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Once Upon a Time in the Hill

by Allan Appel | Dec 14, 2006 1:08 pm | Comments (13)

During this season of storytelling you’d be hard put to hear more moving tales than the ten told by these remarkable New Haven high school students. They riveted an audience of 75 at the Courtland Wilson Branch Library in the Hill Thursday night with their mini-documentaries of under five minutes each.

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Works ‘n’ Progress

by Paul Bass | Dec 12, 2006 11:12 am

New Haveners were the first Americans to hear a new guitar concerto performed—and to get a first glimpse of the next generation of Yale-spawned classical pioneers. Click on the play arrow for a sampling.

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Method Madness

by Paul Bass | Dec 8, 2006 11:37 am

If you, like the character above, wrote a script, you should be so lucky not to have a famous director like the character at left take it on. The Yale Rep can explain.

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Two New

by Paul Bass | Dec 8, 2006 8:58 am

New Haven’s Silas Meredith has a CD release party Saturday night for his new effort of world-music- meets-jazz/ funk/fusion, Roots. It’s at Caffe Bottega from 7:30 to 8:30. Click here to sample a track, here to order the whole CD and sample more… James Velvet has spent a lot of time promoting local rockers and folkies over the years; he makes his own music worth promoting, too, like his new CD,  Just Plain Jane and Other Modest Proposals. Click here to sample tracks and buy it. Click here to check out his groovy website. And if you have the opus, pull out “These Beautiful Hands” every once in a while to remember what a perfect pop song that can fit on a 45 should sound like.

Visionaries in the Neighborhood

by Allan Appel | Dec 3, 2006 3:45 pm | Comments (1)

What does it take to make the arts tick in New Haven? Does it take a critic like Chris Arnott (at the far right in the photo)? Yes. Does it take a dedicated arts board member such as Ed Bottomley? Absolutely. And how about a philanthropist and arts supporter such as Bill Curran? Indispensable. Then, of course, the artists themselves, such as actor and director Jim Andreassi, of Elm City Shakespeare Company.

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New WPA Exhibit Recalls Art & The “Average Citizen”

by Linda Cuckovich | Dec 1, 2006 10:16 am

“I remember the WPA projects,” reminisced New Haven native Henry Townsend Thursday night at the opening of the New Haven Museum’s exhibition on the local impact of the Federal Arts Project. “Those were pretty desperate times. I was very enthusiastic about the projects. For the artists, it gave them something to do in their profession. Of course a lot of it was make-work, but it drummed up activity.”

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