Today’s Ted Takes
by | Oct 22, 2020 10:05 am | Comments (0)
Arts & Culture
City Gallery Offers Pandemic Practice
by | Oct 21, 2020 10:42 am | Comments (0)
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.
I Explain Voting To My Grandson
by | Oct 21, 2020 10:17 am | Comments (1)
Today I cast my little vote
Its destination shouldn’t be a mystery
The Greatest Arrives On Elm Street
by | Oct 20, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (4)
Laura Glesby Photos
Final dots filled in; finished product outside Brick Oven Pizza (below).
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.
NHFPL Animation Discussion Catches Spirit Of Season
by | Oct 20, 2020 9:30 am | Comments (0)
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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State Launches $9M Arts Relief Fund
by | Oct 19, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
Covid-Positive Chef: UNH “Bats Blind Eye”
by | Oct 19, 2020 1:00 pm | Comments (7)
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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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Songs And Stories Feed The Soul
by | Oct 19, 2020 10:47 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
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.
Retired Judge Inspires Young Black Students To Follow Her Footsteps
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:45 pm | Comments (3)
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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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Yale Art Gallery Closes To The Public
by | Oct 16, 2020 9:24 am | Comments (2)
Covid-19 has killed, for now, the public’s return to the Yale University Art Gallery.
The Right Offs Lead The Way
by | Oct 16, 2020 9:23 am | Comments (0)
“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.”
Today’s Toons
by | Oct 15, 2020 4:53 pm | Comments (1)
Ted Littleford
REINALDO GOEYENECHEA/ LA VOZ HISPANA
Preservation Trust Takes It To The Streets
by | Oct 15, 2020 10:31 am | Comments (2)
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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“Movies In The Plaza” Scares Up Fun
by | Oct 15, 2020 10:30 am | Comments (1)
Karen Ponzio Photos
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.
S.G. Carlson And The Tines Camp Out For New Album
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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Today’s Ted Takes
by | Oct 14, 2020 9:37 am | Comments (0)
Group W Bench Ready To Change Hands
by | Oct 13, 2020 10:27 am | Comments (12)
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.
Indigenous Day Shifts From Columbus
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.
Bomba, Llapingachos Enliven Hispanic Heritage Celebration
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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Artspace Takes A Portrait Of Justice
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.
Katalina’s Contest Seeks The “Perfect New Haven Cupcake”
by | Oct 9, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (1)
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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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Eateries Wait On Phase 3 Expansion
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.
Logan Pledges Allegiance To The Arts
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
Today’s Ted Takes
by | Oct 9, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (0)
Life Without Art In A Pandemic
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.