by | Oct 2, 2024 5:45 pm | Comments (0)
A string sawara falsecypress tree in the Kim Arboretum
Tree Tour with Arborist John Kehoe
Kim Arboretum
Elizabeth Park
West Hartford
Oct. 2, 2024
I love trees. But maybe not as much as John Kehoe does.
by | Oct 2, 2024 11:51 am | Comments (0)
We're Not Going Back by Ian Trask
Detritus
Widener Gallery
Austin Arts Center
Trinity College
Hartford
Oct. 1, 2024
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. It’s catastrophe everywhere, and the art is showing us, including the art in the latest exhibit at Trinity College’s Widener Gallery.
The exhibit, Detritus, features work from four artists who have taken discarded objects and turned them into pieces that comment on consumerism and pollution.
by | Oct 1, 2024 11:12 am | Comments (2)
Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) and Dave Scherman (Andy Samberg) in Lee
Lee
Real Art Ways
Hartford
Sept. 30, 2024
Note: This review contains spoilers.
Lee is a biopic about Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, one of the best-known photographers of the Second World War. The movie is framed as her telling an unnamed reporter about her work for British Vogue during the war (more on that later), and follows her from the sunny days of drinking wine and socializing with her friends all the way through the end of the war and the terrible discoveries hidden within the Third Reich.
by | Sep 29, 2024 11:46 am | Comments (0)
O'Reilly at work.
Sean O’Reilly feat. Helena Clark
Old State House Summer Concert Series
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
Sept. 27, 2024
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.
by | Sep 26, 2024 4:00 pm | Comments (0)
A matching game where visitors have to match members of Hartford's Talcott Street Church to their biographies
The Nutmeg Pulpit: Hartford’s Talcott Street Church and Black Community Formation
Mallett Art Gallery
CT State Capital
Hartford
September 25, 2024
The Nutmeg Pulpit is a celebration of the history of Black churches in post-Revolutionary War Connecticut: Varick AME Zion and Temple Street Church in New Haven, Cross Street AME Zion Church in Middletown, but especially Talcott Street Church, the first Black church in Hartford.
by | Sep 25, 2024 4:06 pm | Comments (0)
Frank Critelli and Shandy Lawson of The Bargain.
The Bargain Feat. Riley Cotton and Still Rivers
Audio Feed
Old State House Food Court
Hartford
Sept. 25, 2024
Hartford’s Audio Feed concert series moved back indoors this week with The Bargain performing at the Old State House Food Court. And it truly was a bargain, because the gathered audience got not one, but three different performers throughout the hour-long set.
by | Sep 25, 2024 10:44 am | Comments (0)
The Anne Marie Menta Trio
Anne Marie Menta Trio
Audio Feed
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
Sept. 24, 2024
Summer is officially over, but the Summer Series continued at the Old State House with the Anne Marie Menta Trio.
by | Sep 25, 2024 10:32 am | Comments (0)
D-16, B-127, Elita-1 and Orion Pax
Transformers One
Apple Cinemas Xtreme
Hartford
Sept. 23, 2024
Transformers One serves as the origin story for perhaps the two most famous Transformers in history: Optimus Prime and Megatron. However, at the outset of the story, they are simply Orion Pax and D‑16, best friends who can’t transform, and are therefore relegated to mining for the precious resource that makes life possible, called energon. Eventually, the two set out on an adventure where they meet B‑127/Bee and Elita‑1 and other allies to find out the truth about what has made energon so rare.
by | Sep 23, 2024 11:18 am | Comments (0)
Los Super Gs perform at the Old State House.
Los Super Gs
Old State House Summer Concert Series
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
September 20, 2024
The accordion may not be the first instrument you think of when you hear the phrase “Colombian dance music.”
by | Sep 18, 2024 10:35 am | Comments (0)
Luke Lantagne, Johnny Bojanowski and Sarah Murphy make up Haunting Titans
Haunting Titans
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
Sept. 17, 2024
Audio Feed, the free concert series hosted at the Old State House every Tuesday and Wednesday, is a great way to find new bands in a new element. That’s how I came across Haunting Titans, a band that got its start in New Haven.
by | Sep 17, 2024 11:41 am | Comments (0)
James McAvoy as Paddy in Speak No Evil
Speak No Evil
Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas
West Hartford
Speak No Evil is a psychological horror movie that follows the Dalton family on a trip to Italy, where they meet Paddy and Ciara, a young, fun couple that invites them out to their home in the rural part of the country. Once they’re alone with Paddy, Ciara and their young son Ant, the Daltons quickly discover that something is not right.
Continue reading ‘“Speak No Evil” Crosses Over From Suspenseful To Boring’
by | Sep 13, 2024 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
Chris Jensen on saxophone for Rick Germanson and Friends
Rick Germanson and Friends
Sunset Sounds Series
Butler-McCook House
Hartford
Sept. 12, 2024
Butler-McCook House is a hidden gem right outside of downtown Hartford. I’d walked past its telltale yellow facade literally thousands of times without stepping in before, until I attended the finale of the Sunset Sounds Series.
Behind the house was a garden unlike any I’d ever seen in downtown Hartford. It felt like entering the enchanted wood in Tuck Everlasting, except that it wasn’t a secret.
Continue reading ‘Inside A Hidden Garden, An Exciting Finale’
by | Sep 12, 2024 10:54 am | Comments (0)
Asher Kai performs at the State House Square Food Court
Asher Kai
Audio Feed
State House Square Food Court
Hartford
Sept. 11, 2024
The coolest thing about Asher Kai is her look.
by | Sep 11, 2024 2:20 pm | Comments (0)
I Anbassa performs at the Old State House
I Anbassa
Audio Feed
Connecticut Old State House
Hartford
Sept. 9, 2024
“I’m working up a sweat up here,” I Anbassa said between songs at a performance at the Old State House, standing beneath the orange Hartford.com awning that only partially shaded him. After he wiped off his brow, he launched into a rendition of the song “Crazy Baldheads” by Bob Marley. “It’s not a song about guys at the barber shop,” he explained. “It’s about bad people doing bad things and getting rid of them.
by | Sep 11, 2024 2:10 pm | Comments (0)
Close up of Thought, History and Presence (A Birth of Revolt from Three Angles)
Common Property: Sun Washed Waste of The West
Real Art Ways
Hartford
Sept. 10, 2024
Sophia-Yemisi Adeyemo’s work is described as existing “at the intersection of assemblage, painting, and sculpture. [The artist] pulls from the visual sensibilities of graffiti, protest art, Cuban solidarity posters, hand-drawn shop signs, and non-canonized African-diasporic storytelling sensibilities (so-called “naive” art) as a means of contributing to a lineage of opposition.”
That’s certainly a mouthful. But what does it mean? Opposition to whom?
