by | Oct 14, 2020 9:39 am | Comments (1)
Two grocery store workers get off work and decide to relax with a couple beers. They come across an unsuspecting shopping cart and take rides in it. Maybe they wipe out a couple times. Things escalate from there, at the expense of the shopping cart. Which is when the shopping cart decides to take its revenge, and mayhem ensues.
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Raffael DiLauro: Half a century later, still finding the joy.
Group W Bench, the venerable Chapel Street head shop, art gallery, and psychedelic boutique that has operated continually in New Haven for 53 years, is in negotiations to be sold.
It’s not because of Covid-19. It’s not because the rent is too high. Health complications are part of the equation, but owner Raffael DiLauro has been contemplating the move for a long time.
by | Oct 12, 2020 9:13 pm | Comments (5)
Thomas Breen photos
Cowes with Tinney during Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration on the Green. Below: Cowes’s bear claw, sage, and hawk feather.
Richard Cowes lifted a wooden bear claw filled with smoldering white sage up to one side of Gary Tinney’s face and, whispering a prayer for peace, wafted the fragrant plume of smoke with a hawk feather.
by | Oct 12, 2020 12:23 pm | Comments (6)
Courtney Luciana photo
Paulina Lopez displays the fashion of her native Guatemala.
Foods, fashions and music from Latin America were on display as were calls for “indigenous resistance” as New Haven celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month on Blatchley Avenue.
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by | Oct 12, 2020 9:35 am | Comments (1)
Melanie Crean
If Justice Is A Woman.
The group stands on the steps of the courtyard. It means something that the women are occupying that space. It also means something that they’re not inside. Each of them exudes strength and resilience on her own. Bound together, their power seems to multiply. Melanie Crean’s If Justice Is A Woman is the final commission for Artspace’s “Revolution On Trial,” an exhibit running until Oct. 17 examining the Black Panther trials and May Day protests in 1970. Crean’s photograph received an unveiling on Friday at Artspace on Orange and Crown. That reception was another chance to revisit the legacy of the trials and protests, which continues to shape the city to this day.
by | Oct 9, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (1)
Maya McFadden Photo
Katalina Riegelmann is looking to whip the flavors of New Haven into a tasty cupcake to bring light and airy fun to locals amidst the continuing difficulties of Covid.
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by | Oct 9, 2020 12:27 pm | Comments (7)
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The team at Claire’s Corner Copia: Putting safety first.
New Haven restaurants won permission to fill their indoor spaces to 75 percent capacity, but for now most are holding back.
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
Zoom
George Logan, videoconferencing in to Thursday’s forum.
George Logan is prepared to shred — in a rousing guitar solo kind of way — when it comes to providing state financial support for local artists and performance venues that have been slammed by the Covid-19-induced economic downturn.
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
by | Oct 9, 2020 9:34 am | Comments (1)
John Wilson
Compositional study for The Incident (detail), from a show currently at Yale University Art Gallery — with limited hours of display.
In some quarters –- our condo, for example, on Orange Street — attacks of mental numbness and weariness have been verified.
There is much, to be sure, that my wife Suzanne and I are grateful for, including that, though as seniors we qualify as high-risk Covid-19 candidates, we are at this moment still breathing. This, I know, is much more in the way of upbeat news than can be said in the abodes of so many other households near and far.
by | Oct 9, 2020 9:30 am | Comments (1)
Faces and butterflies, shapes and colors. Messages and spirals, dresses and sculptures. The USPS Project, running at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street through Nov. 15, is the riotous result of hundreds of collaborations for a cause.
by | Oct 8, 2020 11:19 am | Comments (0)
Ted Littleford
Reinaldo Goeyenechea/ La Voz Hispana
by | Oct 8, 2020 8:43 am | Comments (1)
Cindy Tower
Protest Pile.
There’s a protest in the backyard of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Cindy Tower’s piece is so chaotic and colorful that you can almost hear it. The seriousness of the subject is never in doubt, but the rendering is playful enough to be inviting — which is part of the point. The bench placed in front of the piece isn’t just for contemplation; on the bench are art supplies that let observers make and add their own signs, their own voices, so that the piece grows over time.
by | Oct 7, 2020 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
Lenny’s Fish Tale seafood restaurant on Long Wharf is the city’s latest Covid-19 business casualty.
by | Oct 7, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (1)
Amira Brown
I’m Lost, Red Directions.
The style of the painting could be celebratory or frantic. Some of the exclamations painted onto the canvas — “dangit,” “crap,” “oh poop!” — could be seen as jokes. But there is something truly piteous about the posture of the figure in the middle. “I’m lost,” the words above her read, and suddenly we’re in the mind of a child who has lost her way, buffeted by the world. That disorienting, somewhat scary sense we all had as children has its echoes in the current state of the world, as the news doesn’t look good and we don’t know what’s coming next.
by | Oct 6, 2020 1:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Allison Hadley Photos
Kate Gonzales sat tranquilly in her lyra, a large acrobatic hoop elevated several feet above the ground, gesturing elegantly to the pavement below. Decked out in a rich royal purple unitard that matched the material wrapping the lyra, she contorted and posed around the hoop, demonstrating mighty core strength and flexibility as she bent around to strike another pose. The tones of Liszt’s Liebestraum No. 3 in A‑flat major conjured a dance of courtly love. After a particularly elegant pose, fellow performers shouted, “Yeah Kate!” and the tiniest hint of a smile broke through her composed concentration of performance.
by | Oct 5, 2020 3:26 pm | Comments (0)
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Karen Ponzio Photos
Harvest after dark.
The sound of jazz filtering up to Chapel Street from Harvest Wine Bar is not new to a Thursday night in New Haven, but on this particular Thursday, Oct. 1, it felt like the first time and happened to be the first of many things for a few in a long while.
by | Oct 4, 2020 8:17 pm | Comments (4)
Contributed Photo
A second Black Lives Matter street mural drew in yet another large crowd of New Haveners from all over to help bring the message to life, this time on Temple Street.
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by | Oct 2, 2020 10:55 am | Comments (0)
Lori Petchers
Garden Party 8.
The arms reach up from the foliage in a surreal way that seems both playful and unsettling. The disembodied nipples they may be throwing around seem almost like eyes, ready to blink. As the title of the piece — Garden Party 8 — by artist Lori Petchers suggests, it’s supposed to be fun. But it goes deeper than that, too. Most of all, it feels like a new discovery, which is what City Wide Open Studios is all about.
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by | Oct 1, 2020 10:09 am | Comments (2)
Allison Hadley Photos
You’ve probably seen the posters for The Crowd around town. Black and white, and affixed to everything, from the usual light poles to more avant-garde trash receptacles, they shout at passersby to “vote early, vote often” and portray such illustrious figures as socialist and trade unionist Eugene Debs.
The posters are part agitprop and part advertisement. But there is no contact information. The poster points the way, but to find the Crowd requires more digging.
Continue reading ‘When The Crowd Gets Weird, The Weird Gets Published’
by | Oct 1, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (0)
Reinaldo Goeyenechea/ La Voz Hispana
Ted Littleford
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