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A Modernist Icon Reopens, Renewed

by Katie DeWitt | Nov 30, 2006 3:49 pm

Yale University and art gallery administrators, curators, and architects gathered in the newly renovated Louis Kahn building Thursday to celebrate the reopening of an icon of modernist architecture. Following a three-year, $44 million dollar renovation, the Yale University Art Gallery’s main building will reopen to the public on December 10.

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Bereaved Families Promote Peace

by Melinda Tuhus | Nov 28, 2006 9:46 pm | Comments (1)

Families who have lost loved ones on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the ones who know each other’s pain most intimately. Five hundred of them have come together to call for peace and reconciliation, like Israeli Robi Damelin (pictured), who spoke at Yale Law School Tuesday night.

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A “Ta-da!” Holiday Season Unveiled

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 22, 2006 8:34 am

With classic pizazz, downtown Alderwoman Frances “Bitsie” Clark joined New Haven boosters in unveiling a holiday season full of downtown shows, shops and eats, starting with a ceremony next Thursday to light up the city’s “biggest tree ever.”

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Beat Poet Sips, Recites

by Paul Bass | Nov 20, 2006 10:44 am

Daniel J. Crowley was spotted sipping white tea in Sherman Alley at Oolongs Tea Cafe — where they sell his books of poetry. Crowley, who’s 41 and makes his living as a supervisor at U.S. Surgical, agreed to preview a new poem he’s written about New Haven and Beatnik 2000 night at cafe nine; he plans to include it in his next published collection. Click on the play arrow below to watch him recite it.

Concert Mini-Note

by Paul Bass | Nov 16, 2006 9:17 am

A harpist headlined at Toad’s Place Wednesday night . Not a blues harpist. A harp harpist. On CD, Joanna Newsom’s jarring vocals and outer-planetery lyrics draw two distinct reactions: love or hate. Fans (like me) consider it the music of a psilocybin-influenced forest princess poet. Apopleptic officemates or housemates consider it the sound of Melanie undergoing a root canal or extruded through a meat grinder. Yet live at Toad’s, the music seemed to lose some of its rougher vocal and lyric edges. What enables a folkie, literary harpist songwriter to draw a crowd to Toad’s on a weeknight? Theory: More than a musical category, Newsom’s act fits into the “courageous” slot; she’s talented, and she remains true to her quirky and genuine impulses even though many ears consider it too weird. That resonates with young, searching audiences.

A Journey Through The Orbits of New Classical

by Paul Bass | Nov 12, 2006 12:06 pm | Comments (1)

Click on the play arrow above and stick with this video for the first minute and five seconds; you’ll see the classical guitarist Entertainment Weekly calls “The Eddie Van Halen for eggheads” suddenly slam his guitar and swerve this piece into a thrilling new direction. Then read on—and watch some video clips—of the cutting-edge guitarists who took a Sprague Hall audience on a journey through the orbits of the old and the emerging new classical.

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Dwight/Edgewood Playwrights Hit The Cabaret Big Time

by Paul Bass | Nov 9, 2006 10:10 am

She lives on Winthrop Avenue and attends Troup Magnet Academy of Science Middle School. He goes to Yale Drama School. They met Wednesday at a festive pre-opening night party for a new play about competitive high-school girls—her new play.

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“Hyper Radiance” Comes To New Haven

by Staff | Nov 9, 2006 9:09 am

Conventional wisdom: Listen to kids. Believe them. When a teen-aged girl speaks of abduction, her shrink has his own ideas in Heidi Julvaits’ new novel, The Uses of Enchantment. Julvaits (pictured) reads from the book, her third,  beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the New Haven Free Public Library. Read on for Tanya Angell Allen’s review.

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“Musing” Rings Bell at Firehouse 12

by Paul Bass | Nov 5, 2006 6:37 pm

Three songs into their first set at Ninth Square’s cozy Firehouse 12, the Dave Allen Quartet reached for the inspiration of Wallace Stevens and Keith Jarrett—and brought the audience to a higher plane in the Jazzosphere.

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Shula’s “Treadmill”

by Paul Bass | Nov 1, 2006 4:19 pm | Comments (1)

Shulamith Chernoff of Westville, associate professor of education emeritus at Southern Connecticut State University, has discovered a new career long past the time many other people have retired. She has become an award-winning poet. Click here to watch her read aloud a poem—from her new published collection, The Stones Bear Witness (Hanover Press)—about turning 80.

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