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
Hartford A Split Decision At The Sports Bar XL Center Sports Bar & Fanatics Sportsbook Hartford February 16, 2024 I love sports, and I love food, so checking out the newest sports bar in Hartford was a no-brainer. Jamil Ragland 16 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford The Black History Past Is Present “I’m Black and I’m Proud” Black History Month Meet and Greet Alvin & Beatrice Wood Human Services Center Bloomfield Feb. 14, 2024 Black History Month, by its very Jamil Ragland 15 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford We’ll Always Have Casablanca Casablanca Cinestudio Hartford Through Feb. 15, 2024 I’d heard about Casablanca so many times. I’ve seen all the references and parodies, but never the movie itself. When I Jamil Ragland 14 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford Sip While The Sun Sets; Just Don’t Wing It At The Mall Happy Hour Market Grille Manchester Feb. 7, 2024 Market Grille is one of those restaurants that I’ve always noticed during my trips to the mall but assumed was too Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford People Are The News The Stories Behind the Big Stories of 2023 Elmwood Community Center West Hartford Feb. 8, 2024 Until about two weeks ago, I didn’t consider myself a journalist. I’ve Jamil Ragland 9 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Garbologists Fails To Kill Its Darlings The Garbologists TheaterWorks Hartford February 6th, 2024 WARNING: THIS REVIEW SPOILS THE BIG TWIST. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! The Garbologists is a two-person play that tells the story of Danny Jamil Ragland 7 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Gauntlet Thrown: TheKidTheBoy Takes On antiv3nom Gauntlet at the Market Parkville Market Hartford Feb. 3, 2024 I’ve alternated between being a teacher and tutor, off and on for the last 20 years. And many, many Jamil Ragland 6 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Spiritualism And Slavery At The Stowe Center Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024 The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer Jamil Ragland 5 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Hour Becomes Happy Birthday Beacon Cafe Hartford Jan. 30, 2024 How good does a happy hour have to be for someone to fly a thousand miles just to experience it again? I found that Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Black Inventors Tour Reflects Need For Black History Month, After All The start of Black History Month always elicits competing feelings for me. On the one hand, I enjoy learning in general, and specifically about my people and what they’ve Jamil Ragland 2 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Happy Hour At The Flying Monkey: BBQ Chicken Bombs The Asian Pear Martini The Flying Monkey Newington, Conn. January 24, 2024 Welcome back to my search for the perfect Happy Hour in the Greater Hartford area! This time I found myself on the Jamil Ragland 26 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford American Fiction Pulls A Switcheroo American Fiction (2023) Cinemark Buckland Hills 18 XD and IMAX Manchester, Conn. Jan. 23, 2024 Warning: This review contains spoilers. As soon as I saw the trailer for American Fiction, Jamil Ragland 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Say Jambalaya Cheese(cake)! The Cheesecake Factory West Hartford Jan. 22, 2024 I recently came across a TikTok video that went viral late last year. In it, a woman refused to leave the car Jamil Ragland 24 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Mike Epps Is Short But Sweet Mike Epps Foxwoods Resort and Casino Ledyard, Conn. Jan. 20, 2024 Kat Williams set the Black comedy world ablaze a few weeks ago during his interview with Shannon Sharpe, when Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How Violence Shaped Our History Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Mark Twain House Hartford Jan. 19, 2024 My journey through college was not an easy one. It took me three different Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Honey, Get Them Rewrite Simona’s Search (world premiere) Hartford Stage Hartford Jan. 18, 2024 SImona’s Search, a new play by Martín Zimmerman, had a premise that instantly drew me in. Simona (played Jamil Ragland 19 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Sympathy For The Diavlo Carmine’s Bar, Grill and Stage East Hartford Jan. 17, 2024 I knew Carmine’s Bar, Grill and Stage had good music on that stage. But what about that bar Jamil Ragland 18 Jan 2024 · 3 min read