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The Sawtelles Keep Their Hands On The Wheel

by Brian Slattery | Jan 13, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (1)

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“Amnesia,” the first song from the Sawtelles’ new album Promises and Codes, creates a mood from the first strike of the guitar, gritty and atmospheric. The drums come in to lay down a rhythm, but it still feels loose, as expansive as it began. Then the plaintive vocal comes in, unsettled, a little surreal: ​“I won’t go downtownm because it’s haunted / Memoir waits to greet on every block / Dodging the past is a task that’s daunting / Before she disappeared she unplugged all the clocks.”

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Today's Ted Toon

by Ted Littleford | Jan 12, 2022 12:10 pm | Comments (5)

Four Artists' Work Flows Together

by Brian Slattery | Jan 12, 2022 11:00 am | Comments (0)

Bloom, Kane, Crowley, and Friedman.

“Convergence” — the show at City Gallery running now through Jan. 30, and featuring the work of Meg Bloom, Phyllis Crowley, Roberta Friedman, and Kathy Kane — celebrates not only the ways in which the four artists have continued to make art during the pandemic, but how the City Gallery artists have maintained the bonds of their community even while being, once again, forced apart by Covid-19.

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Mourners Pay Last Respects To Rohn Lawrence At First-Ever Toad's Place Funeral

by Brian Slattery | Jan 10, 2022 8:00 pm | Comments (2)

Mourners Monday at first-ever Toad's funeral.

The line on York Street went halfway down the block on Monday afternoon as friends and family gathered to bid farewell to New Haven music legend Rohn Lawrence, whose visiting hours and funeral service were held at Toad’s Place, the stage on which he’d performed countless times. 

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Artists Make A Moment To Reflect

by Brian Slattery | Jan 10, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (0)

Ana Henriques’s Forest I partakes of recognizable natural shapes — spreading tree branches, a mirrored sun, the ripples of water and hills — without being beholden to them. There’s a push toward the abstract that sets the shapes and colors free from the viewer giving it the easy designation of a forest scene. She makes us see those shapes and colors again, as if we’re seeing them for the first time. Just as important in the context of ​“Reflections,” the new group show running now at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville through Feb. 6, if viewers look closely in the glass that frames the work, they can see the works of Mark St. Mary and Liz Antle O’Donnell — the other two artists in the show — reflected in the glass. 

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With 2 Shows In A Week, Nu Haven Kapelye Keeps The Klezmer Tradition

by Brian Slattery | Jan 6, 2022 8:51 am | Comments (3)

Nu Haven Kapelye, sometimes billed as New England’s largest klezmer band, saw out the final days of 2021 with two concerts — one on Dec. 25 at Congregation Mishkan Israel and one on Dec. 31 as part of Yiddish New York​’s globe-spanning, 24-hour Klezathon — that saw the ensemble carrying on longstanding traditions, expanding its reach, and exemplifying the tenacity of musicians and music to get through another pandemic year with spirits intact.

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On New Recording, O.K. Company Stays Strong

by Brian Slattery | Jan 5, 2022 9:10 am | Comments (0)

“Bright Lights,” the first song from O.K. Company’s new album Stronglove, is built on a set of luscious, chiming piano chords that at first has only a hi-hat keeping the backbeat for accompaniment. But that’s more than enough to buoy the singer, who delivers lyrics that speak of a different time and our own. ​“All alone on a crowded afternoon,” she sings. ​“I miss you lately / because everybody needs somebody.” 

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Today's Ted Toon

by Ted Littleford | Jan 4, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (1)

Andy Daps Makes A Necessity Of "Virtues"

by Brian Slattery | Jan 4, 2022 9:46 am | Comments (0)

“The 99th Day,” the first song from Andy Daps’s new album Small Virtues, starts off with a driving beat and a fuzzed-out guitar. But Daps’s vocal is even-tempered, almost serene. ​“It happened on the 99th day / At the time it was surely a sign / Recurring ordeal / Battle scar, surreal,” he sings. As he hits the chorus, instead of an electric guitar, a sitar takes the lead, making way for a break involving tabla and flute. It’s the kind of musical left turn that you don’t see coming but brings all the more satisfaction for the surprise. It’s also a proper opener to an album that’s filled with similar musical moments — smart, unexpected, and totally accessible.

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Student Art Crew Brightens The Shack

by Maya McFadden | Jan 2, 2022 10:53 am | Comments (2)

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Honda Smith, Nijaya Brown, Barbara Hawke-Lopez, Rhieanna Rubertone, Nashali Nieves, and Rebecca LeQuire by new mural at spruced-up Shack.

With the help of four high school students who found a fun way to spend part of their Christmas break, the late New Haven rapper known as Stēzo has been brought back to life on his home turf of West Rock/West Hills. 

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Piano Piece

by Lary Bloom | Dec 23, 2021 9:45 am | Comments (0)

A few weeks ago, I walked past a house near my own and heard the strains from a piano. It was a real acoustic keyboard, of the pre-electronic kind. 

And it set me off on two adventures, one mental and one physically intrusive.

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Neighbors Pillory Design For Columbus Statue Replacement

by Allan Appel | Dec 22, 2021 3:58 pm | Comments (19)

Mark Massaro's design for a new statue in Wooster Square Park.

Is the art too saccharine? Obsolete on arrival? 

Does it tell only an Italian story and not one that reflects the diversity of Wooster Square today? 

Has the community not truly been engaged in the process?

And where in the original charge to artists a year ago was there permission to pave over more than a thousand square feet of precious green space?

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