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
New Haven “The Salvagers” Finds Hope In The Cold When we first meet Boseman Salvage Junior (Taylor A. Blackman), he’s shoveling snow, and turns it into a dance. The labor he’s doing can’t take away from Brian Slattery 1 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Tall Juan On Stilts Brings Elevated Guitar-Playing To Cafe 9 Sweeping music from cello and electronics that sounded as huge as the tide. A man on stilts, playing guitar, his hair nearly touching the ceiling. Another man singlehandedly turning the Brian Slattery 30 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven From The Kolkata Brassworks To A New Haven Gallery, Artists Explore The Meaning Of Home The photograph of a brass worker in Kolkata encompasses the weight of history and the immediacy of the present; it’s an image from decades ago, but it’s plausible Brian Slattery 29 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Walls Decked With Photographic Reflections Penrhyn Cook’s series of photographs, Holiday Reflections, are absorbing enough in their own right. Colorful and festive, the images are just askew enough to warrant a closer look. Are Brian Slattery 28 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 4 Bands Converge On 9 Brooklyn’s Silver Liz and Connecticut’s Private Liz, Audio Jane, and Cabins! East poured into a packed Cafe 9 Saturday night — and poured on the energy. Brian Slattery 20 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Put “Everything & Nothing” On View Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for Brian Slattery 17 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
