A few years back, the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival was renamed the Connecticut LGBT Film Festival. This year, the "T" in LGBT is placed front and center. The 31st annual Hartford …
A few weeks back, an auction at Christie's in New York raised the highest-ever total for a private collection: $832,573,469, from more than 1,500 lots from the estate of Peggy and David Rock…
As a celebrated practitioner of the Hudson River School, Frederic Church was renowned for his sweeping natural vistas and dramatic, cloud-filled skies. But while on a trip to the Mediterrane…
In 1975, Margaret Gibson was teaching English at George Mason University in Virginia and was offered a residency at Yaddo, a retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. At Yaddo, she met fellow poet D…
Riverfront Recapture is gearing up for a busy summer, with its usual variety of free activities on both banks of the Connecticut River and an added bonus of a few new events starting in June…
Music, poetry and art-making come to downtown Hartford starting May 29 with the Greater Hartford Arts Council's four-week Art on the Streets festivities, plus two summerlong lunchtime concer…
FriendZWorldMusic, a Hartford-based musical collective, presents The BlackOut Experience on April 28 at 6 p.m. at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St. in Hartford. Megan Craig, a d…
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! The state's two gay men's choruses are performing back to back: The first performance is a revue of classic pop songs and the other is a play about romance. "Oh …
Adam Rippon is riding high. The figure skater just won a medal at the PyeongChang Winter Games. He's traveling the country with "Stars on Ice," which is coming to Hartford April 22. And he i…
The theme of Connecticut Arts Day 2018, celebrated on April 25 in Hartford, is resiliency. Keynote speaker Bettina Love fits right in. Love has made her name theorizing on a new approach to …
Chango Rosa is known for its unique spin on the cuisine of Mexico. But on April 19 another country will take over the vibe: Japan. A launch party that night in the downtown restaurant kicks …
In the summer of 1917, a few months after the United States entered World War I, the men of Connecticut's 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th division, were training on Yale Field in New Haven. Du…
Years ago, Hall High in West Hartford presented a production of "Only in America." It was one of the earliest acting accomplishments for Pamela Dubin. Dubin went on to the Mark Twain Masquer…
Matthew Desmond has been awarded the 2018 Stowe Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice, awarded by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, for his 2016 book "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in th…
Rhinold Ponder, an African-American artist, has hated "the n-word" his whole life. So it may seem strange that his recent series of artworks " on exhibit at Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Hav…
The art of Edward Gorey is full of unidentifiable creatures, gloomy adults and children doing who-knows-what, inexplicable shadows, buildings that very well may be haunted. But he was not al…
For three years, starting in 2008, New York art dealer Robert Simon sat on the art world's most stunning secret. The cat got out of the bag in 2011: A painting Simon and an associate had pur…
February is Black History Month, and nothing looms larger in black history than the evil specter of slavery. Three exhibits in the state take on this subject. Two were inspired by a notoriou…
In the 19th century, Sarah Winchester was one of the queens of Connecticut's armaments industry, as the wife of gun-making scion William Winchester of New Haven. But her most enduring legacy…
Movie star Hedy Lamarr was a dream come true. "She represented a dream beyond reality, in terms of what you could look like if you were a woman or what a woman you love could look like if yo…
Chion Wolf has issues. Some are trivial, like not liking the name of someone's dog. Some are serious, like whether a person should date their cousin. These issues keep popping up. Wolf deals…
A Willimantic tattoo artist will compete in the new season of the reality show "Ink Master, " and a Groton tattoo artist who won the show in 2012 will return to mentor a group of new tattooi…
Fifty-eight years ago, on Jan. 2, 1960, John F. Kennedy announced his intention to run for president of the United States. His campaign, victory and presidency ushered in an era when Kennedy…
One recent night in a home in West Hartford, 10 artists got together for a painting party. Cyrus and Shania, two terriers, led the pack with frisky energy. Carlin, a pug, contributed his own…
There are many ways to define "wicked." Red-light districts, drug dens, chalk outlines on the street, dark corners where knives are drawn or bribes are exchanged for favors. Steve Thornton, …