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Wilfred Rembert Tells Co-op Kids: Ditch The N Word

by Ariela Martin | May 7, 2012 8:08 am | Comments (1)

After traveling the country showing his unique folk art to students and gallery-goers, Winfred Rembert was finally invited to a hometown—and promptly issued a challenge.

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Bus Ride Causes A Scene

by Allan Appel | May 5, 2012 9:44 pm | Comments (1)

Five modern dancers redefined strap hanging as they turned the aisle of a CT Transit bus into a stage, one that bumped along at 25 miles an hour.

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Words Are Toys

by Charles Gershman | May 4, 2012 3:21 pm

A Samuel Beckett play isn’t being staged at the Yale Repertory Theatre right now, but a Will Eno play is: Eno’s play The Realistic Joneses, a Yale Rep commission, had its world premiere on April 26.

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$18M Will Support New Plays Forever

by Staff | Apr 25, 2012 5:33 pm

One hundred years from now, social security may or may not run out of money. We may still be driving cars—or else we may get around town in airborne Jetsons-mobiles. But we now know one thing for certain: New plays and musicals will come out of Yale and onto the American stage.

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Commenters Eat Their Words

by Stephen Kobasa | Apr 24, 2012 12:03 pm | Comments (1)

Pictured is the third in a year-long series the Independent is publishing of original works by local artists, a cumulative “virtual gallery” show. This piece is particularly appropriate given the recent contretemps on this website over readers’ comments and how they contribute (or not) to a civilized discourse. The work does render the eating one’s words as more than a metaphorical possibility, as the artist makes clear below:

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“God’s Beatnik” Bears A Chocolate Surprise

by Allan Appel | Apr 18, 2012 9:10 am

Connecticut Poet Laureate Richard Allen brought not only his stanzas but a box of chocolates to a reading at Gateway Community College’s Sargent Drive campus.

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$5M Jumpstarts New Jobs Effort

by Paul Bass | Apr 11, 2012 11:51 am | Comments (4)

A one-time teenaged factory “trucker washer” who succeeded in business has returned to Winchester Avenue to help other New Haven kids follow in his footsteps—and to help out-of-work adults get jobs drawing blood.

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Humans Conquer Highway, Cont’d

by Staff | Apr 9, 2012 8:03 am | Comments (7)

Neighbors took another step toward converting a drab concrete highway overpass that divides two neighborhoods into a living, human bridge.

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Girls Take The Rap

by Uma Ramiah | Apr 6, 2012 8:22 am | Comments (1)

Hip hop artists Twice Thou and Edo.G—part of the rap group 4Peace—shared Yale’s famed Woolsey Hall stage with a group of rhyme dropping middle-school students. And most of them were girls.

“See this group on stage? This is a testament to what women can do,” Twice Thou said into the mic.

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“You See More And More As You Look At It”

by Stephen Kobasa | Apr 5, 2012 11:05 am

In any miscellany like the one gathered in the exhibition “Making History: Antiquaries in Great Britain” currently at the Yale Center for British Art through May 27, there are always unexpected small glories. One of them is this drawing of Wells Cathedral by a 19th Century artist named John Carter (not, I think, to be confused with the muscular hero of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, or the disastrous recent film adaptation). Its precision and imagination reminded me immediately of work by New Haven artist Joseph Smolinski, whom I invited to the gallery for a conversation.

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