Placing Literature, which announced itself to the public during New Haven’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas this past summer, provides a novel service. It allows you to take scenes from fictional works set in real-world places and…
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Frame Jobs
For Gabriel Da Silva (pictured right), co-owner of the Frame Shop and Westville Gallery with his wife, Inger (center), as well as the Da Silva Gallery next door, framing isn’t just slapping some wood around some art so that…
Heavy Hitter
In playwright August Wilson’s impressive ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” or “Century Cycle,” he set each play in a different decade of the twentieth century, all in his hometown, Pittsburgh.
Wilson could make a claim…
A Rich Seam
Ninth Square’s character has changed dramatically since Reynolds Fine Art gallery opened two and a half years ago. Curatorial director Robert Reynolds has noticed “a lot more foot traffic” compared to those first days, and the art-viewing…
Play by Play
At the end of the first act of Yale Repertory Theatre’s Owners, the stage falls silent as one character’s mother, an older woman addled by dementia, slowly and shakily makes a cup of tea. Amid the play’s barrage of …
Page-Turners
“Madison”—it just sounds literary. Thankfully the town, about a 25-minute drive up the shoreline from the heart of New Haven, has R.J. Julia to make it so.
By non-chain bookstore…
Stay Tooned
The New Yorker is famous for its incisive, engaging journalism, but somehow it’s the inky black-and-white “gag cartoons” scattered throughout each issue that form the core of the magazine’s iconography.…
Late Bloomers
From Australia to Hong Kong, Mississippi to Michigan, Iowa to Indiana, from 2002 to the present, and now in New Haven, actresses have been baring their bloomers for comedian Steve Martin’s The Underpants…
Poetic License
If you’ve ever caught a Wednesday open mic night at The Space performance complex, 37-year-old performance poet Devlin Grunloh likely closed out the evening, reading just before last call. In 10 years, Grunloh has…
Shelf Life
It’s a gloomy day when a friend and I pull into Whitlock’s Book Barn, just fifteen minutes outside of New Haven in rustic Bethany, CT. The skies are cloudy and gray, and the rain is heavy, blurring the windshield—perfect conditions …
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