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...
Concerts, theater, movies, music, exhibits: a few entertainment options, big and small, you might want to know about.More
The Hartford Business Journal hosted its annual 40 Under Forty awards gala Wednesday evening, Sept. 13, honoring young business professionals who make an impact on the local community.
More than two dozen area breweries competed in a cask competition at the third annual Noah Webster Real Ale Harvest Fest Saturday at the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, devising special brews just for the event. A panel of celebrity judges and cicerones declared Brewery Legitimus of New Hartford...
When veteran children's book author Phillip Stead was asked to write a book from 16 pages of notes scribbled by Mark Twain in the 1880s, he wasn't sure he was up to it. "My first reaction was a little bit of panic," says Stead from his home in Ann Arbor, Mich. "It's not really a job anybody is...
McQueen, the hard-to-pigeonhole multimedia comedy/music improviser, is late for our phone interview because his session with his chiropractor ran late. Which inspires this question: "How physical is your comedy?" "I'm seated for a lot of it," McQueen says. "I'm creating a soundscape, so I can't...
Nick Cartell, who plays Jean Valjean in the new tour of the bread-stealing musical "Les Miserables," respects all those great talents who fashioned this mammoth work into the classic it is now. That includes Victor Hugo, who wrote the 1862 novel on which the musical is based. Cartell consulted...
A fundraiser will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23, to raise money for what will soon be the state's first historic site dedicated primarily to LGBTQ history. Featuring classic rock and vintage cars, the fundraiser is at the Palmer-Warner Property in East Haddam. From 1945 to 1971, the 1738 house...
In all the years of the slave trade, about half a million kidnapped Africans were taken to the United States and enslaved. In Brazil, about 5 million enslaved Africans were put to work on sugarcane, coffee, cotton and tobacco plantations owned by Portuguese immigrants, who eliminated the indigenous...
The United States declared its independence from England in 1776. Norway declared its independence from Denmark in 1814. In the 1820s, artistic institutions in these up-and-coming countries were beginning to develop and artists were trying to figure out what "national landscape" meant. In the United...
Mansfield Drive-In will be rocking out when a Black Sabbath concert film is shown on Sept. 28 and a Pearl Jam movie plays Sept. 29 and 30, with live music before both screenings. "Black Sabbath: The End of the End," which the band bills as "the final word from the greatest metal band of all time,"...
Every Thursday night through Nov. 16, Cinemark Buckland Hills in Manchester shows a horror movie at 10:30 p.m. The "Thursday Night at the Asylum" series includes thrillers aimed at both scares and laughs, all produced or distributed by The Asylum, a production company focused on campy horror movies....
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art's new exhibit, "Morgan: Mind of the Collector," marks the 100th anniversary of J.P. Morgan's colossal donation of 1,350 works of art to the Hartford museum. A film series to run concurrently with the exhibit pays tribute to Morgan by focusing on cities where...
It's time to be afraid, very afraid. Or not. Take your pick from these Halloween and fall-inspired events for the month of October. Halloween Happenings The Sleepy Hollow Experience: Sept. 27 through Oct. 29, Wednesday through Sunday nights, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass. Guests will...
Every haunted house in the state is inhabited by witches, ghosts, homicidal maniacs, weird baby dolls and other ghouls. But how many of them have Melon Heads? Those bizarre creatures can be found at Legends of Fear in Shelton. Every October for the last 20 years, a Christmas tree farm in this Bridgeport-New...
Felix Rappaport is president and CEO of Foxwoods Resort Casino. But on Tuesday, he was just another guy falling 120 feet to the casino courtyard. "I wouldn't say it's scary, but it's unknown until you do it," he says. Rappaport was one of dozens trying out Thrill Tower at the Mashantucket gaming...
Manhattan Short Film Festival, the annual program of short films in which audiences worldwide decide on the winner, will come to Connecticut Sept. 28 to Oct. 8 at five locations. Admission varies by theater. manhattanshort.com. Films in the program this year are: "Do No Harm," a thriller about...
Real Art Ways is showing a recently restored version of a classic dance documentary. "No Maps on My Taps," a 1979 chronicle of tap dancers, was made to celebrate an art form that was becoming extinct. But it wound up helping to fuel a tap-dance revival. It features music by Lionel Hampton and dance...
The annual "Radical Reels Tour," an evening of short films about outdoor adventure, will come to the University of Connecticut in Storrs on Oct. 1. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. at the Student Union Theater. Admission is free and open to the public. The films on tour this year are "The Fledglings," about...
Here's a novel way to enjoy autumn in New England: While the trees are dropping their leaves, you can be shedding some pounds and getting in your steps. Activate the "Health" app on your iPhone, don a light jacket, unleash your inner multitasker and you're good to go. Powered by the same GPS technology...
Yep, Labor Day has come and gone and so has what most consider the primo vacation season in New England, especially when it comes to grabbing the suntan lotion and heading to the beach. But if you are still dreaming about that seashore vacation missed, say maybe along those Maine coastal towns...
Lucretia Bingham is on her fourth pilgrimage to Machu Picchu, the "lost city" of the Incas that her grandfather "found" in 1911 and then brought to the attention of the world. A young Peruvian boy led Hiram Bingham III to the overgrown citadel in the jungle. The name Bingham, an historical footnote...