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Dec 3, 2020 10:37 am
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Jason Ingriselli and The Miles North at District.
District Arts and Education began rounding out a series of shows for 2020 Wednesday night at Holberton School with Jason Ingriselli and the Miles North, a five-piece band that offered a combination of sweet country and restless rock ‘n’ roll sounds into one satisfying set that viewers could enjoy from the comfort of their own homes via Facebook livestream.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 2, 2020 10:15 am
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A flourish of guitar like a blooming flower. “Stuck in the middle of where I want to be and where I was / Everything’s crashing down / But I had it under control,” Stout sings. “I’m going under / Deep underwater / I’m trying to find my way out.” Her voice conveys all the vulnerability of the lyrics, but puts a solid foundation underneath it. The words speak of the struggle. The voice itself carries strength, as if rising above whatever adversity she faces isn’t a question; it’s a near-certainty.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 1, 2020 5:37 pm
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Fred & Patty Walker, & freshly made sandwich.
Thirty-four years.
That’s how long Fred and Patty Walker have been married. That’s how long they’ve run Chestnut Fine Foods & Confections. And that’s how long they’ve graced New Haven with a creamy, crunchy, not-too-sweet, and all-too-satisfying Brie on baguette sandwich — which packs a particular punch in a pandemic.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 1, 2020 2:24 pm
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Dest and Green.
There’s a moment in Stephen Dest‘s film I Am Shakespeare that sums up the inspiration for a book about film that Dest is — as of last week — under contract to write. It’s partly about social justice and partly about digital filmmaking, and all about moving into the future.
In the scene, Henry Green, the subject of the film, is “talking to a doctor about how he once looked,” before he was wounded by a gunshot in 2009. “He does this physical gesture, and I remember when I was editing, I wasn’t picking up on it.” Dest said. When he screened the film, “audiences under 30 would react to it and no one else did.”
The gesture was a quick, repetitive flick of the thumb. Green, Dest said, was “scrolling through his mental phone,” bringing back images from the past, “even though he doesn’t have his phone with him.”
“I’m so glad I was stupid enough not to cut it out,” Dest added. “It really was telling, in how people reacted to it.”
Instead of creating PowerPoints in New York about potential corporate mergers, Hacibey Catalbasoglu has spent the pandemic months splitting logs, throwing dough, and memorizing the Napoletana recipe at Brick Oven Pizza on New Haven’s Elm Street.
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Allison Hadley |
Nov 30, 2020 10:49 am
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Sprightly plants sat in an online post with the word TAKEN in all caps above them. Maybe they looked a little like they were in a search post for lost pets, or maybe it looked as if the poster was announcing they had been stolen. But the all caps info was actually meant to indicate the plants had already found their forever homes — and thus concluded another neighbor-to-neighbor transaction in the Facebook group Buy Nothing New Haven.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 25, 2020 10:46 am
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Cynthia Y. Cooper
A Show of Strength (Banner).
Cynthia Y. Cooper’s A Show of Strength might conjure a host of associations — ocean waves, birds’ wings, the ceiling of a church. It’s all of these things, and at its core, none of them. It’s just a pattern of line and color, repeating ideas. We fill the pattern with meaning, as humans do. Sometimes that tendency to find patterns, and meaning in patterns, leads us astray. But, when handled with grace, it also leads constellations in the sky and holidays around solstices and equinoxes. It can be the foundation of building a community.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 24, 2020 10:36 am
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Pedersen and James Wyrtzen.
“Silver rings and Oxford shirts / shoulder bag and patchy skirts / should have known everything would fall through / But a shade of blue above your eye / And a long-lost love up in the sky / for some reason, it was all up to you,” Alec Pedersen sings on “Up to You,” the first song from his recent EPNew Haven County, released just last week. The lines begin a cascade of verses that Pedersen delivers in a swinging, rushed cadence, over an urgently strummed guitar, interspersed with bursts of harmonica. It’s soaked in pre-electric Bob Dylan, but it’s written now, in 2020, by Pedersen — who’s a teenager.
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Karen Ponzio |
Nov 23, 2020 10:49 am
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Salwa Abdussabur.
Film, music, theater, art, activism: on Friday night all five were intertwined and illuminated during New Haven’s inaugural Black Haven Film Festival. Presented by CTCORE — Organize Now, the festival was originally planned for that night in person at Science Park. Due to Covid restrictions, it became a virtual event continuing onward with its original intent to celebrate Black art and representation with five short films, interviews with the filmmakers, and a musical performance, each shining its own ray of light on to the proceedings and creating a collective glow.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 20, 2020 11:14 am
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Bek Andersen
Power Portraits, detail.
Kerry Ellington, Addys Castillo, and Orisha Ala Ochumare stand with confidence on the walls of Artspace’s gallery. As captured by Bek Andersen in her piece Power Portraits — part of Artspace’s exhibition “Who Governs?” running through Dec. 12 — they become the images of the leaders and activists they are. Their voices and work in reshaping the city is palpable. But just as their actual political work involves revisiting and learning from the past, so “Who Governs?” delves into New Haven’s past, coming up with vivid questions about how unique the moment we’re in really is. What has changed? What has stayed the same? And what does progress mean when it seems that sometimes we find ourselves asking the same questions again and again?
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 19, 2020 11:14 am
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Del Carpio-Beltran reads artist statement at 600-square-foot mural.
While the city sleeps through a pandemic, the Ninth Square has come alive with outdoor murals — as local artists like Francisco Del Carpio-Beltran demonstrated on Wednesday.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 19, 2020 10:37 am
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With the Music a la Carte Series, the New Haven-based Kallos Chamber Music Series has figured out how to deliver short, online bursts of chamber-music joy — enough to enliven the coldest Monday night and still leave time to make dinner.
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Allison Hadley |
Nov 18, 2020 10:19 am
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William Ruiz, of New Haven’s new coffee roasting company, Bequest Coffee Roasters, knows and understands the power of a good cup of coffee powered by good beans. A graduate of Collab + CitySeed’s Food Business Accelerator program, Ruiz has opened Bequest online first, and is ready to deliver good beans to the people of New Haven and beyond.
For once, there’s a good thing to keep us awake at night.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 17, 2020 11:36 am
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Liz Antle-O’Donnell
Tick Tock 2
Liz Antle‑O’Donnell’s clock is an older work made new. Those who’ve followed her work recognize the busy circular pattern of buildings and color. Turning it into a clock doesn’t just lend a piece a functional air. The moving hands animate the image behind them. In a sense it can be understood as a clock for our times. The pattern resonates with the way time feels a little different during the pandemic, a little more flexible, as days can sometimes seem slower while weeks slip away. The buildings can be read as waiting, minute by minute, for the busier street life we know before March.
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Laura Glesby |
Nov 16, 2020 3:56 pm
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Holiday spirit uprooted Monday on the Green.
As the pandemic ramps up again, apparently even the weather wasn’t feeling the holiday spirit — as a storm toppled the city Christmas Tree on the Green.
