New Haven

City Gallery Opens Wide For Open Studios

Rita Hannafin’s Float hangs in the midst of City Gallery’s latest show on Upper State Street, a quilt of bright, shifting colors, surprising shapes, dynamic contrasts, and ultimately, cohesion.

Three New Albums Put The Heart On The Line

“Good Morning Heartache,” the opening track on Christian Sands’s latest album, Embracing Dawn, begins with a warm, gently unfolding gesture from the piano, an easing into consciousness.

Kale & White Bean Soup, Seasoned With Math; Cash Preferred

In which Liz pays a visit to the Swedish Baker, and comes out rich in soup.

Post-Punk Legends Bring Nostalgia, Rebirth

October opened with a one-two punch as the dreamy double bill of the Psychedelic Furs and The Jesus and Mary Chain turned College Street Music Hall into a post-punk version of heaven.

Do We Know Each Other? Do We Know Ourselves?

Do you have a mind’s eye, the ability to not just remember, but visualize the past? Do you have an interior monologue? Rich childhood memories, full of sights, sounds, and smells?

Cornet-Piano Duo Frees Up The Space

Cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum smiled from the stage at Firehouse 12 Friday night, explaining how good it was to be back there

Megalopolis Brings Arthouse To Cinemark

The lights dimmed in a movie theater Thursday night for maybe the most prime example of an arthouse film to come along this year, and together the audience watched as Cesar Catilina, played by Adam Driver, edged out of his office window to stand on a metal ledge at the edge of a skyscraper...

The Trees Are Alive

In the short film Dendrostalkers, the view is from the driver’s seat of a car curving along a dirt road through a forest at night.

Art Helps Clients Cope

The pill bottles hang suspended in the air, a testament to their ubiquity and the damage they cause. Behind them are arrayed a series of facts and statistics about drug

Artist Shoots Artwork

Many of the pieces at the latest show at Creative Arts Workshop push at the boundaries of what printmaking can do; among those are works by Kim Tester, like Witness

The Fiddler Was Playing — & Praying

Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia. Trouble

The Mykonos Blues

Judy Atlas takes an abstract trip, at City Gallery.

There’s A Face In That Tree

Kehler Liddell photo exhibition watches light trick the mind.

Do Try This (Recipe) At Home: Edge Of The Woods Lemon Bars

Gogol Bordello Unleashes Positive Fury

In an election cycle marked by acrimony and fractious divisiveness, the music at Toad’s on Friday — featuring international punk band Gogol Bordello, supported by label mates Puzzled Panther and

Mednick’s Not Going Back

Steve Mednick played a song from a new album as well as from his next album — while waiting to see how both the track, and country’s political future, play