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Afghanistan War Ends In New Haven
by | Oct 8, 2021 9:45 am | Comments (4)
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Stephen Kobasa, Allie Perry at final stone laying at B’way Triangle.
Twenty years to the day after the United States first bombed the Taliban, New Haveners officially put an end to one home front of the Afghanistan War — by laying a final stone commemorating last month’s military and civilian deaths from “forever wars” in the Middle East.
Love Train Leads “Black Beethoven” To Lay Down Local Roots
by | Oct 8, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (1)
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Dunn Pearson Jr. at WNHH FM.
Back in the day, Dunn Pearson Jr. played “Love Train” on the keyboard with the O’Jays before 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden.
This past Sunday, he was at the keyboards at Hamden Plains United Methodist Church playing “Cry Me a River” at worship services.
The venues, the gigs differed. Pearson saw a link.
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by | Oct 8, 2021 8:34 am | Comments (1)
Artists Find Art In Shells And Stars At Artspace
by | Oct 8, 2021 8:27 am | Comments (0)
The front gallery of Artspace, right on the corner of Orange and Crown, has been made into a living room of sorts. While the pieces are displayed on pedestals, as they might be in a museum, the warm tone of the walls beckons people in from the street. The carpet on the floor looks soft and inviting — even if it is made of shells. The pieces look old and worn, as if well-loved by users before being preserved. We can’t touch any of it, but we can be in the same space, with comfort and ease.
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Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Oct 7, 2021 2:20 pm | Comments (0)
We do not privilege profit over security …
Reinaldo’s Corner
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Two Bands Take It Easy
by | Oct 7, 2021 8:24 am | Comments (0)
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Jeremy Cooney of Brother Beauty gave the audience a sly smile from the stage. “Feeling good, feeling loose, and that’s a good way to feel,” he said at the beginning of his set. It set the tone for a two-band bill at Cafe Nine Wednesday night that matched a new New Haven band with a well-traveled touring act from Kentucky, with pleasing, relaxed, and spaced-out results.
Acoustic Duo Kat Wallace and David Sasso’s “Old Habits” Brings In The New
by | Oct 6, 2021 8:19 am | Comments (0)
“Old Habits,” the title track from the new album by Kat Wallace and David Sasso, starts with warm chords from an electric tenor guitar that then slides into a waltz, buoyed by drums and bass.
“Here we are now, back at square one,” Wallace sings. “All the rules we made becoming undone.” As tenor guitar, bass, and drums hold down the pulse, Sasso joins in on a piano that dips in and out, a boat on the waves. Wallace is singing about a romantic relationship on the rocks. But it’s also, in a very positive light, a statement about the direction the New Haven-based duo has taken on Old Habits.
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by | Oct 5, 2021 1:55 pm | Comments (1)
It Takes A City: Art Gallery Exhibit Explores “150 Years Of Women At Yale”
by | Oct 5, 2021 8:30 am | Comments (0)
Wangechi Mutu
Sentinel I.
Wangechi Mutu’s Sentinel I stands guard over its space in the Yale University Art Gallery’s exhibit “On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale,” on view now through Jan. 9. But it’s not a passive sculpture; in a way that no photograph can do justice to it, the piece appears to shift its shape as you get closer or farther away, and as you walk around the piece. The human figure morphs into something more like an animal, or maybe a plant, or maybe something more elemental, like fire or smoke. In a hall full of powerful pieces, it seems to protect and at the same time draw strength from the art around it.
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“State House Is Back, Baby”
by | Oct 4, 2021 8:23 am | Comments (1)
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Space Camp.
Friday marked the start of live shows at The State House after a year and a half of Covid closures and restrictions. The venue, which had been allowing a few closed-to-the-public events, such as livestreams and video shoots, reconvened with a three-band bill that reenergized the space as well as the music community, who gathered with masks on and space between them, but still as one with an intention to celebrate.
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by | Oct 4, 2021 8:20 am | Comments (0)
How Winfred Rembert Made It Home
by | Oct 1, 2021 1:56 pm | Comments (4)
Estate of Winfred Rembert / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Looking for My Mother, 2019; reprinted in new book about the art and life of Newhallville’s Winfred Rembert.
The railroad tracks stretched ahead for miles and miles. Winfred Rembert walked them all day and half the night, searching.
It would take a full 60 years for him to reach his destination, to find what he was truly looking for. He found it right before he died. And laid it out for the rest of us to see.
Ely Center Orders Up Chaos
by | Oct 1, 2021 8:28 am | Comments (0)
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.”
Oppenheimer Finds Light In The Darkness
by | Sep 30, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
New Brewery OK’d After Jaigantic Debate
by | Sep 30, 2021 8:14 am | Comments (25)
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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.
Pond View Heats Up District Live
by | Sep 30, 2021 7:58 am | Comments (1)
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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.
Today’s Toons
by | Sep 30, 2021 7:55 am | Comments (2)
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“Where are you? I want to talk with you…”
A Tale of Two Empanadas
by | Sep 29, 2021 1:13 pm | Comments (5)
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Empanadas from Ibiza and Grab & Go: Try both!
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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by | Sep 29, 2021 8:06 am | Comments (7)
New Haven Chorale Shines A Light
by | Sep 29, 2021 7:53 am | Comments (0)
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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 Tapped As MacArthur “Genius”
by | Sep 28, 2021 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
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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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Pitch Night Showcases Pannetone, “Bacorn”
by | Sep 28, 2021 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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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.
It took him 72 hours to make.
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Three New Albums Break Free
by | Sep 28, 2021 7:33 am | Comments (0)
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.