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Sep 30, 2020 9:34 am
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Feminist Letters Typeface.
The message is clear enough. It’s the letters themselves that bear a closer look, because it turns out the T is built around the shape of a uterus, the P around a raised fist, the S around a dollar bill, the E around a ballot. The letters appear to comment on what they’re spelling; the message is to smash the patriarchy, but it’s the letters that suggest what’s needed to make it happen.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 29, 2020 9:06 am
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Artist Z Bell sang the song of Azhar Ahmed and turned the experience of Patrick Morrison into poetry. “The American Dream don’t shine at night,” Bell said. “The American Dream doesn’t teach you what’s right.” Ayse Coskun, on a park bench, talked about what it is to miss home even as you create new ones. Ismael Al Hraaki talked about the help he got in arriving from Syria via Jordan. “I want to show all these people it wasn’t a waste of time taking care of me,” he said. He wants to become a docfor and help take care of people right back.
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Courtney Luciana |
Sep 28, 2020 3:24 pm
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Colorful fish, tadpoles, and other marine life took over the intersection of Quinnipiac Avenue and Hemingway Street Saturday, thanks to 30 volunteers who painted an environmental awareness project that also aimed to calm traffic.
Friday was a night of firsts for the New Haven music scene. It was the live debut of Stefanie Clark Harris and the Feverfew, the EP release party for the band’s first record “Black Diamond’, and it all happened at the inaugural show of The Stack Sessions, a District Arts and Entertainment presentation being held in the amphitheater on the back lawn of The Stack and Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ, in the District Complex on James Street.
After seven years of planning, New Haven Saturday unveiled a 700-pound bronze monument to one of the seminal and no-longer forgotten figures of the city’s Black history, William Lanson.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 25, 2020 9:20 am
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The bear’s mouth was agape, wide enough to snap up two people. Its head, neck, and shoulders were made of scrap. But its eye was tenderly rendered, imbuing the bear with surprising emotion. It didn’t seem like it was hunting; maybe it was even crying. The emotion was all the more powerful for the bear’s location, in a building amid the former Cedar Hill Rail Yard straddling the New Haven and North Haven lines, and just off the Tidal Marsh Trail, which began in North Haven.
The bear was the work of New Haven-based artist M.J. DeAngelo. Finding it took three tries, in a journey that felt like a trip into both the past and the future.
Dot by dot — by tens of thousands of dots — a public portrait of the late boxing champion Muhammad Ali is coming into focus at the corner of Howe and Elm, at the hand of a warehouse worker looking to take the art world by storm.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 24, 2020 8:56 am
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Pizza, A Love Story — the movie that director Gorman Bechard calls “the quintessential New Haven film” — returns to the city for another party in the Sally’s parking lot, this one to celebrate its release on DVD and streaming services on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
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Emily Hays |
Sep 23, 2020 10:57 am
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Havenly Treats Head Chef Nieda Abbas packs up boxes of grape leaves.
The staff wrapped the grape leaves carefully, filled them with just the right amount of tomato sauce and rice. The finished product — an Iraqi appetizer — was then available for purchase for $4.99.
It also served as a way for refugees to train for gainful employment.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 23, 2020 9:06 am
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Benny Mikula appeared with guitar in hand on Saturday. Before the pandemic he’d usually be found with seven-piece band The Alpaca Gnomes; tonight he was billing himself as the Lone Gnome.
“How’s everybody doing? Thanks for tuning in,” he said. And then sang a song that felt like easier times. “Little bit of happiness after the pain,” he sang. “A little bit of love can go a long way.”
It was part of the Shubert Theater’s Apart Together program, and part of the rollout for its fall programming as the theater finds ways to stay connected to its audience virtually during the Covid-19 shutdown.
When the author, jazz critic and poet Stanley Crouch died last week, some folks in Greater New Haven must have recalled, as I did, what happened on the first day of autumn in 2016.
Crouch, seated with cane in hand in a room at the Whitney Humanities Center, lured a crowd of about 50 that day into a meditation on a lyrical masterpiece.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 22, 2020 10:34 am
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Puma Simone locked eyes with the camera Monday night, and by extension, the audience of two dozen looking back at them through Zoom. “I’ve always been on my own timeline,” said the New Haven-based artist. They were “trying to remember that there’s a greater plan to this journey,” and that things might “take longer than I want.”
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 21, 2020 9:04 am
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A crowd descended on Bassett Street in Newhallville, ready with brushes, rollers, and cans and cans of paint. They were there to make art that delivered a simple, powerful message — Black lives matter — by spelling it out on the street for all to see.
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Karen Ponzio |
Sep 21, 2020 8:54 am
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Dust Hat up on the roof.
“I’ve never played on a roof before,” said Dan Soto, vocalist and bassist for Dust Hat — a couple of hours before his band did exactly that on top of the three-story building that houses Cafe Nine, with a socially distanced array of rock ‘n’ roll fans watching from down below.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 18, 2020 9:27 am
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The first song The Bargain played in their set at Best Video Thursday was “a pandemic song,” said singer Frank Critelli. But it was a pandemic song with perspective; it was about how even now, there was still time to work on yourself.
It was the beginning of a set of original songs from The Bargain — Frank Critelli, Shandy Lawson, and Muddy Rivers — that showed the band as a group of artists already responding to the immediacy of the moment, but with their eyes on the bigger picture and what it all might come to mean. It was also warm, humane, and a lot of fun.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 17, 2020 9:46 am
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“Someone once told me I should write all my dreams but I don’t see the point / rather live and learn and light a joint,” Siul Hughes begins on “Still Doubting,” the opening cut from Hueman, Hughes’s fifth and latest album, but first with New Haven’s own Fake Four, Inc. It’s a disarming introduction to the bars that follow, which are both effortless and acrobatic, direct and elusive, filled with the complications of being a talented, self-reflective Black man in America, as the pressures from society get mirrored in the pressures that come from within. “The pain is mine,” Hughes concludes, an acknowledgement of both oppression and personal responsibility. It’s a heady trip, and it’s just the beginning.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 16, 2020 3:04 pm
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Clockwise from top left: City arts director Adriane Jefferson, Stetson Librarian Diane Brown, and the public library notice for Dana King’s and Lisa Dent’s talk about William Lanson.
When young Black New Haveners walk by the new statue of William “King” Lanson, Dana King hopes they think to themselves, “That looks like me.”
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 16, 2020 10:23 am
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Judy Atlas
Southwest Memories 2, Bryce.
On one side of the gallery, the shapes are recognizable as landscape, and desert landscape at that. The rocks are rusty colors, the sun brightening them where the light touches them. The sky is a bright blue. On the other side of the gallery, the shapes are simpler, more abstract, the colors more varied. Following the paintings from left to right across the gallery, you can trace where the artist, Judy Atlas, began — and where she ended up — in City Gallery’s latest exhibit, “The Landscape Real and Imagined,” running now through Sept. 27.
