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Kenneth Joseph and the St. Luke’s Steel Band

By Oil Means

They’re “just not like anything else,” Debby Teason says. “They’re really magical.” She’s talking about steelpans. (Please, don’t call them drums.) The founding director of St. Luke’s Steel Band, Teason...

By Oil Means

They’re “just not like anything else,” Debby Teason says. “They’re really magical.” She’s talking about steelpans. (Please, don’t call them drums.) The founding director of St. Luke’s Steel Band, Teason...

Howard2 and IKB by Linda Lindroth

2D or Not 2D

Walk into Linda Lindroth’s Willow Street studio and you may be drawn to the walls with your hands outstretched. You may want to touch the worn velvet, the ragged cardboard,...

2D or Not 2D

Walk into Linda Lindroth’s Willow Street studio and you may be drawn to the walls with your hands outstretched. You may want to touch the worn velvet, the ragged cardboard,...

Newberry Memorial Organ - Woolsey Hall - New Haven, CT

Vital Organ

Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle...

Vital Organ

Picture a penny whistle, the size of a drinking straw and made out of tin. Blow on it and you’ll get a bright, high pitch. Now imagine a wooden whistle...

4th Floor of the Yale Center for British Art - New Haven, CT

Going Fourth

It’s hard to overstate Paul Mellon’s contributions to the Yale Center for British Art. A 1929 Yale alumnus and an heir to the famous Mellon family fortune, he funded the...

Going Fourth

It’s hard to overstate Paul Mellon’s contributions to the Yale Center for British Art. A 1929 Yale alumnus and an heir to the famous Mellon family fortune, he funded the...

Band Width

Band Width

“So, who wants to start?” somebody asks. On the small stage are three guys, one drum kit, several microphones, a few amps, some pedals and a couple of cords snaking...

Band Width

“So, who wants to start?” somebody asks. On the small stage are three guys, one drum kit, several microphones, a few amps, some pedals and a couple of cords snaking...

Inside Amity Bowl - Woodbridge, CT

Good Times

Amity Bowl has the cosmic carpeting, the molded plastic chairs, the marbled loaner balls. Call it retro. Because unlike its glitzy and pricey corporate competitors, independent Amity still has one...

Good Times

Amity Bowl has the cosmic carpeting, the molded plastic chairs, the marbled loaner balls. Call it retro. Because unlike its glitzy and pricey corporate competitors, independent Amity still has one...