New Haven Island On My Mind The diptych, by Robert De Matteo, offers two shapes that strongly echo each other, but are from quite different models. Brian Slattery 11 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven City Gallery Opens Wide For Open Studios Rita Hannafin’s Float hangs in the midst of City Gallery’s latest show on Upper State Street, a quilt of bright, shifting colors, surprising shapes, dynamic contrasts, and ultimately, cohesion. Brian Slattery 10 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three New Albums Put The Heart On The Line “Good Morning Heartache,” the opening track on Christian Sands’s latest album, Embracing Dawn, begins with a warm, gently unfolding gesture from the piano, an easing into consciousness. Brian Slattery 9 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves? Do you have a mind’s eye, the ability to not just remember, but visualize the past? Do you have an interior monologue? Rich childhood memories, full of sights, sounds, and smells? Brian Slattery 1 Oct 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Cornet-Piano Duo Frees Up The Space Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there Brian Slattery 30 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper... Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Trees Are Alive In the short film Dendrostalkers, the view is from the driver’s seat of a car curving along a dirt road through a forest at night. Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
New Haven Art Helps Clients Cope The pill bottles hang suspended in the air, a testament to their ubiquity and the damage they cause. Behind them are arrayed a series of facts and statistics about drug Brian Slattery 25 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Shoots Artwork Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness Brian Slattery 24 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Unleash My High-School Angst” Deerlady — a songwriting project of Abrego and Obomsawin, which started its tour in August in New Mexico and wound its way here in New Haven this past weekend — established itself Brian Slattery 23 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Dance Yourself Clean As 3 bands make room for pop at Cafe 9. Brian Slattery 19 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Mykonos Blues Judy Atlas takes an abstract trip, at City Gallery. Brian Slattery 18 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven There’s A Face In That Tree Kehler Liddell photo exhibition watches light trick the mind. Brian Slattery 17 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Gogol Bordello Unleashes Positive Fury In an election cycle marked by acrimony and fractious divisiveness, the music at Toad’s on Friday — featuring international punk band Gogol Bordello, supported by label mates Puzzled Panther and Brian Slattery 16 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Make Light For a split second, the kid is in the hands of gravity, but you just know he’s going to be all right. Maybe it’s the matching pajamas that Brian Slattery 12 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven CT Folk Festival Bridges The Generations A flurry of rainstorms throughout the afternoon on Saturday didn’t keep the CT Folk Festival and Green Expo out of Edgerton Park — nor did it keep stalwart listeners away, Brian Slattery 9 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Trashes Never Ending Books That’s the point of a new exhibit. Brian Slattery 6 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Our Lady Of The Snacks It’s a famous picture, of a girl peeking into a window, and seems almost like a happy accident, a case of the photographer being in the right place at Brian Slattery 5 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
