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A Cat Is Born

by Linda Cuckovich | Feb 28, 2007 8:53 am | Comments (0)

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Christopher Sidoli was still unassuming in a rumpled grey t-shirt, betrayed only by a silver chain and an errant tuft of chest hair. By 7:30 when the lights came up in the Shubert Theater, he had become something else entirely—one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.

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Rebellious Lawyering

by TOM FICKLIN | Feb 26, 2007 1:26 pm | Comments (0)

Social justice and law: That was theme this weekend of a “rebellious lawyering” conference. One highlight Saturday night was a speech by federal judge Thelton Henderson. Click on the play arrows to watch highlights videotaped by Tom Ficklin.

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Ching, Cling—Clang!

by Paul Bass | Feb 26, 2007 10:03 am | Comments (0)

Percussion—it’s not just banging on drums, as Oslo’s Eirik Raude demonstrated while roaming the Sprague Hall stage for a 30-minute rendition of I Ching.

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Library Patrons Party Mardi

by James Martin | Feb 21, 2007 12:01 pm | Comments (0)

With the New Orleans sounds of the Funky Butt Jazz Band (pictured) playing in the background, patrons of the New Haven Free Public Library gathered Tuesday night at the Lawn Club to celebrate the institution’s 120th birthday at a Mardi Gras-themed dinner party—and to raise money to improve the library.

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Audubon-Whalley Roadside Attractions

by Allan Appel | Feb 11, 2007 5:01 pm | Comments (0)

Impishly smiling Aidan Moran not only is a photographer of roadside attractions, he was a roadside, or corridor-side, attraction himself at the opening of a show of photography.

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Drama Lab for Life in Fair Haven

by Allan Appel | Feb 8, 2007 8:05 am | Comments (2)

Andres, the leader of the violent Latin Kings gang in New Haven, is in mourning over the dead body of Juan, who has just shot himself with the weapon Andres has given him to exact vengeance against a rival gang. Caught between loyalty to his gang and inability to kill another human being, Juan has turned the weapon on himself. Fortunately, the dead body this time is on the stage only, and the blood is not real.

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Firehouse 12 Aims High With New Discs

by James Martin | Feb 8, 2007 7:59 am | Comments (1)

Releasing a ten-disc boxed set of experimental jazz as its first major production does not at first glance seem the wisest way for a young label to guarantee sales. But Nick Lloyd is confident his release of Anthony Braxton‘s work will generate significant positive press and will help Firehouse 12 Records, based at the Crown Street club of the same name, hit the ground running.

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Solidarity with Watada

by Melinda Tuhus | Feb 6, 2007 8:35 am | Comments (16)

With cold and wind that made it feel like one degree on Monday afternoon, activists inadvertently found a way to distribute flyers in support of the first commissioned officer in the U.S. military to refuse deployment to Iraq: The wind just kept blowing them away. Local peace activist Chris Schweitzer had to fight the wind to hold his sign at the corner of Church and Center.

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Woman on Fire

by Linda Cuckovich | Feb 5, 2007 9:00 am | Comments (0)

Tinling Choong took center stage at the New Haven Public Library on Saturday afternoon, despite her protestations that she writes “from the very peripheral.” Choong read several short chapters from her first novel, Firewife, answered audience questions, and signed books at the library’s latest Writer’s Live! event.

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Waves Break The “Silence”

by Linda Cuckovich | Feb 5, 2007 8:07 am | Comments (0)

On Sunday at the John Slade Ely House, the beer and appetizers were laid out for a big, bustling crowd. But it was clear when the sound of African drums spilled out onto Trumbull Street that this was not another Super Bowl party. Imna Arroyo’s reception for her vivid new show “Breaking the Silence” fulfilled its promise quite literally with singing, drumming and dancing.

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