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Transformative sculptor Leonardo Drew returns to Hartford, the site of his artistic awakening
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Transformative sculptor Leonardo Drew returns to Hartford, the site of his artistic awakening

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Apr 19, 2021
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Drew creates emotionally charged artworks that celebrate transformation and the cycles of life from birth to death and rebirth.

Things to do in Connecticut in May 2021
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Things to do in Connecticut in May 2021

  • Patricia LaPietra
  • Apr 19, 2021
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Ariel Bellvalaire combines pop, shredding guitar riffs and gravity-defying moves
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Ariel Bellvalaire combines pop, shredding guitar riffs and gravity-defying moves

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Apr 19, 2021
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The Windsor native calls her performance “shrednastics”: playing the guitar while simultaneously performing gymnastic and aerial maneuvers.

Things to do in Connecticut in April 2021
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Things to do in Connecticut in April 2021

  • Patricia LaPietra
  • Mar 22, 2021
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

The curtain is rising once again on a historic CT shoreline theater
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The curtain is rising once again on a historic CT shoreline theater

  • Frank Rizzo
  • Mar 22, 2021
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The long story of the little theater in the Stony Creek section of Branford is about to get a new act.

Head to Higganum to dance among Connecticut’s only pick-your-own daffodil farm
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Head to Higganum to dance among Connecticut’s only pick-your-own daffodil farm

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Mar 19, 2021
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These longtime farmers are hoping to start a new springtime tradition.

Things to do in Connecticut in March 2021
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Things to do in Connecticut in March 2021

  • Patricia LaPietra
  • Feb 26, 2021
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

The Florence Griswold Museum and the Lyme Art Association join forces to celebrate a storied artistic legacy
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The Florence Griswold Museum and the Lyme Art Association join forces to celebrate a storied artistic legacy

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Feb 25, 2021
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The two artistic institutions celebrate the centennial of the association’s noted gallery.

Drag performers find creative ways to connect with audiences during the pandemic
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Drag performers find creative ways to connect with audiences during the pandemic

  • Jordan Fenster
  • Feb 19, 2021
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Drag queens were, according to Rashawn Lee, able to shift their performance style to suit the pandemic relatively easily. Other performers and artistic endeavors might have had a difficult time coming to terms with the new pandemic normal, but drag queens were well situated from the start. “…

Kollwitz exhibit takes a hard look at war and social justice at the William Benton Museum
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Kollwitz exhibit takes a hard look at war and social justice at the William Benton Museum

  • Thomas Connors
  • Jan 19, 2021
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Käthe Kollwitz: Activism Through Art shows the early-20th century German artist's fierce humanitarian streak and unflinching eye.

After 30 years, WSHU’s classical music radio show still strikes a chord with audiences
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After 30 years, WSHU’s classical music radio show still strikes a chord with audiences

  • Christopher Hoffman
  • Jan 19, 2021
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You could call Sunday Baroque one of Connecticut’s biggest cultural exports—a classical music program produced out of WSHU’s studios at Sacred Heart University.

Things to do in Connecticut in February 2021
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Things to do in Connecticut in February 2021

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Jan 19, 2021
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Things to do in Connecticut in January
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Things to do in Connecticut in January

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Dec 23, 2020
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Explore the beauty of everyday objects’ inner workings at the Lyman Allyn museum
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Explore the beauty of everyday objects’ inner workings at the Lyman Allyn museum

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Dec 23, 2020
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Photographer Todd McLellan has been collecting old, outdated mechanical objects for many years. He was fascinated by the items and always knew he wanted to do something creative with them. One day he decided to take apart one of the objects, an old black phone, and photograph the disassemble…

Fairfield Comedy Club finds ways to bring the laughs through the pandemic
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Fairfield Comedy Club finds ways to bring the laughs through the pandemic

  • By Dan Greene
  • Dec 19, 2020
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On a mild Tuesday evening in November, comedian and Saturday Night Live star Pete Davidson stands sheepishly holding a microphone at the bottom of a hill behind a suburban hotel. As he takes in his surroundings — a backdrop of barren trees, the back of an adjacent two-story home, the chirpin…

Choral groups are finding online ways to make music and share it with audiences
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Choral groups are finding online ways to make music and share it with audiences

  • Karen Sackowitz
  • Nov 18, 2020
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The Connecticut choral world is using online technology to adapt to the bizarre music scene of 2020.

Things to do in Connecticut this December
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Things to do in Connecticut this December

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Nov 18, 2020
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

McLean Game Refuge is the perfect place to commune with nature
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McLean Game Refuge is the perfect place to commune with nature

  • Peter Marteka
  • Oct 20, 2020
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William Gillette and George McLean were two men who knew what they had. Gillette, an actor who built Gillette Castle high above the Connecticut River in East Haddam, expressed the desire in his will that it would never come into the possession of “a blithering sap-head who has no conception …

Artists Sunday is a 'Black Friday for the arts' to support independent creators
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Artists Sunday is a 'Black Friday for the arts' to support independent creators

  • Sujata Srinivasan
  • Oct 19, 2020
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A maker of doll clothes and accessories, Heather Merrill saw all of her income from craft shows evaporate this year due to COVID-caused event cancellations. Luckily, the 23-year-old Ansonia resident earned $4,000 on Etsy, up from less than $1,000 last year, mostly from selling masks. The fai…

Things to do in Connecticut this November
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Things to do in Connecticut this November

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Oct 19, 2020
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

What's next for CT's theaters? How four venues are coping with the challenges of COVID
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What's next for CT's theaters? How four venues are coping with the challenges of COVID

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Oct 19, 2020
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With a pandemic winter looming, theaters and concert venues look to the coming months with a mix of fear and hope.

Things to do in Connecticut in October
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Things to do in Connecticut in October

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Sep 22, 2020
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Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

New Britain baseball phenom Steve Dalkowski is the subject of a new documentary
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New Britain baseball phenom Steve Dalkowski is the subject of a new documentary

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Sep 22, 2020
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He might have been one of the best pitchers the world ever saw, but his big-league career ended before it even began.

Game maker Tenzi offers family fun and a break from the screen
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Game maker Tenzi offers family fun and a break from the screen

  • Ann Loynd Burton
  • Sep 21, 2020
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The CT-based company offers six games that are simple and easy to learn, but with lots of variations for gameplay.

New Britain Museum of American Art celebrates women with a star-studded show
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New Britain Museum of American Art celebrates women with a star-studded show

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Sep 21, 2020
  • Comments

Seven exhibitions are devoted exclusively to women, including 5 solo artists and 2 thematic group exhibitions.

Olde Mistick Village returns to its roots with its popular Garlic Festival
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Olde Mistick Village returns to its roots with its popular Garlic Festival

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Aug 24, 2020
  • Comments

Mystic’s Garlic Festival, which celebrates its 13th year this fall at the Olde Mistick Village, is getting back to basics.

Things to do in Connecticut in September
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Things to do in Connecticut in September

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Aug 24, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Taking over the closed UConn campus, Five Points aims to make Northwest CT an arts destination
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Taking over the closed UConn campus, Five Points aims to make Northwest CT an arts destination

  • By Andrea Valluzzo
  • Aug 20, 2020
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Judith McElhone, Five Points’ founder and executive director, says the nonprofit jumped on the chance to expand.

Remembering a CT doo-wop legend who never made it big
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Remembering a CT doo-wop legend who never made it big

  • By Randall Beach
  • Aug 1, 2020
  • Comments

Billy Koob recalls that whenever his big brother Roger Koob walked into a room or onto the stage, people were “captivated.”

Life-size sculptures in Simsbury celebrate life’s mundane moments
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Life-size sculptures in Simsbury celebrate life’s mundane moments

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Jul 17, 2020
  • Comments

Situated along the Simsbury Art Trail, dozens of life-size bronze sculptures encourage passers-by to slow down and reflect on the little things.

This Madison muralist’s client list includes celebrities like Mike Tyson
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This Madison muralist’s client list includes celebrities like Mike Tyson

  • Erik Ofgang
  • Jul 17, 2020
  • Comments

Mike Tyson, Chevy Chase and Dennis Rodman are among the famous faces Patrick Ganino has immortalized.

Things to do in Connecticut in August
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Things to do in Connecticut in August

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Jul 17, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Connecticut’s independent cinemas struggle to recover from COVID
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Connecticut’s independent cinemas struggle to recover from COVID

  • Erik Ofgang
  • Jun 29, 2020
  • Comments

Bantam Cinema opened in 1927 as the Rivoli Theater in Litchfield. It survived the end of silent film and the rise of the talkies; the onset of television and the birth and then death of video rental stores; and endured, perhaps with a few bruises, the streaming era and challenges of a film i…

Pilobolus’ Five Senses Festival is reimagined as an art safari
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Pilobolus’ Five Senses Festival is reimagined as an art safari

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • Comments

With sweeping cancellations of summer concerts and festivals due to COVID-19, audiences are hungry for the arts. Like many organizations, Washington Depot-based dance company Pilobolus has offered online programs in the last few months, but nothing is the same as an in-person arts experience.

Things to do in Connecticut in July (online, and in person)
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Things to do in Connecticut in July (online, and in person)

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Jun 24, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Rush Limbaugh endorsement propels first-time CT author to the top of the book charts
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Rush Limbaugh endorsement propels first-time CT author to the top of the book charts

  • By Sean Chaffin
  • Jun 22, 2020
  • Comments

Christopher Rosow couldn’t believe what he was hearing — the biggest radio host in the country was raving about his new book.

CT's drive-in movie theaters are a socially distanced smash
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CT's drive-in movie theaters are a socially distanced smash

  • Randall Beach
  • Jun 3, 2020
  • Comments

When the Pleasant Valley Drive-In of Barkhamsted opened for the season on the second Friday in May, owner Donna McGrane was worried because it was pouring rain. “But we were packed!” she says. On the following night, “There was a crazy blinding blizzard. We sold out!”

The Acoustic, acclaimed Bridgeport music venue, to close for good
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The Acoustic, acclaimed Bridgeport music venue, to close for good

  • By Andrew DaRosa
  • May 29, 2020
  • Comments

The coronavirus pandemic has taken away yet another local music venue.

The Connecticut Art Trail maps a virtual path to artwork and historical sites
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The Connecticut Art Trail maps a virtual path to artwork and historical sites

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • May 22, 2020
  • Comments

With locations spanning from New London to Greenwich and north to Hartford, how many of the Connecticut Art Trail’s 20-plus museums and historic sites do you think you can hit up in a day? You can likely count them on one hand. But now, as the pandemic has shuttered museums across the state …

Things to do (virtually) in Connecticut in June
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Things to do (virtually) in Connecticut in June

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • May 22, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

Creating in quarantine: Playwrights and TV writers see laughs, escapes and humanity
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Creating in quarantine: Playwrights and TV writers see laughs, escapes and humanity

  • Frank Rizzo
  • May 22, 2020
  • Comments

After a few months of home isolation, we asked Connecticut-connected writers where their creative muse was taking them. And what they were doing to keep sane, too. From a dramatic shift in how The Simpsons is produced, to how a Faye Dunaway epic fail led to new inspiration, to Anne Rice’s va…

Talking 'Tiger King' with a tiger keeper at the Beardsley Zoo
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Talking 'Tiger King' with a tiger keeper at the Beardsley Zoo

  • Erik Ofgang
  • Apr 21, 2020
  • Comments

As an animal-care specialist at the Beardsley Zoo, Bethany Thatcher takes care of the Bridgeport facility's two Amur tigers, Reka and Zeya, sisters born in 2017, as well as its Amur leopards. Unlike the roadside zoos depicted in Netflix’s hit documentary series Tiger King, the Beardsley Zoo …

Things to do in Connecticut in May
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Things to do in Connecticut in May

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Apr 15, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events around the state this month.

Connecticut bookstores make their picks for books to read when you're stuck inside
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Connecticut bookstores make their picks for books to read when you're stuck inside

  • By Mike Wollschlager
  • Mar 25, 2020
  • Comments

Curling up with a good book is on the Mount Rushmore of rainy-day activities. And what’s better than absorbing another 100 pages under an umbrella poolside on vacation?

Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino brings her Florida insights to Playhouse on Park
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Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino brings her Florida insights to Playhouse on Park

  • Frank Rizzo
  • Mar 18, 2020
  • Comments

Plus: It's love at first sight when South Pacific comes to the Goodspeed in East Haddam.

The Hartt School celebrates its past and future with a centennial of performances
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The Hartt School celebrates its past and future with a centennial of performances

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Mar 18, 2020
  • Comments

In January, the performing arts conservatory launched its 18-month centennial celebration, Hartt100, featuring more than 650 performances.

This year’s Storytelling Festival has been canceled, but new chapters await
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This year’s Storytelling Festival has been canceled, but new chapters await

  • Erik Ofgang
  • Mar 18, 2020
  • Comments

“What a story is really about is putting events in context,” says Bill Harley. “When you figure out the context of an event, that’s what defines the meaning of a story.”

The Connecticut Spring Antiques Show courts the next generation of collectors
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The Connecticut Spring Antiques Show courts the next generation of collectors

  • Andrea Valluzzo
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Comments

(Update: The Connecticut Spring Antiques show has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. No reschedule date has been announced.)

From wizarding worlds to murder mysteries, The Storyteller’s Cottage brings books to life
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From wizarding worlds to murder mysteries, The Storyteller’s Cottage brings books to life

  • Joel Samberg
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Comments

The Storyteller’s Cottage, devoted to books and literary events, proves that print is alive and well and living on Route 10 in Simsbury.

Things to do in Connecticut in March
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Things to do in Connecticut in March

  • Mike Wollschlager
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Comments

Our top picks for events happening around the state this month.

The film flopped, but the touring stage version of 'Cats' is just purr-fect
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The film flopped, but the touring stage version of 'Cats' is just purr-fect

  • Frank Rizzo
  • Feb 18, 2020
  • Comments

Also: Nick Westrate gives The King's Speech at Hartford Stage; Artistic Director Dexter J. Singleton works with Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew in New Haven; Chad Jennings stars in Every Brilliant Thing at TheaterWorks Hartford.

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