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Chris “Big Dog” Davis signs his new CD at Thursday afternoon’s release party.
“Big Dog” stared down death. And discovered a new groove.
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by | Jul 2, 2020 2:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Kim Weston
The figures in Kim Weston’s four grouped photographs are in frenzied motion, dancing, traveling. The red prayer bundles laid at their feet — a pinch of cherry tobacco wrapped in red fabric, each one signifying one of the 15,000 murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada and the U.S. — feel both like a border marking a sacred space and a road leading from here to someplace far away. Weston’s photographs have been paired with Frank Bruckmann’s paintings for Kehler Liddell Gallery’s first show since its reopening, “Journeying,” which runs until July 12 — and thus will be around for an event KLG is billing as date night.
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During the removal of the statue of Christopher Columbus in Wooster Square on June 24, there was a moment that crystallized what it was all about. As city workers secured the ropes around the statue to lift it off its pedestal, it occurred to a few in the crowd that it looked a lot like a lynching, and in that visual echo, they found some restitution.
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Drawing, said artist and instructor Steven DiGiovanni, is “learning a new language.” But part of that was about removing language from the equation. “What you’re drawing has no name,” he said. That was because it was about the difference between looking and seeing.
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by | Jun 29, 2020 9:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Joe Minsky cuts the ribbon.
A family-owned Brooklyn-based company is bringing custom-made art frames and decorative furnishings to New Haven — along with 200 protective face shields donated to local barbers.
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Robbins in her Erector Square space in February.
Tap dancer and instructor Alexis Robbins has had plenty to keep her busy during the Covid-19 pandemic — especially as the history of her chosen art form is inextracably entangled with the story of race relations and racism in the United States.
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Artwork would be displayed in the first floor windows around the Amistad Memorial (pictured).
The City of New Haven Department of Arts Culture and Town Green Special Services District are seeking a New Haven-based artist or artists to design temporary, two-dimensional artwork for display on windows of City Hall next to the Amistad Memorial at 165 Church St. Artwork should reflect the importance of black and brown lives, influences and culture on our New Haven communities.
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by | Jun 26, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (1)
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Alejandro and Andres Cordido at their newly opened eatery.
Alejandro and Andres Cordido dreamed for years of starting a restaurant of their own devoted to the Venezuelan recipes they grew up with. They never imagined that opening week would comes amidst a pandemic.
They never pictured tables spread six feet apart. Floor stickers spaced out to help customers keep their distance. Plexiglass barriers between employees behind the counter and the customers they feed. Surfaces sanitized extra frequently. Customers’ smiles undetectable behind their protective masks.
by | Jun 26, 2020 10:51 am | Comments (0)
It takes less than ten seconds of the first song from Dust Hat’s latest record to realize that one of New Haven’s favorite four-piece rock ‘n’ roll bands has made a great summer album, the kind that makes you want to get up and get down, even if you can’t do that with the band in person just yet. Come Back, the band’s first full length record, is set to be released one week from today across all digital platforms and soon after on vinyl, and they are eager to make you shake, vibrate, and smile.
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by | Jun 25, 2020 7:45 pm | Comments (1)
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“I stay until 2036”
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Recaffeinating, on East Street.
Six days after the state of Connecticut commenced Phase 2 of reopening the economy during the pandemic, allowing coffee shops and restaurants to resume indoor dining at 50 percent capacity, Michael Sakelarakis had just finished taking the final exam for his pediatric advanced life support certificate. He decided to head to The Coffee Pedaler, his favorite neighborhood coffee shop.
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Jazz musician, producer, Grammy nominee and Dixwell favorite Chris “Big Dog” Davis had a brush with mortality this spring. As a result, this Friday, he’ll deliver Focus — his first solo album in a decades-long career of music.
by | Jun 24, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (3)
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The Zoom meeting filled fast Tuesday evening with about 15 Wilbur Cross students — half the cast from Lights Up Drama Club‘s spring production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. The students had gathered together virtually for the online ceremony for the Halo Awards, for excellence in high school theater across the state of Connecticut. Their production of How to Succeed had been nominated in five categories. It would win two.
by | Jun 23, 2020 10:18 am | Comments (0)
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Hudson at the State House in 2019.
Paul Bryant Hudson’s “John” begins with a flourish of acoustic guitar, quickly buoyed by a cushion of organ and voices, a wash of percussion.
Then the beat drops, like a hammer. The intention is clear. “I was born with it / In my hand like / Like a hammer / Like a hammer in my hand / Driving dreams deep below / The crust and the mantle / Til’ they explode,” Hudson sings. “C’mon, John / C’mon John.”
by | Jun 22, 2020 1:15 pm | Comments (22)
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“You’re the problem!” “I’m the solution!”: Marshal Criscuolo spars with co-owner Monsanto outside Fitch 50 at Monday’s paper-serving.
Prompting accusations of racism from the owner, the city closed down the popular 50 Fitch restaurant and bar and revoked its license after an event that drew an estimated 1,000 people to its parking lot amid restrictions aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus.
Carlton Staggers (center) at Monday evening support gathering: “We’re standing by” Monsanto.
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Drummer Brian Jarawa Gray peered into the camera from a room being Zoomed, a djembe stationed at his feet. “First of all, I want to salute the ancestors,” he said. “I’m glad we’re getting the opportunity to present ourselves. To be able to share what I have on another level.”
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by | Jun 19, 2020 2:41 pm | Comments (0)
When I was young in California
The coolest kids, ones I admired most
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Ingui.
Long Wharf Theatre is facing the financial stress that theaters across the country feel as they remain dark during the Covid-19 pandemic. As a theater committed to social justice, it is also figuring out how best to play a role in the country’s reckoning with racism. But “we feel good about the future of Long Wharf,” said Managing Director Kit Ingui.
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by | Jun 18, 2020 12:04 pm | Comments (7)
Example of Fortier’s zone-threatening work.
Wes Fortier has to drive 40 minutes from home to do his job — giving people tattoos.
It’s not for lack of business in Hamden that he drives so far; it’s because Hamden’s zoning regulations make it tough to do his job there.
by | Jun 18, 2020 9:45 am | Comments (0)
Album art for I Gave You My Worst.
“New Haven’s Premier Homocore Experience #1’ — the first song on local hardcore punk band Savage World’s new album I Gave You My Worst – hits the listener head on with a heavy onslaught of sound and a bold, obscenity-laced statement of identity.