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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
The Taste of Greater Hartford runs July 17 to 30, featuring multi-course prix-fixe menus at a selection of restaurants in the city and in surrounding suburbs. Visit ctnow.com/tasteofhartford for updated participants and menus.
Alforno Ristorante, 1654 Boston Post Road, Old Saybrook, celebrates zucchini season with fresh blossoms, available tempura-fried as an appetizer ($14.50) or as an entree, stuffed with cheeses, sauteed and served atop mushroom risotto with grilled asparagus ($25, only available Friday and Saturday nights.) 860-399-4166,
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Small Bites: Dining News & Events
The Taste of Greater Hartford runs July 17 to 30, featuring multi-course prix-fixe menus at a selection of restaurants in the city and in surrounding suburbs. Visit ctnow.com/tasteofhartford for updated participants and menus.
Alforno...
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
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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...
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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
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The décor is already in place; all you need are the guests, food and drinks, and music.
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Eisner Awards showcase comics' diversity with Wonder Woman, Wayne Brady, Sonny Liew and 'Saga'
The message from Eisner Awards voters and winners was simple enough: Comics are for everybody, and can be made by anybody.
But it’s a complicated world.
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Exhumation of Dali's remains finds his mustache still intact
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Romania: Art exhibit at ex-prison show horrors of communism
An art exhibition went on display Friday at a former Romanian prison where communists tortured and killed political prisoners in a gruesome re-education program. The collection of 11 sculptures at the Pitesti Prison, southern Romania, aims to remind...
Spending: Visiting Vegas off the Strip
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In surrealist twist, Dali exhumed in paternity lawsuit
Salvador Dali's eccentric artistic and personal history has taken yet another bizarre turn with the exhumation of his embalmed remains in order to find genetic samples that could settle whether one of the founding figures of surrealism fathered a girl...
Arts Workforce Initiative Places Interns In Cultural Organizations
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Art in the garden: placing the right work in the right spot
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Arts startup Meow Wolf sells out small equity offerings
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Lincoln Park Zoo commemorated the Women's Board's 40th anniversary with an elegant black-tie gala on July 14. The African safari-themed "The Mane Event" attracted 850 guests and raised more than $1.4 million to help fund a new state-of-the-art visitor...
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