by | Jun 16, 2015 12:16 pm | Comments (4)
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Whitaker, who is battling systemic scleroderma, says good-bye.
Student dancers who learned their first steps in Fair Haven School’s auditorium returned to perform for a woman preparing to take her last.
by | Jun 12, 2015 2:26 pm | Comments (0)
Lucy Gellman Photo
“I know we have some competition,” Kellie Ann Lynch half-laughed, gesturing to a swelling union rally just across the lower Green. Over her small but steady voice, chants carried from City Hall to the small Temple Street stage on which she stood.
by | Jun 1, 2015 1:42 pm | Comments (3)
When the opening bars of Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” rang through speakers at Trowbridge Square Park at 3 p.m. Sunday, Hill neighbors stopped what they were doing to dance together.
by | May 8, 2015 1:03 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel
Bowens, at left, with teachers Hall and Rodriguez.
Salsa’s coming to Westville — not the sauce, but the equally spicy Afro-Caribbean rhythms of Alisa’s House of Salsa.
by | May 1, 2015 11:41 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
“Here comes the sun!” an onlooker said. “We got the sun up.”
“We may not be responsible for getting it over the real horizon,” joked one of the members of New Haven Morris and Sword. “But we did get it over the mountains.”
by | Apr 17, 2015 3:31 pm | Comments (0)
May Day, museums, Harvey Milk, Fahd Mustafa, the Paul Mellon Lectures, the Mafia, A Million Years of Music, Richard Thompson’s A Thousand Years of Popular Music. This week in New Haven is brought to you by the letter “M.”
by | Mar 27, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Unit G-2, aka “The Submarine,” before last week’s raid.
When I first came to Daggett Street Square in 2007, I was taken by its rambling hallways, its pulley-operated elevator. The building may not have been insulated, but it was insular. By that time, few live-work spaces remained in New Haven. There had been others — on River Street; in the Munniemaker cigar factory on State Street; at Chapel and Church, above what is now Gotham Citi — all now shut down.
Now we can add Daggett Street Square to the list: Last week officials ordered it cleared out.
David Lasala Photo
David Lasala.
by | Mar 20, 2015 12:44 pm | Comments (0)
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Franz Hautzinger and Isabelle Duthoit started the evening at the Big Room standing alone, Duthoit’s hands at her side, Hautzinger’s trumpet in his hands. He peered out into the audience of 30 or so expectant New Haveners.
“Can we turn off that machine there?” he said.
by | Feb 22, 2015 11:13 am | Comments (0)
Brian Slattery Photo
The Yale-China Association‘s annual Lunarfest in celebration of the Lunar New Year kicked off once again with a parade up Whitney Avenue from Grove to Trumbull on Saturday.
by | Feb 9, 2015 9:30 am | Comments (2)
Allan Appel Photo
The Southern Connecticut State University Fighting Owl T‑shirts hung big on the shoulders of (in the front row) little Samia Virga, Alberto Cosme, and Melanie Peralta.
That was precisely the point: To grow into them.
by | Jan 30, 2015 12:00 pm | Comments (0)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Ten minutes into a run-through of Almost Porcelain, her feet moving frenetically across the floor, Kellie Ann Lynch looked over to the right side of the large, spare room, locking eyes with a few audience members for a single moment.
“Can you pause it?” she asked fellow dancer Alicia White, whose body had stilled for a moment by a large speaker, out of which strains of staccato, minimalist music and operatic interludes had come flying minutes earlier.
Continue reading ‘With “Almost Porcelain,” Elm City Dance Goes Strong’
by | Dec 29, 2014 9:23 am | Comments (27)
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In a 2012 National Public Radio interview with host Michael Martin, Duke University’s Mark Anthony Neal, a professor of African American studies, discussed whether Kwanzaa is less important to African-American culture now than in the 1980s and ‘90s. “Is Kwanzaa still a thing?” the host wanted to know.
by | Dec 8, 2014 9:27 am | Comments (3)
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Winfred Rembert
It was expected that the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s annual arts award ceremony, held at the New Haven Lawn Club on Friday, would be a celebration. It also ended up being one of unexpected emotion and depth.
by | Nov 10, 2014 2:46 pm | Comments (2)
Bill Fisher laughed a deep, full-bellied laugh into the microphone. His dreads shifted and bounced wildly as he swung and hopped between dancers, giving directions to couples who looked a little lost.
by | Nov 3, 2014 9:16 am | Comments (0)
A little rain still couldn’t stop the dead from marching from downtown New Haven to Fair Haven.
by | Sep 12, 2014 12:09 pm | Comments (0)
Lucy Gellman Photo
All was quiet on Yale’s Cross Campus. A student worked on her laptop, taking advantage of the last whispers of summer still in the air as she typed out one of her first papers. A group of runners passed, urging each other on once or twice as they scaled the stairs by Sterling Library. Someone’s phone went off on one of the benches that surround the area, sending a quick pulse of light into the air.
by | Jun 26, 2014 6:00 pm | Comments (0)
The Events—one of the key, ahem, events of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas 2014 — might strike you, if you just read a description of it — as horrifically despressing. It’s not, even though it is indeed about the psychological motives of mass murderers.
Since it involves two actors, a pianist and a choir, you might peg The Events, sight unseen, as abstract. It’s not. It has characters, dialogue that goes somewhere, and a neat ending.
Continue reading ‘Arnott’s Arts & Ideas Diary: Installment Eight’
by | Jun 16, 2014 1:08 pm | Comments (0)
Two hundreds of pounds of kettle corn were sold by a single food vendor on the Green Saturday. That’s what we call economic impact, folks.
Continue reading ‘Arnott’s Arts & Ideas Diary: Installment Two’
by | Jun 3, 2014 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
Meagan Jordan Photo
At the age of 10 Lisa Sandborn was one of three children chosen out of 600 to perform in the Nutcracker Ballet — propelling her to a career in dance. She now wants to make the same dream come true for young people in New Haven.
by | May 19, 2014 12:43 pm | Comments (0)
Allan Appel Photo
Floyd LeSane (foreground) showed that it wasn’t only energetic youngsters in drill teams who could go high-steppin’.
In white gloves and tassled fezzes, LeSane and his colleagues from New Haven Shriners’ Arabic Temple No. 40 were one of the crowd stoppers Sunday afternoon among more than 30 teams, bands, small businesses, and organizations participating in the 52nd annual Freddie Fixer Parade.
by | May 7, 2014 1:48 pm | Comments (1)
They showed off the cross-over step, the cha-cha, and the walk and wobble.
by | Apr 28, 2014 11:38 am | Comments (0)
Kathleen Cei Photo
“Do you want to see the statues come to life?” asked a woman with a mask painted on her face, wearing a long, sheer, white skirt that flowed in the wind.
Continue reading ‘Living Statues Roam The Green With “Mirrors”’
by | Apr 4, 2014 1:11 pm | Comments (1)
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Rabbi Tasman, who’s leading a 3-week yoga-havdalah series.
Back in the ancient old days Jewish high priests prostrated themselves, only once or so a year. At a newly organized religious service in town, combining yoga and Jewish practice, everyone, Jew and gentile alike, not only hugged the ground frequently in the pigeon and other demanding poses. They also did the downward facing dog and then arced upward toward heaven in the peaceful warrior.
by | Feb 14, 2014 1:22 pm | Comments (7)
Melissa Bailey Photo
Giana Palafox, Joanel Felix Torres, Noel Conde, Nereida Lucero Ortega, Freddys Castro, Katherine Gomez, Josiah Alejandro, and Yesenia Lopez.
Flanked by Frankie the Falcon and some grown-up cheerleaders, hundreds of students in grades pre‑K to 8 took the stage in a school-wide dance performance aimed at motivating kids to go to college.
by | Feb 2, 2014 2:32 pm | Comments (2)
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The Chinese Year of the Horse may have just started but it was a pair of lions, gulping offerings from parade goers lining Whitney Avenue and occasionally stopping to perform ritual dances at business thresholds, that got most of the attention at a celebratory kick-off parade.