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Arts & Ideas Diary Day 3: Tuesday, June 18
I talked more about the festival today than I experienced it. I was one of several guests on Colin McEnroe’s...
Connecticut's Brazilian Community to Hold Solidarity Rally
Brazilians living in Connecticut are planning to gather in Bridgeport's Seaside Park Thursday (June 20th) to show...
Green Wheels: The Slow Road to an Electric Future
WASHINGTON, DC — I am in our capital city this week to speak at a conference of the Electric...
Savage Love: Mayo
I'm a straight guy in my early 30s with an amazing girlfriend of two years. A few months ago, I felt open enough...
Harry Connick Jr. Performs in Simsbury on June 22
You can satisfy your musical theater jones, your jazz itch and your pop-idol crush all with one concert this week: Harry...
Celebrate National Vanilla Milkshake Day Around New Haven!
Summer is coming. I mean, we think it's at least on its way. Spring has gotten hot enough to fake us out a couple times,...
Connecticut Instrument Makers Craft Guitars Out of Old Cigar Boxes
Folk artists have been making instruments from found objects for years, but the cigar box guitar has undergone something...
Connecticut Lawmakers Push For More Regulations and Permits For Tattoo Artists
Thousands of people eager to have their bodies decorated with beautiful and sometimes bizarre images — or at least...
Crime & Punishment: Company Accidentally Lists Phone Sex Line As Their Customer Service Number
Lee Whitnum is a perpetual candidate known for her vitriol (likening primary opponent U.S. Rep. Jim...
Faith Middleton Brings Her Food and Booze Schmooze Martini Competition to Farmington Gardens on June 27
The cocktail party of the year returns on Thursday, June 27, when local foodie and NPR guru Faith Middleton brings her...
News of the Weird: Very Personal Hygiene
Orestes De La Paz's exhibit at the Frost Art Museum in Miami in May recalled Chuck Palahniuk's novel and film Fight...
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell Perform at The Palace Theatre in Stamford on Friday
Steve Martin is a funny guy (and a wild and crazy guy), but he's also an accomplished musician, having played banjo...
Our Picks: Hot Tuna at Norwalk Concert Hall
Hot Tuna was originally formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a side project of their band...
Our Picks: Lend a Hand (or Paw)
3rd Annual Pawsitively Purr-fect Summer Re-sale: June 22, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; June 23, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. New...
A Celebration of American Folk Music at Hygienic Art Park in New London
The Traditions Festival has become sort of a, well, tradition in New London as this year marks the festival's 7th year...
SNL's Seth Meyers Performs at MGM Grand at Foxwoods This Saturday
Seth Meyers was a familiar face around Saturday Night Live for many years. He took over for Tina Fey as head writer in...
The Go-Go's Play The Ridgefield Playhouse on Thursday
They got the beat. The Go-Go's formed in 1978 and was the first all-female band ever whose members both wrote and...
"The Producers" Playing at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain
It's springtime for Hitler and Germany — and New Britain — as Mel Brooks' guffaw-rich musical The...
One Last Extravaganza at La Paloma Sabanera in Hartford
News broke last week that Capitol Ave. coffeehouse La Paloma Sabanera (pictured), often referred to as "Hartford's...
"Not What Happened" Playing at the Silvermine Arts Center in New Canaan
In Not What Happened, a period historical re-enactor has an impossible meeting with the figure from history she...
The Afro-Semitic Experience Performs at The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown This Friday
Middletown's Buttonwood Tree becomes high-octane Black-Jewish jazz-odyssey central on Friday, when pianist Warren Byrd...
The William Benton Museum of Art's "20/21" Exhibit Features Modern and Contemporary Art
Summer's a great time to get yourself to an air-conditioned museum, to cool off, free of crowds, and bask in the...
Our Picks: 5 Music Shows in Greater Hartford This Week
1) Metal Meltdown, Webster Underground, 31 Webster St., Hartford, (860) 525-5553. Sat. 4 p.m., $10-$12....
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