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by | Jan 25, 2022 8:58 am | Comments (1)
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Hank Hoffman Plans For A Future Beyond Best Video
by | Jan 24, 2022 11:45 am | Comments (6)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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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by | Jan 14, 2022 9:07 am | Comments (1)
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The Sawtelles Keep Their Hands On The Wheel
by | 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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by | Jan 12, 2022 12:10 pm | Comments (5)
Four Artists' Work Flows Together
by | 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.
Mourners Pay Last Respects To Rohn Lawrence At First-Ever Toad's Place Funeral
by | 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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by | Jan 10, 2022 9:08 am | Comments (7)
Artists Make A Moment To Reflect
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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.
Jessica Rose & Marq The Astronaut Find "Bliss"
by | Jan 7, 2022 9:34 am | Comments (0)
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Jessica Rose and Mark Lyon.
Mark Lyon (aka Marq The A$tronaut) loves to joke around as much as he loves to make music. Referring to his newest single with vocalist Jessica Rose, called “Bliss,” he initially said it was written about a cat.
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Yale Quarantine Rules Worry Restaurants
by | Jan 6, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (28)
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Khalil Alsankary at Chap's: Will be "hard to keep going."
After struggling to survive a Covid-clobbered holiday, owners of downtown restaurants learned they may see little relief when Yalies return to town.
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by | Jan 6, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (1)
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With 2 Shows In A Week, Nu Haven Kapelye Keeps The Klezmer Tradition
by | 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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