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Colombian neo-cumbia. Egyptian avant garde. Arabic surf guitar. And a baby boy. All this and more has been on the mind of musician and music promoter Rick Omonte as he rolls out a new series of shows for 2022 through his nom de booking, Shaki Presents.
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by | Apr 25, 2022 4:29 pm | Comments (1)
Eric Vidro.
Eric Vidro was headed to Chapel Street Monday morning during his morning shift — as a budding clothing designer — before his third-shift gig in a factory.
The latter pays the bills. The former fuels his dreams.
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Comic fans leave the pages to meet real-life superheros.
Javon Stokes at DiasporaCon.
A justice league of comics creators, collectors, and historians were all signaled to gather for a first annual African DiasporaCon.
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by | Apr 25, 2022 10:17 am | Comments (2)
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The annual Cherry Blossom celebration at Wooster Square Park returned for the first time in two years on Sunday — bringing back families, friends, puppies, and community to the park.
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Mural by Rose Martin in the newly remodeled Three Sheets.
Questlove pondering musical notes in mixed media. Three womxn expressed in acrylics. A snarling yet sparkling cat out of hell.
These were all part of the return of longstanding monthly event “Art in the Back,” at Three Sheets this past Saturday night. Though on this evening it did not include the “music in the front” portion — in which bands once played as part of the opening — the promise of it was in the air.
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The boys in the band: Nolan Wazni, Jack Marchand, Ben Card at WNHH FM.
A rising band of New Haven pop-rockers had a new album to put out. But first they had to:
• Find a place they could practice and record.
• Factor in the fact that the lead vocalist’s voice was changing.
• In one case, get a ride from mom for the pre-release radio interview.
• In another case, get permission to leave school for an hour.
Such are the extra challenges of making your mark in music if you’re also a bunch of high-school juniors.
Continue reading ‘With Voices Changed, Midnight Strangers Drop "Odyssey"’
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Eddi M. photographs Alina ...
... in flower-filled Wooster Square Park.
Wooster Square’s cherry blossoms served as a fitting seasonal backdrop Wednesday morning — for a photographer aiming to turn the trees’ ephemeral beauty into immortal crypto wealth.
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Armada Brewing's John Kraszewski with the 4/20 special, "The Herbalist."
Lloyd Street entrance to Armada's River Street building.
The city’s newest brewery has opened its doors — and its taps — in a former Bigelow Boiler Factory building on River Street, with hopes that “danky” beers, dreamlike art, and spacious gathering spots will help spur an economic revival for Fair Haven’s derelict industrial waterfront.
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Alison Cofrancesco's painting of the Pinskymobile.
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Artist+lawyer+truck on Sherman.
Alison Cofrancesco brought iconic New Haven storefronts — including mobile ones — to canvas, then reconnected with the humans behind them in real life.
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by | Apr 18, 2022 3:45 pm | Comments (0)
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Yaira Matyakubova and Lyala Stowe at gathering on Peck Street.
The room was hushed when Lyala Stowe began to speak. Her voice was soft. She is from Ukraine, and she was about to recite poems by Ukrainian poets.
Stowe apologized that most audience members would not comprehend the words, spoken in her native tongue. Regardless, the room held onto every syllable.
Continue reading ‘Violin Strings, Heartstrings, Pulled For Ukraine’
by | Apr 18, 2022 10:27 am | Comments (7)
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Sen. Blumenthal with Negaro and Immer at Atticus's Orange Street market.
Luke and Lisa Harrison eating lunch in the sun.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal stopped by Atticus Market to pick up a loaf of bread — and to celebrate the longtime local family-owned business’s recent award from the federal government.
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Ted Littleford
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Bob Lamothe points to osprey circling above.
Bob Lamothe photo
Lamothe's portrait of a Cape May Warbler.
As Bob Lamothe walked along the Mill River, he positioned his Canon camera towards the sky, prepared to capture birds in flight — and was reminded of shared migration patterns that help people and avians alike call back and forth between their homelands.
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“Stunted,” the first song from Ghost Tones’ latest release Live at the Cellar, starts with a long flourish from an electric guitar, a horn winding its way through it. Then the drummer settles in on a pounding rhythm that, without any other instruments playing, could be a few different genres. Maybe it’s a pop song. Maybe it’s punk. Then someone in the band counts off a measure — one, two, three, four — and the sound, especially from the guitar, chopping out offbeats, becomes unmistakable. It’s ska. And ska of the third-wave variety at that.
by | Apr 13, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (0)
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Fuller.
“7/16 Samba,” from Keep Hope Alive, the latest release from Jeff Fuller and Friends, starts with light yet complex chords from the piano. A couple hits from the drums, a couple notes from the bass, and the trio falls in together. The piano states the melody with unhurried precision while the bass surges below it. They open the tune up soon enough, though, taking their time working through the changes, giving each other plenty of time to let their solos breathe. It’s the sound of musicians who have played together for years, relaxing into the joy of being reunited and creating sounds together again — even in troubled times.
by | Apr 12, 2022 9:12 am | Comments (1)
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Jafferis.
Aaron, a White playwright, needs his new play to work out for the sake of his career. Tone, an Inca of the Latin Kings, is serving a prison sentence for conspiracy to sell drugs; he has a story to tell about his conversations with the man in the next cell over — Justin Volpe, the NYPD cop imprisoned for attacking and sexually assaulting Abner Louima in an station house bathroom in 1997. What follows is a power struggle that actually contains several power struggles.
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Anne:Gogh
The concept of time has had its way with all of us in the past two years, leading many to redefine its more linear aspects and reimagine a new framework. On Saturday night five poets made their way through Artspace New Haven to pose and present their own interpretations of time, influenced and inspired by the “Dyschronics” exhibit currently displayed there, as well as Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The event was part of One City, One Read, an ongoing International Festival of Arts and Ideas program series that continues now through June throughout New Haven, focusing on Butler’s all-too-prescient novel.
by | Apr 12, 2022 8:58 am | Comments (0)
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There’s an odd discordance in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, running now at the Yale Repertory Theatre through April 23 in a sumptuous production directed by Christopher D. Betts, an MFA candidate at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and featuring Israel Erron Ford, a recent graduate of the former Yale School of Drama.
by | Apr 11, 2022 5:03 pm | Comments (4)
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From partial demolition ...
... to delivery. Developers finally get Pinto House into right position Monday.
New Haven’s 200-year-old William Pinto House inched closer Monday to its new destination: A plot of now-torn-up asphalt and dirt roughly 90 feet away from where it was originally built circa 1810.
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Addys Castillo beamed as she looked at the crowd assembled Saturday evening for the inaugural show of bomba group Proyecto Cimarrón. To her, it was fitting that the show be held where it was, at the Citywide Youth Coalition on Chapel Street, which Castillo referred to as the Black and Brown Power Center. “This space is a space for liberation,” she said. “A place for people to laugh, have joy, and plan revolution.”