New Haven

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

First Youth Shakespeare Fest Marks Dramatic Success

Cast members of Elm Shakespeare Teen Troupe’s production of Henry V burst onto the stage in a rush of sound and energy. “O, for a muse of fire that

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

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

How An Artist Sparked An Institution

The two friends in Ann Lehman’s sculpture — we only know they’re friends because the title tells us so — appear as though they’re deep in the middle of

“The Truth Is Out There”

Ken Grimes’s pieces in “The Truth Is Out There” partake of the style of cartoons, woodblocks, and also — thanks to the associations from the X‑Files reference in the