Life Mission: Looking into a distant moon ocean
More than 340 million miles beyond Mars, an icy moon awaits its first close-up. Days before NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the surface of the Red Planet, the US space program […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29The Founders
Swinging rock music.
December 4 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmA Christmas Carol
With a cast of five amazing actors playing all of the parts, this is the wonderful holiday story and tradition that you love with CTC flair. Full of fun, energy,
December 5 - December 22Mark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 5 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKevin Herchen
RI country artist.
December 5 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmRadio Flashback
‘70s, ‘80s rock & roll radio tribute show!
December 6 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmDustbowl Revival
The band reimagines and recreates their favorite Laurel Canyon hits using their eight-piece band as the mini-orchestra to bring it all to life. Actually, our world might not be that
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmStraight No Chaser
Only the top-shelf holiday acapella, please.
December 6 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmPlaying Dead
Close enough to the Grateful Dead.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amRed Hot
These ladies put a new spin on Motley Cruexxx.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmAmerican Honey
Country rock dance and sweet cover band.
December 6 @ 9:00 pm - December 7 @ 12:00 amMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 6 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 4:00 pm - 6:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmVan Morrison Tribute – Moondance
Performing Moondance, setting a jazzy, romantic mood.
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmIndigo Girls
We love the Indigo Girls! A classic, and closer to fine than ever!
December 7 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pmMark Normand
If you like Jerry Seinfield, you’ll like this guy.
December 7 @ 9:30 pm - 11:30 pmHoliday Extravaganza
Wine, beer, and festive food stations including holiday desserts, a hot cocoa bar, and holiday cookies. Plus fire pits with vineyard views. Break out your ugly holiday sweater – there
December 8 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pmMichael DiMucci
A series of concerts featuring the pianist and singer.
December 8 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Voices of the Earth: The Future of Our Planet II
This collection of 67 environmentally themed poems can be depressing and uncomfortable to read at times, which is exactly the point publisher Notable Works set out to make with this […]
Writing Toward a Better World: 2021 PEN America Literary Award finalists with local ties
Ninety-nine years ago, Thomas Hardy sent a message to a dinner gathering of writers in London: “The exchange of International Thought is the only possible salvation of the world.” The […]
Kevin’s Culture Picks: Stay entertained like Kevin does this month
Every week, I’ve been doing a deep dive into cultural issues, usually theater-related, that are bothering me or that deserve a second look. But who needs another thinkpiece, right? I […]
“A Thrilling Tale”: The magic and medicine of Rudolph Fisher
When, in 1932, Rudolph Fisher’s The Conjure-Man Dies was published, the journal Opportunity called the mystery “startling in its cleverness,” predicting the protagonist, a Harlem doctor with a detective’s eye, […]
Dispatches From the Fort: Jeff Danielian publishes his fourth volume of poetry and it’s about time
Jeff Danielian is back with his fourth volume of poetry (to go along with four works of non-fiction geared toward educating youth), featuring his introduction, 56 poems and what he […]
The Groston Rules: Latest release from Mark Binder captures adolescence
Senior year of high school can be a defining moment in a person’s life — it’s both a jumpstart into the future and a further sculpting of the previous 17 […]
Between the Covers
My Best Friend’s Exorcism, by Grady Hendrix: When Abby’s best friend is possessed by a demon, she seeks to free her friend with the help of an evangelical Christian exorcist/ […]
Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Book review
Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a rare example of the fortunate academic whose subject matter, through no actions of her own, becomes of intense public interest. What she spent a career studying […]
Chazan! Unfiltered: Art and medicine collide in this locally produced biographical graphic novel
Dr. Joseph Chazan, like the character Billy Pilgrim in the novel Slaughterhouse-Five, is unstuck in time. The phenomenon is localized in a new graphic novel Chazan! Unfiltered, which takes a […]