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 TV Girl Leaps From Viral Web To Sold-Out Stage The TV Girl All-Star Traveling Band, a California-based indie pop group that took TikTok by storm this year with a series of viral hits, landed at New Haven’s Toad’ Asher Joseph 12 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven New Review Crew Gets Old School Advice Like in-person local news reporting, local arts and culture reviewing is going through a paradigm shift from old-school corporate for-profit media to new-media nonprofit models. A panel of old-school writers Paul Bass 12 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Curried Goat & Turmeric Soup Wine Down The Season Wine Down CT ’s end-of-summer event, Dear Summer, went down Sunday evening. If you get a chance to go to their next event, get your ticket early because they sell Lisa Gray 10 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Connect Soul To Soul In ways that photographs can’t capture, the installation of “Impossible Souls” — running now through Oct. 29 on the second floor of the Hilles Gallery of Creative Arts Workshop at Brian Slattery 10 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Artists Build Worlds In Group Show The look of Jihyun Lee’s Doll Shelf partakes at once of the past and an imagined future. The collection of objects has the feel of a cabinet of curiosities, Brian Slattery 4 Oct 2023 · 3 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 Afternoon Tea Steeped In Afrofuturism The description online read: “In this ephemeral haven of sonic and poetic delights, the Afrogalactic Tea Party invites you to immerse yourself in a curated experience of taste and culture. Lisa Gray 3 Oct 2023 · 1 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
New Haven New Haven Symphony Opens Season Triumphantly Towering C major chords from organ and orchestra in unison. Dazzling rhythmic interplay between soloist Joyce Yang and the orchestra. An energetic rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” resuming a tradition Adam Matlock 2 Oct 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Old Farts Rock Still In Tuna: On "Last" Electric Tour, Jorma Kaukonen Shows Why Octogenarians Still Tour & Boomers Still Buy Tix Hot Tuna College Street Music Hall Sept. 27, 2023 Paul Bass 29 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven When Kristen Met Ani Watch out Taylor Swift: A DIY one-woman band catches a break, courtesy of her “Righteous Babe” hero, to release a liberation anthem for our times. Paul Bass 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven “Neverending Poetry” Moves From Open Mic To The Page On the last page of the new poetry anthology Never Ending Poetry — a celebration of the first year of Open Mic Surgery, the poetry reading series that happens almost every Brian Slattery 27 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Buffalo Nichols Embodies The Blues Buffalo Nichols Cafe 9 New Haven Sept. 23, 2023 Saturday night was a great night for blues. As rain pattered on the windows of Cafe Nine on the corner of Lisa Gray 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Births A New Sky Field Notes from the Empathic Universe Work by artist Saya Woolfalk, organized by Kalia Brooks NXTHVN, 169 Henry St., New Haven Through Nov. 19. The central figure in Birthing a Brian Slattery 26 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Frame + Frame + Frame + Frame In group show, sequential artists tell a story. Two narratives are laid out on the wall. They follow at first familiar forms, a plucky young person setting out on a Brian Slattery 22 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Greil Marcus Finally Finds, Tells The “Secret History” Legendary culture writer opens up at launch of annual writer-award fest. A rumination on the question of why people write — delivered by legendary culture writer Greil Marcus — that took in Brian Slattery 21 Sep 2023 · 1 min read
New Haven Visual Artists Face, & Don’t Face, AI One wall of the gallery is a long stack of lively faces, the energetic style matching the animation in the faces. They match their subject, a clown in the old-school Brian Slattery 20 Sep 2023 · 1 min read