New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Blue Velvet Suitcase Blue Velvet Suitcase is simple: a wooden chair, a small suitcase, a shirt from a uniform, neatly folded. It’s unassuming enough that it almost — almost — invites the viewer to Brian Slattery 24 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three Bands Keep The Fun In The Weird Sounds like nature. Sounds like video games. Choirs of unearthly voices and raspy tones from a saxophone. And people listening hard to build sounds together. All of this awaited the Brian Slattery 23 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Poetry Slam Keeps MLK Vision Alive Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A New “Star” Rises Guitar strings plucked with grace and care, voices keening in the air, and one of the most attentive audiences seen anywhere in months made for an intense and intimate evening Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Look At Beginning Again Hank Paper may have given his photograph the perfect title. Another Brand New Day is on one level just a normal street scene in Italy, but its vivid colors and Brian Slattery 12 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At City Gallery, “Blue Does Not Mean Sky” Judy Atlas’s Blue Flux can evoke dozens of things if you let it: a cityscape in the rain, a snow field, the inside of an ice crystal, with just Brian Slattery 11 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Jazz-Punk Takes Off Amid Bookshelves Nicholas Serrambana on bass came on with a prowling, acrobatic line. Jeff Dragan on electronics countered with purrs and hisses, as though from a virtual snake. Nick Di Maria played Brian Slattery 9 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Kevin Saint James Smokes The Owl Shop It was 9:30 on Wednesday evening at the Owl Shop on College Street and already the Kevin Saint James Band had relaxed into an easy swing. Plumes of smoke Brian Slattery 4 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A Year Of Reckoning In The Arts Organizational chaos. Art spaces closing their doors. And new collectives of artists forming to take matters into their own hands. For many in the arts scene, the year 2023 was Brian Slattery 22 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Musicians Pay Tribute To Shane MacGowan Gary Mezzi, a.k.a. Buzz Gordo (pictured above), beamed from behind a 12-string guitar on the stage of Cafe Nine Tuesday night. “This is a song about the demise Brian Slattery 21 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Rolls With The Temporary After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents. “I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but “sometimes I almost like Brian Slattery 19 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Questions The Questions The show of artist Amira Brown’s work, up now at the Mitchell Branch Library in Westville through the end of the month, doesn’t have a title, nor do Brian Slattery 18 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Kapelye Makes It“Nu Haven Style” “Turetskaya,” the opening number on the Nu Haven Kapelye’s new album, Nu Haven Style — to be officially released the day of the klezmer orchestra’s annual concert at Congregation Brian Slattery 13 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven First Youth Shakespeare Fest Marks Dramatic Success Cast members of Elm Shakespeare Teen Troupe’s production of Henry V burst onto the stage in a rush of sound and energy. “O, for a muse of fire that Brian Slattery 12 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Indie-Folk Favorites Darlingside, Field Guide Bring Solace To Space As the temperature outside dropped to feeling downright wintery, Space Ballroom in Hamden on Wednesday was filled with warmth, as indie-folk favorites Darlingside, with Field Guide opening, created a night Brian Slattery 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven How An Artist Sparked An Institution The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of Brian Slattery 6 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “The Truth Is Out There” Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the Brian Slattery 5 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
