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.
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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.
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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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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.
by | Oct 30, 2020 12:26 pm | Comments (6)
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.
Continue reading ‘Duncan (Er, “Graduate”), Frews Win Preservation Awards’
by | Oct 30, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (0)
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.”
by | Oct 29, 2020 11:15 am | Comments (14)
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Inside El Segundo.
Rust, holding braised pork shoulder straight out of the oven.
Mexican street food has moved into New Haven’s newest mini-neighborhood.
by | Oct 29, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Oct 28, 2020 10:33 am | Comments (2)
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ESUMS senior Reuel Masoperh (pictured) watches siblings while “attending” remote school.
Columbus eighth grader Marangelie Colon: Fall is better but lonely.
Reuel Masoperh was in the middle of an anatomy assignment for gym class when his 6‑year-old sister popped into his room. He lost his train of thought.
by | Oct 28, 2020 10:29 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Oct 27, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Oct 26, 2020 9:52 am | Comments (2)
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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.
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:25 am | Comments (0)
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.”
by | Oct 23, 2020 10:24 am | Comments (2)
Ted Littleford
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“Wake up, Joe … The last push …”