by | Feb 5, 2025 9:16 am | Comments (1)
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J&J staple, arroz con gandules and maduro.
First sauté the peppers, garlic, and onions. Add your basic Caribbean spice mix, Adobo, then bring the pot of water to a boil. Pop in the gandules, or pigeon peas, add the arroz, the rice, cover, and cook on low heat for about an hour. And voila!, as they say in Spanish: arroz con gandules.
by | Feb 4, 2025 4:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Nunez (right) leads the way: "Like sports, the arts save kids."
“Get out your heads and get into your bodies!” Hillhouse High School dance teacher Millette Nunez instructed her students, as each of them danced to the upbeat rhythm of Afro-Caribbean guitar and drums.
by | Feb 4, 2025 10:00 am | Comments (2)
A still from "The Social Network."
The Yale Film Archive’s spring semester film series has been in full swing for a couple of weeks now, and in true form they have brought their A‑game with a variety of screenings that honor the all-time classics and the more recent additions to the canon of must-see films.
Never was that more evident than at their Saturday night screening of a 35mm print of David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” the 2010 film about Facebook’s origin and the resulting drama, from Harvard’s campus to the shores of Palo Alto and the dorm rooms and boardrooms in between.
by | Feb 3, 2025 8:33 pm | Comments (2)
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Jefferson announcing plans for 3rd annual Black Wall Street festival.
New Haven’s cultural affairs chief is bringing her diversity-focused toolkit to the cultural center of the Southeast.
Continue reading ‘Cultural Affairs Chief Headed For Atlanta’
by | Feb 1, 2025 6:53 pm | Comments (3)
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Oliver, age 5, and Andrew Swartzell of New Haven made a new friend Saturday at the the annual Lunar Fest Parade.
by | Jan 31, 2025 3:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Now Yale Cabaret show is "a moving meditation on grief, language, and how to navigate the disasters that befall us."
Grandmother/Bathtub
Yale Cabaret
Through Saturday night
“It’s the safest place to be!” Grandmother declares of the bathtub, where she has been for an indeterminate amount of time. Neither I nor Nat, her grandchild, can convincingly source or verify her claim. Regardless, it’s as good a place as any for the two of them to grieve the catastrophes of the past and steel themselves for the catastrophes of the future in this world premiere of Brian Dang’s play, part of the Yale Cabaret’s 57th season.
by | Jan 31, 2025 11:00 am | Comments (0)
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Edward Beverly (above) and Killian Dobroth (below) performing Thursday night at Musical Intervention Studios.
“You gotta be who you are,” Edward Beverly sang Thursday night in an alcove retail space beneath the suspended concrete planet known as the Temple Street Garage, “because that’s who you are.”
Continue reading ‘Musical Healing Home Needs An Intervention’
by | Jan 31, 2025 10:05 am | Comments (0)
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Joshua Roman performs in the WNHH FM studio.
Cindy told a story about having life as you know it taken from you, about wrestling with how to adjust to a new life, then accepting and moving on.
The story had no words.
by | Jan 30, 2025 10:28 am | Comments (0)
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Chris Brunetti of Trench CT.
Rage found an outlet in voices and beats as three Connecticut bands — Remedies, Trench CT, and Psycho Brat — took to the stage at Cafe Nine on Wednesday night. With newspaper headlines full of political tension, the bands’ sets of hardcore and punk made a place for release.
by | Jan 28, 2025 12:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Shaunda Holloway at Monday's opening reception. Below: reciting one of her poems.
Paint met rhythm Monday night at an opening reception in Westville for a new exhibition by a New Haven artist.
Continue reading ‘Shaunda Holloway Sings The Canvas Electric’
by | Jan 28, 2025 10:00 am | Comments (0)
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Albertus Prez Marc Camille (right), with Barbara Holden, Sandra McKinnie, Tonya Ricks, and Grant Ellis's face.
“His mother signed him up for the show!”
The Albertus Magnus College men’s basketball team, school president, basketball coach, and nearly 150 others gathered Monday night, clutching roses and blown up pictures of their favorite alum — now the star of the 29th season of a reality TV dating show.
Suddenly, there he was, on the Zoom screen and on their TVs: The Bachelor himself!
by | Jan 27, 2025 1:30 pm | Comments (0)
From an Askew album cover.
Ed Askew, a Yale-educated painter who achieved wider renown as a singer-songwriter, died in New York City on Jan. 4 at age 84. The venerable music publication NME described him as a “psychedelic folk musician.” People magazine called him a cult figure.
by | Jan 27, 2025 10:46 am | Comments (0)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant
Yale Schwarzman Center
New Haven
Jan. 25, 2025
Cécile McLorin Salvant, perhaps the jazz vocalist of the last decade, performed in New Haven Saturday in what she described as an evening of “pure fantasy.”
by | Jan 27, 2025 10:32 am | Comments (0)
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Old Milk Mooney harmonize with Ashly from Figurine.
I am officially declaring 2025 the year of the Cozy Musical Get Together after Sunday night’s Old Milk Mooney Birthday Show at Never Ending Books.
by | Jan 27, 2025 9:28 am | Comments (0)
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Legacy Girls -- Jasmine Johnson, Sonetta Lynn, and Kayla Morton -- perform at the second monthly edition of Tempo.
“When I say ‘word,’” Frank E. Brady told the crowd, “say the first word that comes the top of your head.”
by | Jan 24, 2025 3:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Focus trio's Mathew Munzner and Israel Corona-Galan (above) and Brendan Castro (below) crammed into the WNHH FM studio.
Fourteen years after Israel Corona-Galan started building guitars, he’s building original floral-themed tunes for his jazz trio.
by | Jan 24, 2025 2:38 pm | Comments (3)
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Seth Godfrey and Andy Piascik at Thursday's book talk.
When she was a teenager in New York City, Ellen Rubin got to know the family of Andrew Goodman, one of a trio of civil rights workers whose brutal murder by the Klu Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964 fueled a growing national outrage that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Those days and experiences sparked not only a social justice flame in her but also a career direction: “I became a nurse to learn first aid skills to help people in the revolution,” she recalled.
by | Jan 24, 2025 11:09 am | Comments (0)
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Destroy Lonely & lil88
Toad’s Place
New Haven
Jan. 24, 2025
Atlanta rapper Destroy Lonely stood elevated on the Toad’s stage Thursday night, illuminated by dramatic beams of light that cut through the haze, creating a cinematic atmosphere. From the audience, the experience was an all-encompassing sensory overload — the pounding bass, the vivid flashes of light, and the unrelenting energy of the crowd.
by | Jan 24, 2025 10:41 am | Comments (1)
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Lauren F. Walker and Chaundre Hall-Broomfield in Eden.
Eden
Yale Repertory Theatre
Through Feb. 8
Over the course of Eden, which opened this week at the Yale Rep, characters insist on the old adage that love makes you stupid.
by | Jan 24, 2025 7:00 am | Comments (0)
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Ali Kat and Gene Donaldson perform at the Old State House Food Court.
Ali Kat feat. Gene Donaldson
Old State House Food Court
Hartford
Jan. 22, 2025
The word that I would use to describe Ali Kat’s musical style is “soothing.” I don’t mean that it’s easy listening; she brought a level of intensity to “Midnight Rider” by the Allman Brothers Band with her gravelly voice, transforming the usually upbeat road song into a more contemplative reflection on the surprisingly dour lyrics.
by | Jan 22, 2025 7:00 am | Comments (0)
Alyssa (SZA) and Dreux (Keke Palmer) in One of Those Days
One of Them Days
Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 HD and IMAX
Manchester
Jan. 21, 2025
One of Them Days has a very simple premise: what kind of shenanigans would two women get into to raise $1,500 by the end of the day?
Continue reading ‘The Best & Brightest Have "One of Them Days"’
by | Jan 21, 2025 10:07 am | Comments (0)
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Host Croilot; “Ladies and gentlemen, are we ready for a slam?”
The Z Experience Poetry Slam on Monday saw a lot of changes from previous years, in introducing new hosts and a new competition format. But its commitments to making voices heard, diving deep into tough issues, and building community remained as central and strong as ever.
by | Jan 20, 2025 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Johnny Kraszewski, king for the day.
Ruling over the taps and the raffle tickets: King John “Johnny” Kraszewski.
by | Jan 20, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (1)
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Eneji Alunbe and Dyland Rowland performing at Three Sheets.
The Clutchtet
Three Sheets
Jan. 17, 2025
Elm Street was awash Friday night in the warm sounds of “The Clutchtet,” a jazz piano trio that is a semi-regular feature of the bandstand at Three Sheets.