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The John Slade Ely House at 51 Trumbull St. — home to the Ely Center of Contemporary Art — is up for sale.
ECOCA founder Jeanne Criscola made the announcement Sunday evening.
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Alec Pedersen, a New Haven Academy student, shares poetry at Istoria's Storytelling Night.
A night of storytelling and live music offered a point of creative connection among Yale students and New Haveners at Koffee?.
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by | Feb 28, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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Bridge & Tunnel Crowd booth: Sometimes wi-fi doesn't reach the loo.
The buzz and joy around the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op in East Rock was palpable, from the crowds of jacketed chatters outside to the low hum of many people inside the communal space. The community turned out for the NHV Zine Fair — the first such event in years.
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A walk along the water with your dog on a lovely late summer day: does anything sound better than that right now? The fun and vibrant new single by the New Haven-based band Big Sigh captures that vibe both visually and musically in “Dog Boy,” a meditation with a chorus — “we walk around and he goes wild listening to Arcade Fire” — that catches after one listen.
Continue reading ‘On New EP, Big Sigh Breaks Out Of Hibernation’
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Come hit the road along with us, help us dream big — and guide us to a new permanent home later on.
Long Wharf Theatre’s leaders delivered that message Friday to people who have questioned or been confused about the regional company’s dramatic new move.
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Alyssa.
As the news Wednesday night filled with reports of war, two vital musicians — Shanell Alyssa and Riki Stevens — brought a deep sense of peace to the Cafe Nine stage at State and Crown.
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by | Feb 23, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (8)
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Rendering of redeveloped Dixwell Plaza, with outdoor public space.
Imagine jazz festivals at a new 350-seat theater on Dixwell Avenue. And a mural celebrating the neighborhood’s rich history of Black art. And a landscaped public plaza replete with sculptures and furniture and dance, poetry, and hip hop.
A local redevelopment team heard those hopes, dreams, and visions during a community meeting focused on the cultural potential of a transformed Dixwell Plaza.
Continue reading ‘Plaza Redevelopers Dream Big For Dixwell Art’
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Artistic Director Jacob G. Padrón: leading Long Wharf into a new era.
Long Wharf Theatre is leaving Long Wharf — but not New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Theatre Leaving Longtime Home, Going Mobile’
by | Feb 23, 2022 8:54 am | Comments (2)
Everyone who’s raised a child has faced that moment, said professor Laura Briggs, when “you’re trying to get to work and you can’t because your kid won’t put on his shoes.”
It’s a problem because “there’s nobody else who’s going to be home. The kid has to go to day care, and we have to go to work.”
The struggle of maintaining work and family, for many, got even worse during the pandemic. In a talk on Tuesday night, Briggs laid out the ways in which that acute problem is the result of larger fights about reproductive politics that have been raging for over 40 years.
Continue reading ‘The Reproductive Is Political: Author Issues Call For Change From Below’
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A Wooster Square developer’s altered plans for a 13-story apartment complex include more affordable housing and sidewalk improvements — drawing a mix of praise and criticism in its quest for support.
by | Feb 22, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (0)
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“In my aspiration to be famous the one thing I’m looking forward to the most is press junkets,” said Brian Ember (a.k.a. Brian Robinson. More about that later). “I want to do them so bad. Please put me in front of a scrim and just let me talk, please, for the love of God.”
by | Feb 21, 2022 5:08 pm | Comments (6)
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Ralph Liuzzi displays his mozzarella's flexibility to visiting senator.
A Hamden cheese manufacturer is aging as well as the products it sells — and is stretching its story further across town as business booms.
by | Feb 21, 2022 2:54 pm | Comments (0)
Cafe Amici is expanding their hold on Hamden, as is local mega landlord Mandy Management, according to the town’s most recent property transactions.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Property Sales Round-Up: Mandy Grows On Newhall’
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"Bunny Is A Rider" singer Caroline Polachek at CSMH Sunday
Viral avant-pop darling and Grammy nominee Caroline Polachek took a stop between shows opening for Dua Lipa Sunday evening to headline in her home state of Connecticut. Polachek’s “one-off” concert at College Street Music Hall marks the first time the 36-year-old artist has performed as a solo act in the state where she grew up.
by | Feb 21, 2022 9:52 am | Comments (9)
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The crowd Sunday at Bloom Black History event.
Book lovers descended Sunday on Bloom to sample not only the assortment of flowers and soaps, but the works of James Baldwin, Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Jesmyn Ward — brought into the Edgewood Avenue lifestyle store and gathering place courtesy of Bamn Books, a New Haven-based mobile bookstore that focuses on the literature of the African diaspora.
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Chloe Rose models $50 look, styled by Todd Lyon with items from Fashionista's new vintage collection
In a jet-black 1950s Polack dress and gloves to match, Chloe Rose modeled a grieving widow look styled by Fashionista co-owner Todd Lyon — complete only with 1960s kitten heels, Aviators, and a maroon headscarf.
The outfit was one of four that Rose donned to promote “Persnickety Thrift,” the vintage store’s new line of thrifted clothing, which debuts this weekend. The line marks a new stage in the evolution of one of New Haven’s most colorful homegrown businesses, and a reflection of where fashion consciousness and society at large have moved amid the chaos of a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Sign Of Times: "Persnickety Thrift" Debuts’
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Renewed mission: Violet Harlow, John Cavaliere, Andre Marti at work.
Restoration is in full swing at Westville Village’s hub of reinvention.
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Kehler Liddell Gallery is suffering an infestation — of metal beetles and painted moths, courtesy of the work of artists William Kent and Gar Waterman. Together, in the show “Pest Control,” running at the Westville gallery through March 13, they offer commentary on another kind of pest problem altogether.
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On a street in London, a woman walks draped in an impossibly long, radiantly blue textile. The fabric gives her the air of a queen, but a queen out of place and out of time. She seems to move at a completely different pace from her bustling urban surroundings. Nobody notices her, as if she’s a ghost. It’s a visitation of the colonized to the colonizer. She has an almost untouchable strength, but seems also powerless; she can protect herself, but not anyone around her.
by | Feb 16, 2022 2:17 pm | Comments (0)
Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz highlights clay artist Kiara Matos...
...and Havenly's Caterina Passoni and Nieda Abbas.
Checks delivered by Connecticut’s lieutenant governor are helping women entrepreneurs send off boxes of baklava and a flock of ceramic birds into New Haven.