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Oct 1, 2021 8:28 am
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The gallery space is an exercise in sensory saturation. The walls are covered in vivid drawings, other images that hover somewhere between representation and schematics for circuitry. There is music to listen to, projections to follow. There’s a video game to play, like Doom but weirder and glitchier; it’s a game that loves but also mocks other games. And over in the corner is a glassed-in booth, a fortune-telling machine.
The only issue is that, as advertised, it dispenses bad advice. Hit a button and it dispenses tickets. When this reporter tried it, half of them said “give up.”
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 30, 2021 12:22 pm
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Author Mark Oppenheimer.
In a new book about the largest anti-Semitic murder in U.S. history, Westville-based author Mark Oppenheimer offers a new twist on a pressing question: not why bad things happen to good people, but what people can do about it when bad things happen.
Former Bigelow factory, now cleared for small brewery and taproom.
Downtown Management Team Chair Ian Dunn: Follow the movie studio’s money.
A contentious hours-long public hearing ended with a craft brewer winning his final needed city approval to set up shop on River Street— and a host of questions raised about a movie studio that tried to box him out.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 30, 2021 7:58 am
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Pond View.
Holberton School was the place to warm up on a chilly Wednesday night as local rockers Pond View took to the stage for the latest District Arts and Education livestream show.
Whether you’re looking for a snack to grab on the go or a slow-cooked meal to sit down and savor, two neighboring Hamden eateries have a common solution: empanadas.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 29, 2021 7:53 am
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The New Haven Chorale at rehearsal Monday — in person!
As the sun set Monday evening, dozens of people began to congregate in the parking lot of the Unitarian Society on Hartford Turnpike in Hamden. They brought lawn chairs, sheet music, folders, and clip-on lights. On the stairs at the entrance to the building, New Haven Chorale Music Director Edward Bolkovac stood behind a small podium, a score in front of him, a microphone in his hand. Accompanist Blake Hansen sat behind a keyboard near him. In front of him, a camera was ready to Zoom everything. The New Haven Chorale was ready for outdoor rehearsal.
Dwayne Betts (right) and his 2019 poetry collection, Felon.
Local poet, lawyer, and criminal justice reform advocate Dwayne Betts can add another title to that list — “genius,” now that he’s been tapped as one of 25 Americans to receive the prestigious MacArthur fellowship award.
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Lisa Reisman |
Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am
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Kwame Asari (right) discussing his Oh Shito savory Ghanaian hot sauce with a wholesaler at Monday’s pitch event.
fatto a mano founder Pierluigi Mazzella, with his beloved panettone.
Pierluigi Mazzella never sleeps. This is because he’s obsessed. And in love.
At Monday’s CT Food Launchpad Pitch Night in East Rock, the founder and owner of fatto a mano stood beside the object that has kept him awake at all hours: the panettone, a towering round of sweet bread naturally leavened with sourdough and studded with organic raisins and semi-sweet Valrhona chocolate.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 28, 2021 7:33 am
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In the past few weeks, three New Haven-based musical projects have unleashed three new albums that answer the mentality of the pandemic’s lockdown with a keen sense of freedom.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 27, 2021 8:19 am
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The collage on the walls of the bookstore is a riot of changing shapes, swimming text, faces melting in and out of form, like water in a stream. Around the collage, a series of faces, offering expressions that are both confident and challenging. They invite you in, but with an edge. You may be tested. You may be challenged. But you will be accepted. On one of the paintings is a statement hovering somewhere between a mandate and a mantra: “Be heard.”
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Thomas Breen & Allan Appel |
Sep 23, 2021 3:03 pm
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A prefab skate park, coming soon to downtown?
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Next stop, George Street: Roberts and Joseph at their previous project, Scantlebury Skate Park.
A prefabricated skate park is one big step closer to landing in downtown New Haven, as parking authority commissioners unanimously approved a plan to host the artistic-athletic installation atop a George Street surface lot.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 23, 2021 8:03 am
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Mary Lesser
Effects of Bad Government.
At first glance, Mary Lesser’s painting is playful, almost festive, the earth a bright orange, the characters frolicking on the slope a cotton-candy pink. But then it becomes clear that the house at the top of that hill is the White House, and the sky is black, and suddenly the whole painting inverts itself. Is it a frolic or a frenzy? A rampage? Once established, that sense of ominousness can’t be shaken — which is just how Lesser wants it.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 21, 2021 12:24 pm
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Photo Courtesy Ghislane Palumbo
A new photography exhibit in Westville weaves together the harrowing and the mundane, humor and hard work, to celebrate life, family, and the strength that can come from connections to the past.
Chamber of Commerce members Madison Stout, Mimsie Coleman, Nancy Dudchik, and Meegia Wojcik.
Hamden a capella group Silk’n Sounds, featuring lead singers Mary Beth and Michele Cohen and baritones Debbie Clark and Louise Talarczyk. They posted sign-ups for auditions and booked two private gigs during their first run at Hamden Fest.
Hamden Fest returned for a second spin after a pandemic pause, planting its roots Saturday in Town Center Park.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 20, 2021 8:08 am
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Still from “Skin.”
Black Haven Film Festival returned on Saturday for its second year, with five new filmmakers ready to share their vision via spoken word, song, dance, and animation — both in person and online.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 20, 2021 8:05 am
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Seated on the Best Video deck Sunday evening, Mamady Kouyate reached behind him to trigger a tight, intricate loop of drums and synthesized backup. The loops offered harmonic and rhythmic structure, but no sway. That was the humans’ job. Ousmane Kouyate on rhythm guitar and Jocelyn Pleasant on djembe breathed velocity and relaxation into the music, falling in with the programmed elements and bringing them all to life. Now Mamady stood up, and in the light of the setting sun, brought cascades of keening notes, intricate rhythmic figures, idea after idea, speaking of aching joy.
