New Haven Artist Memorializes Fallen Beeches Struck by violence of fallen trees, Jay Bright picks up pastels. Dereen Shirnekhi 18 Oct 2026 · 5 min read
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 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 Dereen Shirnekhi 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
