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20 Great Places to Retire
You may have far-flung plans for your retirement, or you may plan on staying right where you are. But for a growing number of aging baby boomers in Connecticut, the plan is to get out of the house they're in and into a smaller place in a pleasant location not too far from family and friends.
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Alexandra Breckenridge
Celebrity interview with Alexandra Breckenridge, a regular on the CBS series, "The Ex List."
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Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson, director of Bugsy, Rain Man, The Natural and Diner-as well as the current What Just Happened?-is a master of intelligent entertainments.
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Best of Connecticut 2009: Health & Beauty
Connecticut's best day spas, salons, health food stores, and yoga studios
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Best of Connecticut 2009: Diversions
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Best of Connecticut 2009: Food & Drink
Our top recommendations for the best local connecticut food & drink.
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Best of Connecticut 2009: People
Our Best People - Connecticut natives doing amazing things!
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Best of Connecticut 2009: Style
Our top pics for everything to style your life, from personal fashion to home decor.
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Bistro du Glace and Patisserie, Deep River
By this definition, Bistro du Glace is one of the most authentic bistros in Connecticut. It is also one of the most atmospheric. A storefront on Main Street in the quiet little town of Deep River, with plate-glass windows facing the street and a pizzeria next door, is not a place where one expects to be transported to Paris.
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Cheap Eats
It is one kind of pleasure to go out for a great meal and close your eyes to the cost, but another sensation entirely to find a place where the food is not only good, but inexpensive enough to raise an eyebrow or two. We were delighted to find that notable bargains on meals still abound, even in expensive Connecticut
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First Person: Wally Lamb
Lamb's third novel, The Hour I First Believed, is as thematically ambitious as his previous works, incorporating eternal matters of faith, forgiveness, love and loss while using the April, 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. as a jumping-off point.
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Making The Grade
Our ranking of the top Connecticut public high schools shows that money helps, but so does the right attitude among students, parents and staff.
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Johnny Ray's Milford
In Milford, restaurateurs Johnny Dicrosa and Ray Cruciani have re-created the supper-club concept, bringing it up to date with hot-ticket entertainment and adding a crucial missing ingredient: fine dining. Supper clubs of yore gave food short shrift. At Johnny Ray's, it's the star of the show.
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Fiasco
How one 3.4-mile project on I-84 east of Waterbury took six years to complete, cost nearly $100 million and left behind bankruptcies, lawsuits, lost jobs, accidents, injuries, and an endless trail of traffic tie-ups in its wake.
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Geno Auriemma
UCONN coach Geno Auriemma tries to run the table with what may be his best team ever.
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La Tavola, Waterbury
Notwithstanding its Hollywoodesque name, Faces was an Italian neighborhood restaurant dear to the hearts of the residents of the Town Plot section of Waterbury. Sorely missed when it closed, the place reopened in 2008 with new owners, a new chef and a more appropriate name, La Tavola, which in Italian means The Table.
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Q&A: Brooke Lyons
This fall, Brooke Lyons will be seen TV series "The Starter Wife" and the horror movie Dark Reel.
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Ron Howard
Despite a career spent immersed in the Hollywood maelstrom, Ron Howard's life in Greenwich seems a lot like, well, Mayberry.
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Justice Delayed
As we pass the two-year anniversary of the tragic home invasion in Cheshire with still no trial in sight, our thoughts turn to Connecticut's lumbering justice system.
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Levin of Yale
For 15 years, Richard Levin has juggled difficult constituencies, made good decisions and kept the focus on light and truth.
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