Hartford All-Women Jazz Trio Breaks Sound Barriers GATHER Women in Jazz: Interview and Concert with Mimi Jones Hartford Public Library Center for Contemporary Culture Hartford March 26, 2024 I’d never seen an all-women jazz performance before, Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Old Jokes Are Still Funny D.L. Hughley The Funny Bone Comedy Club Manchester March 24, 2024 The first standup that I remember seeing was in The Kings of Comedy movie. My idea of professional Jamil Ragland 28 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Metalhead Journey Avenged Avenged Sevenfold with Poppy and Sullivan King Mohegan Sun Casino Uncasville March 21, 2024 The last time I wrote about attending a metal show, I talked about how I’d Jamil Ragland 22 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Sake Sizzles, Lychee Livens Steakhouse Happy Hour Koma Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi West Hartford March 20, 2024 I found myself in West Hartford on a Wednesday afternoon, with a taste for something different than the usual. I Jamil Ragland 21 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Organist Moves Us Beyond Thunderous Calamity Trinity College Organ Series: Twilight Tuesdays Christopher Houlihan Trinity College Chapel Hartford March 19, 2024 Despite being a student and an employee at Trinity College for seven years, I never Jamil Ragland 20 Mar 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford When the Hero Falls, Mayhem Erupts & Bodies Fly Lone Survivor 5 Warehouse 635 West Hartford March 17, 2024 There are some people who know exactly what they want to be, and then they go out and do it. Jamil Ragland 17 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Charmagne Tripp Returns To Form In The Living Room The Living Room Series Presents: Charmagne Tripp and The High Theaterworks Hartford March 14, 2024 I’ve known Charmagne Tripp for several years, because I’ve been friends with her Jamil Ragland 15 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Clothes, Cops, & Weddings No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor Real Art Ways Hartford March 11, 2024 The clothes we wear say a lot about who we are. But instead of focusing on culture or Jamil Ragland 14 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Swanky Steakhouse Doesn’t Cut It Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar West Hartford March 11, 2024 As you’ve read before, dear reader, I’m pretty content eating Cheesecake Factory. But there’s another Jamil Ragland 11 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Come For The Art, Stay For The History (And The Historian) Spring Art Exhibit Garmany Visitor Center Elizabeth Park Hartford March 7, 2024 When I go to galleries, I’m usually self-guided and left to contemplate the artwork by myself. That’ Jamil Ragland 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Inside Mussel Bag Job Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar Hartford March 6, 2024 Hook and Reel Cajun Seafood and Bar in Hartford has a great deal for the seafood enjoyer on a Jamil Ragland 7 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford PBS Runs Armenia Through The Dull Machine Armenia, My Home Connecticut Public TV premiere; streaming on PBS I guess you could say that I have a fraught relationship with the idea of a homeland. I’m an Jamil Ragland 5 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Fathers, Sons And Chicken Wings At Hartford Stage The Hot Wing King Hartford Stage Hartford Through March 24, 2024 We got an extra day of Black History Month this year, so I celebrated by going to see the Jamil Ragland 1 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Joe Young Day A Night of the Arts: A Black History Month Event Alvin & Beatrice Wood Human Services Center Bloomfield Feb. 28, 2024 Although I’ve lived the majority of my life Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford I Breakfast, Therefore I Am … Not Hungry? Blue Plate Kitchen West Hartford Febr. 28, 2024 What is a breakfast food? Simple enough question, but there are as many different answers as there are people to ask. Is Jamil Ragland 29 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Running With The Wolf Pack Hartford Wolf Pack vs. Bridgeport Islanders XL Center Hartford Feb. 21, 2024 My last hockey game was back in the 1990s. Obsessed with the movie The Mighty Ducks 2, I Jamil Ragland 22 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford A Garlic Aioli Revelation Sorella Hartford Feb. 19, 2024 Despite its central location in Downtown Hartford, I’d never been to Sorella before. I chose a great evening to visit, as the noontime rush Jamil Ragland 20 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford The Flying Spaghetti Monster, & The Spirit Of Space Leave No Trace Clare Gallery Fransciscan Center for Urban Ministry Hartford Through March 15, 2024 Clare Gallery has become one of my favorite galleries in Hartford thanks to the friendly Jamil Ragland 16 Feb 2024 · 3 min read