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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.”
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Allison Hadley |
Feb 28, 2022 8:43 am
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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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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 28, 2022 8:35 am
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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.
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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Brian Slattery |
Feb 24, 2022 9:27 am
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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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Thomas Breen |
Feb 23, 2022 1:52 pm
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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 23, 2022 8:54 am
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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.
