Courtesy of Peel Art Museum and Archives, Brampton Ontario, Canada
Raina.
Standing in front of the Kashmiri Gate in Lahore, Pakistan, the artist Jagdeep Raina was overcome with emotion. At first, his reaction was inexplicable. He grew up a world away in a Toronto suburb and had not visited his family’s homeland in 14 years. Why did he feel so much as he gazed at the wooden monument dating back to the Mughal Empire? Raina brought a tripod to the site and began documenting the gate to understand what it signified to him.
The product of that effort was a short film that the Yale Center for British Art screened last week as part of its ongoing “At Home: Artists in Conversation” series. The film layers shots of the gate with evocative charcoal drawings of figures sitting outside, riding horses, and relaxing at home — only to be washed away by blood dripping from disembodied hands.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 2, 2021 9:56 am
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The performance began with a bed of sounds — of voices and instruments, working in and out of phase with one another. A drum kit held down what felt like a straight-ahead swing groove. Then a guitar could be heard. A saxophone. A tuba. They worked together to create a texture that a piano climbed out of, while a violin sailed over the top. As they worked toward a kind of consonance, their conductor gave them a series of signals. Under the conductor’s direction, the ensemble moved together, creating a fluid musical line, the sound rising and falling, growing and changing. Then the conductor set it loose again, and the music continued.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 1, 2021 10:31 am
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“Is that feedback a scream, a release, or a revelation?” you may ask yourself, as the first 15 seconds of Killer Kin’s newest single, “Sonic Love,” burn their way into your body, soul, and rock ‘n’ roll spirit. As it turns out, it is all four of those things and more. The New Haven-based band released a 7‑inch red vinyl last week — the group’s debut on Pig Baby Records — and both are now also available to stream and sizzle their way into your long, cold winter nights.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 29, 2021 4:16 pm
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Khalid: Never gave up on his vision.
To make the lemon chicken at Ali Baba’s Kitchen, Jamshed Khalid started by cutting boneless chicken breasts into strips. He then marinated it, for at least 12 hours, in a blend of special spices.
I wondered what was in the blend.
“Should I tell you?” Khalid responded with a laugh. “No.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 28, 2021 10:48 am
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A hooded figure stands in a patch of woods that could be almost anywhere around here, from a state park to someplace just off the highway, with the camera pointed in the right direction. Then the scene cuts to another, and suddenly the location is as specific as it gets. The hooded figure now stands in front of the polar bear sculpture created by artist M.J. DeAngelo on the Tidal Marsh Trail.
It’s the newest video from SotoLish, released last week to support its latest album, 404, and the track’s sense of spooky urgency is as suited to the times as it gets.
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Dylan Sloan |
Jan 27, 2021 6:21 pm
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After its Reuben sandwich won accolades, the crew at Olmo decided to adapt the recipe to a breakfast sandwich.
As Olmo remodeled its Trumbull Street dining room during the pandemic to become a takeout storefront called the Bagelry, the retooled Breakfast Reuben has become a bestseller.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 27, 2021 10:37 am
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Rosen.
What is a book
It’s a simple question — it’s a rectangular object with pages, and those pages most likely have words on them, and you read it to get information, or be told a story.
Right?
But what if there are no words? What if the pages are filled with images? What if they’re empty? What if the book doesn’t open like books usually do? What if it can become another shape altogether if you unfold the pages right? Is it still a book?
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 26, 2021 10:40 am
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Penrhyn Cook
Megaphone.
In some parts of the Kehler Liddell Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville, there’s a child crawling into a giant sculpture while others look on. A meeting of Segways. A ruffle of clouds over an open city square. In other parts of the gallery, nudes recline in parlors, and walk with strength and determination through ruins. They catch the photographer’s glance and stare back.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 25, 2021 10:14 am
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Here To Stay single cover
The saxophone slides in with an almost whisper of vocals behind it that are practically an instrument unto themselves, setting the smooth as silk pajamas vibe of “Here To Stay,” the latest single by New Haven-based producer and musician Gritz King — a.k.a. Stephen King — released this week.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 22, 2021 2:15 pm
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The order for a Super Supreme baked potato at Spuds Your Way in Hamden took owner and cook Jared Cohen either mere minutes — or over 12 hours — to prepare, depending on how you counted.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 21, 2021 10:21 am
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On Wednesday evening, Ann Cofta — one of the artists featured in “Urban Escapade,” an exhibit up in the Ely Center of Contemporary Art’s Digital Grace gallery now through Feb. 8 — let an audience virtually into her New York studio to show how she represented the cityscapes around her through improvisational uses of traditional fiber art practices. The idea, she revealed, began when she inherited fabric scraps from a quilting friend.
“What can I do with these little tiny pieces?” she recalled thinking.
“At times the only thing that was in our house was water and flour. We would mix the water and flour and put it in the oven. And that was breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 19, 2021 4:47 pm
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Music Haven string quartet members play on during an October concert.
Online programming. Student scholarships. Staff health insurance. And essential connections between young people and joyful creativity, even amidst such a joyless time as now.
Local arts nonprofit leaders pointed to those services as example of how they’ve spent state grant money to date as they struggle to stay afloat during the ongoing pandemic.
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 18, 2021 2:31 pm
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“Baking is unforgiving,” said Bryan Burke as he poured flour from an industrial-sized bag into a container on a commercial scale at Sherkaan, the restaurant in the alley across from Yale Bookstore.
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Allison Hadley |
Jan 18, 2021 10:17 am
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Martorana and Mills .
Socialism or barbarism? Reform or revolution? These phrases both describe modern political debates and essays written by leftist political theorist Rosa Luxemburg over 100 years ago. The New Haven Free Public Library made this connection explicit Friday night in its event “Rosa Luxemburg and a Century of World-Changing Women,” featuring a talk with Luxemburg biographer Dana Mills and adult services librarian Rory Martorana during lunch hours, on Zoom and Facebook Live.
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Dylan Sloan |
Jan 15, 2021 4:07 pm
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Chef Isaiah Perez applies the finishing touches.
Since adding the “Prison Reformer” hot dog — spicy mustard and his signature sauce — to the menu at Jordan’s Hot Dogs and Mac on State Street, Corey Spruill has gotten plenty of questions from customers.
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Jake Dressler |
Jan 15, 2021 11:53 am
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Yung Gap shooting video before latest arrerst.
Two years into a stay in New Haven Correctional Center on Whalley Avenue awaiting a murder trial, rapper Yung Gap is filling notebooks with new music — informed by the wait.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 15, 2021 10:37 am
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Susan Reedy
Urban Passage 22.
Susan Reedy’s Urban Passage 22 looks at once like a well-used place to post public bills, and like time-lapse photography, and like the view from a speeding train. Scraps of messages come and go, flickering in and out of sight before we can fully comprehend them. We know that the messages were for day-to-day things. Maybe one was a poster for a concert, and another an ad for sneakers, and another a political message from a candidate running for local election. But Reedy’s piece captures the way urban places can sometimes feel like they’re teetering on the edge of meaning; if you could just rearrange the letters of all those posters in the right way, or stand there long enough, the city you’re in would tell you what it all means to be there. We know that’s a farce, that there’s no real Bigger Meaning to find behind it all. But sometimes it still feels urgent to keep looking.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 14, 2021 12:34 pm
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Ernesto García at work.
“You never stop moving in the kitchen!” Ernesto García remarked as he sliced avocado, cooked tortillas, and directed employees.
Minutes later, one golden arepa filled with black beans, plantains, avocado, tomato, and crispy mozzarella lay plated on the bar of Rubamba, García’s High Street restaurant.
