A Covid Hanukkah
by | Dec 10, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (0)
As we enter the darkest of viral times we are told
Along comes the Jewish festival of Hanukkah
Arts & Culture
“A Little Bit Of Death” Captures A Lot Of Life
by | Dec 10, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (0)
Zulynette stood on a stage blank enough that it felt like a void. “This show is a spell,” she said. “If you have lived a life, you have a story to tell.”
She was introducing A Little Bit of Death — now available on Long Wharf Theater’s website through Dec. 11 — an evening of storytelling she put together that is part of Long Wharf’s new One City, Many Stages program.
In teaming up with Zulynette, the Long Wharf’s artistic leadership is making good on its promise to ground the theater further in the community around it, even as it wrestles with the restrictions imposed by the pandemic.
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Today’s Special: Woody’s Steak & Shrimp
by | Dec 9, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (4)
Linwood “Woody” Lacy found his wings, and never gave up on his cooking dreams — which spawned a colorful spin on surf and turf.
Punxmas Brings Holiday Cheer To The Cellar
by | Dec 9, 2020 10:51 am | Comments (0)
The Christmas season is a time for traditions such as tree lighting, gift giving — and punk music.
Yes, indeed — a celebration that includes punk music is one local tradition that will continue this year at The Cellar on Treadwell, as the annual Punxmas show will go on this Saturday, albeit in a much different way than previous years.
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Today’s Toons
by | Dec 8, 2020 8:22 pm | Comments (3)
Today’s Special: Grandma’s Chicken Soup
by | Dec 8, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Te Amo Tequila co-owner Sonia Salazar.
As Georgina Iglesia’s chicken soup simmered in the kitchen of Te Amo Tequila, Iglesia herself was 2,096 miles away in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Her granddaughter Sonia Salazar was the one stirring the soup and adding onions, jalapeños, cilantro and avocado on top.
Guitarist Makes A Musical Sanctuary
by | Dec 8, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (1)
Musician Robert Messore sat in front of the camera, surrounded by cozy blankets and colorful Christmas lights. It was already an hour into the latest installment of Live From the Blanket Fort, with Sunday turning into Monday. Eager listeners filled the chat box in his livestream as he did a sweet rendition of “Dream A Little Dream of Me,” then a straight-faced, low-register take on “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” After chatting with listeners about everything from the bridge in the Aretha Franklin song to Star Trek to television writer Joss Whedon, he unfurled a delicious version of Jerry Douglas’s and Russ Barenberg’s “Hymn of Ordinary Motion.”
As he moved it was as though, for a moment, the internet was actually quiet.
Today’s Special: Singh Bros.’ Chana Kulcha
by | Dec 7, 2020 1:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Pataka co-founders and brothers Romy and Harry Singh.
If you ask for a Chana Kulcha, Harry Singh will give you two pockets of homemade pita, overflowing with a fruity mix of sweet chutney and warm spiced chickpeas. The pomegranate seeds on top will burst with tart flavor like the fireworks after which Singh’s restaurant, Pataka, is named.
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New Wellness Bar “Shakes” Up Covid
by | Dec 7, 2020 10:46 am | Comments (2)
Courtney Luciana photo.
Viva Nutrition’s energy tea and Italian cookie-flavored protein shake.
Angela Vasquez mixed water and ice with protein powder, adding vanilla and lemon extract, pouring the blend into a medium size cup, layered with caramel and sprinkles. The Italian cookie-flavored shake was served up at kickoff party for her new smoothie establishment, Viva Nutrition.
Exhibit Weaves Together The Beauty And The Horror
by | Dec 7, 2020 10:38 am | Comments (2)
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Crowley.
Dried fish like graceful plant life. A chunk of gray liver that looks like a “silver ingot,” as a visitor to the exhibit put it. A photo that captures the energy and the sadness of an overcrowded pen of fish. With “Thinking Twice” — on view now through Dec. 27 at City Gallery on Upper State Street — artist Phyllis Crowley asks us to both appreciate the fascinating forms that nature creates, and examine our own relationship to it, particularly in how we eat.
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Mystery Takes Downtown Back To Future
by | Dec 4, 2020 4:03 pm | Comments (1)
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Archaeologists from the future have sent a backpack of clues back to present-day New Haven. They need our help solving an outdoor puzzle.
Today’s Special: Aaron’s Peruvian Rice Bowl
by | Dec 4, 2020 3:57 pm | Comments (2)
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Lara.
Aaron Lara added a final touch — a sprinkling of freshly cut scallions — to a Peruvian rice bowl, one of the most popular dishes at Bomb Wings and Rice. With its combination of marinated chicken, aji verde (a flavorful green sauce) and rice and vegetables fried fast in Bomb’s special sauce, the dish balanced tastiness and healthiness, or, as owner Jason Teal put it, “naughty and nice,” a mindset that has guided Bomb since its opening in March 2019 and through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Kosher Caterer Closes; Culprit: Covid
by | Dec 3, 2020 6:50 pm | Comments (4)
Pre-pandemic photo
It was a Jewish wedding — so of course this spread came from Abel’s.
The pandemic has claimed a second-generation kosher catering business that was an omnipresence at local religious celebrations.
Today’s Special: Qulen’s Vegan “Wings”
by | Dec 3, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (5)
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Qulen Wright at Ninth Square’s vegan Caribbean paradise.
Qulen Wright didn’t have “chicken” or “wings” in mind when he invented his latest main course dish.
Then his customers took a taste.
Today’s Toons
by | Dec 3, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (0)
Kevin Sanchez Walsh
2020 Arts Awards Lift Every Voice
by | Dec 3, 2020 10:41 am | Comments (2)
Host Babz Rawls-Ivy beamed from the offices of the Arts Council at the over 100 people gathered virtually Wednesday evening to celebrate the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 40th annual arts awards. She noted that it was an historic occasion — but not because pandemic restrictions had prevented the audience from gathering in person at the New Haven Lawn Club, as they have in years past.
“Forty years,” she said, “and all the awardees are Black. I love to see it.”
Jason Ingriselli And The Miles North Go Live At District
by | Dec 3, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (0)
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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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A New Day, A New Xmas Tree Arrives On Green
by | Dec 2, 2020 4:32 pm | Comments (3)
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Two weeks after a gusty rainstorm felled the first Christmas Tree on the New Haven Green, a shorter and sturdier replacement arrived on Wednesday.
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Stout Keeps The Faith
by | Dec 2, 2020 10:15 am | Comments (0)
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.
Today’s Special: Fred & Patty’s Brie On Baguette
by | Dec 1, 2020 5:37 pm | Comments (6)
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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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Filmmaker Finds The Words
by | Dec 1, 2020 2:24 pm | Comments (2)
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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.”
Today’s Ted Toons
by | Dec 1, 2020 11:19 am | Comments (1)
Today’s Special: Haci’s Napoletana Pie
by | Nov 30, 2020 4:27 pm | Comments (20)
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Haci Catalbasoglu: Back home, and at work.
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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.
State Sending $1.34M In Emergency Pandemic Relief To City Arts Nonprofits
by | Nov 30, 2020 2:43 pm | Comments (0)
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Local theater managers gather with U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal outside Long Wharf Theatre in September to issue joint pandemic-relief appeal.
Long Wharf Theatre is receiving $551,400 in emergency support from the state to help survive the Covid-19 pandemic.
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“Buy Nothing” Helps Grow Neighborhood
by | Nov 30, 2020 10:49 am | Comments (2)
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.