never Ending Books on State Street — including Sam Moth and Allie Sandt — that warmed a rainy night by fostering honesty, openness, and kindheartedness in song after song.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 21, 2024 8:21 am
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Videodome.
On Wednesday night at Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown, two area bands, Nervous City and Videodome, welcomed a touring band, Parachute Club, to its first-ever gig in the state of Connecticut with big riffs, squalls of guitar noise, and an appreciative crowd of rock fans ready to stay up and have a good time.
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Jamil Ragland |
Nov 21, 2024 7:30 am
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A piece of pottery by Robin Simpson on display in the Etcetera exhibit
Etcetera Exhibit Manchester Town Hall Manchester Nov. 18, 2024
Art is not just what we can see and hear. It’s also what we can feel.
I was reminded of that by the Etcetera Exhibit located at the Manchester Town Hall. The Manchester Art Association has an ongoing exhibit at the town hall, where for three months they feature a different single medium. This quarter’s medium is “Other,” which includes artwork that doesn’t fit into the other traditional categories of pastel, oil & acrylic, watercolor, and photography. As such, there was some fascinating art on display that catered to the sense of touch (not that I touched them; this is an art exhibit after all).
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 20, 2024 8:09 am
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Raheem Nelson
The Alchemy of Art.
The small portrait of New Haven arts maven Ann Lehman welding in her studio is instantly recognizable to anyone who visited “The Alchemy of Art,” the show devoted to her work last year at Creative Arts Workshop. But New Haven-based artist Raheem Nelson’s graphic surrounds that portrait with a constellation of ideas that distills much of that complex exhibition and the various reports of it. In less than 10 seconds, we get a snapshot of who Lehman was, what her contributions to Creative Arts Workshop and the city were, and why we continue to celebrate her legacy. And our curiosity, perhaps, is whetted for more.
Payton, Ellis, and Anaya with muralists Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn: “This is why we’re doing this.”
The challenge was steep. To scour the globe for a muralist to lend such pizzazz to a 240-foot blank warehouse wall that it would bring life to a faded stretch of town.
In the end, one factor sealed the deal: cartwheels.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 19, 2024 8:17 am
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Bill Healy
Self Portrait, King Nothing, Princess Leia.
Bill Healy’s three collages cover three subjects, from the real to the imaginary, but are united by their distinctive personalities, half playful, half unsettling. In each face, there are a few delightfully recontextualized shapes. In Self-Portrait, the grimace is an Amazon smile turned upside down. One of King Nothing’s eyes is a bowl of soup. The middle of Princess Leia’s face is a tire. It’s the kind of lateral thinking that marks the most engaging collage art, and in another place, another space, the artist might be parlaying it into a social media following. But Healy — along with the rest of the artists in the show — isn’t on social media, and the work might not have made it to a gallery wall without a keen eye paying attention.
