Hip-hop is fully global now. Fans in Japan and Italy and Germany are seriously studious about the music. And the artists that emerge in other countries often have an astonishing sense of purpose and urgency. Trinity's International Hip-Hop Festival has been bringing MCs to Hartford for more than...
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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra held its annual Bravo Gala on Saturday night, April 2, at the Marriott Downtown Hartford. The event features a dinner, live and silent auctions, and a performance of the HSO at the dinner party followed by an after-party with desserts to raise money for the organization's...
The Interval House held its annual Step Up and Step Out fundraising auction and gala against domestic violence at the Hartford Society Room on Saturday, April 2.
Get realish. Awkward social encounters, fashion disasters, drunken confessions and unrestrained egomaniacal outbursts happen everywhere. "Real Housewives," for instance, have been found in Orange County, New York City, Atlanta, New Jersey, D.C., Beverly Hills, Miami, Potomac and Dallas. That's...
It's good to be the king. Especially when you're a female actor. "I've done a ton of Shakespeare," says Kathryn Meisle. "Cymbeline is a role to which I have never aspired. But now the whole world is open." The Yale Repertory Theatre is staging "Cymbeline" through April 16 at the Yale University...
Say what? "Having Our Say" is a special sort of show. Part storytelling revue, part civil rights drama, part housekeeping ritual. A co-production of Hartford Stage and the Long Wharf Theatre, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" played in New Haven from Feb. 17 through March 13...
Sarah Paolucci has a callus on her finger. It's her favorite thing about her hands. "This bump is where I put my pencil. I can feel it more than I can see it," she said. "I look for that bump or callus in other artists' hands. It's there because of art. Or how their finger goes up one way while...
City Lights Gallery, a leading Bridgeport art space and ground zero of the annual Bridgeport Art Trail, has moved from Markle Court to a temporary location on Main Street, across the street from the People's Bank building. In August, it'll move again, to a permanent location at 1103 Main St. The...
The Evelyn Simon Gilman Gallery at the William Benton Museum of Art at UConn in Storrs has 43 artworks on exhibit, some of the jewels of UConn's collection. Of the 39 pieces whose artists are known, 34 were created by men and five by women. In the adjacent gallery is a show of work by the Guerrilla...
The theme of this year's April In Paris Film Festival, which runs from April 3 to 9 at Cinestudio, 300 Summit St., on campus in Hartford, is "Portrait of the Artist." Click through the gallery for the movies and when they play.
The Mandell JCC Hartford Jewish Film Festival runs from March 31 to April 10 with a lively lineup of narrative and feature documentaries and comedies and dramas, in six venues: three movie theaters, a synagogue, a community center and the Mark Twain House. Click through the gallery for movies,...
How did Shakespeare evolve into the greatest writer of all time? A comedy film showing one time only on Monday, April 11, tries to answer the question. "Bill" tells the story of Shakespeare's "lost years," when he was a lute player in a band, kicked to the curb by his bandmates, leaving his wife...
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, Storrs: As the final show of its Spring Puppet Performance Series, the institute presents "Help Save the Monkey!" by Liz Hara and Marta Mozelle MacRostie on April 9 at 1 and 3 p.m. Eighty-year-old Lillian's pet monkey is...
Nearly 25,000 tulips, daffodils and other spring-bulb flowers are bursting into bloom at the Colorblends House & Spring Garden in Bridgeport, which is open daily, from dusk to dawn, to the public through the middle of May. Entrance to the garden is free. The spring garden of Colorblends, an American...
See a show full of cool cars, and then a movie about cool cars, on Saturday, April 2, at Mansfield Drive-In. The Norwich-based Rose City Rides presents its second annual charity car show at the theater at 228 Stafford Road, at the junction of routes 31 and 32. Registration for the show begins at...
Hartford Stage has announced four of the six plays in its 2016-17 season. There's a world premiere and a recent off-Broadway hit, but you'll also find a few familiar names on the scripts and in the directors' chairs. The season opens in September with the world premiere of "Queens for a Year" by...
>>The annual Handcrafts Around the World Sale, featuring imported crafts and home furnishings, is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 8, 9 and 10, in New Hartford. Sales are final, and payment is by cash, check or credit card. The sale is at the Pine Meadow Fire Station, 366 Main St., New Hartford....
The opponents were tougher and the baskets of ingredients were certainly more bizarre than his first "Chopped" experience, but Adam Greenberg of Barcelona Wine Bar racked up his second win on the Food Network competition show Tuesday night. The 36-year-old West Hartford native, whose culinary career...
When daffodils begin appearing in the yard, we start thinking about summer getaways. For many, that means a vacation rental — and these days, with the proliferation of online information and rental websites, finding that perfect spot is easier than ever. (According to a TripAdvisor 2015 survey,...
On a recent trip, I found myself delayed at an airport in Baltimore and passed the time studying other people's luggage. I discovered that many of my fellow travelers were dragging around stuff that looked like it dated back to the Nixon era — wobbly-wheeled carry-ons, battered backpacks and tote...
TANZANIA — Milan "Miley" Bull of Fairfield has been taking people to Africa since the early 1980s, and each trip unwraps new wonders. This January day, in Ndutu, Tanzania, besides seeing a huge pride of lions, 17 strong, we see a male cheetah feasting on a zebra. Nearby, two more cheetahs, bellies...