DAY NEWSROOM: Arts & Music Columnist/Reporter
Rick Koster
Arts & Music Columnist/Reporter
r.koster@theday.com
Phone: (860) 701-4325
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By Rick Koster
In college – doing exactly what I do now, writing about music (though for the mighty Baylor Lariat, with about five more pounds of hair and 40 less pounds of stomach) – ...
Carlos Santana will probably not surprise anyone Friday, when he and his band headline the Mohegan Sun Arena, if they decide to play typically incendiary versions of “So...
As I understand it, some national meteorological outfit — the National Weather Service? — names tropical storms and hurricanes after their own employees on some sort of ...
As announced last week, we’re expanding our popular What to Cook recipe feature beyond the realm of the local professionals. Going forth, while we’ll continue to provide...
Our “Read of The Day” author event with bestselling horror writer Paul Tremblay will take place 7 p.m. Thursday at Mystic Bank Square Books. The event was originally sch...
One of the necessary aspects of writing accurate and convincing historical fiction is research. Since the invention of the internet, though, this homework, no longer con...
Michael Barker doesn’t eat popcorn when he goes to the movies.
A lot of people don’t.
In Barker’s case, though, his decision to avoid this time-honored cinema snack is p...
Over the past 14 months, our “What to Cook” feature has brought you dozens of recipes from chefs and restaurants across the region — cartwheeling across the culinary land...
It took me years and hundreds of pints before I realized that, when health officials advise us to keep hydrated during severe heat and humidity — like we’ve been experien...
I have asked our dogs Virgil and Mabel — both of whom are predominantly pit bulls — if they know of the popular human entertainer called Pitbull.
Virgil communicates by ...
