“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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Brian Slattery |
Jun 22, 2020 9:21 am
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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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Brian Slattery |
Jun 19, 2020 10:15 am
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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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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 18, 2020 9:45 am
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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.
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Maya McFadden & Courtney Luciana |
Jun 17, 2020 8:40 pm
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Rowan Huber and Stephen Hankey at Wednesday’s commencement.
Cowbells rung, gold glitter was thrown, prom dresses were worn after all, and students were riding large (in limos and party buses) to graduation for Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School drive-through commencement ceremony for its 150 graduates.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 17, 2020 12:23 pm
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A new mural on Route 1 at the New Haven-West Haven border marked the spot for a candlelight vigil in honor of hip hop pioneer Steve “Stezo” Williams, who was born and raised in New Haven and died in April at the age of 52.
As the pandemic hit the global pause button, New Haven’s musicians have been digging into their vaults to make the music of the past available again, from live recordings to studio mixes from decades ago, making what’s old new again.
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Maya McFadden |
Jun 15, 2020 11:01 am
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“We are responsible, strong and safe,” said Dixwell resident and neighborhood organizer Fred Christmas, whose vision to recognize and thank his neighborhood celebrated Saturday.
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Allison Hadley |
Jun 15, 2020 10:25 am
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Wise Old Moon — playing the kind of music that would order a shot of bourbon with its beer, all cowboy chords and a telecaster twang — took the digital stage on Friday, presented by Pine & Iron, New Haven’s premiere axe-throwing venue, to raise money via digital tip jar for the Connecticut Food Bank, whose resources have been stretched thin after months of high unemployment and food insecurity on the part of many, many Connecticut residents.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 12, 2020 10:50 am
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Bush.
A tree’s roots crawl across a sewer grate. A fetching white bird named Murphy cocks its head for the camera. Stars unfold over a wire fence.
These and many other photographs by New Haven-based photographer Joy Bush comprise “Where I Go Is What I See” — the first exhibition for City Gallery’s reopening from quarantine on Saturday, June 13. The photographs are selected from pictures Bush has taken on daily walks of about four miles for the past five years.
“It became a practice for me,” Bush said, of “figuring out what I wanted to show.”
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Maliya Ellis |
Jun 11, 2020 2:18 pm
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Police brutality is supported by “antiseptic” language in the Constitution and by several Supreme Court decisions, according to criminal law professor Ekow Yankah.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 11, 2020 10:20 am
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Qrcky (l.) and S. Darius Parker (r.)
Anxious; Loud .
Two online exhibitions at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art speak to the up-to-the-minute concerns of our time, and the deeper problems that have always been with us.
