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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
Butchers + Bakers, 270 Farmington Ave., Farmington, hosts an exclusive Sierra Nevada “Beer Camp” dinner Wednesday May 31 at 6 p.m., featuring the full lineup of 12 beers created in collaboration with Sierra Nevada and top national and international craft breweries. The tasting dinner pairs courses with four flights of three beers each. $90 and seating is limited to 80 guests. Visit locals8.com to purchase tickets.
Max’s Oyster Bar teams up with Hartford Flavor Company for a “MOB Takeover” dinner June 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the liquor producer’s facility (30 Arbor St., Hartford.)...
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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
Butchers + Bakers, 270 Farmington Ave., Farmington, hosts an exclusive Sierra Nevada “Beer Camp” dinner Wednesday May 31 at 6 p.m., featuring the full lineup of 12 beers created in collaboration with Sierra Nevada and top national and international...
Best Arts Center
1) Real Art Ways
56 Arbor St.Hartford (860) 232-1006
realartways.org
2) The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
3) New Britain Museum of American Art
Contemporary Art From India At The Benton Museum
In what now seems like an amazingly prescient move, the William Benton Museum at the University of Connecticut began seriously collecting contemporary art from India in 2004. That was the year the museum mounted a show called "Masala: Diversity and...
'Harry Holtzman and American Abstraction' on View at the Florence Griswold Museum
Harry Holtzman (1912-1987) was, for a brief window of time in the 1930s, practically the face of abstract art in America. The Brooklyn native, who lived in a converted barn in Lyme for the last 20 years of his life, helped inject the optimism,...
The Rules of Engagement Photos
Not only are engagement photos a great way to personalize your wedding website and other big-day details, the session will also give your wedding photographer time to get to know you, figure out your best angles and most comfortable poses, and find ways...
World's Largest Native American Institute A Short Drive Away
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center is the largest Native American institute in the world and it's right here in Connecticut. The state-of-the-art facility features an observation tower, a large recreation of an authentic Pequot village,...
Slater Museum Helps Learning At Norwich Free Academy
Norwich Free Academy is one of two high schools in the United States to have a museum on its campus. The museum, which was donated to NFA in 1886, has given thousands of students as well as community members a little culture that is typically experienced...
Wedding Installations: Art galleries offer a unique venue with its own distinct décor already in place
Galleries are places to celebrate artists and their work. But they can be the perfect creative haven to celebrate a wedding.
The décor is already in place; all you need are the guests, food and drinks, and music.
Most galleries that allow weddings are...
Cape Cod Shopping, Dining, Trips For When You're Not At The Beach
For nearly 50 years our family has been making the annual summer pilgrimage to the breathtaking National Seashore in Cape Cod, home of the freshest seafood, miles of (hopefully and usually) sunny beaches and high end boutiques and shops that promise to...
'Simply Splendid' Exhibit At Wadsworth Atheneum
In 1778, Connecticut Gov. John Trumbull and his wife, Faith, sat for a formal portrait by his son, painter John Trumbull. In the painting, he wears a deep blue banyan, a loose-fitting, Asian-inspired damask dressing gown.
That portrait is now hanging...
Historical 'Before Homosexuals' Closes 9-Day Hartford LGBT Film Fest
In its 30 years, the Connecticut LGBT Film Festival has shown scores of documentaries, usually profiles of famous LGBT men and women, tragic stories about AIDS and stories about 20th- and 21st-century gay rights activists, who worked in atmospheres of...
What To Do Memorial Day Weekend, From Parades To Races To Fests
Lime Rock Park in Lakeville hosts The Royals' Garage Sunday Car Show on Sunday, May 28, featuring muscle cars, import/tuners, street rods, motorcycles, classic cars, antiques, race cars, trucks, and even some homemade contraptions. The show takes place on...
Steppenwolf Theatre Gala raises $1.15 million for outreach programs
Celebrating its 41st season, the Steppenwolf Theatre Company hosted a festive gala May 13. Nearly 580 members of Chicago's corporate, civic and cultural communities joined Steppenwolf ensemble members at the theater's home at 1650 N. Halsted St. to...
Heath Ledger's friends and colleagues talk about his 'gentle way'
Just ahead of the 2009 Academy Awards, when Heath Ledger posthumously won the supporting Oscar for his role as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight,” writer Michael Ordona talked with friends and associates of the actor, who died on Jan....
Community News For The Windsor Edition
Windsor Student CelebratedBALTIMORE, MD. — Faythe Daly from Windsor was honored as one of the brightest young students in the world at a recent awards ceremony sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.Daly, a participant in the...
Community News For The Valley Edition
Boy Scouts Place FlagsAVON — As has been the custom for many years, members of The Gildo T. Consolini VFW Avon Post 3272, with the help of several volunteers and some of Avon's Troop 274 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, have been placing U.S. flags and...
Inarritu debuts groundbreaking VR exhibit at Cannes
You walk along a high metal fence that once divided Arizona and Mexico and into a small holding cell where you are asked to take off your shoes and socks. All around you are the abandoned shoes of migrants who have been arrested by the border patrol. When...
Write Stuff: Authors At RJ Julia; Talk On Southern Belles At Twain House
R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, will present free talks by authors of fiction, memoir and poetry.
On May 21 at 10:30 a.m., Shoshana Banana will talk about her fact-based but fictionalized children's book, "Levi and Aya" (Picture It...
Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5M at New York auction
A 1982 artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for a record $110.5 million at Sotheby's auction of contemporary art Thursday night. Sotheby's said the sale of "Untitled" was an auction record for the artist. It also set a record price for an American...