by | Apr 2, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (2)
As the evening light began to fade on Pearl Street, a message began to appear in one of the first-floor windows. The letters emerged from a warm, yellow field of fabric: “Fear is a terrible driver and a worse tour guide.”
It was the third of many projected daily messages that are the latest project from artist Martha Lewis, who, like many artists, is adapting to practicing art during the Covid-19 outbreak.
by | Apr 1, 2020 10:35 am | Comments (1)
Before Sam Haller’s “anchors aweigh” booty shorts graced the pages of The Guardian this week while he pretended to eat a doll’s head, before they were written up around the world, and before comforters were recognized as accurate renaissance garments, four roommates were chatting on a Google hangout in quarantine.
by | Apr 1, 2020 10:23 am | Comments (4)
For you.. doctors and nurses. Thank you thank you for your tireless service and humanity. 🙏Andrius Zlabys for your music composition
Posted by Susan Clinard on Thursday, March 26, 2020
The video only lasts a minute, but it seems longer, in the best sense. In it, sculptor Susan Clinard lets us see one of her latest pieces from all angles, as the piece slowly rotates. Two figures stand in the center of it. They have each others’ backs. The face masks identify them as health care workers. And they’re engaged in the simple gesture of laying hands on ailing patients. Andrius Zlabys’s accompanying piece guides us in our reaction. The central figures’ gestures are kindnesses that carry risk, and the piece is bearing witness — to the danger nurses and doctors face, and their bravery in facing it.
by | Mar 31, 2020 12:03 pm | Comments (1)
Forgive me for thinking you’re always just there
by | Mar 30, 2020 10:51 am | Comments (2)
Bowens-Mercado with husband John Mercado in video class.
One, two, three, HIP, five, six, seven, HIP!
I counted to myself while trying to copy Alisa Bowens-Mercado’s bachata moves over Facebook Live.
by | Mar 30, 2020 9:58 am | Comments (1)
Manny James, clad in a black bathrobe, was a third of the way through his set Sunday afternoon. He had just finished covering Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” when Corey, playing keyboards, approached the camera to make sure everything was in working order.
“This is what you do when you’re in quarantine with your bros,” he said. “You got to have music to feed your soul.”
by | Mar 27, 2020 12:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Ceschi.
Ceschi knows what it’s like to live through a wave of unexpected deaths — and come out the other side with a reality-based determination to keep living and creating.
by | Mar 27, 2020 12:22 pm | Comments (0)
Continue reading ‘Ventilators, Herd Immunity, And A Pandemic Sabbath’
by | Mar 27, 2020 10:05 am | Comments (1)
Coggins.
The piano has the feel of something that belongs in church. with its rolling notes and easy swing. Yolanda Coggins’s voice floats over those notes, resting comfortably in that big American musical space that nourishes R&B, jazz, and gospel. But the words — “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers — / That perches in the soul — / And sings the tune without the words — And never stops — at all —” — don’t come from any particular musical tradition, but rather from the pen of famous New England poet Emily Dickinson.
New Haven-area musician Rob Nelson has been setting Dickinson’s poems to music and releasing recordings of that music for months now. In the thick of the Covid-19 outbreak, he’s finding that the “guerrilla tactics” he’s been using to make an album’s worth of material are letting him keep going.
by | Mar 26, 2020 7:09 pm | Comments (0)
Keep taking the family out to eat, strengthen the economy … get out
by | Mar 26, 2020 11:53 am | Comments (1)
Posted by Illustrator and Artist: Amie Ziner on Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Chuckles, a ring-necked African dove in mid-molt, is perched on the top of his cage, strutting, cooing, and preening. Artist and educator Amie Ziner explains that “preening is what birds do to clean their feathers and to make them more usable for flying. Now, Chuckles can’t fly, not because he was ever hurt or anything, but because he has special feathers.” Feathers, Ziner explains, that she talked about the day before.
by | Mar 26, 2020 10:57 am | Comments (2)
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Arts Council Executive Director Daniel Fitzmaurice on Thursday’s Zoom announcement.
Artists in New Haven can now apply for a $1,000 check to help with the economic downturn created by the Covid-19 public health crisis.
This New Haven Creative Sector Relief Fund launches on Thursday, through the efforts of the city arts department and the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
by | Mar 25, 2020 5:04 pm | Comments (4)
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by | Mar 25, 2020 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Elison Jackson.
“We’re lucky,” said Sam Perduta of Elison Jackson. “Paul” — as in, Paul Mayer, owner of Cafe Nine — “asked us to hop on a show at Cafe Nine a couple of weeks ago with the Yawpers, and it was really fun. I’m glad we said yes. It was one of our best shows, and I guess our last for a while.”
Continue reading ‘Elison Jackson Returns With “Caught One In The Jaw”’
by | Mar 25, 2020 10:50 am | Comments (6)
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Moon Rocks owner Marni Esposito (at right): Doubts shop will survive.
With chairs stacked on tables after Gov. Ned Lamont ordered all dine-in restaurant service closed on March 16, most Hamden restaurateurs have managed to stay afloat for now with deliveries and takeout. But they’re scraping the bottom of the pan, they said, and some may soon be baking their last batches and flipping their last pies.
by | Mar 24, 2020 3:37 pm | Comments (2)
Who doesn’t enjoy washing hands
With prompting even little kids do
by | Mar 24, 2020 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
The art of stumbling onto concerts has almost never been easier as the local performance world takes to Facebook live.
by | Mar 24, 2020 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
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“Turns out this was a pretty big bite … but I’ll be bored when it’s done,” said Alex Burnet, singer and guitarist for Laundry Day, the Proud Flesh and others, of In This Day And Age, a solo EP he spontaneously decided to record over the past week. We spoke as Burnet was putting the finishing touches on his self-recorded and self-produced album, conceived of and put to tape entirely over the week since he was furloughed (of sorts) from his day job, cooking for Next Door on Humphrey Street.
by | Mar 23, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (2)
First of all, I am not out to get you, personally
I don’t even know who you are
by | Mar 23, 2020 2:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Moodie Black
Ten days ago Kris Martinez of the Minneapolis-based Moodie Black — an artist on the New Haven-based record label Fake Four — was talking about noise rap and her next show in New Haven at The State House, which would precede an overseas tour that included a release show for the new album Fuzz. Since then, New Haven has gone virtually silent with cancelled shows and closed venues, and the future has gotten quite fuzzy for all performing artists. For Martinez, however, one thing is clear: The music lives on.
by | Mar 20, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (3)
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Chris Randall Photo
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From his car, sidelined photog launches “Porch-Ritz” portrait project outside New Haveners’ homes — and helps keep a community stitched together, person by person.
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:47 pm | Comments (0)
Cover art by Paul Belbusti
Corinthian album cover
“When we levitate we’ll levitate above the moon
When we levitate we’ll levitate above the moon
We’ll go in stages.
We’ll go in chains.
And then we’ll break free
The bird and the arrow”
And just like that, Paul Belbusti of Mercy Choir breaks free of expectation and ennui, bringing forth a new album, Corinthian, in which he lays himself bare lyrically as well as musically at a time when just about everyone else in the world is also feeling raw and exposed.
by | Mar 19, 2020 7:29 pm | Comments (0)
by | Mar 18, 2020 12:37 pm | Comments (1)
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Oliveras.
J. Pierpont Finch is making sparks fly in the boardroom, giving them the old razzle dazzle. He’s got moves. He’s got flair. He’s got charts and buzzwords. The only thing he doesn’t have is a good idea. And the idea he does have, isn’t his. But does that even matter?
Continue reading ‘Virus Deters High School Theater — For Now’
by | Mar 18, 2020 12:34 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven Climate Movement’s Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event.
On Monday, March 9, from 4 to 5 p.m, at the courthouse steps at the corner of Elm and Church streets, New Haven Climate Movement held a Girls Speak Out for Climate Justice event to have young women and girls share their thoughts and call for action on the growing climate disaster. Leaders of different youth climate organizations spoke alongside other high school age students. The Speak Out was followed by a social in the Library Performance Space with trivia, food, and educational videos. This event was organized in solidarity with International Women’s Day.