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
Hartford A Walk On The Wild (And Creepy) Side There’s nothing like a nice walk on a crisp fall day, and Wethersfield has turned the fall tradition into a walk on the wild side with its annual “Scarecrows Along Main” celebration and competition. Jamil Ragland 9 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford Calm And Escape At The Art Show It’s not often that I get two great experiences at one location, but I was fortunate to find that in addition to offering fascinating talks, the Lucy Robbins Welles Library has a gallery space where they display the creations of local artists. Jamil Ragland 9 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Vintage Photo Detective Is On The Case By day, Erik S. Hinckley is an unassuming assistant town planner for the town of Newington. By night, he’s a detective, working to solve mysteries over a century in the making. Jamil Ragland 8 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Undoing The Joker Let’s get this out of the way: Joker: Folie à Deux is not a good movie. It meanders for two hours with no real point. It gives Harleen “Lee” Quinzel (played as well as she could by Lady Gaga) nothing to do but fawn over Joker. Jamil Ragland 7 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Hartford A Gift To End The Season Thanks to the beautiful weather we’ve had this month, it felt like summer was going to last all year long. All good things must come to an end though, and Gifted Horses gave the last lunchtime concert performance the season. Jamil Ragland 6 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Hartford An Old Oak Tale He was our guide on a tour of the notable trees that make the Kim Arboretum at Elizabeth Park in West Hartford their home. Jamil Ragland 2 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Artists Warn Us The Clock Is Ticking After the shocking flooding that tore through Western Connecticut just a few weeks ago, it’s more apparent than ever that climate change does not only mean a few warmer days here and disaster over there. Jamil Ragland 2 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Burying The Lee Lee is a biopic about Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, one of the best-known photographers of the Second World War. Jamil Ragland 1 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Yes, That’s A Harp in Downtown Hartford I was not expecting to see a full-sized harp when I stopped by for the latest concert in the Old State House’s Summer Series. Jamil Ragland 29 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Freedom Achieved Through Other Means The Nutmeg Pulpit is a celebration of the history of Black churches in post-Revolutionary War Connecticut Jamil Ragland 26 Sep 2024 · 3 min read
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