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by | Feb 22, 2022 11:37 am | Comments (1)
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Neighbors Split On Apt.-Tower Changes
by | Feb 22, 2022 9:43 am | Comments (26)
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Project design.
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.
Brian Ember Makes A Village
by | Feb 22, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (0)
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Brian Ember
“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.”
This Cheese Stands Alone
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.
Hamden Property Sales Round-Up: Mandy Grows On Newhall
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.
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Caroline Polachek Connects At CSMH
by | Feb 21, 2022 2:53 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
Bamn! Bloom Gets LIT With Black Lit
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.
Today's Ted Toons
by | Feb 21, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (0)
Sign Of Times: "Persnickety Thrift" Debuts
by | Feb 18, 2022 3:03 pm | Comments (8)
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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.
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Lyric Hall Goes With The Flow
by and | Feb 18, 2022 10:50 am | Comments (7)
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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.
Kehler Liddell Gallery Has A Bug Problem
by | Feb 18, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (3)
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.
Today's Toon
by | Feb 17, 2022 2:25 pm | Comments (0)
Artspace Steps Out Of Time
by | Feb 17, 2022 8:42 am | Comments (0)
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.
Women's Power Biz Bucks Go A Long Way
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.
Make Way For MoCACONN!
by | Feb 16, 2022 8:50 am | Comments (17)
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English Station: From eyesore to cultural draw?
The former English Station power plant, located in the middle of the Mill River on Ball Island in New Haven Harbor, occupies eight acres of abandoned land. Its unique location would make a perfect Museum of Contemporary Art.
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by | Feb 16, 2022 8:49 am | Comments (0)
Influencer Puts Elm City Under The Influence
by | Feb 16, 2022 8:36 am | Comments (5)
Sup New Haven's Rinaldi at Salsa Fresca.
A cocktail from Sherkaan that involves masala spices. A stacked burger from Prime 16. A grain bowl at B Natural, brimming with vegetables. A flight of beers at Bar … All of these and more have appeared recently on Sup New Haven, an Instagram hub and now standalone website that, in its own words, is “a lifestyle blog that focuses on New Haven restaurants, retail, events, local history, and everything else 2 – 0‑3.”
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Artist Finds Room For Happiness
by | Feb 15, 2022 8:33 am | Comments (0)
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Sack.
A crowd of colorful figures are running amok on a table in City Gallery. Their surfaces swirl with patterns, their forms just reminiscent enough of people or animals to endow them with a great deal of personality. They are, above all, fun — and part of “Phantasmagoria: Art to Amuse and Amaze,” a collection of mostly wax-encaustic paintings and sculptures by Ruth Sack running now at the gallery on Upper State Street through March 6.
Reopened Yale Rep Speaks To The Present
by | Feb 14, 2022 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Jeena Yi.
Yale Repertory Theatre, which has been shut down since March 2020, is back.
Still Woozy's Laid-Back Sound Propels A Party @CSMH
by | Feb 14, 2022 8:36 am | Comments (0)
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Sven Gamsky onstage at CSMH.
Singer-songwriter Still Woozy (a.k.a. Sven Eric Gamsky) reminded the audience at College Street Music Hall Friday night just how nice it is to experience live music together at a concert. The collective dancing and singing of the packed crowd offered a sense of pre-pandemic nostalgia, if only for a moment.
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by | Feb 14, 2022 8:35 am | Comments (5)
FBI Whistleblower Straddles Thin Blue Li(n)e
by | Feb 11, 2022 2:01 pm | Comments (2)
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Whistleblower author Greg Dillon at WNHH FM.
Greg Dillon proudly wore a cop-solidarity “thin blue line” face mask when Covid-19 hit.
At the same time he was working a book about how he watched the cop-solidarity “thin blue line” lead to corruption and cover-ups in law enforcement.
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Three Bands Get Loud At Cafe Nine
by | Feb 11, 2022 10:12 am | Comments (0)
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He Was A God
“Are you sick and tired?” screamed Ben Curns of the band He Was A God, with his arms raised to the audience. They answered in a chorus that turned up the volume of an already thunderous and thoroughly entertaining atmosphere at Cafe Nine last night where three bands, each one distinctly different from the other but similar in approach, delivered a Thursday full of hot and heavy sounds.
Today's Toons
by | Feb 11, 2022 10:10 am | Comments (0)
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HDC OKs Columbus-Replacement Statue
by | Feb 10, 2022 4:16 pm | Comments (6)
Marc Massaro
New version of proposed monument.
Cristoforo Colombo was always aloft on his pedestal, looking out toward the harbor and sea, to catch the next ship and to sail off to his next conquest.
His replacement – the Italian, or perhaps universal, immigrant family – will have come from the sea, from far away, and to stay, to put down roots and to begin their American success stories.
That’s why they’re not going to be aloft on a plinth but at eye level, facing inward toward the park and the city they are helping to build. The viewer will be able look them in the eye.