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By Michael Hamad
It’s the weekend. You’re at an outdoor fair, yukking it up with pals, eating bad food and eyeballing that...
By Jim Motavalli
WASHINGTON, DC — I am in our capital city this week to speak at a conference of the Electric...
By Dan Savage
I'm a straight guy in my early 30s with an amazing girlfriend of two years. A few months ago, I felt open enough...
By Marc Ferris
Folk artists have been making instruments from found objects for years, but the cigar box guitar has undergone something...
By Gregory B. Hladky
Thousands of people eager to have their bodies decorated with beautiful and sometimes bizarre images — or at least...
By Christopher Arnott
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By Christopher Arnott
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By Nick Keppler
Lee Whitnum is a perpetual candidate known for her vitriol (likening primary opponent U.S. Rep. Jim...
By Chuck Shepherd
Orestes De La Paz's exhibit at the Frost Art Museum in Miami in May recalled Chuck Palahniuk's novel and film Fight...
By Alison Geisler
The Traditions Festival has become sort of a, well, tradition in New London as this year marks the festival's 7th year...
By Alison Geisler
Seth Meyers was a familiar face around Saturday Night Live for many years. He took over for Tina Fey as head writer in...
By Mike Sembos
They got the beat. The Go-Go's formed in 1978 and was the first all-female band ever whose members both wrote and...
By Michael Hamad
It's springtime for Hitler and Germany — and New Britain — as Mel Brooks' guffaw-rich musical The...
By Michael Hamad
News broke last week that Capitol Ave. coffeehouse La Paloma Sabanera (pictured), often referred to as "Hartford's...
By Mike Sembos
In Not What Happened, a period historical re-enactor has an impossible meeting with the figure from history she...
By Michael Hamad
Middletown's Buttonwood Tree becomes high-octane Black-Jewish jazz-odyssey central on Friday, when pianist Warren Byrd...
By Michael Hamad
Summer's a great time to get yourself to an air-conditioned museum, to cool off, free of crowds, and bask in the...
By Michael Hamad
1) Metal Meltdown, Webster Underground, 31 Webster St., Hartford, (860) 525-5553. Sat. 4 p.m., $10-$12....
By Michael Hamad
We frequently sing the praises of Hartford's super-hip Real Art Ways, our local portal into the world of amazing avant-...
By Christopher Arnott
A fine first day of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas 20013. I saw two musical theater workshops, a talk by...
By Christopher Arnott
If you’re into Americana and trad folk, imagine hearing such sounds emanate from the yard of an actual...
By Christopher Arnott
Kindness, but not strangers. The Yale Repertory Theatre has announced the two leading players in its production of...
Chip McCabe
By John Adamian
Buffy St. Marie
By Melissa Byron
Keith Champagne
By Mike Sembos
Nobody dislikes Motown. Different genres of music have different followers and detractors, but not a single person on...
By CT.com Staff
21st Annual Arts and Craft Fair: Aug. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Town Green, Essex. More than 60 booths...
By CT.com Staff
39th Annual Clinton Bluefish Festival: July 19. Clinton Town Hall, Clinton. Arts and crafts, carnival...