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

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

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

Artists Look At Beginning Again

Hank Paper may have given his photograph the perfect title. Another Brand New Day is on one level just a normal street scene in Italy, but its vivid colors and

At City Gallery, ​“Blue Does Not Mean Sky”

Judy Atlas’s Blue Flux can evoke dozens of things if you let it: a cityscape in the rain, a snow field, the inside of an ice crystal, with just

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

Jazz-Punk Takes Off Amid Bookshelves

Nicholas Serrambana on bass came on with a prowling, acrobatic line. Jeff Dragan on electronics countered with purrs and hisses, as though from a virtual snake. Nick Di Maria played

Kevin Saint James Smokes The Owl Shop

It was 9:30 on Wednesday evening at the Owl Shop on College Street and already the Kevin Saint James Band had relaxed into an easy swing. Plumes of smoke

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

A Year Of Reckoning In The Arts

Organizational chaos. Art spaces closing their doors. And new collectives of artists forming to take matters into their own hands. For many in the arts scene, the year 2023 was

Musicians Pay Tribute To Shane MacGowan

Gary Mezzi, a.k.a. Buzz Gordo (pictured above), beamed from behind a 12-string guitar on the stage of Cafe Nine Tuesday night. “This is a song about the demise

Artist Rolls With The Temporary

After decades of printmaking, Barbara Harder revels in embracing the accidents. “I’m trying to make things the way I’m making them,” she said, but “sometimes I almost like

Artist Questions The Questions

The show of artist Amira Brown’s work, up now at the Mitchell Branch Library in Westville through the end of the month, doesn’t have a title, nor do

A Journey Into Alice Coltrane’s Spiritual Jazz

Album Club dives into Journey in Satchidananda, at Never Ending Books.

Action? In Chekhov?

Kapelye Makes It​“Nu Haven Style”

“Turetskaya,” the opening number on the Nu Haven Kapelye’s new album, Nu Haven Style — to be officially released the day of the klezmer orchestra’s annual concert at Congregation