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“The Batman,” with a cast of extraordinary villains and a tormented antihero, has converted new fans to this decades-old franchise. Photo courtesy IMDB
Batman has always been mysterious to me, perhaps even as mysterious as he is to the residents of Gotham.
Tim Prentice and David Colbert have donated a kinetic work of art to the regional high school in Falls Village. Photo by Husain Ahmed
Cornwall-based artists Tim Prentice and David Colbert have gifted a kinetic sculpture to Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village, Conn.
Kate Winslet, a former resident of Salisbury, Conn., stars in “Mare of Easttown,” which our streaming correspondent feels was worthy of an Emmy Award. Image courtesy IMDB
The Television Academy recently changed the title of my favorite watching category from Miniseries to Outstanding Limited Series. The key word is “limited.” Too many series shows don’t know when to stop. “Happy Days” jumped the shark in season five but continued for seven more, all downhill.
Oil paintings by Treasa Pattison entitled “Honoring Nature” are at the parish house of the United Church of Christ through May 22.
The exhibit can be viewed on weekdays from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m. until noon, and by appointment with the artist, 860-218-0246.
A show of work by painter Peter Cusack opens with a reception at the Cornwall Library in Cornwall, Conn., on Saturday, April 16, from 5 to 7 p.m. “A Painter Among Poets” remains on view until May 26.
Flutist Eugenia Zukerman will appear in concert May 1 in Great Barrington, Mass. Photo courtesy Eugenia Zukerman
Acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman will appear in concert on Sunday, May 1, at 3 p.m. with husband-and-wife piano duo Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee, performing works of Liszt, Mozart, Ravel and others.
Actress Gretchen Mol (a star of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”) returns to the stage with a reading of Kate Hamill’s adaptation of “The Scarlet Letter,” at Sharon Playhouse on Saturday, April 16. Image courtesy IMDB
The celebrated actress Gretchen Mol bought a house here in the Tristate region three years ago, shortly before the beginning of the pandemic, at a time when there was still theater/film/television work to be done in New York City.
Many sages have noted that school, and youth, are wasted on the young. As adults, out in the world, it seems to many of us that it would be an unparalleled joy to be able to take a class in something, sometime, somewhere with smart teachers, interesting classmates and a compelling topic.
Forget the tale of Johnny Appleseed: The modern and more reliable way to make new fruit trees is through grafting. Photo courtesy Kent Memorial Library
Kent Memorial Library in Kent, Conn., once again hosts Justin Potter for a demonstration of “gentle top grafting” of fruit trees: adding scionwood of one variety onto a well-established tree of another variety, but without the major surgery involved with standard top grafting.
For Sharon Charde, poetry isn’t just a journey within or an artistic experiment in the uses of language and form.
It’s also a deeply therapeutic activity, one designed not only to explore her own emotional depths but also to help others do the same.
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