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Feb 10, 2022 8:47 am
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A new art exhibit, and a panel on migration facilitated by Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS). The screening and discussion of the “first-ever ethnographic acid Western.” A Sun Ra tribute concert.
All these events and more, happening between now and the middle of May, are organized around a single novel by a science-fiction visionary that is the focus of this year’s One City: One Read, a campaign organized by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, in partnership with Yale’s Schwarzman Center, the New Haven Free Public Library, Artspace, and Best Video.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 9, 2022 8:36 am
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McDonagh.
There’s a statue by sculptor Glenna Goodacre in the entryway to Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum on Whitney Avenue in Hamden that captures the desperation of people fleeing the famine of 1845 to 1852, yet only hints at the horrors they were fleeing, or the struggles they faced ahead. “She has a bag she’s carrying that has all her worldly possessions,” explained Joseph McDonagh, a representative of the nascent nonprofit Save Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, who was a docent at the museum before it closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic. “She used to be upstairs, but then they brought her down” to welcome visitors in — and give them a chance to brace themselves for what was coming.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 8, 2022 1:54 pm
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Abby Cadet with the new book she wrote with her mom.
A mom who started seeking to fill her daughter’s home library with more books featuring Black characters has begun publishing some of those books herself — with her daughter.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 8, 2022 9:28 am
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Yvonne Shortt’s Material Investigations at the Ely is simple yet evocative — a system of ropes that Shortt is slowly transforming over time into something else. The patterns she’s creating remind one of braids, or farther toward the floor, maybe cascading dreadlocks. The knotting she’s doing is a simple macrame, but also the pattern for the beads on a shekere. All these evocations are in play; she “investigates hair and cultural mindsets using rope, repetition, various other materials, and historical context,” she writes. But the rope serves another purpose, to bind together all the artwork around it, in form, process, and function.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 7, 2022 9:02 am
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“I Love You,” the opening track from Rudeyna’s new EPQueen Yapadoo, starts with beguiling simplicity; it’s a slow jam in the R&B vein, with a lazy groove, a lush organ, a floating guitar. Rudeyna’s voice, quavering but sure, enters and declares the simplest, most effective lyric in pop music: “I love you,” she sings. She sings it again, playing with it more. Shimmering keyboards, cooing background vocals, begin to destabilize things. Then a distorted electric guitar crashes in, and everything changes at once. The song reinvents itself from there, over and over.
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Coral Ortiz |
Feb 4, 2022 10:14 am
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Owner Bernadino Lanche with family members who work at the restaurant: Joseph Lanche, Hugo Rivas-Lanche, and Teodora Lanche.
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Chile relleno at Vivaz.
When Bernadino Lanche was a young boy in Hidalgo, Mexico, he began dreaming of opening his own restaurant. Years later, he has fulfilled his dream — and brought authentic Mexican food back to a popular spot on Park Street.
His new restaurant, Vivaz Cantina, has opened at 161 Park St., location of former longtime popular hangout Viva Zapata.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 4, 2022 9:13 am
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New Haven-based musician Tim Palmieri’s upcoming show with Lotus — at College Street Music Hall on Feb. 19 — is another step in his long career as a nationally touring guitarist, but also a chance to return an Elm City stage. “I’m 42 years old and I’ve been gigging since I was 13,” Palmieri said. “Band after band, gig after gig — and now I’ve been able to join Lotus.”
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 3, 2022 8:27 am
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Three long, heavy bags of salt snake across the wall in one of the galleries in the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, and their goal is empathy. To artist Ying Ye, who created them, they evoke fortune cookies. But their weight — 50 pounds each — is meaningful, too; as Ye writes, that “represents the average physical weight … restaurant workers need to lift up in the workplace.” The salt “implies their sweat and pains have transformed into delicious tasty food.”
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 2, 2022 9:10 am
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Cafe Nine on State and Crown was the spot Tuesday night for three young New Haven-based acts who brought genuine affection to the stage — for one another, for the audience, and for the Elm City itself.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 1, 2022 8:43 am
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Fernanda Franco brings every aspect of her artistic self to her new job as outreach director of New Haven Reads. “I walk into the office at Bristol Street, and I feel like Belle from Beauty and the Beast because you walk in and the walls are lined with books and it’s beautiful,” she said. She sang that last line, not unlike the character did in the movie.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jan 31, 2022 5:00 pm
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CeCe Brown Sugah performs Sunday night at Jazzy's.
A new Harlem Renaissance-inspired burlesque performance turned up the heat at Jazzy’s Cabaret supper club Sunday night, as the debut of The Sugar Strut: World Famous Burlesque Revue left audience members thirsty for more.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 31, 2022 9:11 am
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On Sunday, there I was again at Brooksvale Park, ready to take another five-mile hike, as I do most times I come here. But today I was strapping on snowshoes and making sure the bottoms of my snow pants were tight enough. We may have been spared the worst of the winter storm that dropped 30 inches of snow in eastern Massachusetts, but 9 to 12 inches was still enough to transform the landscape, making the familiar park new again, and offering the chance to see again how the town changes — day to day, year to year, decade to decade.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 28, 2022 9:07 am
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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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Allan Appel |
Jan 27, 2022 4:52 pm
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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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Brian Slattery |
Jan 27, 2022 8:44 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Jan 25, 2022 2:16 pm
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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.
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.
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Coral Ortiz |
Jan 25, 2022 12:04 pm
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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.
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Allison Hadley |
Jan 25, 2022 9:02 am
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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.
