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Jul 27, 2022 9:24 am
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“I don’t want to X‑ray your ghost,” Brian Robinson began, speaking to someone to told him that “it was just a rash and you would get it checked / You told me you would clean up, stop drinking, and fix up the sun room / where the folded cardboard Amazon boxes sneer a stupid arrow smile / alongside Mike’s Hard Lemonade and chewy pet supplies / all wedged behind the rusted patio furniture you never sit in to read a book.” The poem, in exquisite detail, portrayed a life spun slowly out of control, “even as you fold another box and call to say your results came up negative.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 26, 2022 8:46 am
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It’s a chicken leg, mounted on a wooden board like a hunting trophy or a piece of taxidermy. But then something else is going on with it, a cascade of white circles, dynamic enough to almost seem to be moving across its surface. For some, the circles might seem like soap, the leg being washed clean. For other, they might look like mold; the chicken left out of the fridge too long. Or what if someone decided not to interpret it at all? To just accept the shapes and shades for what they are, just patterns across the chicken’s skin?
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 21, 2022 8:08 am
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Oliveras.
Andrew Cohen, vocalist and guitarist of the band Oliveras, mopped a little perspiration from his brow. All the doors and windows in Neverending Books were open, but a heat wave was a heat wave.
“I guess we’ll just get started,” he said.
That drew a cheer from the audience right away.
“I haven’t even done anything yet!” he responded, to laughter.
But then he became genuine, mentioning that this was the first time he and drummer Ryan Tedesco had played out, the first time he’d played songs he’d written in front of people. “Thanks everyone. This is a dream come true.”
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 1, 2022 8:46 am
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Beach Side Property.
Two high-energy bands — Beach Side Property and Seeing Double — shook the floorboards of Never Ending Books on Tuesday night, turning the State Street community space into a frenzied dance club.
The Shoreline-based emo band Beach Side Property — Kate Burton on guitar and vocals, Ruby DeGoursey on bass and vocals, Patrick LaLonde on guitar and backing vocals, and Ryan Shea on drums — immediately tore into a set of mostly originals with a cover or two sprinkled in for good measure that showcased what the band was all about: tight musicianship, sharp songwriting, and the ability to draw and hold a crowd. Shea on drums was a constant source of propulsion, while DeGoursey’s muscular bass playing provided pulse, rumble, and slyly sophisticated harmonies. On guitars, Burton and LaLonde created shifted textures of sound out of one hook after another. All this was the grounding for Burton and DeGoursey’s earnest, funny lyrics, delivered with a lot of heart and a sly grin. If the lyrics were often about anxieties, heartbreak, and insecurity, the voices of people moving into an uncertain future, the music itself conveyed a constant message of strength and hope — a message amplified by the sheer amount of fun the band was obviously having playing music together. That enjoyment was infectious, packing the room of Never Ending Books with cheering, dancing fans, and giving the touring band that followed the warm-up they deserved.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 5, 2022 8:58 am
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The colorful digital artwork on the walls brought sparks of light to the space at Never Ending Books. In one piece, swirls of darkness and fluorescence together ripped across an undulating landscape. In another, the dark forms of buildings, lit from within by explosions of brightness, melted into one another, suggesting vastness and a riotous amount of life. In still another, the forms of leaves and pale branches draped across the view of a passing stream. They and many others are part of visual artist and musician Shula Weinstein’s show “The Sun Rises on a Coastal Town,” running now at the State Street spot for the next few weeks.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 7, 2022 9:16 am
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Bad History Month.
As in the days before the pandemic, on Saturday night, perplexed pedestrians carrying leftovers from nearby restaurants stood outside Never Ending Books on State Street, drawn closer by the raucous music spilling out of it, stopped by the incongruity of a storefront that looked like a bookstore, but sounded like a punk club. They didn’t have to stop; all were welcome to a two-band bill that is the latest in a string of events reestablishing the spot, now under the management of Volume Two, the Never Ending Books Collective, as a hub for adventurous, energetic music.
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Feb 18, 2022 3:03 pm
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Chloe Rose models $50 look, styled by Todd Lyon with items from Fashionista's new vintage collection
In a jet-black 1950s Polack dress and gloves to match, Chloe Rose modeled a grieving widow look styled by Fashionista co-owner Todd Lyon — complete only with 1960s kitten heels, Aviators, and a maroon headscarf.
The outfit was one of four that Rose donned to promote “Persnickety Thrift,” the vintage store’s new line of thrifted clothing, which debuts this weekend. The line marks a new stage in the evolution of one of New Haven’s most colorful homegrown businesses, and a reflection of where fashion consciousness and society at large have moved amid the chaos of a pandemic.
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Jan 27, 2022 3:16 pm
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Demolition underway at 191, 197, 199 Foster St.
After more than three years of delays, the last remaining husk of the former Lehman Brothers printing factory has been demolished — making way for 30 planned new condos and townhouse units in Goatville.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 13, 2021 3:53 pm
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The former Lehman printing factory site at 191 Foster.
A local megalandlord’s long-delayed plans to convert a former Goatville printing factory into 30 new condos and townhouse units got a shot in the arm, in the form of a $10 million mortgage loan from Goldman Sachs.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 7, 2021 9:32 am
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Conor Perreault, part of the Volume Two collective that runs Never Ending Books, was seated at an organ in the State Street space. He let out a long, low bass note from the instrument’s foot pedals.
“You’re all set,” said Tim, a musician who was setting up a laptop rig. “Get a brick.”
Perreault left the room for the yard behind Never Ending Books, and in fact returned with a brick, which he placed on the pedal. The sound went on and on.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 18, 2021 9:20 am
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Dutkanicz with 4 Attempts at Being an Individual.
The dozens of colored shapes in New Haven-based artist Andrzej Dutkanicz’s paintings might at first appeared to be scrambled, almost in motion, because the visual effect is scintillating. But the lines that divide the canvas, and the focal dot in the middle of it, suggest something else is going on, a kind of symmetry and repetition. At first glance, it’s hard to say what it is. But the system is there, and for Dutkanicz, it’s the combination — of randomness and rules, of chaotic motion and unchanging order — that makes the art. And for the next month or so, that art will be gracing the walls of Never Ending Books on State Street as a show titled “Works.”
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Brian Slattery |
Oct 21, 2021 7:59 am
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Jacob’s Ladder.
The shape of a staircase crosses Jacob’s Ladder, but it offers only the suggestion of a structure. Which planes are the steps and which are the risers? The ghostly shapes using the staircase only confound the reading of the physical space, as they each follow the stairs according to their own rules, their own sense of gravity. Some appear to be using the opposite sides of the planks compared to other figures. The smoke rising from a candle is almost funny, as it moves up for neither the viewer nor the being holding the candle. What’s going on?
Brackeen with Rev. Steve Cousin at East Rock fundraiser.
Upper Westville Darryl Brackeen took his quest to demonstrate viability as a statewide candidate to a tap room in New Haven’s Goatville neighborhood, with a fundraiser at East Rock Brewing Company.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 13, 2021 8:08 am
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Sage.
Rachael Sage flashed the audience at Never Ending Books a wide smile. “What a revelation to be here performing for human beings in person,” she said. Like several other recent touring musicians visiting New Haven recently, Sage remarked that this was among the first times she had performed live for people, after months and months of livestreaming.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 17, 2021 7:40 am
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The woman in the picture has a look of worry and determination on her face, but what really draws the gaze is the machine gun she’s pointing a little too close to the viewer’s direction. Even if we’re not the target, we might be in the line of fire. Then there’s the words spilling out all around her. Hustle hard, they say, and keep on with a narrative about just having to provide for a family, defend home. Who is she? Are the words her interior monologue? Or are they both part of a greater whole?
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 2, 2021 8:36 pm
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St. Francis & St. Rose of Lima School at the ice rink in February 2020.
The city has tapped a Bridgeport-based management company with three decades of experience operating ice rinks to help turn the renovated Ralph Walker Skating Rink into a “wonderland of ice” starting this October.
Qinxuan Pan (right) in court Tuesday with attorney William Gerace.
A North Haven cop was with Qinxuan Pan when the officer received a New Haven police broadcast that an alleged murderer was on the loose — someone driving a dark-colored GMC Terrain SUV.
Qinxuan Pan (right) with attorney William Gerace in court on June 1.
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Whyte: Why shoot my house?
• Runs 96 pages. • Blood evidence cited to support murder charge. • Pan linked to other, nonfatal shootings in town, including of deputy school superintendent’s house. • North Haven cops let Pan go — even though they knew license plate on his car was stolen. • New Haven dispatcher later sent out incorrect bulletin for “Black” suspect. • New details of Jiang murder revealed.
The city plans to ditch a vacant lot (bottom right in photo) to facilitate the development of next phase of Corsair.
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City’s Carlos Eyzaguirre: Lot is currently empty and trashed.
Forty-four years after first acquiring a triangular sliver of highway-adjacent land from the state, the city plans to give it back — with the hopes that the parcel could soon sprout roughly 70 Upper State Street apartments as part of “Corsair II.”
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Mar 22, 2021 4:52 pm
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The empty pit at 31 Sheffield Ave. Landlord Edward Zislis (below): New 3-family home in the works.
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A new three-family house on Sheffield Avenue is one step closer to rising from the ashes of its burned-down predecessor — and, two neighborhoods away, three new townhouses won the thumbs up to pop up atop a Humphrey Street backyard.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 17, 2021 10:18 am
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It’ll be easier for East Rockers to find their way to the gym and then an after-workout stop at the brewery.
That’s because Tuesday night, at its regular Zoom-assisted meeting, the Board of Zoning Appeals approved the placing of two signs at 268 Nicoll St. in the Goatville section of East Rock.
That’s the parking lot adjacent to the mActivity Fitness Center, part of a complex that also houses the East Rock Brewery.
