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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.
by | Nov 16, 2020 11:46 am | Comments (1)
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Kimberly Sewell-Poole inside More Amour.
In New Haven, women favor wearing sneakers, not heels. But they love their sequins.
Baltimore transplant Kimberly Sewell-Poole got up to speed on all that, as she hits round two of trying to launch a retro-chic boutique on Whalley Avenue during a pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Baltimore Fashionista Flows With Elm Style’
by | Nov 16, 2020 11:32 am | Comments (0)
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The Right Offs on the roof!
As the city braced itself for the possibility of another shutdown, Cafe Nine decided to raise a safely distanced ruckus one more time with one more roof show, starring another group of local rock ‘n’ rollers, The Right Offs. Saturday night saw the band take to that stage three floors up that Dust Hat had previously christened back in September under much warmer conditions.
by | Nov 13, 2020 11:31 am | Comments (4)
Lulu Villa’s planned home.
The team behind Pacifico is expanding their presence in New Haven just a mere two doors down: Owner Moe Gad and Chef Rafael Palomino plan this winter to open a new Italian restaurant called Villa Lulu on 230 College St.
The menu will focus on Italian old-school classics in a contemporary yet homey setting.
by | Nov 13, 2020 11:22 am | Comments (0)
There’s a quote from Spanish artist Joan Miró, written when he was 85 years old, sitting in the window at the entrance to City Gallery on Upper State Street: “I painted in a frenzy so that people will know I am alive, that I’m breathing, that I still have a few more places to go and I’m heading in new directions.”
“That’s how I felt,” said artist Roberta Freidman — whose exhibition, “Breathe: 2020,” is up now at City Gallery through Nov. 29. As the pandemic and its associated lockdown descended on the country and the social aspects of artistic life ground to a halt, “I could slink off into the studio and find some light in the day.”
by | Nov 12, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (18)
Ephrat and Benny Lieblich inside soon-to-open Ladle and Loaf near Edge of the Woods.
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Co-owners Choni and Esther Grunblatt with Operations Manager Zee Kessler outside their soon-to-open Westville Village restaurant.
An Argentinian entrepreneur is about to start selling kosher sushi up the block from a new Peruvian restaurant, a new Mexican eatery, and a new Syrian coffee shop.
Did somebody say something about a pandemic recession?
by | Nov 12, 2020 2:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Yvette Mayorga
Homeland Promised Land.
Yvette Mayorga’s Homeland Promised Land is as colorful as a birthday cake and as sharp as the knife that cuts it. Its central figure is assailed by a whirlwind of fake Fanta bottles and cell phones, held captive by it all. But the artist isn’t just painting a screed against consumerism. There’s strength in the way she makes her art. Her style is asserting its own kind of resistance. When that figure in the center rises, maybe all those colors will burst from the frame, and take over — letting all of us live in a better place.
by | Nov 11, 2020 1:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Sample bowls: Pitaya on the left, Greens on the right.
Patti Ochsendorf filled two cups with a green and pink smoothie base each, then topped it with crunchy honey granola and blueberries, strawberries, mango, and pineapple. The green color came from kale and spinach blend. The pink color came from pitaya, also known as dragonfruit, which has a rough exterior with a pink or white inside.
by | Nov 11, 2020 10:54 am | Comments (0)
Winter may be coming, but Gorman Bechard and NHDocs have no plans to hibernate. Instead, they are debuting a monthly online series offering a new documentary feature to fans hungry for more after a successful online festival this past summer.
by | Nov 10, 2020 6:00 pm | Comments (7)
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Dwight neighbor Pat Wallace posts flyer at Pizza House on Howe.
Pat Wallace and Jane Comins have been walking the rescue beat, going address by address to save historic houses in the Dwight neighborhood before developers buy them and knock them down.
by | Nov 10, 2020 11:19 am | Comments (0)
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Titania Galliher, who plays Frankie in the film Northern Shade — written and directed by Chris Rucinski and currently shooting in New Haven — stood at the edge of the water in Fair Haven Monday afternoon, overlooking the Quinnipiac River. The scene was simple: Galliher was to drive up to the shoreline in her car, get out, take a look around, and then head down to the water. She did it once, getting out, taking a glance, then heading where she needed to go.
“Cut!” said Rucinski, standing next to the camera. “We’re going to do it again.”
Continue reading ‘Marina Film Shoot Tackles Life During Covid In Real Time’
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A virtual holiday kick-off kept Zoom participants from New Haven and beyond out of the Covid funk with a discussion of local wellness resources and a Zoom dance party.
Continue reading ‘Brewmaster, Artist, Entrepreneurs Promote “Buying Black”’
by | Nov 9, 2020 11:04 am | Comments (1)
When it was announced this past summer that all courses at Yale University would be online and gatherings would continue to be limited due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Margherita Tortora, senior lecturer in Spanish and Portuguese, had to decide what to do about the annual Latino and Iberian Film Festival she organizes. “I said, ‘I have two possibilities: cancel or do it online,’” said Tortora, though in her heart she knew there was only one choice she could possibly make.
Continue reading ‘Latino & Iberian Film Fest Shifts Focus To Online’
by | Nov 6, 2020 10:45 am | Comments (1)
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David de la Mano at his emerging mural on Crown Street.
On the side of 33 Crown St., an eagle is spreading its wings, taking flight. The silhouettes of people can be seen riding on its back. Other birds rise in formation around it. There is an element of freedom, but also struggle.
And behind them, a familiar coastline — not as it appears today, but as it appeared over 100 years ago, when Black entrepreneur William Lanson was making his mark on the Elm City and moving it into the future.
Continue reading ‘Uruguayan Muralist Makes King Lanson Soar’
by | Nov 5, 2020 4:07 pm | Comments (1)
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by | Nov 5, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (5)
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With David Sepulveda’s new work on residential Westville street.
by | Nov 4, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (1)
I kept dropping the apple while frantically trying to peel it. But I was doing my best to follow the lead of my instructors at Sanctuary Kitchen. Clumsy fingers and perilous peeler aside, my kitchen slowly filled with the scent of fresh apples — as did, I assume, the kitchen in every other tiny square on the Zoom call.
Continue reading ‘Sanctuary Kitchen Preserves Food And Culture’
by | Nov 3, 2020 5:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Robyn Porter and Rahassan Langley mix it up old-school at the polls.
Outside a Newhallville polling place Tuesday, R&B singer Rashaan Langley invited State Rep. Robyn Porter to join him on the chorus of Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.”
First, Porter dropped some history on him.
Continue reading ‘“Party At The Polls” Reveals The Poetry Of Politics’
by | Nov 3, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Pedersen reads Ginsberg at Wilbur Cross.
Allen Ginsberg and Jimi Hendrix turned up at the polls Tuesday —in the form of two local 14-year-old musicians, who channeled their midcentury American counterculture icons to temporarily transform the Wilbur Cross High School parking lot into a sort of Election Day Gaslight Cafe.
by | Nov 3, 2020 10:14 am | Comments (10)
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New Haveners gave “President Trump” a beating hours just before the election polls opened in Fair Haven.
by | Nov 2, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (1)
Arts maven Bitsie Clark welcomed her virtual audience to her 89th birthday party on Friday evening with a cheeky rendition of Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It.” But there was a serious intent behind the festivities: to check in with the 2019 recipients of the Bitsie Clark Fund’s annual $5,000 grants, and to award another $5,000 grant to a new artist for 2020.
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Courtesy New Haven Museum and Historical Society
Women’s suffrage speaker greets workers at plant entrance, ca. 1916.
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Cavanagh, Criscola outside ex-factory entrance; their new book (below).
If you closed your eyes, you could imagine hearing the factory whistle blow and seeing thousands of workers streaming past Joan Cavanagh and Jeanne Criscola the other day.