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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 22, 2021 9:51 am
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The Cannon.
On Saturday afternoon the New Haven Gooners — the official supporters’ club for Arsenal, a London-based football team — came together at The State House to do what they have done countless times before: watch their beloved team play a match while lifting a few pints and laughing with a few friends.
The event had a purpose far beyond cheering on Arsenal; the fans also raised funds for their future home, The Cannon, a bar, restaurant, and gathering place at 135 Dwight St. that has been trying to open for over a year now and has ties to not only the Gooners, but to New Haven’s arts scene.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 19, 2021 9:00 am
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Baby Tubelegs With Shoes.
The baby in the middle of the image might just be a doll, but in the photograph it seems as though it’s been brought strangely to life. Is it a ruler, looking out over its broken domain? A performer playing for a mute audience? A judge passing down a verdict to the condemned? It’s an image that overflows with a sense that we’re looking into another world, adjacent to ours but darker and stranger, made up of the things we thought we threw out. Something’s coming from that world into ours, and maybe we’re both frightened and fascinated to find out what it is.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 18, 2021 11:06 am
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The shopping strip at 1330 Whalley Ave. where Kenneth Redding has pitched opening an “assembly hall” (in the right corner commercial space above).
A proposed BYOB nightclub on Upper Whalley hit another administrative roadblock Wednesday, as City Plan Commissioners unanimously recommended rejecting the venue’s request to share parking with its shopping strip neighbors.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 18, 2021 9:20 am
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Dutkanicz with 4 Attempts at Being an Individual.
The dozens of colored shapes in New Haven-based artist Andrzej Dutkanicz’s paintings might at first appeared to be scrambled, almost in motion, because the visual effect is scintillating. But the lines that divide the canvas, and the focal dot in the middle of it, suggest something else is going on, a kind of symmetry and repetition. At first glance, it’s hard to say what it is. But the system is there, and for Dutkanicz, it’s the combination — of randomness and rules, of chaotic motion and unchanging order — that makes the art. And for the next month or so, that art will be gracing the walls of Never Ending Books on State Street as a show titled “Works.”
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 17, 2021 9:08 am
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Pink Blanket.
It’s a photograph of a couple on a beach on a hot summer day. On one level, it’s all perfectly normal, almost banal. He’s checking something on his laptop; she may or may not be nudging him with her foot. But in its form it seems almost coordinated, that the two people are dressed only in black and white, that they’ve then chosen a hot pink blanket to rest on, a bright orange bag to bring, a bright purple cup to drink from. And then it’s all framed by just sand, without a wave in sight.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 16, 2021 9:11 am
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The Mo-Pho — a soon-to-be mobile photo studio and event space run by Teresa Joseph and Chris Randall, partners in the photo business The Notorious P.I.C. — started off four years ago as an idea in Joseph’s head. This week it took a major leap forward into reality with the acquisition of a double-decker bus from Liverpool, with more in the spring sure to follow.
For Joseph, it’s not just a dream of hers coming to life; it’s also a manifestation of the support she and Randall feel from the community around them.
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Lisa Reisman |
Nov 15, 2021 1:11 pm
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Avnah Erskine learning about Sandra’s Next Generation’s meatless chili from Sharwyn Pittman and sister Tahirah Pittman.
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Ice the Beef’s LaRhonda Walker Allick and Chaz Carmon at the Eat Up Catering’s Cookoff with Brian Burkett Thompson; Sandra’s Next Generation’s Sharwyn Pittman and Sandra Pittman; Eat Up’s Kristen Threatt.
There was the hickory-smoked chili from Bear’s Smokehouse. Chili with the tang of lime from Kady Ann Brown’s 173 Surf and Turf. An otherworldly blend of spices and peppers from Poreyah Benson’s Vegan Ahava. And one so hearty and nourishing it defied the contention of Sandra’s Next Generation’s Sharwyn Pittman that it contained no meat.
Those formidable entrants put those culinary wonders on display at the first annual Eat Up Chili Cookoff at the Omni Hotel, for a good cause.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 15, 2021 9:22 am
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New Haven-based rockers Chaser Eight premiered a new music video that tackled a serious subject at The State House on Friday night while also giving live music fans a serious dose of hard hitting rock ‘n’ roll as they headlined a three-band bill that also included the fast and furious trio The Problem With Kids Today and the dreamy pop rock group The Sparkle and Fade.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 15, 2021 9:20 am
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Rachel Sumner flashed a broad smile from the Cafe Nine stage. “I’m so excited that we get to have the show that wasn’t,” she said to the full house that had come to hear her, a Boston-based musician, perform, with New Haven-based acts Mercy Choir and Lys Guillorn supporting. The show had been originally scheduled at Cafe Nine for April 2020. On Saturday night, it happened at last.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 11, 2021 9:11 am
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Before he sat behind the drums, Gil Hawkins, Jr. addressed the crowd at the Owl Shop from the microphone set up in the middle of the stage. “Wednesday night is jazz night at the Owl Shop. It’s been that way for years.” For the Hawkins Jazz Collective — this Wednesday made up of Hawkins on drums, Mike Godette on guitar, and Lou Bocciarelli on bass — “years” meant well over a decade, Covid-19 shutdown notwithstanding. As the group slid into its first tune, it created a sense less of normalcy (whatever that means anymore) than of timelessness.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 10, 2021 8:42 am
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From seemingly all around the classroom at District Arts and Education on Tuesday evening came a series of meandering tones, a series of chirps and clicks. The sounds were coming from an open-source live-coding program called Estuary, and they were the result of musician Carl Testa feeding it a couple simple commands. He was about to demonstrate how people could use the program to make music together by coding in real time.
The demonstration opened up possibilities for gaining confidence in learning how to code. It also suggested compelling questions about what music composition is when the software makes some of the decisions.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 9, 2021 8:34 am
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From a distance on Audubon Street, it looks like a city has sprung up inside the gallery space of Creative Arts Workshop, stretching far back into the building. Come a little closer, though, and you see that the buildings are rusted, almost derelict, the windows empty. Go inside the gallery and explore, and you come across the small outline of a person, lying there as if outlined in chalk. There’s a small tablet close by, but its screen glows only a blank blue.
Where are all the other inhabitants? What happened to them?
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 8, 2021 9:04 am
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The ceremony for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 41st annual arts awards returned to being an in-person event on Friday, as people gathered at the John Lyman Center for the Performing Arts at Southern Connecticut State University to honor several of New Haven’s artist educators: Miguel Gaspar Benitez, James and Tia Russell Brockington, Allen “Dooley‑O” Jackson, Linda Lindroth, Patrick Smith, and Bill Brown and Sally Hill.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 8, 2021 8:44 am
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Peasant.
On a day that included a bomb threat at Yale and the first big burst of cold weather, Cafe Nine found a way to make everyone feel safe, warm, and blissed out with not only a three-act late night rock ‘n’ roll bill, but also a rooftop happy hour performance preceding it.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 5, 2021 8:47 am
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“Let all the fruits fall down,” a chorus intones. Then a firm piano chord, and a strong voice sings: “Moving through the orchard / you strode through the grove / arms grabbed apples of the sun / trunks were strong, you thought ‘love.’” Something in the voice suggests an emotional complexity, signaled by a single bell. “Came back next spring,” the singer continues. “stripped the branches clean / Earth there for you to devour or protect / you come off gentle, wind up mean.” The song picks up momentum until it hits the chorus, lush with strings, pounding drums, hands clapping. It’s the arrival of a new collaboration of talents that already encompasses New Haven, New York, and Australia, and promises more.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 4, 2021 8:12 am
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Blvck Hippie.
Josh Shaw of Blvck Hippie was on tour from Memphis, but had nothing but praise for the two New Haven acts — Glambat and Mightymoonchew — who had preceded him on the stage at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night. He declared himself maybe a little intimidated. “Why did both bands have to sing so good?” the headliner said. “I’m a little self-conscious now.” He was paying the same respects to his openers as they’d paid to him, in a night filled with music that was both personal and partylike.
The one that got away: Planned brewery … now in West Haven.
After announcing earlier this year plans to relocate to a “forever home” by Fair Haven’s industrial waterfront, New England Brewing Co. took a big step this week towards building a new brewery — in West Haven instead.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 2, 2021 7:54 am
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Hiroshi’s Chair.
It’s a painting of a room, rendered with fidelity, but suffused with light and sadness. Even without knowing who Hiroshi is, there is a sense of loneliness to the scene, though it’s not abject; there’s comfort there, too. It turns out that Hiroshi is a close relative of the painter, Steven DiGiovanni, and the family lost Hiroshi to Covid-19. The story brings into focus what’s in the painting already. In the way DiGiovanni depicts the room, and especially the chair, well-worn, well-loved, we feel it all, both Hiroshi’s absence and his presence.
