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Brian Slattery |
Aug 10, 2020 9:43 am
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Wally in 2019.
“No No,” the first song from Wally’s EPLive, starts with stacked, keening three-part harmonies that reach all the way back to the brother acts of the 1950s but feel very much of the moment. “I can’t love you anymore, but I’m trying,” they sing. The rest of the band falls in with a easy, lilting groove that seems both sunny and melancholy, like the last days of summer.
That’s before the guitar opens up with fuzzy distortion that lets the drums hit harder. Soon voices and instruments are all weaving together to bring the song to its emotional peak, before they all fall away — and then, suddenly, launch into high gear, complete with guitar and saxophone freakout.
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Maya McFadden |
Aug 7, 2020 1:20 pm
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Smitty Bop: Newhallville proud, on the move.
Rising New Haven rapper Smitty Bop, known for music videos celebrating New Haven and local street life, has broadened his message in a new single to target police brutality nationwide and support the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here’s the hook:
I ain’t with that cappin shit / A cop killin me? I ain’t having it / won’t get down on my knees like I’m Kaepernick / cops killing with they knees, that ain’t average /
When Mahogany Lowery went on field trips as a child, she needed an adult with her to give her insulin and make sure her blood sugar levels were not too high or too low. Her diabetes hospitalized her every year, she recalled.
The New Haven native has spun those memories into fiction with her first book, Greatness Over The Rainbow. The book, to be released on Amazon on Friday, follows four kids living in a city like New Haven who experience chronic illness and the deaths of family members and overcome those challenges.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 7, 2020 10:30 am
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Gregory Antollino
Grande Olde Flag.
She stands with a U.S. flag umbrella over her shoulder, wearing a top made from red, white, and blue ribbon. But she’s no ordinary patriot. There’s a spark in her eyes that suggests something more complicated.
We don’t have the context for photographer Gregory Antollino’s image. Was it at a protest or a Fourth of July parade?
Either way, there is something nonconformist going on, fueled by an energy born from age, not despite it. “I’m age 81 but my parade is not done,” her sign reads. Everything in the photograph would lead us to believe her.
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Sophie Sonnenfeld |
Aug 6, 2020 7:06 pm
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Vibrant fish, turtles, and other water critters have been popping up out of storm drains across New Haven this summer, reminding New Haveners to keep their trash away from the drains.
The last batch of these “runoff art” creatures came to life on Thursday in front of the Christopher Columbus Family Academy at the corner of Grand Avenue and Fillmore Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 6, 2020 9:48 am
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Amanda Duchen
I Am … A Dreamer.
A cluster of heads floating like balloons on stalks. An oil painting of a woman eating a hoagie. A connection with a goddess. All these and more are part of “I Am…,” the latest riotous exhibition at Kehler Liddell Gallery, which is now open by appointment and for limited weekend hours.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 5, 2020 11:02 am
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Kwadwo Adae
Kerry, Addys, Norm, Sarah, Vanessa, Ericka.
We know the subjects of the paintings are protestors because of the crowds assembled behind them, silhouettes gathered with raised arms and picket signs. One carries a bullhorn. Another has the Puerto Rican flag emblazoned on a tank top. Another throws a fist in the air to reveal a tattoo on the wrist.
As the accompanying notes say, “New Haven painter and activist Kwadwo Adae celebrates his compatriots and heroes” in these series of portraits.
The subjects are Kerry Ellington, Addys Castillo, Norm Clement, Ericka Huggins, Sarah Pimenta, and Vanessa Suárez. Adae has depicted them in their “protest armor.”
In putting them side by side by side, Adae deftly connects past to present. He shows that the protests of 1970 over the Black Panther trials in New Haven have cast a long shadow, and suggests further that they are part of a continuum, an even longer thread stretching back perhaps to the beginnings of the country.
Paul Mayer, owner of Cafe Nine on the corner of State and Crown, looked up at the mural of jazz legend Sun Ra that now graces the side of the building that houses his bar.
“I’m blown away,” he said. It was his first time seeing it in person, along with the accompanying boom box painted on a Dumpster.
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Karen Ponzio |
Aug 3, 2020 10:15 am
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Todd Lyon get a leg up on the big move.
Like the vintage wares it has been selling for over 15 years, Fashionista Vintage and Variety will be continuing on in a new way and space: 85 Willow St., to be exact.
The beloved shop closed its doors at the corner of Whitney and Trumbull last week. It will be moving its abundance of top hats, taffeta, and everything else to its new home in the MarlinWorks building in East Rock this week.
New Haven’s Premier Concerts/Manic Presents concert promoters have found way to stage live shows this summer — and keep everyone safe: Do it on 10 acres of manicured farmland with 8‑foot-by-8-foot “social distancing grids.”
Alana Dina, Craig Gomes, and Evongee Smart outside Pacifico.
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South Bay and Pacifico tables bustling on Wednesday night.
Ray Andrewsen felt like he was in Paris. Alana Dina, the Big Apple.
In reality, they were dining on pear and walnut salad and guacamole on College Street in New Haven — not inside eateries, but right out on the sidewalk, part of a Covid 19-sparked experiment that’s breathing new life into downtown’s battered restaurant industry.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 24, 2020 9:36 am
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Anne Doris-Eisner
Trees no. 1, 2, 3.
“It’s wonderful to see all your smiling faces,” said artist Anne Doris-Eisner. The Zoom audience of about 30 participants assembled before her on Thursday morning had come to hear her talk about her art and life, in the latest installment of Coffee Break and Culture, an ongoing series from the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven. In that discussion, the hard-earned wisdom Doris-Eisner had gathered over the years connected in deep ways to the current hardships of life during pandemic.
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 23, 2020 9:30 am
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Nick Di Maria and Austin Alianiello sat behind a table they’d set up in a gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. On the table were a mixing board, a couple laptops and phones, and other devices. A set of cables snaked across the room to where the four-piece band Ubuntu had set up. It was the inaugural show of Mind the Hang, a new streamed concert series from New Haven Jazz Underground, and a few minutes before showtime, there were just a few questions left unanswered.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 22, 2020 12:55 pm
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Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Many more of those unique smoked lobster rolls will be rolling out in Fair Haven, and jerked chicken and spicy plantains will soon be making their debut in the Hill.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jul 22, 2020 8:00 am
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Sketch Tha Cataclysm earlier this year at Best Video.
The bass line hits and notes skip across the strings, and soon Sketch tha Cataclysm is spitting his poetry across the growing soundscape: “A thousand blighters throwing up a thousand lighters / In hopes a thousand fires sparks another round of ire / The crowd’s desires of mire and I’ll interest / A choir seeking fulfilled diminished inspiring this.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 21, 2020 9:23 am
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Early in aninterview with Chad Browne-Springer of the New Haven-based band Phat A$tronaut, Eric Rey had a realization. He and Browne-Springer had shared a stage before, perhaps a few times. He had seen Browne-Springer perform at least a dozen times. But, Rey said, “you and I have never had a conversation.”
