by | Jul 8, 2020 4:39 pm | Comments (12)
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Duc Nguyen shows off Vietnamese street food at his now-closed restaurant.
After four years of serving up lemongrass tofu banh mi and other Vietnamese street food downtown, Duc’s Place has closed for good, the latest commercial casualty of the Covid-19 economic crisis.
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by | Jul 8, 2020 10:59 am | Comments (0)
Over “Arabesque Cookie” by Duke Ellington, New Haven-based musician and poet Puma Simone intoned the names of Black women who had died at the hands of police. Simone mentioned that they had been going to therapy lately. “What are you feeling right now?” they recalled their therapist asking.
“Anger,” they replied.
by | Jul 7, 2020 11:18 am | Comments (3)
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Polly Gulliver picks up a pair of Jo Nesbø novels.
For the first time since Covid-19 hit, Polly Gulliver resumed a cherished activity: borrowing a hardcover book from the library.
by | Jul 7, 2020 9:19 am | Comments (1)
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Smith.
The full band comes out charging with a monstrous beat, a trumpet line slashing through it all. Then the band takes it all apart. Guitar and trumpet jab at each other, then wail across the room at each other as the band pounds back into the rhythm. It’s ferocious playing for a ferocious time, and it’s the product of an instantly galvanizing pairing of San Francisco-based experimental punks Deerhoof and New Haven-based creative music titan Wadada Leo Smith.
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by | Jul 6, 2020 9:39 am | Comments (0)
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DJ Mo Niklz and Ceschi Ramos.
“Build us a holiday / out of straw and out of sticks / out of claws and out of bricks / out of gauze and spit. / We’re alive, barely alive, but we’re alive! / We’re alive, barely alive, but we’re alive!”
Ceschi Ramos repeatedly sang that last line until it became a scream. It is a line his fans have sung and screamed along with him repeatedly at his live shows, but on Friday evening, as he sang them to the camera with only DJ Mo Niklz behind him, they rang truer than ever
Ramos was the final act of the latest installment of Fake Four Friday, the now weekly Fake Four, Inc. event broadcast on Twitch that has been bringing an ever-changing lineup live streaming from a variety of locations all over the world since May 15.
by | Jul 3, 2020 12:46 pm | Comments (5)
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When the British finally left New York
We declared an Evacuation Day
by | Jul 3, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (6)
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Beer Collective co-owners Sklar and Davis.
A Court Street craft beer bar has shut off its taps and closed its doors for good — becoming downtown’s latest small-business casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic.
by | Jul 3, 2020 10:11 am | Comments (0)
Susan Tabachnick
Blades. Surgical pliers. A length of wire. Who used them, and for what exact purpose, remains unknown. But used they were, and then discarded and collected by artist Susan Tabachnick. She then made them into new art for a show called “Artifacts,” running now until July 12 at Da Silva Gallery on Whalley Avenue in Westville. The gallery, operating under the guidelines for maintaining social distancing, is open by appointment.
by | Jul 3, 2020 10:00 am | Comments (5)
IfeMichelle Gardin participating in Thursday evening’s forum.
What could a “village mentality” look like in New Haven?
Less white saviorism from nonprofits and college students swooping in to help, IfeMichelle Gardin posited. More community-generated programs rooted in neighbor-to-neighbor relationships.
by | Jul 3, 2020 9:57 am | Comments (0)
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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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REINALDO GOEYENECHEA/ LA VOZ HISPANA
by | Jul 2, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (0)
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.
by | Jul 1, 2020 2:33 pm | Comments (0)
by | Jul 1, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (1)
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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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by | Jun 30, 2020 11:44 am | Comments (0)
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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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by | Jun 29, 2020 2:57 pm | Comments (0)
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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.
by | Jun 29, 2020 10:48 am | Comments (11)
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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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Reinaldo Goeyenechea/ La Voz Hispana
“I stay until 2036”
by | Jun 25, 2020 2:26 pm | Comments (1)
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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.
by | Jun 25, 2020 10:16 am | Comments (1)
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.