The International Festival of Arts & Ideas began on Saturday and runs through June 29, with numerous events scheduled each day (except Mondays). That cultural omnipresence…
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The face of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas is a place.
There’s also a phrase or a name or a concept with which folks attempt to shorthand Arts & Ideas if they want to. This year’s official theme/slogan …
In Spires
This Saturday on New Haven Green, you’re likely to run into someone who will offer you a cookie.
Go ahead, take it. It’s a peace offering. It’s a neighborly gesture. It’s a reflection on the history of New Haven. Plus, …
This Week in New Haven (June 10 – 16)
College-based events are fewer and further between between the end of the academic year and the beginning of summer classes. Public schools, meanwhile, don’t get out until the end of the month. Still, you can totally feel the wave of …
Team Players
In 1974, when the Yale Summer Cabaret began, there were still summer theaters throughout Connecticut, and the United States, with this well-established format: a company of actors doing five or six plays back to back, switching up roles and scripts …
Cool Summer
The summer concert season on New Haven Green got off to an unofficial and unusual start May 30, with the sight of three young musicians from out of town sitting at the memorial fountain and blazing on acoustic instruments through …
This Week in New Haven (June 3 – 9)
It’s a great week of harmony in New Haven. It begins with a steel drum orchestra in a city park, continues with a community talent show raising funds for arts scholarships and wends its way through choral concerts and gallery …
Making Moves
Change, it comes.
Orangeside Luncheonette is now on Temple Street, opposite Criterion Cinemas. It’s still called Orangeside, even though it’s not on Orange Street anymore.
Does anyone mind? The…
Strumming Along
“It seems flippant when I say it,” Shawn Persinger says, smiling. “But when people ask what I do, I say ‘I play guitar.’”
Persinger has had several of his own bands, including the long-running acoustic duo Prester John (with mandolinist …
This Week in New Haven (May 27 – June 2)
“There’s a place for us, a time and place for us…” Those places, this week in New Haven, include New York’s Upper West Side (as in the classic musical West Side Story), the historic Pardee-Morris House…
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