New Haven The Fire This Time: Baldwin’s Words Woven Into New Jazz Performance What would you do to keep your reality intact? This was the question posed by composer, conductor, and jazz pianist Kevin Harris to a crowd of hundreds gathered in the Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At Arts & Ideas Fest, Multitudes Contain Lear Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear at University Theatre — whose first performance was part of Friday night’s big kickoff for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Stories Told Through Song The music room in Never Ending Books at 810 State St. was cluttered but homey. A collage of brightly-colored abstract art and painted records decorated the walls, which were lined Eleanor Polak 3 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Gunge, I Am The Slime” Best Video Film & Cultural Center was alight on Friday night with movies, music, and general merriment. Three acts — Dan Soto’s Natural Fool, Katy Pinke, and Sallow Friend — performed Eleanor Polak 28 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Art Gallery Crosses The Atlantic While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) undergoes renovations, the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) has volunteered to host a selection of their paintings in an exhibition entitled “In Eleanor Polak 25 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Elm Shakespeare Makes Merry “Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English,” says Mistress Quigley, played with cheeky humor by Martine Fleurisma in Elm Shakespeare Company’s Eleanor Polak 18 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “A House Without A Rushnyk Is Not A Home” New Knights of Columbus museum show explores sacred Ukrainian textiles. Click here to read Eleanor’s review. Eleanor Polak 17 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Moshing To The Smiths Math-punkers Shed Life kicked off a four-band, 17-person blow-out that made the Gather coffeehouse on State Street feel like it could burst at the seams. Instead of exploding outward, the Eleanor Polak 14 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Lost Tribe Beats Rain With Rhythm-Wrapped Spoken Word “We had to take you to Africa, real quick,” the percussionist said after the last drumbeats of the first number had faded into the air and the band, defined by Eleanor Polak 31 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Who Runs The World? Barbie Does I walked into Bow Tie Cinemas proudly sporting the only pink top I own, and I thought I was ready for anything. Turns out, I wasn’t ready for Barbie. Eleanor Polak 28 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Silhouetted Against Time New Haven Museum exhibition offers view of city’s past through an early 20th-century mother-daughter artist duo. Click here to read Eleanor’s review. Eleanor Polak 21 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven New Haven Has Its Cake And Hears It Too As the venerable alt-rockers play an outdoor show at the Westville Bowl. Click here to read the full review. Eleanor Polak 20 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Art Gallery Thinks Small Imagine yourself peering through the large end of a telescope, looking at the world in miniature. You feel blown out of proportion, almost godlike, a giant out of Gulliver’s Eleanor Polak 19 Jul 2023 · 1 min read
