A Walk Through Branford
by | Jul 24, 2020 9:47 am | Comments (0)
Calico, Silvermine, Leadville, ghost towns used to be a place
You visited with the kids, but now in Covid Times
Arts & Culture
Artist Becomes The Water
by | Jul 24, 2020 9:36 am | Comments (0)
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.
Big Time, Little Time, Covid Time
by | Jul 23, 2020 1:38 pm | Comments (0)
Muslim philosophers in the Middle Ages
Spoke of a Big Time, which is eternity
Today’s Toon
by | Jul 23, 2020 1:38 pm | Comments (2)
Ted Littleford
New Haven Jazz Underground Resurfaces
by | Jul 23, 2020 9:30 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photos
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.
New Eateries Get Green Light
by | Jul 22, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (1)
Ko Lyn Cheang Photo
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.
Sketch Tha Cataclysm Opens The Vent
by | Jul 22, 2020 8:00 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
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.”
How Music Saved Chad Browne-Springer’s Life
by | Jul 21, 2020 9:23 am | Comments (0)
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.”
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Midnight Strangers Off On An “Odyssey”
by | Jul 20, 2020 5:37 pm | Comments (1)
With some sultry opening licks, Westville up-and-coming teen rockers have launched themselves on an “Odyssey.”
Hitting The Showers
by | Jul 20, 2020 11:51 am | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photos
Looking to future in Edgewood Park: Mural outside pavilion (above); mom with 9 new ducklings in the pond.
I believe I need to shower
All signs indicate it
Summer Saturdays Sizzle With Live Music
by | Jul 20, 2020 9:17 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
Caribbean Vibe Steel Drum Band.
A July in New Haven typically gives people a multitude of choices for where and when to be entertained. With this July being anything but typical — except for the soaring temperatures — the city is offering another way to enjoy many of its dining options, shops, and yes, even live music performances: as part of Summer Saturdays, a coordinated effort involving downtown restaurants and other businesses, performers are paired with locations to allow patrons to take in lunch and a show.
Today’s Ted Take
by | Jul 18, 2020 9:59 pm | Comments (0)
“Runoff Art” Flows Thru West River Corner
by | Jul 17, 2020 11:08 am | Comments (3)
Thomas Breen photos
Sidewalk stormwater art on Chapel Street. Design by fifth-grade artist Nick Ruiz.
Student artists Assata Johnson and Trinity Ford.
A half-dozen high school student artists brightened up a West River corner with painted sunflowers and swirling waves of water as part of an eco-friendly summer work project.
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Art Of Aging Jumps Into The New
by | Jul 17, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (1)
Tom Brooks
Silent Refuge.
It looks like classic New England; it could be in Vermont or New Hampshire. But New Haveners with a keen eye will know it’s from East Rock Park, that the photographer has just stepped off the covered bridge spanning the Mill River at the dam at the Eli Whitney Museum, and is just heading out on the trail that circles the water. The photograph, Silent Refuge by Tom Brooks, won the People’s Choice award in photography in “The Art of Aging,” the annual art exhibit hosted by the Agency on Aging.
In the past, the exhibit has graced the walls of the agency’s offices at Long Wharf. This year, due to the pandemic, the exhibit, featuring dozens of artists, is running virtually — making it, in some ways, that much easier for New Haveners to see these artists show their take on what it is to age creatively.
New Riverfront BBQ Joint Is Smokin’
by | Jul 16, 2020 1:30 pm | Comments (8)
Ko Lyn Cheang Photo
Streeter at work at Streets Boathouse Smokehouse on Front Street.
Smoke billowed out of the barbecue pit as Steve Streeter lifted one of the lids on his massive outdoor smoker.
Tomorrow’s Downtown Comes Into View
by | Jul 16, 2020 12:19 pm | Comments (8)
Approved 101 College design.
Amid praise for a “gutsy” scaling down of new parking, developer Carter Winstanley’s proposed new ten-story bioscience tower at 101 College St. sailed through its site plan review approval.
Buddy Toth Releases Music On A Lark
by | Jul 16, 2020 11:20 am | Comments (0)
“Lapis Lazuli,” the first song from Buddy Toth’s LARK•SPUR, opens with a sunny guitar and a soothing vocal that sounds just like the weather outside.
It picks up momentum with the help of a shaker and a little piano, as vocal and guitar weave around each other, but it never loses its sense of sunny idyll. Why should it change? In the same way that one can spend an entire afternoon under the shade of a tree on a warm summer day, once you’re there, there’s no particular reason to leave.
Best Video Bluegrass Goes The Distance
by | Jul 15, 2020 9:04 am | Comments (0)
Allison Hadley Photo
Chris Wuerth — bluegrass musician and purveyor of fine acoustic music at Best Video Film & Cultural Center in the Before Times under the guise of GuitarTown productions — strummed his guitar as a half-dozen or so musicians assembled around him. Plucking chords that felt as golden as the setting sun’s light on Monday, he grinned lightly as each musician showed up, also smiling. Though this particular session was the seventh time a select few musicians had gotten together to play as safely as they could, the first word to describe the atmosphere was ‘“reunion.”
Next Door Comes Out Singing
by | Jul 14, 2020 10:06 am | Comments (1)
Standing in the corner of the back room at Next Door on Saturday evening, Seth Adam rearranged his mask without dropping a beat. The rhythm he had looped stayed steady behind him, and he turned the pause into something musically dramatic, then kept going, singing, and into a lithe solo.
“That was tough with a mask on,” he said at the end, when the audience gave him its applause. He mused on the possibility of having a mask that would somehow make it easier to perform music while wearing one. “Someone’s going to design one — you know it.”
Fiction Delivers A Virtual Buzz
by | Jul 13, 2020 9:41 am | Comments (0)
Karen Ponzio Photos
Fiction.
As New Haven businesses slowly reopen and try to accommodate those looking to re-enter the world under less restricted Covid-19 guidelines, some of its more revered traditions, like nightly local live music, are still mostly on hold and searching for alternate ways to return. The Sunday Buzz at Cafe Nine, presented by Cygnus Radio and typically featuring a wide variety of local acts from all genres as well as a tight-knit group of regular patrons, came back the only way it could yesterday, via live stream on social media.
Statue Readied To Honor “Black Governor”
by | Jul 10, 2020 2:42 pm | Comments (4)
Dana King photo
The head and, behind, the body of the new William Lanson statue coming to the Farmington Canal.
Sculptor King working in her Oakland studio.
A seven-foot-tall bronze statue of William “King” Lanson will soon stand along the Farmington Canal — giving a permanent, public, and highly visible form to a Black New Havener who helped build the modern city.
In Texas And Arizona Far Away
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (0)
Ted LIttleford
When people die far away
When my mother used to say
Free As Birds Comes Full Circle
by | Jul 10, 2020 10:05 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
Burnet.
Given that it was made sometime in the past six weeks or so, S.G. Carlson’s “Your Guess” sounds like an oasis, effortlessly breezy and peaceful. It doesn’t feel like escapism; it feels like solace. Same goes for Alex Burnet’s “Til I Stop Crying,” which speaks both of the ultimate impermanence of things, but their dependability until that time comes, whether it’s tears or the determination to keep going. Xavier Serrano’s chiming, pulsing guitar and bouncing melody balances the sting of his lyrics: “They say life is but a game we play,” he sings, “yet there are no winners at the end of the road.”
Today’s Toons
by | Jul 9, 2020 11:41 am | Comments (0)
Ted Littleford
Musical Intervention Keeps The Door Open
by | Jul 9, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
Keyshon Harvin stood in front of the microphone in the isolation booth at Musical Intervention, laying down vocals. He was singing a melody, the words and music of which he had created, over a melancholy slow jam. Matt Scully, who was producing the track, gave Harvin a few quick instructions. “You’re going to hear a count of four,” Scully said to Harvin. Then Harvin could start singing.
“He’ll just lock in,” said Musical Intervention founder Adam Christoferson. “He’s a pro.”