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As Unexplainable As Life Itself

by Regina DeAngelo | Apr 28, 2006 10:26 am

Much has happened in 400 years. Thursday night, some of Yale’s best New Music composers played for us what we’ve been missing as New Music New Haven gave its last concert of the year at Sprague Hall.

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LEAPers Give The Bad, and Good, News

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 23, 2006 7:55 pm

Chlamydia may be hard to spell and hard to say, but it’s something teens who are having sex or thinking about having sex should know about. “What are some symptoms of Chlamydia?” was the question a passerby picked from the bowl offered by a team of teen “experts” behind the Sex Education table at a LEAP Youth Awareness Fair on the Green.

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The Front Page

by Citizen Critic | Apr 21, 2006 2:20 pm

If my experience of seeing Front Page (at Long Wharf Theatre through April 30) and convincing seven others to purchase tickets within the course of three days is any indication, you would do well to call or visit their box office now. The preview audience gave its review in the form of a standing ovation—not bad for a comedy!

Gordon Edelstein could have directed the Three Stooges or the Marx Brothers. Although I am not usually a great fan of slapstick, this was an exceptionally well executed performance. To achieve belly laughs while dealing with
subjects of racism, corruption, capital punishment, sociopathy and more, is an achievement. An added element is the inevitable love story and the issues of prioritization of personal and professional goals.

Long Wharf has offered us a wonderful season. You owe it to yourselves to take advantage of the last two plays.

A Color & Soul Explosion On Sprague’s Stage

by Paul Bass | Apr 18, 2006 10:35 am

In one of New Haven’s cherished spring rituals, a sold-out crowd came to see 18 cellos and their owners (three of whom, in the top photo, waited in the wings during intermission) share the stage with a riot of bright colors on canvas at Sprague Hall Monday night.

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Studio Stop

by Tess Wheelwright | Apr 17, 2006 1:48 am

Featured artist: Liz Pagano, Printmaker/Painter/Mixed media artist
Studio site: Erector Square, Peck Street
Next showing: “Surface, Space and Light” at the Arts and Literature Laboratory, 319 Peck St., 671-5175, www.allgallery.org, April 22-May 21, Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 1-5 pm
She is also: a sometime-teacher, pastry-chef, graphic designer and designer-lampshade maker.
What she’s working on: A collection of printed, painted, and collage-layered panes of glass and plexi-glass, set doubly into bass wood boxes, to be installed in stacks before a window to let the light come through them. “I think about each as its own little universe, an evolving cosmos. They are living and organic in that they are moving and glowing.”

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Fault or Pardon “Pardon My Queen”

by Citizen Critic | Apr 14, 2006 2:11 pm | Comments (3)

Thursday was opening night for “Pardon My Queen,” written by Nastaran Ahmadi, directed by Jessi Hill, and onstage through Saturday at the Yale Cabaret (217 Park St.). Hyped as a “postmodern fairytale” and set to the buzz of an electric guitar, this student-written play promised to have us questioning what we hold dear and how far a Queen will go to keep her throne. Click here to read what opening-night audience-members found out, and what impressions they had along the way.

The Poetry of Two-Man “Blackness”

by Regina DeAngelo | Apr 7, 2006 9:25 am

Picture a middle-aged white woman in a crowd of under-21-year-olds at a hip-hop show at Toad’s Place. She was raised on the music of Neil Young, Journey, and the Bee Gees; her knowledge of modern hip-hop might fit into the groove of a record album. At 12:30 a.m. on a weeknight, instead of home in bed with a cup of Sleepytime, she’s standing on her chair, pumping one arm in the air, screaming “Hell yeah!” and “rhythm sticks!” in response to the call of the emcee on the stage.

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Lotta “New”

by Citizen Critic | Apr 3, 2006 11:47 am

Hot off the musical presses, original works by local composers were on display at Woolsey Hall at a “New Music/ New Haven” performance—and they spanned a world of different musical modes. And one of the Independent’s “citizen critics” was there. Read on to see what he thought. (And if you’d like to be an Independent citizen critic and submit reviews of concerts or gallery shows or plays, click here.)

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