New Haven “I Won’t Miss My Human Form” Dying in hospice. Shedding the uniform known as your body. Name-checking Milford. All these topics and more flew through bar after bar of hip hop, as six acts from near Brian Slattery 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven “Open-Mic Surgery” Successful When Brian Robinson entered the side room of Never Ending Books, he greeted everyone seated there as if they were old friends, and most of them probably were. Robinson’s Eleanor Polak 19 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Fire This Time: Baldwin’s Words Woven Into New Jazz Performance What would you do to keep your reality intact? This was the question posed by composer, conductor, and jazz pianist Kevin Harris to a crowd of hundreds gathered in the Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven At Arts & Ideas Fest, Multitudes Contain Lear Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of King Lear at University Theatre — whose first performance was part of Friday night’s big kickoff for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas Eleanor Polak 18 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ebony Hillbillies Hit The Green A pairing of two bands steeped in traditional music — Cécilia and the Ebony Hillbillies — showed the ways in which having deep roots in a particular musical style can lead to Brian Slattery 17 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven G Flip’s Gonna Need A Bigger Stage “Is anyone in love in the audience?” G Flip asked the packed house at a sold-out show at Space Ballroom on Wednesday night. There were a few vigorous nods, and Brian Slattery 14 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artist Dives Into The Dangers Of Banned Books The pieces at first look just like abstract collages, but soon, fragments of meaning emerge. The shape of lips. A pattern of shadows. Finally, letters and words, but not enough Brian Slattery 14 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Bleachers Are The Boss Of The Bowl Milling around the floor-level seating area at the Westville Music Bowl on Friday night, I had no particular idea what I was in for. I had come to review a Mark Oppenheimer 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Pride Was A Mosh Pit The room was a sea of tattoos, fish nets, and dyed hair as three bands almost entirely composed of queer people performed at Witch Bitch Thrift. Their songs about acceptance Leo Slattery 10 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Three’s Harmony “Everything’s meant to be broken / Everything’s meant to pass …” Alex Blair wrote those words back in junior high or high school; he’s not sure of the exact Paul Bass 7 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Me & Mom The photo is of Adil Mansoor when he was a child, in Pakistan. The scene was a family celebration, and a relative, on a lark, dressed the boy in a Brian Slattery 6 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Musicians Lend A Hand Chloe, of the Hartford-based band Cvmrats, told stories about deceased friends and the difficulties of being mistaken for a train hopper, but everyone at Cafe Nine on Tuesday night knew Brian Slattery 5 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Russian Munsters Swarm Downtown Bar Spooky sounds emanated from Cafe Nine Saturday night. Instead of sending shivers up spines, it kept a crowd smiling and shuffling from side to side for a nonstop hour. The Paul Bass 3 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Stories Told Through Song The music room in Never Ending Books at 810 State St. was cluttered but homey. A collage of brightly-colored abstract art and painted records decorated the walls, which were lined Eleanor Polak 3 Jun 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Piaget Crashes Tha Cataclysm Armando Acevedo clicked on a file from his phone. He unrolled a taped-together 10-page scroll. He started rapping the printed lyrics, summoning the insights of a noted 20th century Swiss Paul Bass 31 May 2024 · 1 min read
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
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