A helping of intimate jazz is served among courses of stirring speech (and actual food) as Black History Month goes out with a few bangs. …
Four of a Kind

Beethoven had been deaf for 20 years when he wrote his String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132—“one of the greatest string quartets,” cellist Philip Boulanger told a masked audience of 150…
This Week in New Haven (October 11 – 17)

Step outside, inside, up and around, and not just while learning a few new moves.
Monday, October 11
At 1 p.m., an Indigenous Peoples’ Day event celebrates “indigenous peoples from Turtle Island and beyond” outside City Hall (165 Church St, …
Body and Building

At New Haven Pilates in Erector Square, Krista Rea trains her students to pay attention to their bodies as they work out on…
Find Your Feet

It’s hard to keep from smiling when you’re tap dancing. I learned that the easy way during…
All Together Now

The sounds of a small orchestra drift down from an open window above one of the parking lots at Erector Square. It’s Friday afternoon, and already the light is fading. But upstairs at Music Haven, the fun is just getting …
Pressing Business

Dexterity Press is a suitable name for the fine art press Jeff Mueller runs out of an Erector Square studio, in part because of the deftness required to print with Mueller’s 1905 Chandler & Price press. …
This Week in New Haven (January 14 – 20)

A life-sized board game, a man divided 69 ways, a total lunar eclipse—and that’s just the weekend. …
Behind the Music

Kevin Chapin makes his living shaping slabs of spruce and maple into beautiful forms. But Chapin isn’t a sculptor, exactly; he’s a luthier…