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Feb 16, 2021 11:12 am
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Studying Talmud on the morning commute.
The documentary Why The Jews opens with a recollection from controversial lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who once gave a speech to the Hamburg Bar Association in Germany. He asked the assembled audience of 1,000 lawyers who among them considered themselves to be victims of the Holocaust. “Six or seven people raised their hands,” he says. “I said, ‘Mo, it’s many, many more of you. How many of you have lost a relative to heart disease, to cancer?’ And then I went through various illnesses and everybody raised their hand. I said, ‘How do you know that the cures for those diseases didn’t go up in smoke at Auschwitz, at Treblinka? You don’t know what you lost with the killing of six million Jews, many of whom were among the leading scientists, doctors, innovators, artists in the world.”
The oil sizzled as soon the salmon fillet hit the pan.
That noise was the hint that the fish would turn out crispy but not overcooked, explained Sandra Pittman, chef and co-owner of Sandra’s Next Generation.
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Emily Hays |
Feb 15, 2021 10:53 am
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Kristina Powell, Blaize Levitan under the chuppah at Book Trader.
What do you wear to a wedding during a pandemic?
Blaize Levitan and Kristina Powell and their guests wore matching face masks — pink and red, custom made — in a Covid-conscious Valentine’s Day ceremony held Sunday at Book Trader Cafe.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 15, 2021 10:13 am
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Two sisters played a piece from a Puerto Rican composer. A young maestro showed what the violin could do. And a quartet revisited — and reintroduced — a classic. The Saturday evening virtual performances and the Q&A that followed were all part of Music Haven‘s third Album Drop, an ongoing concert series that shows how the New Haven-based organization continues its work of nurturing its students and bringing more music to the Elm City.
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Maya McFadden |
Feb 12, 2021 1:40 pm
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Charred Chicken bowl.
You can watch Gabi Merayo make one of B‑Natural Kitchen’s signature healthful dishes in the above video. You can actually pick up the dish — and stay healthy — through a contact-free system the restaurant is pioneering in town.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 12, 2021 11:24 am
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Artist Meg Bloom looked over the pieces in “Buried in the Bones,” her new show at City Gallery on Upper State Street, running now through Feb. 28. “I love rotted trees and dead flowers,” she said. “I’m always interested in that, things decaying and falling apart, but with a touch of life in there.” If it sounds like she’s responding to current events, she is. But it’s also a statement about the way the New Haven-based artist has been doing art for decades.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 11, 2021 11:21 am
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The Snyder family in 1969.
When New Haven-based author Jill Marie Snyder found the letters detailing the romance between her parents when they were young, it was the beginning of a journey that led her to learn more about not only her own family, but the history of the Black community in New Haven, and how both contended with the racism they faced in their lives.
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Karen Ponzio |
Feb 10, 2021 10:32 am
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NHDocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival returns this month with a sweet little slice — or is it putt? — of American life called Through the Windmill, a film by Amanda Kulkoski that looks closely and lovingly at the game of mini golf throughout its 100-plus-year history as a form of entertainment that offers as many opportunities for artistic innovation as it does for family and friendly fun.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 9, 2021 11:01 am
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Ty Scurry.
“I have so much stuff planned for this place, and everybody’s like, ‘you’re crazy, you’re only 19 — how are you going to get all this done?”
So Ty Scurry — actor, singer, Wilbur Cross graduate, and theater director at Hillhouse High School — said with a humble chuckle about assuming ownership of Family Music Center in Hamden, which he hopes to not only rebuild out of its Covid-19 shutdown, but expand into a community-based center for students of the visual and performing arts.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 8, 2021 1:21 pm
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Nicole Ellis, owner of Around The Clock Restaurant and Bar on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden, said new customers looking for Jamaican food often have two questions.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 5, 2021 11:21 am
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Solid State, the title of New Haven-based musician Shandy Lawson’s new album, “refers to solid state in electronics terms,” he said, a nod to the gear he currently has in his studio — amplifiers that are cheaper and more reliable than those that use vacuum tubes. It also refers to the “three states of matter,” he said, solid, liquid, and gas. “At this point in life I feel like I’ve found my solid state,” he said. But another way, it could also refer to the state of Connecticut, and New Haven in particular, for the songwriting talent Lawson drew from to make the record. Of the 13 songs on the album, fully five of them were written by Lawson’s songwriting peers in the New Haven music scene — longtime friends that Lawson played live shows with before the pandemic, and hopefully will again when it’s over.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 4, 2021 10:20 am
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Yawen Zhang
Eating in Front of Fish.
Yawen Zhang’s Eating in Front of Fish manages to feel like a documentary and like a bit of surrealist humor. At first glance the fish appear to be swimming in midair. And while there’s nothing weird about eating fish in front of fish — some restaurants have aquariums in them — there is also something deeply weird about eating dead specimens of animals while the live specimens of those animals are watching. What happens to the diner who stops to think about this midway through their meal?
A certain senator and former presidential candidate is still sitting out in the cold — only now on West Rock Avenue, not at the presidential inauguration in D.C.
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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.
