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by | Mar 31, 2022 9:00 am | Comments (2)
Arts & Culture
Vegan Flavor Riot Put Down During Restaurant Week
by | Mar 30, 2022 1:06 pm | Comments (0)
As the sun set, the playlist of mid-2000s slow emotional pop inside B Natural Kitchen made the experience of eating a “Warm Market Bowl” by the College Street window feel like a moment straight out of a rom-com — while the bowl itself offered respite from the chilly wind outside.
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18 Years In, Improvisers Collective Returns To The Stage After Pandemic Pause
by | Mar 30, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (0)
Jonathan Milberger, Michael Larocca, Kaelen Ghandi.
“Eighteen years of doing it and we’re still doing it,” Bob Gorry, founder of the New Haven Improvisers Collective, said from the stage of Cafe Nine. “The pandemic stopped us for a bit, but we’re back.”
He was referring not only to the NHIC workshops that have begun again at Never Ending Books, but to the fact that, on Tuesday night, he was again hosting musicians, and performing himself, for a night of improvised music at the music-scene anchor on State and Crown.
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The Making Of A Modern-Day Thurber
by | Mar 29, 2022 2:48 pm | Comments (2)
Published illustrations (above) by New Haven's Merle Nacht (pictured below), subject of a new career retrospective at Merwin's Art Shop.
Frank Rizzo/ New Haven Arts Paper
One summer day in 1985, the illustrator Merle Nacht boarded a Metro-North train at Union Station, and carried with her a big dream and a portfolio of anxiety.
Her goal was to arrive where few freelance artists ever find themselves: on the list of regular cover artists for the prestigious New Yorker magazine.
$11.65 Burrito & Smoothie Bring Summer Closer
by | Mar 29, 2022 1:03 pm | Comments (1)
Arturo Morales adds the meat fresh off the stove to make the Buffalo chicken burrito, a special on Tomatillo's menu.
I bit into a Buffalo chicken burrito, cooled it off with a sip of mango-coolada smoothie — and my taste buds were reminded, amid a cold late-March afternoon, about what to expect from the summer flavors up ahead.
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Fashion Meets Music At "Connect Da Love"
by | Mar 28, 2022 4:34 pm | Comments (3)
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New Haveners gathered to “Connect Da Love” through fashion and music Saturday night.
Thelonious Monk's Legacy Jazzes Up Stetson
by | Mar 28, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (1)
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Nisaa Monk Williams performs at Stetson.
Old-school jazz brought audience members of all ages to their feet dancing at the new Stetson Library Branch, during “A Celebration of Jazz,” put on in collaboration by the Shubert Theatre, Monk Youth Jazz, the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation, and the New Haven Free Public Library.
The event, held Saturday, showcased performances by the band Chill, featuring members of Thelonius Monk’s family and Monk Youth Jazz students.
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40 Years In, Fernando Pinto Perseveres
by | Mar 28, 2022 9:24 am | Comments (3)
Photo courtesy of Fernando Pinto
Nirvana performing at The Moon on Whalley 1991, a show promoted by Pinto.
Karen Ostrom Photo
Fernando Pinto: From the Moon and Tune Inn to Cafe 9.
Music promoter Fernando Pinto entered Blue State Coffee on a sunny morning with a bag of flyers under his arm as he finished up his walk around the city to hang them up at his usual spots.
“I know all of them,” he said — though he is still finding more spots, even after 40 years of booking and promoting shows throughout New Haven. As he celebrates that anniversary, two shows in particular are on Pinto’s mind, and on those flyers he is posting.
Today's Ted Toons
by | Mar 28, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (0)
Jack's Jazzes Up Dinner Time
by | Mar 28, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (2)
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Nick Di Maria Quartet.
New Haven has always been hungry for jazz, and as the city continues to open back up to more opportunities to hear it live, musician Nick Di Maria has added yet another night to his already busy roster for music lovers to enjoy jazz while having dinner and drinks. Friday Night at Jack’s debuted this past weekend on the corner of College and Crown at Jack’s Bar and Steakhouse from 7 to 9 p.m. Di Maria was there with his quartet to play the first show, though this is far from his first time playing there.
Restaurant "Week" Returns
by | Mar 26, 2022 9:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Ricky D. Evans, owner of Ricky D's Rib Shack, at a press conference for "New Haven Restaurant Week(s): Remixed" on Friday afternoon.
Restaurant week will return to New Haven Sunday for an extended two-week run, featuring an expanded variety of deals at over 50 eateries.
Apartment Plan Resurfaces, Minus Seniors
by | Mar 25, 2022 4:45 pm | Comments (18)
Svigals + Partners
Rendering of Canal Trail-side apartment complex plan.
Developer Yves Joseph.
Dixwell residents gathered in the Q House gym to hear about a revived and changed plan to build 176 new apartments on the vacant city lot where Henry meets Ashmun and Canal Streets by the Farmington Canal Trail — and some emerged mulling whether to apply for a new home or a job.
Deal Struck To Save Ely Center
by | Mar 25, 2022 9:33 am | Comments (7)
Clockwise from upper left: ECOCA board members Suneet Talpade, Jeanne Criscola, Debbie Hesse, Jeanne Ciravolo.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is officially buying the John Slade Ely House, the Elizabethan mansion on Trumbull Street that has served as a hub for the New Haven visual arts community since 1961. It’s purchasing the building from ACES for $800,000, fending off a bid from a developer for the same price.
“All the people that have been supportive of us are ecstatic that we’re in this position,” said Jeanne Criscola, ECOCA’s board president.
Today's Toon
by | Mar 25, 2022 9:22 am | Comments (0)
REINALDO GOYENCHEA/ LA VOZ HISPANA
Only as a reminder: I am here ... and I am potentially nuclear!
YUAG Exhibit Complicates The Midcentury Modern Story
by | Mar 24, 2022 9:19 am | Comments (0)
Mark Rothko
Untitled.
It’s only the form of it, the broad bands of color, that might give away that the painting above is by Mark Rothko, famous for his much more abstract work. The faces, the shapes of waves, of limbs, the fact that there are lines at all, aren’t Rothko’s style at all — or at least not the style we know him for. It’s all too tempting to map the general narrative of art history in the 20th century, from representational to abstract art, onto Rothko’s own personal history. In that context, we might think this is a painting Rothko made early in his life, before he discovered abstraction. We’d be wrong — he made it a year before he died. We think of Rothko and his contemporaries as abstract painters, but they were more than that. The story is more complicated.
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Air Temple Arts Takes New Haven To The Circus
by | Mar 23, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (2)
Hoops, silks, and poles — and artists using them all to perform fantastical feats — are all part of Air Temple Takes New Haven, the latest show from New Haven-based aerial dance, circus and movement studio Air Temple Arts, running at Educational Center for the Arts on Audubon Street this Saturday and Sunday. The all-ages circus themed event is special for a few reasons. One is that it is the studio’s first in-person indoor show in 34 months.
Another is that it is the first one that features all of the Woodbridge studio’s staff. And they are thrilled for both.
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Hamden Budget Q: Create New Jobs While Raising Taxes?
by | Mar 22, 2022 5:23 pm | Comments (6)
Visual projection of Hamden's anticipated budget drivers.
Hamden lawmakers provisionally OK’d filling two new government positions early — but pressed for a broader discussion about whether the town should be funding new jobs while raising taxes by up to 3.68 mills.
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Ryan Sands Steps Into The Future
by | Mar 22, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (1)
Sands.
“I’ve Got a Tiger by the Tail” begins with a cascading flourish from bass, drums, and guitar, and then is off like a skittering shot, the three instruments spiraling around one another at breakneck, and breathtaking, speed. Then “Faith” sinks into a lazy, easy swing, all sweet, smoky atmosphere. They’re two sides of the same coin, but also part of drummer Ryan Sands’s larger mission: to make music in which the technical accomplishment is apparent, but the emotional content is what really matters — expressions of joy, or wistfulness, that everyone can feel.
Long Wharf Stages Gentrification Fantasia
by | Mar 21, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (2)
Long Wharf Theatre
The three women in the room — two sisters and a TV host — are wearing safety glasses. It’s time to start demolishing the house the sisters grew up in. The TV host, all smiles, hands one of the sisters a sledgehammer, so she can do the honors of striking the first blow. Time stops, and there’s a fight. Time starts again, and the sister swings the hammer and puts a huge gash in the wall. That’s when something starts oozing out, like thick blood from a wound. Is that supposed to happen? No one knows.
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by | Mar 21, 2022 8:49 am | Comments (1)
Gentrifiers Invade City From Outer Space
by | Mar 18, 2022 3:15 pm | Comments (8)
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Red-hot author Tochi Onyebuchi at WNHH FM.
Run for cover: Urban pioneers are returning to New Haven — from a space colony to which they originally fled from riots and flames and eviscerated property values. They’re bringing with them “plans” anew for the Model City.
Luckily for us, Tochi Onyebuchi has his eye on them. He has his eye on the “stackers” who never left, as well.
New "Vlock" House Previewed In The Hill
by | Mar 18, 2022 11:27 am | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
At 2019 opening for the first iteration of 169 Plymouth student-built home.
The newest addition to New Haven’s affordable housing stock will be a 400 square-foot dwelling cheek by jowl to the railroad tracks in the Hill.
If innovative plans go right, it’ll be just as quiet, or noisy, as if it were 20 feet farther away.
Kaleta And Super Yamba Band Make The Music The Message
by | Mar 18, 2022 9:15 am | Comments (1)
Brian Slattery Photo
Kaleta and Super Yamba Band brought the legendary West African sound of Afrobeat to Cafe Nine on Thursday night, proving that the message of the revolutionary music lives on, and connects to the present moment, as much as ever.
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In Ely Center Exhibition, Artists Explore What Lies Beneath
by | Mar 17, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (0)
Sarah Schneiderman
The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4.
The title of Sarah Schneiderman’s piece at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street — The State of Health Care in the United States of America #4 — makes the target of the artist’s intentions clear, and it gets at something about the overall effects of certain aspects of our healthcare system, creating a country awash in prescription medication and, as recent high-profile lawsuits have shown, far too many addicts in the process. But Schneiderman’s piece also gets at something even broader than that. Its depiction of the flag itself It aptly illustrates the way the past couple years has seen the nation change shape, bending and warping, struggling to turn into something else under the most fractious politics seen in a long time. Schneiderman kept her eyes on her intended subject, but touched on something deeper as well.
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Fire Victim Restitches Fashion Dream
by | Mar 16, 2022 9:38 am | Comments (4)
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Jerlisa Thomas with her soulmate sewing machine outside of Clarion Hotel, her temporary lodgings.
Show must go on: Thomas gets models ready for her Friday's “50 Shades of Chem" fashion show at Terminal 110.
When fashion designer Jerlisa Thomas returned to her Warner Street apartment for the first time following a three-alarm fire, she was bombarded with ash and loss — until she noticed a treasure the flames failed to destroy: Her sewing machine.