New Haven Riff Raff Find Love As Apocalypse Rages Alynda Segarra sells out the hall and injects hope in hard times on latest tour. Dereen Shirnekhi 28 Jul 2025 · 4 min read
New Haven Snake Hill Blues Gets Gritty For the first time, WNHH’s Tuesdays @ the Mediterranea Cafe concert series featured a saxophone, a harmonica, and a golden trumpet — though the last wasn’t making any sound. That Dereen Shirnekhi 15 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Always Morning Brings The Heat At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a Dereen Shirnekhi 21 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Love n’Co Brings The Love In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands Dereen Shirnekhi 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Waxahatchee Rises Waxahatchee Toad’s Place New Haven April 25, 2024 “I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.” It was a refrain I’d heard maybe Dereen Shirnekhi 26 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Split Coils Grinds The Hookah Lounge After a day of driving heavy machinery, Joe Ballaro plugged in his bass, and the show began. “We are lost and a long way from found,” sang J. Russell, lead Dereen Shirnekhi 18 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Orange Street Goes To Hell In the backroom lounge of Mediterranea Cafe, among centuries-old hookah pipes and patterned cushions, a fairy rising from the Underworld sang about darkness — and love, too. Hell Fairy is made Dereen Shirnekhi 11 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Empanada Universe Expands Madeline’s Empanaderia 86 Spring St. Madeline, the 11-year-old cello player who is also the namesake of a Hill empanaderia, likes the Guava Lava her mother serves there — it’s Dereen Shirnekhi 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
