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One Night Only

One Night Only

Escapade: An Unusual Experience, a dancing, singing (or at least lip syncing) drag show that gets its eighth local production—each one a different mix of performers, routines and visuals—tonight at...

One Night Only

Escapade: An Unusual Experience, a dancing, singing (or at least lip syncing) drag show that gets its eighth local production—each one a different mix of performers, routines and visuals—tonight at...

Screenings Call

Screenings Call

There’s an old-timey, drive-in feel to the announcement about “the terrific taste of an ice-cold Pepsi” before a movie at the Criterion. The screen fills with bubbling, icy cola and...

Screenings Call

There’s an old-timey, drive-in feel to the announcement about “the terrific taste of an ice-cold Pepsi” before a movie at the Criterion. The screen fills with bubbling, icy cola and...

Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #610 at Yale University Art Gallery

Drawing Attention

It’s geometry class all over again: “A white broken line is drawn from a point equidistant to the start of the not straight yellow line, the midpoint of the blue...

Drawing Attention

It’s geometry class all over again: “A white broken line is drawn from a point equidistant to the start of the not straight yellow line, the midpoint of the blue...

Donald Hall plaque at Spring Glen Elementary School

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...

Writing Home

Donald Hall’s childhood home stands at the corner of Ardmore and Greenway Streets in Hamden’s Spring Glen neighborhood—as he described it, “a small, dark, well-constructed, mock-Tudor house.” That house was...

Swinging for the Fences

Swinging for the Fences

When Neighborhood Music School’s Premier Jazz Ensemble opened for up-and-coming jazz pianist Christian Sands at the 2016 New Haven Jazz Festival, the group’s tenor saxophonist, Ryan Griffiths, was starstruck. Sands...

Swinging for the Fences

When Neighborhood Music School’s Premier Jazz Ensemble opened for up-and-coming jazz pianist Christian Sands at the 2016 New Haven Jazz Festival, the group’s tenor saxophonist, Ryan Griffiths, was starstruck. Sands...

Kehler Liddell Gallery

Pretty Pleas

I sit in front of Hong Hong’s 8×12-foot work on paper with Shakespeare on my mind. The stated theme of the new juried exhibition at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery is...

Pretty Pleas

I sit in front of Hong Hong’s 8×12-foot work on paper with Shakespeare on my mind. The stated theme of the new juried exhibition at Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery is...