Hartford Soap-Dwelling Alien Created At Juneteenth Cartoonist-Kids Confab Juneteenth Workshop Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts Hartford June 19, 2024 It’s not often that you can get free lessons from an award-winning cartoonist and writer, but that’ Jamil Ragland 20 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford This Juneteenth, Young People Taught The Elders Juneteenth Freedom Day Celebration Bushnell Park Hartford June 16, 2024 This year’s Juneteenth celebration for the city of Hartford took place on Trinity Street in Bushnell Park, where the Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Never Mind Whodunit Sandra Theaterworks Hartford Through June 27, 2024 The following review contains spoilers. I went to see Sandra at Theaterworks on a Friday evening. The theater was packed, and we all Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Symphony Can Touch “This” Symphony in the Park Bushnell Park Hartford June 15, 2024 I love orchestral music, and I love being outside. Seeing the Hartford Symphony perform Symphony in the Park at Bushnell Jamil Ragland 17 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Eating In Stereo, He Grabbed For More Water Spice Venue 81 Asylum St. Hartford June 13, 2024 The only Indian food that I’m familiar with is naan, and that’s because I’m obsessed with bread no Jamil Ragland 16 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Finding The Hartford Taste Hartford Taste Hartford June 8, 2024 This year’s Hartford Taste festival, billed as a celebration of the city’s cultural heritage and a fundraiser for CT Foodshare, was held Jamil Ragland 11 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Horror Of The Place 2.5 Minute Ride Hartford Stage Hartford Through June 23, 2024 2.5 Minute Ride is a one-person show about a woman named Lisa, who is making a movie about Jamil Ragland 11 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford When the Sharks Meet The Warhawks Shark Tank Pitch Competition Bloomfield High School Bloomfield June 6, 2024 I hadn’t been back to Bloomfield High School, my alma mater, in at least a decade. What better Jamil Ragland 9 Jun 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford An Emotional Story, Without The Emotion Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara Cinestudio Hartford June 5, 2024 Visiting Cinestudio has become one of my favorite activities, as the college-based theater offers some of the more interesting Jamil Ragland 6 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford I Think They’re Pronounced “Yeer-Rosh” Greek Festival St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral Hartford May 30, 2024 The Greek Festival has been an event in Hartford for 50 years, and somehow I’ve always missed it. Jamil Ragland 31 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford When The Saints Came Marching Home Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch Hartford May 30, 2024 There are few structures in Hartford as distinctive as the Soldiers and Sailors Arch located on Trinity Street. The Bushnell Park Jamil Ragland 31 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Avocado’s In There Somewhere Dave and Buster’s Manchester May 29, 2024 Dave and Buster’s might not be the first place you think of when it’s time to eat. The chain franchise Jamil Ragland 30 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Abstract Feels More Real Watershed Moments Clare Gallery St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church Hartford May 28, 2024 Watershed Moments, paintings of the Connecticut River’s watershed by Connecticut’s own Diana Rogers on display at Jamil Ragland 29 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford More Than Just A Caning Victim: Charles Sumner The Abolitionist The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Mark Twain House and Museum Hartford May 23, 2024 I concede that not many people spend a Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Mountain Comes Alive With Music Powder Ridge Mountain Park and Resort Press Conference Middlefield, Conn. May 5, 2023 What do you do at a place like Powder Ridge when there’s no snow on the Jamil Ragland 24 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford The Real Italian Deal, In The Suburbs Elizabeth’s Bar and Grill Bloomfield May 20, 2024 You can’t go to an Italian place without trying the two Ps — pasta and pizza. So I made sure I Jamil Ragland 21 May 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Travelers Come Out At Night — & Hit the Right Note Over The Rainbow: A Free Concert Presented by the Travelers Chorale Bushnell Center for Performing Arts Hartford May 16, 2024 Life is full of surprises, and I experienced an excellent Jamil Ragland 17 May 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Secret Breakfast Ingredient: Family Aqui Me Quedo Restaurant Hartford May 15, 2024 Aqui Me Quedo (“I’ll Stay Here”) is located on Albany Avenue just a few hundred feet short of where the road Jamil Ragland 16 May 2024 · 4 min read