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Mar 12, 2021 10:50 am
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A Week in Times
Deborah Ramsey’s A Week in Times appears at first like an exercise in stillness. Pale colors, simple geometric shapes, an attention to texture. But the lines written in faint pencil across the bottom of each page tell a different story. “A new pier on Sunday in St. Petersburg, Fla. The state has one of the nation’s worst outbreaks,” reads one. “Many schools are unequipped to ventilate spaces properly,” reads another. A third pivots: “Portland, Ore. has had 50 consecutive days of protests.” A fourth: “Police officials say there were ‘isolated cases’ of inappropriate force. But 64 videos show seemingly unwarranted attacks.” Each line is followed by a date from last year — a line pulled from that day’s headlines.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 11, 2021 11:25 am
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Anthony McDonald inside his hallowed new place of employment.
Anthony McDonald, the new executive director of the Shubert Theatre, took a tour recently of the theater’s facility at Co-op High a block away. It brought him back to his own experiences of doing theater in high school, in Kenilworth, N.J.
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Mar 11, 2021 10:55 am
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The murals would cover the beige walls on both sides of Five Star Laundromat on Washington Avenue.
Hill neighbors can submit names and faces of civil rights icons from their neighborhood to join Coretta Scott King on a new mural scheduled to go up across from the Wilson Library in May.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 10, 2021 10:35 am
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“WTF Is Wrong With You,” the just-released lead single off Tarantula Daydream — the upcoming release from New Haven-based grindcore project Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop — begins with an ominous, distorted line between heavy drumbeats. Something wails in the background, hard to identify. The drums kick up the pace and slip into blast beats. Then everything stops, pivots, and the vocals come in, raging over the top. The musical ideas keep coming, one after the other, until it all comes to a screeching halt. It all happens in about a minute and a half.
The Shubert Theatre has a new executive director, promising to bring new energy and diversity to downtown’s historic stage as he steps into a role his predecessor commanded for two decades
The action took place offstage and on the street Monday, as a dozen stagehands stood in the cold in front of College Street Music Hall to assert that the concert venue is not willing to offer them the same benefits there as the Shubert Theatre does across the street.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 8, 2021 10:07 am
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Smiling into the camera, musician Lys Guillorn explained that, in a certain way, streaming a show from one’s living room could be “more stressful than a live gig” due to what was going on off-camera. Her living room, she explained, was strewn with wires. Her husband was “relegated to a seat in the hallway, but he is wearing a Grateful Dead T‑shirt” and festive hat, she added. Then she began the show.
“This is a valentine to all of my friends.” She was grateful to have spent the pandemic with her husband, but she was “thinking about how many people I missed,” she said. “The people I miss are all of you.”
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 8, 2021 9:00 am
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Ro Godwynn.
“Boy, does it feel good to jam,” said Carrie Sangiovanni of Caravan of Thieves, one of four acts performing live at The State House Saturday night as part of Homegrown Folk, the CT Folk-produced show broadcast from the State Street venue live on Facebook. Feeling good was the theme of the night as each performance built upon the one before, each act expressing and eliciting great joy at the chance to be back live on a local stage.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 5, 2021 10:22 am
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Salwa at Cafe Nine in 2019.
“Open,” the first song from Salwa’s EPBreath, blooms into existence with a chiming guitar and swirling synthesizers in the background. Then Salwa enters: “Open,” she sings, “open me up, I’m ready.” In their tone there’s both a sense of both acceptance and strength, a willingness to be vulnerable, but on their terms. As the song continues, Salwa’s voice only gains power, even as the lyrics move in the other direction. “I’m open,” she sings, “but I’m wounded, and I need you, and I’m scared.” At the moment Salwa’s most exposed, they’re also at their fiercest.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 3, 2021 10:49 am
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Pages from journals are frozen in midair, as if caught in a photograph of them flying away in a windstorm. A figure emerges from a book, a look of concern on her face. A mirror captures the skyline of a city. They’re all part of a larger show and puppet theater piece called Sueños, by artist Anatar Marmol-Gagné, running in the project room at Artspace through March 20. Together, the elements combine wonder and gritty, emotional realism to tell a story about family chaos and the wrenching effects of immigration that make the political deeply personal.
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Mar 2, 2021 10:11 am
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In these days of quarantine there are few thrills like that of the doorbell — a mix of danger and excitement, anticipation and fear of contagion. When a crisp and optimistically white Atticus Bookstore Cafe-branded paper bag awaits, the day becomes like a holiday. When it’s filled with products birthed of partnerships and local flavor, doubly so.
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Karen Ponzio |
Mar 1, 2021 10:48 am
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The video for Frederic Anthony’s latest single, “Peasant,” begins with a literal bang, as he and a group of friends play out scenes from the life of a mafioso-type hit man amid several of New Haven’s most iconic landmarks and locations.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 26, 2021 11:01 am
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Dr. Don C. Sawyer, a sociology professor at Quinnipiac University, mentioned on Thursday evening that he’d co-edited a book called Hip-Hop and Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline, out now as of this week. The book’s themes — of how hip hop can be used in the education system as a force to empower and uplift students — could have been the subject of a lecture.
But “rather than me talking about the book,” Sawyer said, he wanted to “bring together people who are doing the work.”
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 25, 2021 10:51 am
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“Carry Me Away,” the lead song from Bop Tweedie’s new album Let It Go Let It Go, opens on a note curling skyward over a shambolic rhythm. Tweedie’s voice rests on a pillow of background vocals as it speaks of being lifted out of present circumstances, taken elsewhere. We could be anyone, do anything, go anywhere, the song suggests. At a time when so many are hemmed in, it’s a hopeful message, and one that took a very long time to craft. As Robert Tweedie himself said, when he got the box of CDs in the mail, “I thought, ‘this is three years of my life.’”
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 24, 2021 11:10 am
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Cover art by Zoë Browne
“These simple words / by design / twisting thoughts / but I tried,” sings Tony Mascolo on “Mondays” the newest single from Big Fang. With the band’s forthcoming EP, Mascolo hopes to offer both musical and financial reprieve during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 23, 2021 10:56 am
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Chico and Rita meet in a Havana club. He plays the come-on-strong would-be lover. She plays hard to get.
But the attraction between them is undeniable — not only through romance, but through music. She’s a talented singer. He might be the best piano player in Cuba. They both have heads full of ideas and ambitions. They know they’re better as a team.
Sometimes their passion is too much for them. And meanwhile, they’re living through one of the most tumultuous periods in their country’s history. Will they get what they want?
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 22, 2021 9:41 am
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In proud pop-music fashion, Zoo Front’s “Off The Rails” — off its first EP of 2021, I Need Time — marries happy music with contemplative lyrics, as sunny guitars and a hip-swaying beat are used to convey a message very much of the minute.
