News and reviews from our reporters, including coverage of pop music, classical music, visual art, dance, movies, music, television and theater.
All Arts
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It's tax season. How did this quintessentially frustrating thing come to be so frustrating? Must it be so? And what happens when people decide not to pay them?
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show we’ll learn about the art of constructing languages, and the appeal of learning one of them.
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This hour, we grapple with the impact our ancestors have on our lives and what our responsibility is if they did something we disagree with.
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This hour, we revisit our conversation with author Rebecca or RF Kuang, focused on her award-winning novel, "Babel."
Food
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Growing peas is easy, if you follow a few simple guidelines.
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Science teacher Xander Lowry is our guide as we tap trees, gather sap, split wood and make syrup with local students. Plus, Jeremy Whipple, of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, talks about the prized syrup made at the Mashantucket Sugar Shack.
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We're talking with local creators in the food space: Kat Ashmore, the chef behind @katcancook, and David Milton, aka @thedamgram and @thedamtok. Plus, we drink traditional chai with siblings who turned the Muslims of the World (MOTW) Instagram community into a local café.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show: lunch — from the hungry judge effect to the sad desk lunch. We’ll look at the history of our mid-day meal, talk about school lunches, and get tips for packing lunch.
Performing Arts & Music
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Let’s learn some of the complex history behind the songs you've probably heard in pubs. Featuring Connecticut’s own The Jovial Crew!
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Bagley’s musicianship touched generations of singers and choral conductors.
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“Our Feet Began to Pray” by the Afro-Semitic Experience releases Jan. 19.
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Ruff was an innovator as both a jazz musician and educator.
Visual Arts
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Three concurring exhibits celebrate the works of Leo Jensen (1926-2019), perhaps best known for creating bronze frog sculptures for Willimantic’s Thread City Crossing Bridge.
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Delano’s work focuses on Puerto Rico’s colonial past and complicated present.
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A “Christmas Panto” featuring songs, slapstick comedy, and audience participation runs this weekend in Norwich.
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Artist Minoo Emami destroyed 22 of her paintings by fire, including early works dating back to 1998. She called the burning a “ritual rooted in mourning.”
Movies
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, for the anniversary of the Watergate break-in, a look at the ways the whole Watergate story has been processed through our pop culture over the decades since.
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The hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, The Nose looks at TV’s broken streaming model and the feature documentary ‘Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb.’
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a look at the hold that time travel has on pop culture and the philosophy, ethics, and science of time travel.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, with Colin away, The Nose looks at Nintendo’s crazy year so far: ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ and ‘The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.’