New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Hip Hop Artists Are No Imitation “Hello several people, rap professionals, and various cool people,” said Sketch Tha Cataclysm from the Three Sheets stage, as he and fellow New Haven hip hop stalwart Mo Niklz hosted Brian Slattery 25 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Create Connection Amid Struggle “Observe,” Omola Studio’s second installment of APRiL (Artists Prospering Really is Limitless), features works by De, Kulimushi Barongozi, Kaelynne Hernandez, Miguel Mendoza, and Rex Morris. The first iteration happened Brian Slattery 22 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Finds Holiness In The Ruins It’s the shape of an ancient Middle Eastern cityscape, verandahs and towers, arched doorways and windows like peeping eyes. But it’s not anywhere near the Middle East; it’ Brian Slattery 12 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ghost Funk Orchestra, Marco Benevento Achieve Liftoff In front of a packed house that was ready to have fun, two touring acts — the New York City-based Ghost Funk Orchestra and the Woodstock, N.Y.-based Marco Benevento Brian Slattery 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven From Cameroon, With Futuristic Hope A triple bill at Cafe Nine on Saturday Night featured a stunning set of music from Blick Bassy. Born in Cameroon and now living in France, the 50-year-old Bassy has Brian Slattery 8 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Chappell Roan Rides The Next Wave The jury is still out on whether American culture, or the music industry, can create another superstar, like Michael Jackson or Prince, like Madonna or Bruce Springsteen. Maybe Beyoncé, now Brian Slattery 4 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Songwriter Series Comes To Cafe Nine Pete Greco had a series of requests for the audience at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night. Did anyone know how to tune a guitar? Did anyone have any tattoos? The Brian Slattery 3 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Earth Is Breaking Beautifully Susan Hoffman Fishman’s painting seems at first to be an abstract, full of brilliant colors and bold lines. Soon, though, one can see how it’s derived from natural Brian Slattery 2 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Gallery Goes Beyond“The Scream” The Yale University Art Gallery’s show “Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression” — running now through June 23 on the gallery’s fourth floor at 1111 Chapel St. — begins with Brian Slattery 22 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Explode The Runway Sandy Clafford’s trio of paintings take over the space near the window of the Institute Library’s upstairs gallery for the show “Look Book” — running now through May 23 Brian Slattery 21 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Punks Rock For Choice Addie and Jacey of the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America declared themselves “thrilled” to be on Cafe Nine’s stage Tuesday night. The DSA is involved in a number of Brian Slattery 20 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Firehouse 12 Ignites New Jazz Season Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith opened Firehouse 12’s spring season of shows at its concert space, recording studio, and bar on Crown Street with a fiery set of Laubrock’s Brian Slattery 19 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone” Lets Everyone Understand Escaped Alone Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel St. Through March 30, 2024 A group of women are talking together in a garden, under the shade of a tree. In the Brian Slattery 15 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Wow, Okay, Cool As a heavy rainstorm pounded the pavement outside on State and Crown, drummers pounded skins inside Cafe Nine, propelling a night of raucous guitar, muscular bass, and vocals that pushed Brian Slattery 7 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Haven Theater Company Cries It Out New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends Brian Slattery 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Walk The Path The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist Brian Slattery 22 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
Raleigh/ Durham/ Chapel Hill Yankee Goes Whole Hog On Eastern N. Carolina BBQ The Pig Chapel Hill, N.C. 2/17/24 Before me sat a plate of pork, hush puppies, coleslaw, and pickles. Behind that, because I’d insisted on trying more Brian Slattery 19 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
