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Allan Appel |
Oct 30, 2020 12:26 pm
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Have you yet peeked into the old Duncan Hotel, now the Graduate on Chapel Street? If not, the New Haven Preservation Trust wants you to know that the old/new pile of bricks still sports Connecticut’s most ancient elevator, pay phones original to the 1894 building, and a return to life of the 200-year-old basement watering hole Old Heidelberg, with original wooden bar and tables.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 30, 2020 10:30 am
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Lucy’s Neighbor.
“One More Chance,” the first song from Till It’s Gone, the new album from Lucy’s Neighbor, is a blast of sunny pop, from the driving rhythms to the splashes of guitar, to the direct, hopeful vocals that yearn for something simple. “Give me one more chance to see the light / One more dance with you tonight / One more chance to finally get it right,” sings Derek DiFronzo. “I gotta find my way back home.”
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 29, 2020 10:48 am
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A young man sits at a picnic table in a park, alone. He flashes back to his childhood, celebrating a birthday in the park with just his mother in attendance. He receives a present that the tag reads is from an absent father. It’s a stuffed animal of a penguin. Suddenly, on the shore of a pond, that penguin comes to life, becomes the boy’s best — and maybe only — companion.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 28, 2020 10:29 am
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A sweet, eerie film about teenagers adapting to adulthood also marked Best Video’s first adventure in streaming, as on Monday evening Hank Hoffman, Best Video’s executive director, announced that it was hosting the virtual theatrical release of Ham on Rye, which opened virtually in 22 different venues around the country on Oct. 23.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 27, 2020 10:37 am
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Singing. Dancing. Trivia. Beer floats. All this and more was part of the Shubert Theater’s second Covid-era installment of “Next Stop: New Haven,” a fundraiser and night of entertainment on Monday evening that featured Broadway stars, the Shubert staff, and a host of downtown restaurants who contributed snacks and libations to make an evening at home feel like an evening out.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 26, 2020 9:52 am
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Zacatelco.
A team of Fair Haven-based artists brought some color — and some comfort — to the Veterinary Wellness Center on State Street, with the addition of outdoor seating for the center’s waiting area that doubles as public art.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 23, 2020 10:25 am
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On Thursday night artist Margaret Roleke smiled from her home in her garage studio, at an audience of 20 who had gathered virtually to hear her talk about her art practice and her show at Creative Arts Workshop — the first installment of CAW’s “Made Visible” series.
“I didn’t set out to be an activist artist,” she said. “I was creating work just to make people think.”
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 21, 2020 10:42 am
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Joyce Greenfield
Dystopian Sunflower I-III, Dystopian Lily.
The plants in Joyce Greenfield’s paintings are exquisitely rendered, but the paintings are more than just still-life studies. Something’s afoot in the composition. It’s a little eerie, maybe a little unsettling, and at the same time, the plants look tired. The titles of the paintings — Dystopian Sunflower, Dystopian Lily — offer a clue. The mood isn’t in the subject, but in the mind of the painter. If they weren’t painted during the pandemic, they might as well have been. They reflect the exhaustion many feel. And at the same time, they also reflect a dogged persistence — not only flowers growing in drought, but painters continuing to paint — that emerges as the theme of City Gallery’s contribution to City Wide Open Studios this year, running now in the gallery’s space on Upper State Street through Nov. 1.
Redbootsali leaned in to paint his 34,000th black dot (give or take a few hundred) on an Elm Street pizzeria wall — and brought the late boxing great Muhammad Ali to life among newly-forged neighborhood friends.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 20, 2020 9:30 am
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An animation classic with increasingly unhinged narration from actor James Mason. A more contemporary animated take on the same classic story. Which one held up better? Which came closer to capturing the spirit of the original Edgar Allan Poe classic?
On Monday night, a dozen people gathered virtually for the New Haven Free Public Library’s monthly Animation Celebration to hash it out.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 19, 2020 2:58 pm
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NMS Director Noah Bloom with Gov. Lamont (right) at Monday’s arts announcement.
Arts nonprofits that have been pummeled by the Covid-19 pandemic have a new $9 million state relief fund to turn to for support in helping pay staff, cover student scholarships, and generally stay afloat during the ongoing economic downturn.
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Laura Glesby |
Oct 19, 2020 1:00 pm
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Sous chef Nick Hurwitz-Goodman cooking at a pre-Covid event.
Nick Hurwitz-Goodman, a sous chef at the University of New Haven, was feeling fine. But Covid-19 was spreading fast on campus, so he decided to get tested.
Hurwitz-Goodman tested positive. Now he is stuck at home, uncertain if he’ll develop symptoms, worried about his coworkers who might also have been exposed to the virus.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 19, 2020 10:47 am
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Saul Fussiner.
“Why do we tell stories involving food?” asked Saul Fussiner, storyteller and host of Songs and Stories, at Best Video on Saturday evening. It was the opening to treat himself and a group of others to a show titled “Food for Thought,” which would answer his question and more.
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Maya McFadden |
Oct 16, 2020 12:45 pm
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Angela Robinson.
After retiring as a judge in 2018, Angela Robinson began educating the younger generation in New Haven full-time about the legal profession in hopes of diversifying the field.
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 16, 2020 9:23 am
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“Post Bone Savvy,” the lead single from the Right Offs’ Bardo, starts with a classic rock strut, gritty and bluesy, but with a slight rhythmic hiccup at the end. That hiccup is, in a sense, the key to the song. It’s one dropped breath that lets you know that this was a riff written by musicians who have already heard and loved a thousand other guitar riffs. They still love rock ‘n’ roll. But they’re also finding ways to make music that isn’t quite like anyone else’s.
The same sensibility shows up in the poetically accessible lyrics. “It’s so ugly,” croons singer Maxwell Omer, “staying in the one place / given my painted lie of mine / you were leaving / taking all the pillows out of your life / love in a dungeon is still / love in a dungeon is still love.”
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Alexis Zanghi |
Oct 15, 2020 10:31 am
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Have you ever seen the windows on the fifth floor of the New Haven County Courthouse?
You can find them if you walk halfway down the Elm Street block between Church and Orange, stand in the parking lot next to Kebabian’s, and stare toward the sky above Wall Street. The windows look like glossy portholes on a giant, shiny cruise ship where people sue each other and get divorced. Viewed from Church Street, at street level, the building seems “heavy.” But from Elm Street, different openings — like the circular cutouts and large glass curtain walls — give the Courthouse an airy quality.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am
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Hocus Pocus!
Last night a snuggled up yet safely distanced crowd gathered downtown to watch a movie about three witches who rise from the dead on Halloween and wreak a bit of havoc in their own town of Salem. Pitkin Plaza on Orange Street was the setting for “Movies in the Plaza,” a weekly free event held every Wednesday since July and now being celebrated with spookier films in honor of the season.
