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Dec 3, 2021 12:07 pm
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Executive chef Stephen Ross putting the finishing touches on his Jamaican jerk chicken at Jazzy’s Cabaret, a new Ninth Square nightspot which has its official kickoff this weekend.
To attain jerk status, the chicken sizzling on the grill at Jazzy’s Cabaret had spent the last 48 hours marinating in a blend of scallions, onions, and scotch bonnet peppers, with a rub of cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice working their way into the meat.
“That’s for maximum flavor,” said executive chef Stephen Ross, as he turned the chicken over with a pair of tongs, a smoky aroma wafting through the brightly lit kitchen.
“And that flavor is why we make 40 of these on a given night.”
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Lisa Reisman |
Dec 3, 2021 10:24 am
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The ordering line on opening night.
One hour into the rousingly successful introduction of pizza at Atticus Market on Thursday night, someone asked owner Charlie Negaro, Jr. if all his dreams had come true.
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Karen Ponzio |
Dec 3, 2021 9:19 am
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Ch’Varda gets the party started .
The State House was the setting Thursday night for the first of seven Hip Hop for the Homeless shows, an annual live event created by Hartford’s Joey Batts to raise money, food, and clothing for those in need throughout Connecticut.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 2, 2021 9:21 am
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The portrait of the Foote sisters — Anna and Amelia — dating from around 1860 appears early in “Children of the Elm City,” the new exhibit at the New Haven Museum running now through winter 2022. It’s in the first section of the exhibit, dedicated to portraiture from the 18th and 19th centuries, before the advent of widespread photography.
Because the exhibit is partially geared toward children, a lot of questions appear in the text accompanying the exhibit. One might not expect those questions to be as provocative as they are.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 1, 2021 9:02 am
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Widerschall and Brooks.
“God Cried: Arson!” — the opening track from One Eye Is The Sun, One Eye Is The Moon, by Vaca Sagrada — starts with a splash of horns, guitar, bass and drums setting up an easy, bluesy swing. It all feels breezy, almost happy-go-lucky. it doesn’t prepare the listener for what the singer sings: “When God made the world he used a compass and a square / A compass and a square and he made the earth, fire and air / then he made water / Mankind disappointed God tipped his giant cup / spilled all the water down / and he drowned them.” The horns respond to those unspooling lines with a few descending riffs, almost as if they’re chuckling, shrugging their shoulders. Oh, well!
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 30, 2021 9:24 am
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From now until the end of December, visitors to Cafe Nine will see a change of art on the club’s walls — the photographs and paintings of Leigh Busby, who as a photographer has become one of the most sharp-eyed chroniclers of life in New Haven, particularly during the unrest of 2020, where he was there, camera in hand, to document the outrage and the energy of that summer and show the city to itself.
In combining his photographs and paintings into one show, Busby allows even those familiar with his work a chance to see how he moved from painting to photography, and the lines that carry through all his work.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 29, 2021 9:17 am
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Kid Sistr.
An all-ages matinee show on Sunday at the Space Ballroom — one of the only clubs left in the area that does all-ages shows — proved to be ground zero for young rockers in the greater New Haven area, as three bands ramped up the energy to end the holiday weekend with a bang.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 26, 2021 9:23 am
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Phat A$tronaut.
Five years ago, musicians Mark Lyon and chad browne-springer met up at a D’Angelo tribute gig, and shortly thereafter a band, Phat A$tronaut, was born. On Wednesday night that band came together with two other New Haven-based acts to celebrate its fifth anniversary with a pre-Thanksgiving show that had been an annual event up until last year’s Covid-19 shutdowns.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 24, 2021 8:13 am
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It wasn’t even 9 p.m. yet Tuesday, but Cafe Nine was already full of people. Some had come to hear New Haven-born drummer Ryan Sands and members of the house band play for the first New Haven Jazz Underground live session since the Covid-19 pandemic began. But many more had come to play with Sands, as the evening promised not only a hot set from the featured performer, but an open set to follow, and the kind of music making that brings a community together.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 23, 2021 9:05 am
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As the band warmed up behind him, Manny James checked the microphone, then slid into a swinging version of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” to warm up the audience.
James wasn’t really at Bregamos Theater on Blatchley Avenue as a performer on Sunday afternoon. He was there as a teacher — and as a student.
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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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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.
