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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
Billy Grant Restaurant Group presents a pop-up farm dinner Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Rose's Berry Farm in South Glastonbury. Cost is $120, plus 18 percent gratuity, and includes all food and beverages. Reservations: 860-214-0568, michelle@billygrant.com.
Chefs Tyler Anderson, Jason Sobocinski and Jamie McDonald collaborate for a Vie for the Kids “Chefs for the Cure” fundraiser dinner at Millwright’s, 77 West St., Simsbury, Saturday, Sept. 24, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $150. Proceeds will benefit Vie for the Kids, an organization that funds cancer clinical...
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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
Billy Grant Restaurant Group presents a pop-up farm dinner Sept. 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Rose's Berry Farm in South Glastonbury. Cost is $120, plus 18 percent gratuity, and includes all food and beverages. Reservations: 860-214-0568,...
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...
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...
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...
Community News For The Valley Edition
Valley Veterans Meet At Truffles On MainAVON — Veterans may visit with members of VFW Post 3272 at Truffles on Main Restaurant, 300 West Main St., from 8 to 10 a.m., the first Saturday of the every month. To learn more about the Gildo T....
Train, buttocks among contenders for art's Turner Prize
A model train and bare buttocks are among artworks nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize. Work by four shortlisted artists went on display Monday at London's Tate Britain gallery. The show includes Michael Dean's scrap-metal sculptures, Helen...
'Adele's Wish' Art Documentary At NBMAA
Last year, Helen Mirren made a splash with her movie "Woman in Gold," a fact-based drama about a woman who fought to recover her family heirloom, Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I," after it had been looted by the Nazis....
Community News For The Windsor Edition
Events At Prosser Public LibraryBLOOMFIELD — Prosser Public Library, 1 Tunxis Ave., will hold diabetes workshops Thursday mornings, through Oct. 20, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with dietitian Paula Kellogg Leibovitz.Guest Composer Jessica...
Community News For The Wethersfield Edition
Classes Offered By Berlin Parks And Recreation DepartmentBERLIN — The Berlin Parks and Recreation Department is accepting registration for Pilates and Yoga classes at the Berlin Parks and Recreation Office, 230 Kensington Road. The classes are held...
Community News For The Manchester Edition
Bolton Fire Department Past Member SearchBOLTON — The Bolton Volunteer Fire Department was founded in 1941 and is celebrating 75 years of service to the community this year. As part of the celebration of 75 years of service the current members...
Community News For The Colchester Edition
East Hampton Senior Center Medicare D Open Enrollment EAST HAMPTON — Open Enrollment for Medicare supplemental drug plan coverage is October 15 through December 7, 2016. East Hampton Senior Center has 3 trained Choices Counsellors to guide...
Florence museum head defends party rental in Pitti Palace
A wild bachelor's party at the Pitti Palace art museum in Florence? Nothing of the kind, says museum director Eike Schmidt, who is defending the Renaissance palazzo's courtyard's rental, saying it was for a pre-nuptial dinner paid for by an Italian...
Florence Griswold Part Of Worldwide Exhibition On Screen Series
The fourth season of Exhibition on Screen, the series of art-museum documentaries shown in theaters worldwide, will include a film about Florence Griswold Museum's recent exhibit "The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden...
Fall Exhibits Transport Visitors To Outer Space, Yosemite Park
This fall, if you don't have time to go to Yosemite National Park, you can get a glimpse of it at an exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery. If you don't have any way to go to outer space, an exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum will blast you into orbit.
Those...
Berlin's Jewish Museum opens show on mystic golem creature
A gigantic golem made out of wooden Hebrew letters lies motionless on the ground, yet it seems as if only a few magic whispers are needed to bring the creature to life. The sculpture, created by California artist Joshua Abarbanel, is one of 250 objects on...
'Relativity, 'Piano Lessons' Add To Casts
TheaterWorks has announced which two women will offer equal and opposite reactions to Richard Dreyfuss' portrayal of Albert Einstein in the play "Relativity" at TheaterWorks Oct. 7 through Nov. 13. Christa Scott Reed ("The Great...