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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 11, 2021 9:43 am
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Loralee and Bruce Crowder.
A new documentary from Gorman Bechard, the New Haven Documentary Film Festival’s executive director, sparked a gathering of New Haven musicians who came together to pay tribute to a departed rock icon at Cafe Nine Tuesday night.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 11, 2021 9:42 am
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We Don’t Deserve Dogs.
The New Haven Documentary Film Festival kicks off the weekend portion of its program Friday evening with two films that focus on two of its favorite subjects: music and animals.
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Lisa Reisman |
Aug 10, 2021 7:08 pm
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Rocky Lawrence channels Robert Johnson at Monday night’s Hi-Fi Pie.
He bowed his head, closed his eyes, and clutched the neck of his guitar. His faded leather shoes pounded the ground. His voice broke. His guitar moaned.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Aug 10, 2021 11:54 am
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Gamaliel “Gammy” Moses performs at festival’s first week.
Newhallville neighbors gathered at the Learning Corridor Saturday afternoon to enjoy jazz, art, and an interactive drum circle, for the first week of a concert series that is scheduled to run through September.
BAR Monday set a new bar for safe dining and drinking: It is requiring all patrons to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test to enter the premises.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 9, 2021 8:00 am
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Wednesday marks the opening night of the 2021 New Haven Documentary Film Festival, or NHDocs — once again happening in the parking lot next to Sally’s Apizza on Wooster Street — featuring two films that shine a light on two obsessions: collectible toy cars and vinyl records.
Actor/ producer Michael Jai White pitches plan recently in New Haven (at right); East Haven label (left) eyeing Fair Haven move.
Two visions to revive long-abandoned industrial stretches of Fair Haven clashed, as a potential new brewer and a potential new movie production company sought support of neighbors.
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Natalie Kainz |
Aug 5, 2021 9:13 am
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Capt. Von Narcisse, children’s book author.
One stormy night on the heels of Hurricane Sandy, the power in Yale Police Capt. Von Narcisse’s house went out. Winds billowed around the house. His two children D’Artagnan and A’ramus — named after characters from The Three Musketeers — anxiously waited for comfort from their father.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 4, 2021 9:29 am
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“Brightest and Best,” the lead single from Joshua Banbury’s and Kevin Sherwin’s Forgotten Folklore, starts with the crackle of a record, a wash of strings that evokes wide open spaces, before settling into a sparse, urgent guitar pattern, a voice hovering somewhere between a warble and a chant.
“Hail the blest morn, when the great Mediator / Down from the regions of glory descends,” the singer intones. “Shepherds, go worship the babe in the manger / Lo, for His guard, the bright angels attends,” the singer intones. It’s a prayer of hope, but the music suggests something more complex, elements of fear and awe.
