New Haven Deadpan Yoga La Práctica (The Practice) — the latest from Argentinian writer/director Martín Rejtman — is the story of a yoga instructor’s interactions with students old and new as he maneuvers his Karen Ponzio 9 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Shandy Lawson Sings Stories A chair and a guitar. A table holding an old-fashioned radio. A vase full of purple flowers. A teacup and saucer. Was this a scene from an oft-told tale or Karen Ponzio 25 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The End Of The Art World Thursday night the Yale Film Archive added two new jewels to their Treasures series: a new 35 mm print of Daisies, the 1966 Czech New Wave film directed by Vera Karen Ponzio 8 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Thing Is… With a new month comes a new Best Video movie series, and the March madness at the film and cultural center in Hamden has everything to do with horror and Karen Ponzio 6 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Lost Tribe Performs, Screens Diaspora Stories The Hartford-based Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe returned to Best Video on to screen the completed three-part series Diaspora Stories: Hartford a year and a half after sharing a Karen Ponzio 27 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ross Gay Incites Joy Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness Karen Ponzio 21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven James Ivory Pays A Visit Friday night’s installment of Yale Film Archive’s The World of James Ivory series offered another type of double feature: a viewing of the 1965 film Shakespeare Wallah, followed Karen Ponzio 12 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
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
