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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.
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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.
by | Mar 25, 2022 9:22 am | Comments (0)
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Only as a reminder: I am here ... and I am potentially nuclear!
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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.
Continue reading ‘YUAG Exhibit Complicates The Midcentury Modern Story’
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.
Continue reading ‘Air Temple Arts Takes New Haven To The Circus’
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.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Budget Q: Create New Jobs While Raising Taxes?’
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Stages Gentrification Fantasia’
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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.
by | Mar 18, 2022 11:27 am | Comments (0)
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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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Kaleta And Super Yamba Band Make The Music The Message’
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.
Continue reading ‘In Ely Center Exhibition, Artists Explore What Lies Beneath’
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.
by | Mar 16, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
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.
by | Mar 15, 2022 8:53 am | Comments (1)
Margaret Milano Photo
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.
Continue reading ‘The Ratz Are Ready To Release "Found Dead" Live At Cafe Nine’
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Colin Roberts Photos
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.
Continue reading ‘Heavy Metal Heroes Play The Classics At College Street’
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Nora Grace-Flood Photo
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.
by | Mar 11, 2022 9:46 am | Comments (5)
Kimberly Wipfler Photos
Sultan Thahir: "Tonight, we're having..."
Sultan Thahir Photo
Wednesday? Must be yoga night.
Kimberly Wipfler Photo
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.
by | Mar 11, 2022 9:19 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
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.
Continue reading ‘Elm Underground Begins With Three Bands At State House’
by | Mar 11, 2022 9:16 am | Comments (1)
Ted Littleford
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Ted Littleford
by | Mar 10, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (1)
Brian Slattery Photos
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.”
Continue reading ‘Literary Fundraiser For Ukraine Offers A Cry From The Heart’
by | Mar 9, 2022 12:18 pm | Comments (7)
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Movie studio plans still in the works for River Street.
Natalie Kainz file photo
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.
Continue reading ‘Moviemakers Press On With River St. Studio Plans’