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Aug 9, 2024 9:26 am
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The Chomins at Weird Music Night.
“Hellooo!” called out John O’Donnell, in an exaggerated, almost Cookie-Monster-like voice.
“Hellooo!” called back the crowd, matching his energy and tone. It was weird, wacky, and wildly entertaining, setting the tone for Weird Music Night, a monthly event at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street. Attending the event felt like walking through a cabinet of curiosities, as the audience shifted from room to room and experienced a series of acts that were as odd as they were incredible.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Aug 8, 2024 5:45 pm
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Anais Nunec: "I wanted to cry, it was so amazing."
Junior Miss Puerto Rico Lysella Pujols and Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven Alanna Herbert.
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As rain came down, this year’s Miss Puerto Rico of Greater New Haven, Alanna Herbert, stepped to the microphone and filled the Green with her voice as she sang the national anthem. Behind her was the Puerto Rican flag, grand and waving in the wind, ready to be raised.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 8, 2024 11:34 am
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Damien Clarke sauteeing vegetables at Jammin Jamaican.
Salmon and chicken, en route to being served.
Damian Clarke, chef and owner of Jammin Jamaican Cuisine at 611 Washington Ave. in the Hill, set to work preparing a salmon entree that has become one of the restaurant’s more popular dishes.
First, he chopped peppers and onions into neat strips. He folded a bunch of scallions in half before dicing them, using both onions and salmon to maximize the flavor. Then he sliced some thyme for extra seasoning.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 8, 2024 9:32 am
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The city’s premier outdoor concert venue won’t be quiet all summer long after all — now that four August shows have been moved from a Middlefield ski resort to the Westville Music Bowl.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 7, 2024 9:08 am
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The rhythms at Space Ballroom swung from rock to funk to dub to soul as two modern jazz bands — the Messthetics, comprised partly of former members of the now-legendary punk band Fugazi, and the New Haven-based Skylab — showed just how expansive, and how freeing, jazz today can be.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 7, 2024 9:04 am
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A still from Shadow of a Doubt.
You don’t have to be a film fanatic to know who Alfred Hitchcock is — a director so unique in his vision that his last name has become a descriptor for a certain type of perspective. On the occasion of what would have been his 125th birthday, Best Video has dedicated its August screening series to a celebration of his films. On Tuesday night the feting began with Shadow of a Doubt, the 1943 psychological thriller that held the sizable crowd captive with its snappy dialogue — cowritten by Hamden’s own Thornton Wilder — and the director’s signature directorial style.
“This is the story of the ragú,” Danilo Mongillo said, sliding a small bowl of sauce from the refrigerator and setting it on the counter of the newly opened Strega New Haven on Chapel Street, “and it’s a slow story.”
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 6, 2024 8:22 am
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Carlos y su Movimiento Musical.
A dozen varieties of fruit flavors and a dozen Latin rhythms came together on Monday evening as the Westville Village Renaissance Alliance closed out HI Fi Pie, its series of outdoor concerts and pie-making contests held in Beecher Park, in front of the Mitchell Branch Library, in Westville.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 5, 2024 8:33 am
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Ashley the Creator and her painting Emotional Orange.
According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering for more for the rest of your days. But in her new exhibition, “Pomology,” artist Ashley the Creator makes fruit seem more tempting than it’s ever been before. The fae, inhuman faces in her paintings wear fruit as a part of their own bodies, and the effect is both eerie and mouth-wateringly good.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 5, 2024 8:26 am
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Jody Sharninghausen, at The Loop: “I think some of these things you couldn’t get in New Haven before.”
Beef and rice bowls, ready to eat.
Jody Sharninghausen bought matcha powder, umeboshi, and furikake powder to go — and ordered a fried chicken bento box to stay — at a new Japanese grocery store and restaurant downtown.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 5, 2024 8:23 am
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Nathaniel Joyner and Damien, reading side by side at summer camp.
Nathaniel Joyner took a quick break from reading aloud to a group of middle schoolers to spin an imaginary basketball on his finger before passing it over to eight-year-old Damien — who dribbled the “ball” between his legs, and then picked up the book to resume reading with the group.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 5, 2024 8:20 am
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Sarah Gross.
“I’ve been crying, I’ve been trying / Reinvent myself each day to keep from dying,” sang Sarah Gross, the first of two musical acts to perform at Never Ending Books on Friday. The lyrics came from her original song “Liar,” the first of many originals she played that night. Gross’s full, sweet voice and introspective lyrics recalled a young Taylor Swift, right on the cusp of transitioning out of country music.
The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums.
Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHHFM studio, and poured unplugged energy into a preview of what’s coming.
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Eleanor Polak |
Aug 1, 2024 3:41 pm
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Survivors and witnesses speak (clockwise from top left): Krystyna Gil, Edith Plakins, Renee Hartman, and Jan Karski.
How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not encapsulate it?
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 30, 2024 9:10 am
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Shaunda Holloway and her pyrography piece, "One Thousand Faces."
For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have other people respond to your expression.
Those are the themes of her latest exhibition, “Faces at the Table,” in collaboration with Jasmine Nikole, which has been on display at Atticus Bookstore & Cafe from June 6 through Tuesday.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 29, 2024 9:37 am
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48 Hour Film Project team director Zach Fox: “Ketchup is harder to clean up than I thought it would be.”
The scene of the crime.
In the middle of the floor of director Zach Fox’s parents’ kitchen lay some fake blood, a real knife, and an avocado.
This was a crime scene, and the crime wasn’t only the murder of a helpless victim. It was also a crime against fashion.
Luckily, the fashion detectives were on the case. And soon, everybody would be watching them — as part of an annual competition to make a short movie in just two days.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 29, 2024 9:25 am
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TJ and Antony Sellitto-Budney with puppets.
What do felt, paper, string, feathers, eggs, and odd socks have in common? They can all be made into puppets, and they all came alive on Friday night during the Pinned & Sewtured Puppet Cabaret, hosted at Witch Bitch Thrift.
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Eleanor Polak |
Jul 25, 2024 9:25 am
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At the gallery: Sonal Soveni and her Blue Vein Mural.
On the table: a Kale-Caesar salad.
On the wall next to the entrance of The Table & Gallery, located at 1209 Chapel St., is the “Blue Vein Mural,” which encapsulates everything that the culinary and artistic space is all about.
The mural is made out of pages taken from two eighteenth- and nineteenth-century books on patriarchy and the oppression of women, covered by flowing blue shapes that recall water droplets flung into the air. An educational message is transformed into a work that evokes cleansing and freedom, as well as the idea of going with the flow.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 24, 2024 9:19 am
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Even though the signs are in sync with one another, not offering contradictory information, the photograph conveys a sense of disorientation. You have to read them twice, maybe, to see that they line up. The inclusion of the house matters, too; it gives the disorientation context. What does it mean for the people who live on that block, that multiple signs tell people unfamiliar with the street layout that they’re not supposed to go there? What does it mean that there’s only one way off the block for the residents, a sense of limited options? Who made these decisions in the first place?
The picture is unsigned, but it was shot by one of 17 students from Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School and High School in the Community for “New Haven Revisited,” a photography show running through July 31 in the gallery on the lower level of the Ives Branch of the New Haven Free Public Library.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 23, 2024 9:26 am
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Can Yağız
Not today either, detail.
It’s not entirely clear what New Haven-based artist Can Yağız’s image is of, though in its first iteration it has just enough shape to suggest a prone human form. If it’s a person, are they sleeping or dying? In either case, the image itself is about decay, the loss of light, shape, defined borders. But there’s acceptance in it, too, an embrace and investigation of change.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 22, 2024 9:37 am
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“Calm and Full of Chaos,” the first song from Neon Black — the latest release from the New Haven-based hip hop unit Sotolish — starts off with a sound like a siren from the future blaring over a dank, driving beat, provided by producer Delish Music.
“Calm before the chaos / stepping off the ghost / arriving to the seance / OK boss, more money, more layoffs / can’t collect the checks, all this water’s for the brainwash,” Sotorios raps, sounding like a man broadcasting from the sewers, keeping his head just above water, his audio equipment just dry enough to function. It all sounds like the duo is plugged into something urgent and real. Are we ready to hear the message?
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 19, 2024 9:12 am
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Shula Weinstein
The Architect.
Even without knowing the name of the piece, the figure represented there looks like a mythological personage, a character freighted with symbols. It’s there in the decorations on her boots, and the way she walks through and astride the town at the same time. It’s there in the way she holds a building in her hand. In the artist’s style, she could be a giant, holding an actual building; she could also be showing us the vision she has in her head. Or maybe it’s a little bit of both.
