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Brian Slattery |
Aug 30, 2021 10:17 am
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“Summer Song” — the first song from Past Midnight, the latest EP from the New Haven-based band Arms Like Roses — earns its title from its opening guitar lines, sunny, chiming, and intertwining. The vocal climbs through them: “Time flies with a blink of an eye / And a whisper that reminds you it’s cold outside / Again, not again,” the vocalist sings. As percussion enters, adding urgency, the whole band digs deeper into the late-summer vibe, the kind that’s the most poignant for how truly fleeting it is.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 24, 2021 10:20 am
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To longtime fans of New Haven rap icon Steven Williams, a.k.a. Stezo, who died in April 2020 at the age of 52, the voice from his 1996 song “Where the Funk At” is instantly recognizable, the flow easy yet urgent. But so much else has changed: the sound and pattern of the drums, the introduction of a bubbling organ part, and perhaps most poignant, a chant at the beginning of the song: “Clap your hands for Steven,” they say. “It’s all right.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 20, 2021 8:15 am
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Mightymoonchew.
Thursday night’s music bill on the Best Video deck in Hamden began under an ominous umbrella of dark clouds and ended in a burst of sunshine and blue, all to the soundtrack of two New Haven-based bands.
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Lindsey Mancini |
Aug 19, 2021 8:07 am
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From the sidewalk, you might see it from across the street. It looks like it’s supposed to be there, a bit of straightforward wooden fencing that might contain an electrical box or some other public utility.
But if you look closely, you might notice one slat of the fencing is painted a deep blue. If you cross the street, you’ll see the wood is patterned, and that the whole object stands as an entirely different kind of public utility.
Inside the fencing is an altar that celebrates music and the celestial world within — and for — a community
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 18, 2021 7:47 am
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“Harder Than It Should Be,” the latest single from Goodnight Moonshine — the New Haven-based duo of Molly Venter and Eben Pariser — starts with a cooing, provocative line from Venter while Pariser joins on guitar. It’s a simple setup that lets the song unfold in its own time, as Pariser gradually adds in other elements while Venter’s voice, front and center, unfurls lyrics range across the history of a relationship and politics, striking just the right balance of personal and universal.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 17, 2021 7:40 am
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The woman in the picture has a look of worry and determination on her face, but what really draws the gaze is the machine gun she’s pointing a little too close to the viewer’s direction. Even if we’re not the target, we might be in the line of fire. Then there’s the words spilling out all around her. Hustle hard, they say, and keep on with a narrative about just having to provide for a family, defend home. Who is she? Are the words her interior monologue? Or are they both part of a greater whole?
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 16, 2021 8:25 am
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Dan Heaton (above) picking up pre-movie-watching essentials at newly reopened Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas (below).
For the first time in a year and a half, I sat in a dark, air-conditioned theater with my friend Dan Heaton and a trough-sized serving of popcorn and — just as I’ve done hundreds of times in pre-pandemic times — watched a movie at the Bow Tie Criterion Cinemas.
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Natalie Kainz |
Aug 15, 2021 12:17 pm
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Natasha and Naomy Velez at Saturday’s fest.
Natasha and Naomy Velez flew across the stage, shaking their white skirts to the rhythmic beat of a barriles drum. The twin sisters were performing the Bomba — a traditional dance from Puerto Rico — in front of more than 100 people Saturday in Criscuolo Park.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 13, 2021 8:58 am
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Can’t Sleep.
Lisa Toto’s Can’t Sleep is a portrait of insomnia familiar to anyone who has suffered from it. Its multiple exposures detail what it can be like — first being in bed unable to lose consciousness, then getting up, because why not, you’re up anyway, then thinking better of it and getting back into bed. It also captures the way time seems to split in the depths of sleeplessness, the sense that every second is passing with unbearable slowness, and at the same time, the unpleasant realization, upon looking at the clock, that it’s far too late to get a good night’s sleep. The subject is rendered more poignant by its sense of privacy. Should we even be looking? But that’s also the moment that we connect with the subject, through shared understanding.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Aug 12, 2021 4:30 pm
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Independent Party council candidate Jay Kaye as “Lurch,” second to the left, with co.
Cindy Simell-Devoe has spent the past two decades raising a “family” of over 1,000 extended members, 42 of whom have finally returned to their home on Hamden High’s stage this week after more than a year of displacement and dramatic disappointments.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 12, 2021 3:49 pm
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Guinea Pig Diaries
Saturday’s offerings from the New Haven Documentary Film Festival begin and end with two different films about two different animals, each with their own loyal followers.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 12, 2021 12:59 pm
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Rapper G Herbo performs for fans at Westville Bowl Wednesday night.
The Chicago rapper known as G Herbo used to come to New Haven as a teen to kick start his music career. He returned to town as the headliner for a free full-capacity hip-hop show for pandemic-weary city youth, a summer celebration of community at the Westville Bowl.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 12, 2021 9:02 am
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Rich Moran and his band had already swung through way through the classics “Let’s Fall in Love” and “Getting to Know You” when he addressed the audience directly. “Thank you for being here. We are so happy to be here, finally.”
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 12, 2021 8:39 am
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A former Strong School hallway in disrepair.
A long-vacant Grand Avenue school building could become a cafe where Fair Haven kids learn about agriculture, cooking, and entrepreneurship. Or a housing complex specifically for teachers, with a child-oriented gathering space in the former elementary school gym — or a “makerspace” collective, buzzing with artists at work.
