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Brian Slattery |
Apr 19, 2021 10:00 am
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Maps of the United States in a patchwork of colors. A graph like a coiled spring. A diagram like a bullseye, creased with bright spikes. Hanging on the walls of Artspace’s gallery, they can read immediately as abstract art. They are, in fact, a series of data visualizations — charts, graphs, geographic and population information — that famed Black sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois and a team of researchers created to convey some of the realities of the Black experience in America over 100 years ago.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 16, 2021 9:14 am
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The works in “Portals and Memories” — up now at City Gallery on Upper State Street through April 25 — are, on one level, simply the latest series of paintings by artist Joyce Greenfield, done in the past two-and-a-half months. On another level, however, they represent a breakthrough, for Greenfield, to a new way of making art.
The doors were wide open again at the public library’s main branch — and two patrons were found browsing through the wide variety of nonfiction books in the stacks.
Staffers are trying to get the word out so more New Haveners come back inside.
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Karen Ponzio |
Apr 15, 2021 8:52 am
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Pitkin Plaza Wednesday evening played host to a rock ‘n’ roll show, not live on stage, but in a film celebrating the fun and excitement of being part of that world.
School of Rock, the beloved 2003 comedy starring Jack Black, was the second of this year’s weekly “Movies in the Plaza,” the free outdoor film series presented every Wednesday at 8 p.m. by the Town Green District.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 15, 2021 8:47 am
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The Nympho and Other Maniacs. The Sun Is My Undoing. I Who Should Command All.
All three are book titles from the far-flung collection of the Institute Library on Chapel Street, and all three catch the eye through the sheer absurdity of their language.
In another part of the collection, the books Oil for the Lamps of China and The Ghost Book draw the gaze by virtue of their dazzling cover art. And then there are books like Never Fire First and Raising Demons that manage to do both.
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Apr 14, 2021 2:02 pm
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Federal judge Jed S. Rakoff has seen too many corporate executives walk out of court unscathed, while impoverished young men plead guilty to crimes they did not commit.
Voters can prevent this from happening, Rakoff says in his new book, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 14, 2021 9:51 am
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“Soul Searching,” the first song from Mighty Tortuga’s Live from Lockdown, shows right from the start how the band members work together to make their sound. Guitars, bass and drums all have interlocking parts that, in themselves, are all sparse enough to make space for the music to live in — and for the vocals to be heard. “Can you be honest? / At least enough that you can keep a promise? / Are you sure?” The way the singer’s voice bends upward on the last word — sure? — sticks the phrase, lacing its earnestness with humor, and showing that the band has spent the pandemic further honing its craft.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 13, 2021 8:27 am
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The profile of the Q Bridge is unmistakable to anyone who lives in New Haven, but it rarely gets the treatment painter Chris Ferguson gives it. Under his eye and brush, the bridge feels hazy and gauzy, a distant mirage. Ferguson’s choice to highlight marsh and beach in the foreground adds to the sense of the bridge as an object to find beauty in. His generous eye, warm and inviting, is a thread that runs through all his work in “Looking Up!” a show he shares with artist Amanda Duchen at Kehler Liddell Gallery in Westville, running now through May 9.
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Brian Slattery
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Apr 12, 2021 9:43 am
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Delores Willams and Lauren Anderson of the Whalley Avenue community bookstore People Get Ready beamed in front of the small, rapt audience seated in front of them Sunday evening.
“Give yourselves a hand,” Williams said. “We’re so grateful that you’re here.”
The bookstore, she said, was getting ready to reopen after a “long, necessary hiatus” — but before that, it hosted a concert by beloved musician Chris “Big Dog” Davis, back in New Haven on the heels of his latest release, the single “Heal The World.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Apr 12, 2021 9:38 am
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A toast of “cheers” with glasses raised was replaced with the phrase “welcome home” past Friday night at Cafe Nine, when the aptly nicknamed “musician’s living room” reopened for live music with a limited number of in-person patrons allowed in under Covid-19 guidelines.
Anna Sincavage will sell dresses in the morning and lasagna in the evening — all from 59 Crown St.
That’s the plan now that the family behind Skappo Italian Wine Bar is taking advantage of lower indoor dining demand to convert one corner of their restaurant into a new mini-shop, La Bottega.
Architectural historian and preservationist Marisa Angell Brown kept stories like these alive as she explored the architectural history of post-World War II New Haven in a lecture at the Yale Center for British Art, recalling some of New Haven’s most contested issues of the mid-20th century that continue to reverberate today.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 1, 2021 9:30 am
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Two murder mysteries. A string of love letters. A Choose Your Own Adventure-style story. And testimony after testimony of the things lost and found during the pandemic.
Co-op High School’s theater department has joined a national theater-by-mail festival, and in doing so, will have a chance to show New Haven and beyond how a high school theater program can continue to make art even when stages have to stay dark.
Winfred Rembert, a nationally renowned artist who depicted vivid scenes of Southern cotton fields and chain gangs and juke joints, died Wednesday inside the Newhall Street home where he carved his leather masterpieces.