New Haven Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass, The Audiobook “When we were, like, 15, 16, me and my best friend Trig used to go record shopping. And it was weird. Our local record store had this counter with all Brian Slattery 4 Sep 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Paint An Ailing Planet In Vivid Color They’re eyes, but they’re taking in a universe of shifting shapes and colors. The piercing structures of the irises only accentuate how the rest of the eyes are Brian Slattery 28 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three Albums Welcome The Young Guard Short chords from electric piano and synthesizer set the mood, contemplative but with a pulse. “Estoy aquí / ya estuve allá / ya fui feliz / y acaba mal,” Ene de Nadie croons Brian Slattery 27 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Black & Brown Artists Abstract Origins Howard el-Yasin’s My Mother’s Hose hangs at one end of Orchid Gallery in The Lab at ConnCORP, redolent with associations without landing definitively on a single one. From Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Makes The Mythology Ralph Levesque’s Match Maker, at first glance, looks like religious art, from the halo encircling one of the figures to the positions of the figures in relation to each Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Photography Show Sees Through Younger Eyes Bethany Edwards’s The Eye of the Beholder is both formal and relaxed. It’s formal in the staged positioning of the two subjects, the way that (it appears) they Brian Slattery 25 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Get Constructive Ariel Bintang’s pieces can be understood as abstractions of figurative landscapes. The color choices, of vivid greens, blues, and oranges, don’t happen much in the real world, and Brian Slattery 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven TikTok-Revived Play Pits “Teenagers Against The World” Ride the Cyclone, which ran this weekend at Whitneyville Cultural Commons in a production mounted by Magnolia Theatre Company, tells the story of six teenagers — Ocean O’Connor Rosenberg (Chloe Brian Slattery 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Embrace Change, Transformation A preoccupation with change suffuses a few of the solo shows at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, running now through Aug. 4. Brian Slattery 23 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Humans Is On The Fritz” Surviving techno-dystopia, with the help of New Haven-based Sotolish’s new EP Neon Black. Brian Slattery 22 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Mythology Made Natural Even without knowing the name of the piece, the figure represented there looks like a mythological personage, a character freighted with symbols. It’s there in the decorations on her Brian Slattery 19 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Photographer Sees America, Unfiltered It’s a road in the Southwest, and the photograph’s exposure emphasizes the blasting sun and shadows it makes. The weathered face of the subject, the cast of his Brian Slattery 16 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “You Smell Too Good” 4 bands keep it tight at 3 Sheets. Brian Slattery 15 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven West African Kora Master Hypnotizes Cafe 9 The chitchat at Cafe Nine on Wednesday might have been getting a little intense, but a flourish of notes from the 21-string kora of Madou Sidiki Diabaté was enough to Brian Slattery 11 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Youth Artists Make The Case For Peace In international traveling exhibit. Brian Slattery 10 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven It Was All A Dream NXTHVN’s new show welcomes rest and relaxation. Brian Slattery 5 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Become Curators Jennifer Knaus’s portrait pulls in the viewer in five different ways. There’s the vivid color choices, the exquisitely rendered, phantasmagorically fecund hair. But perhaps more than anything, there’ Brian Slattery 5 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Salsa & Afropop Find Unity In Rhythm At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice, Brian Slattery 1 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
