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Brian Slattery |
Mar 16, 2022 9:06 am
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Minus Points.
Minus Points had just finished another blistering song, an assault of distorted strings, drums, and emotions, when there was a request from the audience: “Can you do something laid back and chill right now?”
It was a joke; no one at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night was there to play or hear laid-back or chill. Instead, three new New Haven-based bands had come to turn it up loud, and they did.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 15, 2022 8:53 am
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The Ratz
“I’m slowly easing my way into a full-blown political record,” said vocalist/guitarist Jeffrey Thunders of The Ratz, who will be celebrating the release of the band’s latest, Found Dead, this Sunday afternoon at Cafe Nine with Cry Havoc, Midnight Creeps, and Murdervan.
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Colin Roberts |
Mar 14, 2022 9:17 am
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Ministry at College Street.
The Industrial Strength Tour rolled through New Haven Friday night, boasting a trio of bands each with a career spanning approximately four decades. Ministry, Melvins and Corrosion Of Conformity are among some of the most influential and longest tenured in their respective heavy metal sub-genres, and in front of an engaged — and sometimes rowdy — audience at College Street Music Hall, they proved why.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Maya McFadden |
Mar 13, 2022 8:12 pm
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Shamrocks, gingers, fifers and fedoras filled Chapel Street Sunday afternoon as New Haven’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade proudly recovered from a two-year pandemic hiatus.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Mar 11, 2022 9:46 am
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Sultan Thahir: "Tonight, we're having..."
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Wednesday? Must be yoga night.
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Live music night.
After dusk, night after night, young crowds are swarming into an unassuming new coffeeshop on State Street to transform the place into an event hot spot — each time with a different reason to gather.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 11, 2022 9:19 am
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The Alpaca Gnomes
Three bands took the stage at The State House on Thursday night for a raucous night of music and community, brought together by the newest booking duo in town, Elm Underground.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 10, 2022 8:43 am
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Zacks.
At Best Video on Wednesday night, Michelle Zacks read in a clear voice: “When the city was destroyed, / they started fighting over the cemetery. / It was right before Easter / and wooden crosses over the freshly dug graves / put out their paper blossoms— / red, blue, yellow, / neon green, orange, raspberry pink. / Joyful relatives poured vodka for themselves / and for the dead — straight into their graves. / And the dead asked for more, and more, and more / and the relatives just kept pouring.”
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 9, 2022 12:18 pm
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Movie studio plans still in the works for River Street.
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Jaigantic COO Mayne Berke and CEO Donovan De Boer lay out vision for soundstages at 46 to 56 River St. in August 2021.
The backers of a planned new movie studio in Fair Haven are pushing ahead with plans to transform the derelict industrial River Street waterfront into a revitalized creative arts district.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 9, 2022 8:54 am
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Since its first exhibition opened in March 2020 — and despite the pandemic — NXTHVN has managed to mount show after show that makes great use of its wide gallery walls, whether it’s by nearly covering them or using their white space to make distance between the pieces. Its latest exhibit is the first to give the viewer a sense of having entered and perhaps become a part of the art on display, the first to impart a feeling of bringing people somewhere else, if only for a little while.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 7, 2022 9:16 am
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Bad History Month.
As in the days before the pandemic, on Saturday night, perplexed pedestrians carrying leftovers from nearby restaurants stood outside Never Ending Books on State Street, drawn closer by the raucous music spilling out of it, stopped by the incongruity of a storefront that looked like a bookstore, but sounded like a punk club. They didn’t have to stop; all were welcome to a two-band bill that is the latest in a string of events reestablishing the spot, now under the management of Volume Two, the Never Ending Books Collective, as a hub for adventurous, energetic music.
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Avery Mitchell |
Mar 7, 2022 9:10 am
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LEAP fundraiser attendees.
Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. (LEAP) held its 27th annual LEAP Year Event, a fundraiser that brought supporters that care about New Haven’s children together.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 3, 2022 9:06 am
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Katherine Van Tassel and Nina Laverty.
“I’m exhausted,” said Salvatore DeLucia of Wilbur Cross’s Lights Up Drama Club, “but I’m absolutely riding on a cloud. I’m ecstatic. Because these kids are back on stage. It feels like it’s been forever, and at the same time, it feels like it was just yesterday, it was 2019, and we were performing Sister Act.”
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 2, 2022 4:55 pm
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Ely Center board members Rashmi Talpade, Valerie Garlick, Jeanne Criscola, and Debbie Hesse.
The Ely Center of Contemporary Art is busy not just putting art on its walls — but looking for the money to keep the walls themselves. It has two weeks.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 2, 2022 12:33 pm
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Jeffers and Betts talk writing and Black history at virtual Mardi Gras.
Before Honorée Fanonne Jeffers was a celebrated novelist, before she was a poet and a professor and a chronicler of Black history, before she was a high-school dropout hustling to get a college degree, she was a shy little girl in Durham, N.C., who found freedom in the public library.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 1, 2022 8:45 am
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Moshyura.
“Look out your door,” Moshyura says at the beginning of “Shepard / Bastion,” the first song off his expansive album The Mad King. His guitar, aided by a cajón, lays down a calm groove that he gets to croon over. But it’s all a prelude. Halfway through the song the groove kicks into a higher gear, the guitar starts pumping, and Moshyura slips into bar after bar. Near the end, he croons the hook: “I’m a shepherd, nobody gonna steal my flock.”
