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by | Jan 31, 2022 8:56 am | Comments (1)
Ted Littleford
Arts & Culture
Callisto Quartet Wishes Mozart Happy Birthday
by | Jan 28, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (0)
Paul Aguilar of the Callisto Quartet looked over the growing audience assembled at Gather on Upper State Street Thursday night. “Cool thing,” he said. “Literally today is Mozart’s birthday” — his 265th. In honor of that, the quartet was going to perform his famous “Hunt” quartet, “one of the most well-loved pieces” in Mozart’s oeuvre, along with Brahms’s third string quartet, which could be understood as an homage to the Mozart piece.
What followed was a world-class performance, delivered for free to what became a full house at the new coffee shop and community space on Upper State Street.
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Post-Columbus Monument Modified
by | Jan 27, 2022 4:52 pm | Comments (8)
Marc Massaro
New version of proposed monument, with plaque.
Gone are the benches, planters, flood lights, and gravel walking paths.
The sculpture itself — of an aspiring immigrant family — remains in the picture, as a controversial plan to replace the former Wooster Square Christopher Columbus monument moved to a new stage.
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by | Jan 27, 2022 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
Ted Littleford
Artists Take It Uneasy In Ely Center "Solos" Exhibit
by | Jan 27, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (0)
Matthew Dercole
Remnant 16.
Matthew Dercole’s artwork dramatizes a phase of biology that many find uncomfortable. His pieces are in a sense fungal; they’re full of life, but the kind of life that sprouts from death, that transforms flesh into something else. It’s the kind of reminder of mortality that many find unsettling. Dercole knows this; with his exquisitely detailed pieces, he seeks to both attract and repel.
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Word On The Street: Caffeine
by and | Jan 26, 2022 3:38 pm | Comments (0)
Laura Glesby photo
Owner Rosanna Sabino and employee Marisol Ortega at Nica's Market.
The word on Orange Street Wednesday was: Caffeine.
Word On The Street: 10 AM Georgia Hots
by and | Jan 25, 2022 3:49 pm | Comments (3)
Steve Williams: Fixture outside the courthouse.
The word on the street was… hot dogs.
At 10 in the morning.
Lots of hot dogs.
Artists, Orgs, And Lawmakers Seek Clearer Path To Arts Funding
by | Jan 25, 2022 2:16 pm | Comments (3)
There’s more money available from the state for the arts than there has been in a long time. But it’s hard for many arts organizations and artists who need it to get it.
State legislators want to do something about that.
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East Rockers Endorse Ice Cream Dream
by | Jan 25, 2022 1:15 pm | Comments (18)
Laura Glesby file photo
Grewal in front of the possible future ice cream shop.
When Elena Grewal looks at the vacant storefront at 831 Orange St., she envisions swirling soft-serve, dollops of hot fudge, coffee and wine, and neighbor-to-neighbor conversations.
Her Book Aims To Nurture "Lost" Imagination
by | Jan 25, 2022 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
Author Megan Shaughnessy with her new children book.
Megan Shaughnessy remembers the day her son came home from kindergarten “embarrassed” to show his artwork with his family.
As she watched his confidence in his artwork dissipate, she thought back to her childhood. when her art teacher “selected students” to be in an advanced class. Shaughnessy was not chosen.
But she didn’t give up.
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The Cellar Raises The Dead
by | Jan 25, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (0)
Allison Hadley Photos
Romei.
It was a cold Saturday afternoon when they started shuffling in, limbs held stiffly, in small groups. They pushed the door open to the Cellar on Treadwell. There was no escape. That’s right: it was Drawn of the Dead night for “It’s Alive,” a new art show running at the Hamden music club through the end of the month that’s fit for guys and ghouls.
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by | Jan 25, 2022 8:58 am | Comments (1)
Hank Hoffman Plans For A Future Beyond Best Video
by | Jan 24, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (6)
Raizine Bruton Photo
Hank Hoffman
It is hard to imagine Hamden’s beloved Best Video without Hank Hoffman, its current executive director, who has been an integral part of that institution since 1994. But in June he will retire to a life beyond the walls of DVDs and the wildly unique series of shows and programs he helped bring to life at the corner of Whitney Avenue and Thornton Street.
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José Oyola, Heading West, Says Goodbye
by | Jan 24, 2022 8:48 am | Comments (0)
José Oyola, a.k.a JOATA, smiled from the stage of Space Ballroom in Hamden as he looked out over the crowd. “It’s been a long journey,” he said, though there was a sense of things coming full circle, a chapter closing. He revealed how the song he had just performed, he had played nine years ago in the building just across the parking lot of the industrial park, when the Cellar on Treadwell was The Space. He turned to the audience again. “You can come closer,” he said. “I know it’s weird times.”
A New Bluegrass Generation Emerges At Cafe 9
by | Jan 24, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (1)
Coral Ortiz photo
On the Trail opening Saturday night at Cafe Nine.
Quarantine put a “hold of their dreams.” So they wrote a song about it — and emerged onstage to perform it.
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Three Groups Mark Return To Stage At The State House
by | Jan 24, 2022 8:43 am | Comments (0)
Trey Moore had just finished his first song Sunday night at the State House. The applause had ended and there was a silence. “I don’t talk much,” Moore said, direct and self-deprecating. But it turned out that he and the two acts that preceded him — Danie V and Ammar — had a lot to say, perhaps all the more so because, for all three acts, it was their first time returning to a performing stage since the pandemic had started.
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Long Wharf Holds Up A Mirror
by | Jan 21, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (3)
As she moves from one side of the stage of Long Wharf to the other, actor Cloteal L. Horne transforms herself 25 times, from Jewish preschool teacher to Black playwright, from a girl in middle school to a minister in the Nation of Islam, from a rabbi to a Guiyanese immigrant. It’s a feat of performance in the service of a now-classic play — Fires in the Mirror, running at Long Wharf now through Feb. 6 — that tries to get at the deeper truths in an incident of racial violence that happened 30 years ago, the roots of which lay in centuries of prejudice, and the specter of which still hangs over us today.
The General Store Gets An Update
by | Jan 20, 2022 10:08 am | Comments (4)
The general store, circa 2022: Strange Ways' successor.
Pedestrians and people driving along Whalley Avenue may have noticed the storefront that used to house Strange Ways has changed. That’s because the beloved lifestyle store moved from Westville Village to downtown. In its place, owner Alex Dakoulas — who also still operates Strange Ways in its new location — has opened Westville General, selling meats, cheeses, condiments, candy, home goods, and gifts (just for starters).
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by | Jan 20, 2022 8:59 am | Comments (1)
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Today's Special: Indar Patel's Tikka Masala
by | Jan 18, 2022 4:10 pm | Comments (3)
The flavors and aromas of Punjab filled the kitchen as Indar Patel got to working cooking up one of his trademark dishes.
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by | Jan 18, 2022 2:58 pm | Comments (5)
Peabody MLK Panel Connects Activism Past And Present
by | Jan 18, 2022 8:49 am | Comments (1)
Dorthula Green of the National Council of Negro Women.
In a panel discussion in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ranging from the Montgomery bus boycott to mentorship programs, from the history of New Haven jazz to homemade incubators, representatives from three New Haven social and environmental justice organizations drew direct lines from the civil rights movement of two generations ago to the work happening in the Elm City today.
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January Becomes "Julai" At Cafe Nine
by | Jan 17, 2022 9:44 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photos
Julai and the Serotones
CT-based bands Julai and the Serotones and Esor Rose brought the heat to Cafe Nine on State and Crown on Friday night.
Teacher Taps His Comics Superpower
by | Jan 14, 2022 2:06 pm | Comments (7)
Augustine in his Hillhouse art classroom.
Elm City Comics
A masked superhero has walked the halls of Hillhouse High School for almost a year, mostly in secret.
"Cultural Equity" Pledge Targets Who Tells Whose Story
by | Jan 14, 2022 9:28 am | Comments (2)
To the vibrant sound of bomba from Movimiento Cultural, officials, press, and community members gathered in front of the Q House on Dixwell Avenue to celebrate the launch of what city Director of Cultural Affairs Adriane Jefferson called Connecticut’s first initiative targeting cultural equity.
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