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Literary Addiction, Literary Solution

by Staff | Aug 29, 2006 2:23 pm

The First Verse: a Novel, by Barry McCrea (pictured), published by Carroll & Graf, New York, 2005.  $14.95.

Reviewed by Richard Stack

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The Night Shift

by Paul Bass | Aug 22, 2006 5:36 pm | Comments (2)

Helen A. Cooper(pictured) never forgot the way the moon looked in a painting she saw 25 years ago in a woman’s home. She eventually found a way to bring the painting temporarily to New Haven—and design a soul-stirring new exhibition around it.

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His Own Drummer Marches Into Town

by Paul Bass | Aug 18, 2006 9:36 am

Let’s get this straight before going any further. Yes, the “T” in “T.S. Monk” stands for Thelonious. But when the bandleader swings, literally, onto the jazz festival stage Saturday night, he’ll fill the Green with his own brand of “cross-talking” music, not his famous father’s distinctive bebop.

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Off Their Wall And Onto Yours

by Allan Appel | Aug 14, 2006 9:42 am | Comments (2)

Around 6 o’clock on Sunday night, at 70 Audubon St., Joanne Sciulli had her eye on Number 37a, a color photograph by Rick Turek featuring a kind of garden landscape but with a screen or perhaps a facsimile of a tank of fishes sitting in the middle of it.  “How in the world did that get there! It’s mysterious, and natural, and urban at the same time,” said Sciulli.

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It’s All About The Clutter

by Paul Bass | Aug 11, 2006 9:16 am | Comments (1)

Just as the action slows down, the pace picks up in the final show the Yale Summer Cabaret season.

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Off The Wall

by Staff | Aug 3, 2006 11:27 am

One of the most fun community-arts events of the year begins Monday. Call “Off The Wall,” it features the work of 50 Connecticut photogs. The photos are on display all week at Studio 70 (70 Audubon St.). Then, on Sunday night, people pay $75 to attend an unusual kind of, well, auction. People’s ticket numbers are called aloud, and the ticket-holder gets 20 seconds to run around seize his/her favorite photo from the wall. For more details, call the Arts Council at 772-2788. Here are a few of the 150 photos on display.

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