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“Radical Finales”: Arts & Ideas, Ideat Village

by Andrew Mangino | Jun 30, 2008 2:38 pm | Comments (5)

The New Haven Green can tout a long and storied history. But after Saturday night, it may never be the same.

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A Triple-Header Celebrates Art Of Light

by Allan Appel | Jun 26, 2008 2:52 pm

That’s neither a natural tunnel in the Southwest nor a new museum in Montivideo, but a gelatin silver print called “Open Dictionary” by the contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell.

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Sorry. You Have Not Won $5,000

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 26, 2008 7:05 am | Comments (4)

New Haven Mayor DeStefano decided it was a teachable moment when his wife received a realistic-looking check in the mail a few weeks ago saying she’d won the lottery.

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Dear, Dirty Dublin

by christopher grobe | Jun 25, 2008 2:01 am | Comments (1)

Early in The Pride of Parnell Street—a gorgeous new monologue-play by Irish playwright Sebastian Barry brought to New Haven courtesy of the Festival of Arts & Ideas—a lower-class Dublin woman tells about those heady days during the 1990 World Cup.  Ireland’s national soccer team strung together a series of unexpected victories and came as close to the championship as they’ve ever come.  Dublin went mad, “happy mayhem” ruled, and this depressed, terror-wracked, still-developing nation felt something rare.  Janet—that’s this storyteller’s name—doesn’t try to shoehorn this oceanic feeling into one word, but surely the nearest word would be “pride.”

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New Haven’s Summer of Photography

by Allan Appel | Jun 24, 2008 9:30 am

That’s neither a natural tunnel in the Southwest nor a new museum in Montivideo but a gelatin silver print called “Open Dictionary” by the contemporary photographer Abelardo Morell. Full story here.

Sacred Dance on the Solstice

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 23, 2008 6:58 pm

“Interplay in the Spirit” was the name of a sacred dance performed in the Edgerton Park Community Garden as dusk fell on the day of the Summer Solstice. It was part of the “613 Radical Acts of Prayer” that are being performed by the Liz Lerman Company throughout the Arts & Ideas festival.

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Mozart Had No Say In The Arrangement

by Sarah Vanderbilt | Jun 23, 2008 10:08 am

He probably would have rocked out with the festival crowd on the Green, anyway.

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Renaming New Haven: Hillhouse City?

by Allan Appel | Jun 20, 2008 9:51 am | Comments (1)

Thanks to one of the fine free tours orchestrated by the Arts & Ideas Festival, a lovefest developed on Hillhouse Avenue Thursday afternoon. The love was for the New Haven of the past and of the present, specially where they exist as one, along the avenue that Charles Dickens in 1868 called the most beautiful in all America.

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Revisiting Sophocles

by christopher grobe | Jun 19, 2008 8:40 am | Comments (2)

The typical praise for a production of a classical play like Sophocles’s Antigone is that it makes the play seem “shockingly up-to-date.” That usually means the director and actors have successfully paddled out into the strongest currents of contemporary culture—usually political culture—without capsizing.  For better or worse, The Burial at Thebes, a new version of Antigone adapted by Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney and brought to New Haven’s Festival of Arts & Ideas by the Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company (UK), seems to be looking for this sort of accolade.

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STOP THE VIOLENCE BASKETBALL GAME AND CONCERT

by TOM FICKLIN | Jun 18, 2008 8:52 am

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