Hartford Lede Buried Thanks to mistimed civil rights context, Two Trains never leaves the station. Jamil Ragland 14 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Hartford Tiger Lily Steals The Show As "Peter Pan" makes me feel like a kids again. Jamil Ragland 6 Feb 2025 · 3 min read
Hartford "Halleleujah" Respite Ali Kat feat. Gene Donaldson Old State House Food Court Hartford Jan. 22, 2025 The word that I would use to describe Ali Kat’s musical style is “soothing.” I Jamil Ragland 24 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
All Over The Best & Brightest Have “One of Them Days” New film showcases talents some of today’s best and brightest African American stars Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2025 · 3 min read
Hartford Young Man Sings "Old Man" At warmed-up Winter Blues Fest. Jamil Ragland 17 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Hartford Nutmeg Slim Gives Permission Blues night at Black Eyed Sally's was "built for comfort." Jamil Ragland 13 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Hartford Winter Blues Chased Jamil Ragland finds what he was looking for as Ashley Hamel returns home for a singing visit. Jamil Ragland 9 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
All Over Basement Vapes Gen Z and millennial critics weigh on on the new Bob Dylan biopic Multiple authors 1 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Hartford The Gloved One Jamaal Fields-Green captures the King of Pop onstage in MJ. Jamil Ragland 12 Dec 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How An Alcoholic Asshole Made Me Cry The new film The Outrun gets past the cliches about substance abuse and recovery. Jamil Ragland 8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford A Holocaust Morality Tale, With One Hitch In the film White Bird, wolves bring individual culpability into focus. Jamil Ragland 21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Yes, I’m “Bored of the Negro Problem” HartBeat Ensemble’s production of Jimmy and Lorraine: A Musing, which chronicles the friendship of famed African-American writers James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry, brings two of the giants of American literature to a present day... Jamil Ragland 21 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Hell We’ve Allowed Ourselves To Fall Into Photographer Peter Brown has transformed a harrowing experience into a mind-bending display of resilience and recovery with Memories Misused at Real Art Ways. Jamil Ragland 20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford TheaterWorks Season Opens With A Promising Extinction-Level Event Fever Dreams tells the story of Zach and Adele, two lovers who have absconded away to a cabin in the woods for a weekend of passionate sex and food. Eventually Adele’s husband, and Zach’s former best friend, Miller shows up, and a series of revelations rock Zach’s world Jamil Ragland 20 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How We Mourn Four-Legged Family Death is inevitable for all living things. Humans have a wide range of ceremonies across cultures and religions that lay out strict rules for what to do with other humans who are dead. But what about our pets? Jamil Ragland 18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Megalopolis: A Mega Mess Major studios spent years telling Francis Ford Coppola “no” when he tried to get Megalopolis made. The movie spent decades in development hell before Coppola spent $120 million of his own money to make it, financed by his winemaking business. Jamil Ragland 16 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
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