by | May 20, 2022 4:33 pm | Comments (7)
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The late Winfred Rembert in the Newhall Street home where he made the magic happen.
Now that the late Winfred Rembert has won a Pulitzer prize, is it time for New Haven finally to honor its most talented artist of the last half century?
by | May 20, 2022 1:39 pm | Comments (4)
Project manager Linda Blaszka at work in new office.
Whenever designers feel stuck, all they have to do is look out the window for inspiration.
That’s among the reasons for the recent move of Newman Architects from longtime street-level digs to new offices 15 floors above 265 Church St.
by | May 20, 2022 9:35 am | Comments (0)
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Bob Martin as Ezell.
Bob Martin, playing Ezell, the titular character in Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man, stands in the mud of an outdoor set that is part nature run amok, full of huge, twisting tree trunks, and part industrial drilling site, with metal poles driven into the ground and chains connected to them. In this moment, he embodies a sense of desperate defiance, as he enunciates a key sentence twice: Ain’t nobody gonna tell me this isn’t my place to be. As Ezell proceeds with its story, the audience movingly learns just how fraught and fragile that ground beneath that assertion is.
by | May 19, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (1)
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Srinivasan and Janssen.
Researchers Sanam Shah and Ariel Spiegel are presenting the findings of a project that may, once and for, stick it to the man. Their advisor is watching with eagerness as Spiegel turns on the fire, cutting straight to the chase about how they’ve uncovered evidence, real evidence, of corporate wrongdoing, creating active ecological harm. She’s flush with her commitment. That’s when Shah gets worried. Isn’t her presentation maybe a little too subjective? Her advisor disagrees; if anything, he suggests, Spiegel should lay it on thicker. After all, the passion is backed up by hard data. Isn’t it?
That’s when Shah suddenly looks worried. She’s found an anomaly. But she can fix it. She knows she can. In that moment, it’s hard to tell whether she’s reassuring them or herself.
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by | May 18, 2022 9:11 am | Comments (1)
Hamden will get a head start on bolstering summer programming this year with the help of a two-part job reorganization, according to the town administration.
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by | May 18, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (0)
A man, Osamu, and a boy, Shota, enter a grocery store. The man is shopping casually, the boy following a pace or two behind. They give a quick fist bump, and split up. The boy approaches a rack of goods. It becomes clear the man is positioning himself to be the boy’s looking. He flashes a couple meaningful hand gestures, and the kid slips goods into his backpack — ramen and other packaged food. They leave together, heading home to feed their family. Instead, however, they find a new family member.
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by | May 17, 2022 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Scrollscape.
Julia Rooney’s Scrollscape hangs in the front window of Artspace, serving the dual purpose from the street of inviting people to come in while also obscuring what’s going on within. Inside, Scrollscape reveals itself as a piece that one is allowed to wander within. When you’re inside it, you can only see out in bits and pieces; likewise, someone looking at you from outside the piece — or, for that matter, from another part of the piece — would only be able to see you a little bit at a time. It’s a little disorienting, obfuscating, playful on one but tinged with a little menace. If someone comes looking for you in there, or if you go looking for them, is it hide and seek or stalking?
by | May 16, 2022 10:21 am | Comments (5)
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The Town Green District’s New Haven Night Market once again drew throngs of people, as the event closed the intersection of Orange and Crown and its surrounding streets to car traffic, turning those city blocks into a bustling bazaar of food, art, and crafts. But there was also evidence that the event was expanding more informally, as artists and businesses beyond those blocks threw events to attract their own parts of the crowd.
by | May 16, 2022 8:25 am | Comments (2)
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Amira and Iman Brown display their art and artistic flair.
ArtWalk brought the heat, both literally and figuratively, to Westville Saturday as outdoor vendors, neighborhood businesses, and a variety of activities in Edgewood Park energized and elated the village and its visitors.
by | May 15, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (0)
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Raheem DeVaughn performs at Shubert.
Freedom Fund 2022 honorees.
After a three-year hiatus, the annual Freedom Fundraiser held by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) returned full-force Thursday evening with a rhythmic and intimate remixed celebration at the Shubert Theater.
Continue reading ‘NAACP, Raheem DeVaughn Take To The Shubert For "Freedom Fund" Return’
by | May 13, 2022 9:35 am | Comments (2)
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Mykael Ross and Band.
A most perfect early spring evening shined even brighter with the sounds of Sun Ra Thursday night, as Best Video in Hamden, in conjunction with The International Festival of Arts and Ideas, presented a Sun Ra Tribute concert on its patio to an appreciative audience of all ages.
Continue reading ‘Sun Ra Tribute Concert Blasts Best Video Into Outer Space’
by | May 12, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (3)
Inside the Sandbox — a new space for art events at the Arts Council of Greater New Haven on Audubon Street — there’s a small garden growing, made not of plants, but fiber. There are ropes of vines fashioned from T‑shirts, leaves of pressed polyethylene, mossy mats of yarn. The project, titled “Unclassified,” is the work of artist Yolanda Davis, who, as the Arts Council’s artist in residence, started it in the fall. It now hangs in the Sandbox space like an enormous divider, a waterfall of foliage. Soon it will be taken down. And to Davis, it still isn’t really complete.
by , and | May 11, 2022 4:27 pm | Comments (20)
Independent reporters Laura Glesby, Maya McFadden, and Nora Grace-Flood on scene at New Haven's newest direct-connection destination.
It took less than ten minutes through TSA, two hours on a plane, and a timeless rock track sung by a musician moonlighting as a Lyft driver to transport a trio of New Haveners to Nashville.
In the same amount of time, three hyperlocal reporters and homebodies were transformed into tourists, traversing beyond transportation-themed press conferences into new territory bordered by bluegrass, barbecue and surprisingly substantial bike lanes for a car-centric state.
by | May 11, 2022 3:31 pm | Comments (7)
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"The guy keeps winning": The late Winfred Rembert in the Newhall Street apartment where he made the magic happen.
Estate of Winfred Rembert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Looking for My Mother, 2019; reprinted in Chasing Me To My Grave.
Lillian Rembert dropped her mail sack on Shelton Avenue to see why her phone was blowing up with alerts — to discover that her late father won a Pulitzer Prize.
by | May 11, 2022 8:37 am | Comments (0)
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Davies.
The surface of Jennifer Davies’s Blue Accord, part of “In Mind and Hand” — a show of Davies’s work up now at City Gallery on State Street through May 29 — is a panoply of textures, and not just visual ones. There are the endless variations on indigo, wrought by applying the dye in unpredictable ways. But look closer, and you can tell the material itself has a tactile life of its own, sometimes punctuated by string. Davies may be a visual artist by training, but her art appeals to more than one of the senses.
by | May 10, 2022 8:46 am | Comments (9)
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Bar manager Emanuela Stakaj (right) at the newly opened Il Gabbiano restaurant.
The owner of Adriana’s Restaurant has opened a new “Italian steakhouse” on Long Wharf in the former home of Lenny & Joe’s Fish Tale — on the future site of hundreds of planned new waterfront apartments.
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by | May 10, 2022 8:38 am | Comments (0)
Courtesy New Haven Theater Company
After a long pandemic-induced hiatus, the New Haven Theater Company has returned to its digs in the back of EBM Vintage on Chapel Street, with its first full-scale production in two years, as John Watson directs fellow members J. Kevin Smith and Susan Kulp in Sharr White’s Annapurna, which run Thursday through Saturday, May 12 to 14 and 19 to 21.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Theater Company Scales New Heights’
by | May 9, 2022 8:22 am | Comments (0)
El-Yasin and Shutan.
New Haven-based artists Suzan Shutan and Howard el-Yasin have a vision of creating an art treasure hunt across the state of Connecticut. It’s about opening up private spaces. It’s about pushing back and against commercialism and oppression. But it’s also about having fun, exploring where we live, and tapping into the sense kids have that maybe, just maybe, there’s an adventure to be had around the next corner if we just know where to look.
by | May 6, 2022 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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The cast of BKLYN at Hillhouse.
“It’s good to be back. Today is very special for us because two and a half year ago, today was our last day,” said Ty Scurry, who runs the Academic Theater Company, the drama club based out of Hillhouse High School, as the cast prepared to do a full run-through of its upcoming production, BKLYN, which will run at the school’s auditorium from May 12 to May 14.
by | May 4, 2022 8:57 am | Comments (1)
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When sibling rivalry becomes a little too hostile. When a puppeteer’s puppet refuses to cooperate. When a threesome collides with the cheerful aesthetic of a Disney movie. These and many other wonderfully absurd scenarios were mined for laughter by The Regicides on Tuesday evening, kicking off a week of ArtWalk programming in Westville.
by | May 3, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (0)
Florian Carle, Martha Lewis, Jason Bischoff-Wurstle.
In Martha Lewis’s illustrations, the stacked spirals of wires and other metal pieces have no obvious sense of scale. They could be of a structure the size of a skyscraper, or the miniature contents of a vacuum tube. In this, the pieces of technology rendered in Lewis’s sketches echo the theories and the math that underpin them. They’re parts of quantum computers used at the Yale Quantum Institute, and the sketches — as well as some of the computers themselves, plus the tools employed to keep them running — are part of “The Quantum Revolution: Handcrafted in New Haven,” an art exhibit that shows how the current wave of innovation in computing connects seamlessly to New Haven’s long industrial past of inventors creating breakthroughs not through climatic moments of “Eureka!,” but by getting their hands dirty and figuring things out.
by | May 2, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (2)
Eat Up's Isaiah Pinion, Bryan Burkett-Thompson, and Kristen Threatt.
It was a battle of Afrotina’s Latin-flavored southern cuisine versus Eat Up’s Italian-inspired soul food cuisine: Chef Ohioma Odihirin’s Sazon chicken took on Chef Bryan Burkett-Thompson’s mumbo chicken, and Chef O’s homemade Voodoo sauce vied with Chef BB’s pineapple salsa.
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by | May 2, 2022 8:52 am | Comments (0)
“Your Voice,” the first song from Stephen Gritz King’s latest album, Conversations, doesn’t start with music, but a single female voice. “So there’s this saying, and this saying says that you’re only as sick as your secrets,” she says. “And for me, I was tired of being sick.”
by | Apr 29, 2022 9:52 am | Comments (2)
As a sketched plane lands on a runway, the driving drums give way to a big hook from a guitar, the kind you get to write after you’ve already written a million songs. Stephen Peter Rodgers — a.k.a. Steve Rodgers, formerly of Mighty Purple and the Space — follows it up with an equally sharp vocal. ” Driving all alone / silence wreaking havoc in my head / I turn the radio on / they’re talking about the end of the world again / this crazy human life / this worlds as fragile as it’s ever been.” Then, at the end of the chorus, he delivers the message: “let’s stop just getting through / it’s time live a real life / wake up, wake up / let’s live a real life again.”