In the front room at Lyric Hall Antiques and Conservation, a 400-year-old mirror is undergoing surgery. Whole passages of its gilt frame—florid segments that cross the mirror like vines—are missing and have to be carefully recreated, then gilded to match. John Cavaliere, the owner and principal of Lyric Hall, takes up a micron-thin square of […]
One Night Only
Escapade: An Unusual Experience, a dancing, singing (or at least lip syncing) drag show that (more…)
This Week in New Haven (August 13 – 19)
Academic and personal histories texture a week in which Jazz Age meets Jazz Week and indulgence meets endurance. Monday, August 13 “During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America’s most exclusive beaches”—Connecticut’s—“to minorities and the urban poor.” At 7 p.m., RJ Julia […]
This Week in New Haven (July 16 – 22)
Women of special note open and close a week filled with insights into both nature and humanity. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (May 21 – 27)
Magic is both learned and hereditary; vision is both musical and constitutional; and pink is both historical and vehicular this week in New Haven. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (April 23 – 29)
Fine art joins some fine weather this week in New Haven. (more…)
This Week in New Haven (March 19 – 25)
A wet and wild winter officially meets its end, outlived by New Haven’s unique blend of thinking, giving and pleasure-seeking. (more…)