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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.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 14, 2021 10:27 am
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Parker, Benton, Chew.
Drums, keys, and guitar meander for just a moment. A sampled voice intones, “the city, the city, the city — the city of Townsville.” Then adds, almost at a scream, “is under attack!” The instruments snap into focus, digging into an urgent groove that’s one part anxiety, three parts creative energy. “Watch me go!” Moon Cha sings, mixing fear and exhilaration.
It’s from “Mojo Jojo,” the second song off of 900 Grand, a new album from a new band, Mightymoonchew, that combines the talents of three young New Haven musicians — Thailend Parker (a.k.a. Moon Cha) on vocals and guitar, Marcus-Aurelius C. Benton on keys, and Chris Chew on drums — who mine the chaos of 2020 to blaze a wide trail into 2021.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 13, 2021 10:29 am
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Radio Stevie.
“I wrote all my feelings down on white lined paper. I don’t always tell you what I’m thinking, baby.”
The heartfelt admissions begin, and the beats build, becoming a straight-up bop as memories of “the 203” become a plea to go back to a sweeter time in “Elm City,” the latest song from New Haven-based rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer Radio Stevie, also known as Stephen Grant.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 12, 2021 10:09 am
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It jumps right into the kind of rhythm that screams “party.” A hands-in-the-air rhythm. A bumping bass, frizzy keys, horns snaking in and out. And most of all, a whole lot of voices, talking about nothing but fun, nothing but love.
Kuro Shiro owner Kenny Kim prepares vegan tantanmen.
The broth was creamy, savory, almost nutty. And it was vegan.
Kuro Shiro owner Dohyuan “Kenny” Kim created his recipe for vegan tantanmen with his younger brother. It was a twist on the meat-based, Japanese noodle soups that were just getting popular in the U.S. at the time.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 11, 2021 10:23 am
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Elk and cello. A hand drum known as a Guda. Bars spat over near-orchestral samples. Throughout the pandemic, musicians and music lovers have turned to that art form to help them get through its hard times, or just pass an afternoon, and in the face of a tumultuous week, New Haven’s music offers both solace and release, sometimes from unlikely places.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 8, 2021 4:16 pm
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Hazan.
Jessica Hazan, chef and owner of The Soup Girl on Whitney Avenue, thanks the insistence of a customer for getting her to come up with a recipe for gumbo, which has turned out to be one of the takeout place’s most popular dishes.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Jan 7, 2021 6:36 pm
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Tony Zhang (momentarily unmasked for the photo).
Chef Tony Zhang’s squirrel fish is traditional dish with an individual spin: a boneless deep-fried sea bass with pine nuts, green beans, corn, carrots, and a homemade fruit sauce, a traditional dish with an individual spin. It also happens to be his boss’s favorite dish .
