Spring in Connecticut brings (hopefully) warmer temperatures and a slew of beer festivals. Some upcoming events to get on your calendar: Bear’s Restaurant Group presents the first Smokin’ Hops Brewfest April 20 at 6 p.m., held at the Great Hall at Union Station (1 Union Place, Hartford.) The event...
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Michael's Greenhouses and Mikro Beer Bar of Hamden hosted the 4th annual Greenhouse Beer Festival charity event Sunday, April 8, at Michael's Greenhouses in Cheshire. The event featured samplings of local craft beers, live music, and food trucks. All proceeds go to to Smilow Cancer Hospital Closer...
A plethora of puppers participated in Glastonbury's annual Easter Egg Hunt for dogs on Saturday,April 7. The doggos frolicked in the field at Riverfront Park and collected Easter eggs full of treats and prizes.
In recent weeks, Hartford Stage has mourned the deaths of two people who guided the theater through periods of great expansion and artistic growth, and who are considered key figures in the 55-year history of the theater. Paul Weidner, the artistic director of Hartford Stage from 1968 to 1979,...
Evan Yionoulis is happy to talk about her exciting career transition, from longtime Yale School of Drama faculty member to the new head of the theater program at Juilliard. She’s eager to discuss her upcoming theater projects, including “The Dread Pirate Project,” a torn-from-the-headlines piece...
Edith Wharton’s novel “The Age of Innocence” exquisitely evokes the rarified realm of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. Playwright Douglas McGrath and director Doug Hughes won’t let you forget, however, that this grand social satire is also a great, tender love story. A new stage adaptation...
Connecticut’s newest museum isn’t where one would expect to find a museum. It’s in the first floor of an office building on a quiet stretch of the Litchfield Turnpike in Woodbridge. The 4,000-square-foot exhibit space is open just four hours a week from 1 to 5 p.m. every Sunday. Founder Faisal...
Wadsworth Atheneum’s 37th annual spring tradition, Fine Art & Flowers is April 27 to 29 at the museum at 600 Main St. in Hartford. More than 60 artworks on exhibit in the museum will be accompanied by floral arrangements inspired by the colors, compositions and/or subject matter of those paintings....
In the 19th century, legendary abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about racial injustice. In the racially heated 21st century, more than 100 years after Stowe’s death, her words are as relevant as ever. Now the caretakers of the house where the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” author lived for the last...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford closes its 2018 winter-spring film program April 26 with a screening of a movie about an art museum. “The Square” stars Elisabeth Moss in a story about a Swedish museum curator dealing with personal and professional dilemmas. The satirical drama will...
New Britain Museum of American Ark, 56 Lexington St., ends each month with a Thursday-afternoon screening of a film about art. The April selection is “Frank Lloyd Wright.” The 1998 PBS documentary, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells of the life and work of the groundbreaking architect...
Cinestudio’s annual April in Paris film festival is over, but it’s still April in Paris in Fairfield County, which will show four days of films as part of the Focus on French Cinema film festival. All of the screenings except the last one are at Criterion Cinemas at Greenwich Plaza, 2 Railroad...
The 40th annual Meriden Daffodil Festival returns to Hubbard Park, the home of more than 600,000 daffodils, on April 28 and 29. Attractions at the festival include about 100 arts and crafts vendors, a food tent, family-friendly carnival rides, about 90 musical performers on three stages, a parade...
The real action at Foxwoods Resort Casino isn’t on the gaming floor. It’s on the roof of the Fox Tower. On Thursday, the casino cut the ribbon on its HighFlyer zip line. Two people at a time can strap in and yeee-haaaa! downward from the launch pad, 350 feet in the sky, at up to 60 mph to the landing...
Mystic Aquarium is known for its penguins, beluga whales, sea lions, sea anemones, sharks and all manner of marine life. On April 7, prehistoric creatures moved in. The newest exhibit at the aquarium, “Jurassic Giants: A Dinosaur Adventure,” has 12 animatronic dinosaurs and other dino-focused interactive...
Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! The state’s two gay men’s choruses are performing back to back: The first performance is a revue of classic pop songs and the other is a play about romance. “Oh Boy! The Best of the Boy Bands” is presented by the Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus on April 28 and 29 at The...
Laurie Berkner’s latest appearance in Connecticut will be a different experience for the children’s music star’s fans, who are used to seeing her being chased around the stage and playing other games with the members of her touring band. The band is staying home this tour, and Berkner is playing...
It was inevitable that the 1994 Australian movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” would become a musical. It contains all the ingredients necessary for modern musical theater, including drag queens and a love of Abba. The musical version was concocted in Australia in 2006, ran...
For many travelers, hotels are nothing more than a generic place to sleep and store their luggage while they spend their days exploring exotic locales. In some cases, however, the accommodations steal the show. From doing jail time to sleeping in a treehouse, these unique hotels and inns from New...
Shortly after noon, as Sunday services at Memphis’ abundant churches conclude, another gathering of the faithful is getting underway at a restaurant popular for its soul food.
In the 1980s Delray Beach was sadly saddled with the nickname “Dullray Beach,” reflective of a reputation as a dowdy, rundown Palm Beach County ocean side Florida town full of vacant buildings, high crime, racial tension, dysfunctional politics and a crumbling infrastructure. The list of problems...