New Haven Shandy Lawson Sings Stories A chair and a guitar. A table holding an old-fashioned radio. A vase full of purple flowers. A teacup and saucer. Was this a scene from an oft-told tale or Karen Ponzio 25 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Yale Gallery Goes Beyond“The Scream” The Yale University Art Gallery’s show “Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression” — running now through June 23 on the gallery’s fourth floor at 1111 Chapel St. — begins with Brian Slattery 22 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Explode The Runway Sandy Clafford’s trio of paintings take over the space near the window of the Institute Library’s upstairs gallery for the show “Look Book” — running now through May 23 Brian Slattery 21 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Punks Rock For Choice Addie and Jacey of the Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America declared themselves “thrilled” to be on Cafe Nine’s stage Tuesday night. The DSA is involved in a number of Brian Slattery 20 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Firehouse 12 Ignites New Jazz Season Ingrid Laubrock’s Lilith opened Firehouse 12’s spring season of shows at its concert space, recording studio, and bar on Crown Street with a fiery set of Laubrock’s Brian Slattery 19 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Caryl Churchill’s “Escaped Alone” Lets Everyone Understand Escaped Alone Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel St. Through March 30, 2024 A group of women are talking together in a garden, under the shade of a tree. In the Brian Slattery 15 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 … Hi Pi Day! To celebrate, you’re invited on a journey in search of patterns in the randomness of the putatively infinitely-expressed ratio of a circle’s circumference to its Paul Bass 14 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ever-Expanding Pita Pocket Stuffed Would all those fixings fit into that palm-plus-sized pocket of flexible flatbread? “We’re gonna learn,” Eddie Eckhaus said, “right now.” Paul Bass 12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Filthy Riffs, Fists Fly At Death Fest Hubert Smith took to the stage for the second time in two nights. The night before, he was playing drums for Necrocunt, something of a supergroup within Connecticut’s death Jasmine Wright 12 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Thrift Store Folk Punk, For All Ages A lone child in a Rubik’s Cube hoodie stood in the middle of the small black box space at Witch Bitch Thrift on Saturday night, trying and failing with Leo Slattery 11 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The End Of The Art World Thursday night the Yale Film Archive added two new jewels to their Treasures series: a new 35 mm print of Daisies, the 1966 Czech New Wave film directed by Vera Karen Ponzio 8 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Wow, Okay, Cool As a heavy rainstorm pounded the pavement outside on State and Crown, drummers pounded skins inside Cafe Nine, propelling a night of raucous guitar, muscular bass, and vocals that pushed Brian Slattery 7 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven The Thing Is… With a new month comes a new Best Video movie series, and the March madness at the film and cultural center in Hamden has everything to do with horror and Karen Ponzio 6 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Want Some Organ Meat With That Smoothie? The thick, tawny mason jar smoothie I ordered from The Remedy’s Cultured Cafe on State Street looked, smelled and tasted like soft, cinnamon cream — despite the fact that it Nora Grace-Flood 1 Mar 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Lost Tribe Performs, Screens Diaspora Stories The Hartford-based Afro-funk fusion ensemble The Lost Tribe returned to Best Video on to screen the completed three-part series Diaspora Stories: Hartford a year and a half after sharing a Karen Ponzio 27 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven New Haven Theater Company Cries It Out New Haven Theater Company’s production of Cry It Out, by Molly Smith Metzler, is a finely tuned performance of a play about early motherhood that starts light and ends Brian Slattery 23 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Artists Walk The Path The view of a mountain in Sichuan, China is breathtaking, though not for the usual reasons. Photographer Roy Money doesn’t train his camera on the usual kind of tourist Brian Slattery 22 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
New Haven Ross Gay Incites Joy Ross Gay practiced what he preaches last night at Possible Futures, as the poet, essayist, and teacher offered a grateful crowd a selection of his work encompassing joy and tenderness Karen Ponzio 21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read