New Haven Like Rush Hour On Canvas Frank Bruckmann paints the sky to convey a sense of the clouds roiling overhead; perhaps it’s getting dark, or threatening rain, or both. In the dimness, the lights in Brian Slattery 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Breathing Fire, Falling Rain: “Year Of The Dragon” Makes Waves “Year of the Dragon” — an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery celebrating the year 2024 and running now through Nov. 10 — begins with two artworks of waves. One of those Brian Slattery 30 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven On Being Soft It’s a simple idea with big consequences. The picture of East Rock is the sort you might see on a postcard. The message is easy to digest, a salute Brian Slattery 29 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Gunge, I Am The Slime” Best Video Film & Cultural Center was alight on Friday night with movies, music, and general merriment. Three acts — Dan Soto’s Natural Fool, Katy Pinke, and Sallow Friend — performed Eleanor Polak 28 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Punq Noire Opens A New Stage Allie Bee stood in front of an admiring audience in the downstairs space of Westville’s Third Space. Tracks they’d made themself played behind them as they took their Brian Slattery 24 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Feminism, By Design It’s a poster for a conference held in Los Angeles in 1975, “for women who work with public visual and physical forms,” as the piece advertises — that is, women Brian Slattery 23 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven This Is How To Rock A Monday New Haven-based artist Michael Miglietta has a visual style that leans into the surreal and the cosmic, creating dizzying, shape-shifting images with bold linework and vivid color. Under the moniker Brian Slattery 21 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Love n’Co Brings The Love In the back room hookah lounge of the Mediterranea Cafe, Love n’Co gave a sneak peak into their musical take on chocolate and hope, a week before it lands Dereen Shirnekhi 17 May 2024 · 3 min read
New Haven Artists Stare Into The Sun An entire gallery of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art on Trumbull Street is bathed in a pinkish-orange glow that streams in through tinted windows, a constant chemical sunset. The Brian Slattery 16 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Bend Time’s Arrow In Sean Patrick Gallagher’s series of paintings, the sea roils red. The image is clear enough, but the title brings home the allusions the artist is leaning toward. “Wine-dark, Brian Slattery 14 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Today’s Special: Megan’s Garganelli Legend has it that garganelli originated with a Bolognese housewife was making tortellini for her guests when she realized her cat had devoured all the filling. So she took the Lisa Reisman 13 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Moms In Bands, Outnumbered By Dads In Bands, Chase Rockstar Dreams Grace Yukich picked up her first acoustic guitar in high school, in Opelika, Alabama, in the mid 1990s. Women like Alanis Morissette and Courtney Love ruled the burgeoning alt-rock music Marisa Torrieri Bloom 10 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Hip Hip And Folk Punk Bring Hope To The Stage Hip hop and folk punk came together Wednesday night at Cafe Nine to offer stories of persistence, hope, and detective work as DJ Halo, Tommy V, MJ Bones, Indigaux, MC Brian Slattery 9 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Black Book” Opens Armed Teacher Debate It was just a read-through of a scene, without a costume or stage blocking, but the switches in writer and actor Austin Dean Ashford’s tone of voice were more Brian Slattery 7 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Decemberists Make it Better The Decemberists brought May to a magnificent start on Saturday night when they returned to College Street Music Hall for the fourth show of their 2024 A Peaceable Kingdom North Karen Ponzio 6 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Take Time To Breathe Unbothered, a new exhibit in a coworking space in downtown New Haven, features works by Juliana Chavarria, Lauren Clayton, Shaunda Holloway, Kimberly Klauss, Melida McKenzie-Alford, Shanna T. Melton, Aisha Nailah, Brian Slattery 3 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Hadestown” Keeps Up The Fight Orpheus is smitten with Eurydice before they even speak. Hermes, Orpheus’s wingman, helps him work up his courage to ask her out. “Orpheus,” he warns, “don’t come on Brian Slattery 2 May 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ceschi Keeps Hope Alive Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. Nor had Paul Bass 28 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
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