New Haven Americana Keeps The Room Warm Cafe Nine on Wednesday night was the scene for delicate ballads, bright harmonies, and gritty rhythms as three bands — Pyramid Rose, Dallas Ugly, and the Split Coils — played sets with Brian Slattery 8 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Open Mic Takes Off Performers and audience members arrived at Cantean on Whitney Avenue in Hamden en masse Tuesday evening before the posted start time of 6 p.m., quickly filling the space and Brian Slattery 7 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven City Gallery Keeps It In The Family WIlliam Frucht’s photograph from Coney Island combines rigor and humor to make for an engrossing image. On the rigorous side, there’s the strict geometry of the workout equipment, Brian Slattery 6 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 3 New (Haven) Albums “Unity in the Community” begins with a classic hymn-like statement from Warren Byrd’s piano, carried aloft by a chorus of voices, bubbling bass and percussion, and horns passing a Brian Slattery 1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Improvisers Teach How To Listen It was 7:30 p.m. on Monday at Never Ending Books, and Bob Gorry of the New Haven Improvisers Collective had a few instructions for the musicians gathered in Brian Slattery 30 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Mixed Company Digs Deep At Jazzy’s The music and meal were part of the package at Jazzy’s on Orange Street, as the restaurant served up signature platters while the Hartford-based band served up one smoking Brian Slattery 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Rock ‘n Roll’s Not Dead A Thursday night of churning rhythms, big guitars, barked lyrics, and dancing feet at Cafe Nine made the case that New Haven’s rock ‘n’ roll scene is alive and Brian Slattery 26 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Owed To A Poet Laureate New Year’s/Inauguration Day Twenty Twenty-Four Boring speeches Left us snoring Like captives wilting In the auditorium For an hour. Plus an hour Then Influence stepped up And spit Paul Bass 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Theater “Cleansed” The plays of British playwright Sarah Kane (1971 – 99) are notoriously difficult — for staging, and for what they put an audience through. The warning distributed by the David Geffen School Donald Brown 25 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Blue Velvet Suitcase Blue Velvet Suitcase is simple: a wooden chair, a small suitcase, a shirt from a uniform, neatly folded. It’s unassuming enough that it almost — almost — invites the viewer to Brian Slattery 24 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three Bands Keep The Fun In The Weird Sounds like nature. Sounds like video games. Choirs of unearthly voices and raspy tones from a saxophone. And people listening hard to build sounds together. All of this awaited the Brian Slattery 23 Jan 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 Poetry Slam Keeps MLK Vision Alive Memories of the Children’s Crusade. A vision of alien visitations in the future. Invocations of superheroes. Fist-raising calls for change. These were all part of the 28th annual Z Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven A New “Star” Rises Guitar strings plucked with grace and care, voices keening in the air, and one of the most attentive audiences seen anywhere in months made for an intense and intimate evening Brian Slattery 16 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven 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 Brian Slattery 12 Jan 2024 · 1 min read
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