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Brian Slattery |
Sep 27, 2022 11:10 am
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Loose Screw.
The title photographer Joy Bush gives to the image — Loose Screw — suggest something about the sense of humor she wants the viewer to have in looking at the piece. But it also offers some direction for how to look at the image. The first thing that jumps out, after all, is the chair. But the story, whatever it is, starts with the screwdriver balanced on the power outlet. What’s it doing there? And where is the screw it was brought out to tighten? Is it between jobs? Has it been forgotten? Where is the owner of that chair? There’s a sense of incompletion; something hasn’t happened yet, but it’s about to.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 23, 2022 8:31 am
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The images up on the screen at Gather on State Street on Thursday night were from the Canadian mockumentary comedy series Trailer Park Boys, but they were altered, made psychedelic. The ambient music behind it felt sad and urgent. It was a quick reminder to the people filing into the space just how much a few images and the right music can alter the vibe of a room — fitting, as Gather was performing yet another transformation, from coffee shop to after-hours lounge.
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Thomas Breen |
Sep 16, 2022 1:34 pm
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15 Brown St., now OK'd for a new 2-family house.
Three different vacant lots in Wooster Square, West River, and Upper State Street should soon sprout new two-family houses, thanks to approvals granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA).
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 11, 2022 8:55 am
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Karen Klugman
Jerry at Jerry's Antiques, 928 State.
Jerry stands with his hand on his hip, a cigar angled improbably out of his mouth. He’s wearing a hat from another time. The shop behind him is from another time, too, an older New Haven that’s increasingly hard to catch a glimpse of. The photograph is accompanied by a quote from Jerry, addressed to the photographer: “Say, you ain’t Polish, are ya? John here said you might be Polish. You’re Italian, ain’t ya? You look Italian.… Lithuanian? Romanian? Well, at least you ain’t a Jew. Say, you ain’t Jewish, are ya? Old John, he and I just like to kid around. What are you anyway?”
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Brian Slattery |
Jul 14, 2022 8:37 am
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Sheila Kaczmarek
Caterpillar Homes.
The sculpture in the window of City Gallery is fashioned almost like it could be a bouquet of summery flowers, or a piece of interesting coral — the kind of art made from natural objects that you see a lot. But the pleasing shapes are actually representations of caterpillars that look like they could crawl out of their ceramic homes at any second. Some may find it a little creepy, but it’s also about the abundance of nature, the way it moves and grows, especially in the summer.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2022 9:04 am
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Cassides' Diner.
Cassides’ Diner sits everywhere and nowhere; it could be on any number of city blocks around the Northeast, and at the same time, it’s hard to say from the picture where on that block it is situated. The building itself is also a little improbable. It carries the signs of both tough economic straits and real ingenuity, the result of someone taking what’s at hand and making something better out of it.
Bradley Street Co-op's John Martin picks mulberry to share with neighbors.
A mulberry tree that was purportedly planted by George Washington at the intersection of Bradley and State Streets will soon going to find itself in the midst of a summer home-improvement project.
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Courtney Luciana |
Jun 7, 2022 3:26 pm
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As cars raced by the I‑95 Exit 5 entrance ramp on State Street during the morning rush hour, “Keith Nauer” was “flying a sign.” It read, “Homeless. Help. Thank You. God bless you all.”
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Brian Slattery |
May 31, 2022 9:00 am
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Dunn.
“It was kind of like I was squished so hard it leaked out,” Sarah Dunn said of her first EP, Thank You — coming out this Saturday, June 4, with a release party at Gather on Upper State Street — and the torrent of songwriting that followed, in between shifts in nursing homes during the depths of the pandemic. “I happened upon a very strange way of having silence, and it allowed the space inside my head to put things down that maybe had been festering there for a while. I didn’t have the opportunity before, but suddenly I was provided the time, so I did it.”
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Brian Slattery |
May 11, 2022 8:37 am
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Davies.
The surface of Jennifer Davies’s Blue Accord, part of “In Mind and Hand” — a show of Davies’s work up now at City Gallery on State Street through May 29 — is a panoply of textures, and not just visual ones. There are the endless variations on indigo, wrought by applying the dye in unpredictable ways. But look closer, and you can tell the material itself has a tactile life of its own, sometimes punctuated by string. Davies may be a visual artist by training, but her art appeals to more than one of the senses.
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Lisa Reisman |
Mar 31, 2022 12:38 pm
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Jordan's bacon and bbq hot dog.
A bacon and BBQ hot dog transported this correspondent to the right-field bleachers of Yankee Stadium, with a ball launched from the bat of Aaron Judge soaring into the sky on a mild August evening.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Mar 11, 2022 9:46 am
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Sultan Thahir: "Tonight, we're having..."
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Wednesday? Must be yoga night.
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Live music night.
After dusk, night after night, young crowds are swarming into an unassuming new coffeeshop on State Street to transform the place into an event hot spot — each time with a different reason to gather.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 15, 2022 3:20 pm
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1041 State St., future home to 75 new apartments.
A Fairfield-based developer purchased an Upper State Street warehouse for $1.35 million, as it moves ahead with its plans to build a new 75-unit apartment building across the street from the Corsair.
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Brian Slattery |
Feb 15, 2022 8:33 am
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Sack.
A crowd of colorful figures are running amok on a table in City Gallery. Their surfaces swirl with patterns, their forms just reminiscent enough of people or animals to endow them with a great deal of personality. They are, above all, fun — and part of “Phantasmagoria: Art to Amuse and Amaze,” a collection of mostly wax-encaustic paintings and sculptures by Ruth Sack running now at the gallery on Upper State Street through March 6.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 28, 2022 9:07 am
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Paul Aguilar of the Callisto Quartet looked over the growing audience assembled at Gather on Upper State Street Thursday night. “Cool thing,” he said. “Literally today is Mozart’s birthday” — his 265th. In honor of that, the quartet was going to perform his famous “Hunt” quartet, “one of the most well-loved pieces” in Mozart’s oeuvre, along with Brahms’s third string quartet, which could be understood as an homage to the Mozart piece.
What followed was a world-class performance, delivered for free to what became a full house at the new coffee shop and community space on Upper State Street.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 12, 2022 11:00 am
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Bloom, Kane, Crowley, and Friedman.
“Convergence” — the show at City Gallery running now through Jan. 30, and featuring the work of Meg Bloom, Phyllis Crowley, Roberta Friedman, and Kathy Kane — celebrates not only the ways in which the four artists have continued to make art during the pandemic, but how the City Gallery artists have maintained the bonds of their community even while being, once again, forced apart by Covid-19.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 8, 2021 10:02 am
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Susan Newbold
Island Magic
The vivid colors make the title of Susan Newbold’s piece — Island Magic — appropriate enough, but Newbold’s treatment of the subject moves the image well beyond a travel postcard. There’s enough information in the texture of the painting that, with a small imaginative leap, the viewer can be on that coastline, feel the grit of the sand, the roughness of the rocks, the cool water. It’s not just a picture of a place; it’s a record of Newbold’s experience of being there.
Operators of a doggy daycare asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by noise-weary neighbors, arguing that the city, not a court, should handle the issue.
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Brian Slattery |
Nov 17, 2021 9:08 am
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William Frucht
Pink Blanket.
It’s a photograph of a couple on a beach on a hot summer day. On one level, it’s all perfectly normal, almost banal. He’s checking something on his laptop; she may or may not be nudging him with her foot. But in its form it seems almost coordinated, that the two people are dressed only in black and white, that they’ve then chosen a hot pink blanket to rest on, a bright orange bag to bring, a bright purple cup to drink from. And then it’s all framed by just sand, without a wave in sight.
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Karen Ponzio |
Oct 11, 2021 8:14 am
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Concussion
Improvisational music comes off to many people as a few musicians getting together and simply playing their instruments, perhaps in a haphazard way — except it’s not that at all, and it’s not so simple. In fact, it involves a whole lot of experience, enthusiasm, commitment, and most of all, love. All of those aspects were on display Saturday night at Volume Two: A Never Ending Books Collective for a three-act bill that showcased some of the finest local improvisational musicians getting back to what they do best.
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Thomas Breen |
Oct 6, 2021 3:00 pm
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793 State and the former Pulaski Street: 16 new apartments on tap.
The city plans to sell off a portion of a highway-obliterated former street to make way for a proposed new 16-unit apartment building on Upper State Street.
