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 Newly Focused Symphony’s Theme: Why Did They Kill Sandra Bland? The New Haven Symphony Orchestra, one of a few American orchestras working to address injustices in the past and present of professional classical music, made two important — and increasingly common Adam Matlock 21 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 4 Bands Converge On 9 Brooklyn’s Silver Liz and Connecticut’s Private Liz, Audio Jane, and Cabins! East poured into a packed Cafe 9 Saturday night — and poured on the energy. Brian Slattery 20 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Put “Everything & Nothing” On View Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for Brian Slattery 17 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “Magical Thinking” Is The Real Deal In New Production Of Joan Didion’s Meditation On Profound Loss “This happened on Dec.r 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you. The details Brian Slattery 16 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 Why “Enslaved” Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments New Haven Museum New Haven Nov. 11 One of the first things I noticed while listening to John Mills’s lecture about the experience Jamil Ragland 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Shubert Opens Broadway Season With Hope A bus driver has brought a busload full of stranded airline passengers to a camp in Newfoundland, in the middle of the night. The passengers don’t really know why Brian Slattery 10 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven It’s Gotta Be The Shoes The two men in Cal Bocicault’s painting are, first and foremost, stylish, and they know it. Peering askance at the viewer, colors coordinated with themselves and each other, together Brian Slattery 8 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Something’s Off. Something’s Wrong Collective Consciousness Theatre raises searing questions about race, class, gender, plot, and character in a new production of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer-winning Fairview. Brian Slattery 3 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Twist & Hedge A keen sense of play — married to rigorous formal accomplishment — marks both Marjorie Gillette Wolfe’s show, “Hedge,” and sculptor and potter Amanda Duchen’s show, “Clay,” running concurrently at Brian Slattery 2 Nov 2023 · 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 — it’s Dereen Shirnekhi 1 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 New Haven Symphony Makes Time For 3 In introducing Thursday Night’s New Haven Symphony Orchestra program in Woolsey Hall, Music Director Alisdair Neale cut to the chase. “Both these works feature a lot of art — without Adam Matlock 31 Oct 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 In“After Picasso,” Artists Reckon With A Giant Cynthia Beth Rubin’s collage crackles with energy, as colors vibrate off one another and forms within forms, textures within textures, rub against each other. Keen senses of both aesthetic Brian Slattery 27 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven 3 Bands From 3 Zones Mellow Out Habe (NYC), Emmet Kai (upstate NYS) and Miguel (Loor) take turns helping Cafe Nine crowd drift on a Wednesday night. Brian Slattery 26 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
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