New Haven Checkmate, Black History Month How does a young girl from Uganda go from beginning chess player to champion? Disney’s Queen of Katwedocuments the journey from one to the other as well as the Karen Ponzio 5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Jazz Brunch Returns Jazz can be found practically every night of the week in New Haven: at cigar bars, alongside pizza, and amidst videos and DVDs, among other places. For a jazz fan Karen Ponzio 22 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Book Club Kicks Off Year Of Baldwin The vibe at Possible Futures was lit Thursday night — more specifically Kulturally Lit, as the literary-focused arts organization’s 100 Years of Baldwin Book Club had its inaugural meeting exploring Karen Ponzio 19 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Allen Lowe Hits High Note With New Music, Documentary Allen Lowe, a man of multiple talents — musician, songwriter, author, historian — likes to argue. Luckily for jazz fans, those arguments fuel his creative output. His life is being captured in Karen Ponzio 17 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Everybody Loves Parker Posey Meg Swan is all sharp angles and biting retorts as she attempts to maneuver her dog into becoming a prizewinner in the film Best in Show, the first in Best Karen Ponzio 10 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Celestials & Tricky Bits The penultimate night of the year can be a tricky one, especially if it falls on a weekend. Do you go out and do something fun, or do you stay Karen Ponzio 2 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Long Live The Beehive Queen There are three things you can count on in December: stores jammed with holiday shoppers, roads jammed with holiday travelers, and Christine Ohlman jamming though The Beehive Holiday Blowout at Karen Ponzio 11 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Some Painted,Some Panted Music and visual art both went live Wednesday night at Cafe Nine when Color in Sound, an event organized and curated by local artist Andres Madariaga, brought together three musical Karen Ponzio 7 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Tyshawn Sorey Trio Casts Spell On Firehouse 12 Did you hear thunder Friday night or see lightning? Probably not, unless you were one of the lucky few to attend the sold-out Tyshawn Sorey Trio show at Firehouse 12. Karen Ponzio 4 Dec 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Pizza Pairs With Jazz Wednesday night’s luminous lunar display recalled the opening line of “That’s Amore”: “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…” so it seemed apropos that Karen Ponzio 30 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven FiFac’s House Makes A Home On the day after Thanksgiving, many scattered through stores to find the best prices on holiday presents. Others settled into couches to catch college football. A select few found themselves Karen Ponzio 27 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Zines Create Scene Tiny Ghosts Haunting Small Things, The Band Plays in Front of a Big Audience, and Cars Go Too Fast (and our road design encourages it) are not titles you might Karen Ponzio 13 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Latinio/Iberian Film Fest Offers Honest Lens On Photog Who Changed History The Latino and Iberian Film Festival at Yale — a.k.a. LIFFY — commenced Monday night with a screening of the documentary film Una Mirada Honesta/An Honest Look, the story Karen Ponzio 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Open Studios Heats Up Westville The last weekend of October finally gifted the city a warm and sunny Saturday, but nowhere was it hotter than Westville, where a two-day neighborhood event — part of the artist-led Karen Ponzio 30 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Xiu Xiu And Mountain Movers Mesmerize The Space Ballroom doubled up on the musical magic Monday night as the mind-blowing and meditative Mountain Movers shared a bill with longtime purveyors of passion and intensity Xiu Xiu. Karen Ponzio 25 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Barn Raised To “Amplify The Arts” The soul-stirring sculptures of Linda Mickens, both large and small, anchored one corner of the Eli Whitney Barn. Across the room, Michael Jackson’s iconic Off the Wall album cover Karen Ponzio 16 Oct 2023 · 6 min read
New Haven Best Video Scares Up Spooky Movie Screenings For some people October means autumn is here, bringing with it pumpkin everything, apple picking, and sweater weather. For other people October means only one thing: it’s time to Karen Ponzio 4 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven boygenius Bowls Over New Haven Westville Music Bowl said so long to the summer and another full season of outdoor concerts with their closing show last night, headlined by none other than boygenius, a band Karen Ponzio 2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
