Arts Paper
As the editorially independent arm of The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Arts Paper seeks to celebrate, explore, and investigate the fine, visual, performing and culinary arts in and around New Haven.
Isabella Maddelena, Charlotte Martinez, and Myra Gupta get ready for the movie. Ariel Shearer Photos. A gaggle of children bounced and swayed on stage at Hamden Town Center Park while a crew hurried to inflate a giant outdoor movie screen before sunset. Top 40 tunes rang out over the field as more families arrived, hauling wagons filled with colorful blankets and coolers, nudging their children to join those on stage for the chance to dance and win prizes.
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Image Courtesy Daniel Eugene/Lunch Money Print. At first, you think it’s just another portrait of a building. Green paint on white stucco. Wood against red brick. Howard Avenue stretches out under high-hanging blue sky, grey-fringed clouds. But there he is, in the lower righthand corner: a kid, no more than 12 or 13, popping a wheelie as his bike gleams beneath him. Handlebars up. earbuds in. Mouth open, tongue on its way to sticking out. The sunlight soaks his skin. This is summer, exactly as it’s meant to be.
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Steffon Sampson as Usnavi in Arts In CT's production of In The Heights . The show runs this Friday and Saturday at Wilbur Cross High School.
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The cast of Hamlet , performances for which run on the Guilford Green through Sunday. Judith L. Barbosa Photo.
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Justin Freiberg raises a spring of glasswort, which he and his friends grew up calling a "pickle plant" for its salty taste. Leah Andelsmith Photos.
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Ned Lamont and David Stemerman at Tuesday's forum. Tim Herbst is pictured in the background. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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Lamont at ConnCAT: Sometimes it's ok to be a black sheep. Lucy Gellman Photos.
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More public concerts on city greens. New arts funding in urban school districts. A cut to state line item funding to benefit smaller museums that really need the money.
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