Thursday, April 12, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 26, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 27, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:40PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 6, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 31, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 30, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 24, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 10, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:15AM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 3, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 2, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:10PM[SHARE]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, …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Dick Allen of Trumbull, a poet, essayist and educator who was poet laureate of Connecticut from 2010 to 2015, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack on Christmas, his daughter announced…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, December 18, 2017
First Night, Hartford's annual New Year's Eve party that takes place in about a dozen downtown locations, is a reliable attraction for parents with children looking for wholesome holiday ent…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2017
Late Tuesday afternoon, a little bit of Old Hartford will be revived downtown, with a carol sing on the majestic steps of the UConn Hartford campus on Prospect Street. For years in the 1960s…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
There are many ways to tell a story. The way it's told depends on who is telling it. At this time of year, the story on everyone's mind is the first Christmas. Each December, Knights of Colu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:45AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Marshall Mallicoat, like Wallace Stevens, works at an insurance company in Hartford by day and writes poetry in his spare time. On a recent Sunday evening, he reads some of his poems to an e…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:26PM[SHARE]Monday, November 27, 2017
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's three-concert screenings of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was so successful that the HSO will present the sequel, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:15PM[SHARE]Monday, November 6, 2017
Katherine Emely Gomez was born eight minutes after her sister Emely, and they grew up as close as identical twins tend to be. Then, at age 23, Emely Gomez died during an epileptic seizure. K…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 2, 2017
Bill Beverly is the winner of the 2017 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, in honor of his 2016 novel "Dodgers," the Mark Twain House & Museum announced Thursday. Beverly will rec…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2017
"Beasts Made of Night" is set in a dystopian, sci-fi world where aristocrats hire poor youths to cleanse their souls by "eating" their sins. Those sins show up on the sin-eaters' skin in the…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:02AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are bringing their long-running tour, AC2, to the Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford on Nov. 4. The uninitiated might ask: What do they do on the stage? AC2…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
Nine artists have been chosen to paint murals in nine locations throughout Hartford as part of the municipal Hartford Paint the City project. The selections, the result of a public vote, are…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
At one point in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Harry, Hermione and Ron battle a troll in the Hogwarts restroom. In the film, John Williams' music, heavy on the low brass, scores th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' "Dangerous Liaisons" was published in 1782 and was set among the French aristocracy in its dying days, just before the Revolution. It told the story of the Vicomt…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Tyshawn Sorey, a composer, experimental musician and music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly referred to as a "genius g…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
Years before Thurgood Marshall persuaded the United States Supreme Court to outlaw school segregation, years before he became a member of the Supreme Court himself, he founded the NAACP's Le…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:14PM[SHARE]The 6th annual Tommy's Tattoo Convention, a gathering of tattoo artists, people who want tattoos, live music, performances, standup comics and other attractions, runs Oct. 13 to 15 at the Co…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:00AM[SHARE] 
