New Haven TikTok-Revived Play Pits “Teenagers Against The World” Ride the Cyclone, which ran this weekend at Whitneyville Cultural Commons in a production mounted by Magnolia Theatre Company, tells the story of six teenagers — Ocean O’Connor Rosenberg (Chloe Brian Slattery 12 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven From LA To New Haven: Ozzy’s Apizza Brings It All Back Home New Haven-style apizza arrived in East Rock Market last weekend as the East Coast outpost of a super successful Glendale, Ca. location. Wait — New Haven apizza from L.A.? Yes, Karen Ponzio 11 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Everything Is Political In America,” Including The Art Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph Eleanor Polak 9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At Weird Music Night, “It’s A Mixed Up, Muddled Up …” “Hellooo!” called out John O’Donnell, in an exaggerated, almost Cookie-Monster-like voice. “Hellooo!” called back the crowd, matching his energy and tone. It was weird, wacky, and wildly entertaining, setting Eleanor Polak 9 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Jammin” Salmon Seasoned Straight From Jamaica Damian Clarke, chef and owner of Jammin Jamaican Cuisine at 611 Washington Ave. in the Hill, set to work preparing a salmon entree that has become one of the restaurant’ Eleanor Polak 8 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ashley The Creator’s Art Bears Fruit According to legend — and poet Christina Rossetti — one should never eat fruit offered by fairies. It’s considered illicit, otherworldly, and so good that one taste will leave you hankering Eleanor Polak 6 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Valauskas Experience Gets Ardent The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums. Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured Paul Bass 4 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Holocaust, In The First Person How do we talk about something for which we have no words? How do we develop a vocabulary for a tragedy of such volume that the human language does not Eleanor Polak 1 Aug 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven MIY: The Secret To The Creamsicle Smoothie (Click here to read a previous story about Cultured Cafe’s other notable offerings.) Liz Grace 31 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Shaunda Holloway Shows Up For Shaunda Holloway, art is all about getting yourself a seat at the table. It’s a way to be seen, to be heard, to express yourself and then have Eleanor Polak 30 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Witch Bitch Brings The Puppets What do felt, paper, string, feathers, eggs, and odd socks have in common? They can all be made into puppets, and they all came alive on Friday night during the Eleanor Polak 29 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Fashion Cops Probe Ketchup “Crime” In the middle of the floor of director Zach Fox’s parents’ kitchen lay some fake blood, a real knife, and an avocado. This was a crime scene, and the Eleanor Polak 29 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Ful Story Omar Rajeh had the slow-cooked fava beans ready to go. A little mashing, pinches of seasoning, a drizzle or two, and a signature dish was ready to go. Paul Bass 26 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Art Is Served At The Table (& Gallery) On the wall next to the entrance of The Table & Gallery, located at 1209 Chapel St., is the “Blue Vein Mural,” which encapsulates everything that the culinary and artistic Eleanor Polak 26 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Why Angels Cover Their Eyes Seraphim By Joshua Perry Melville House Publishing 262 pages Ben is not Joshua. Ben grew up in a college town in Massachusetts. Joshua grew up in a college town in Paul Bass 25 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Embrace Change, Transformation A preoccupation with change suffuses a few of the solo shows at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, running now through Aug. 4. Brian Slattery 23 Jul 2024 · 1 min read