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Small Crowds Make B.O.M.B. Fest Enjoyable, Though Not Profitable
Let’s just say that crowds weren’t a problem this year at B.O.M.B. Fest.
Actually, from a certain perspective, that was the problem.
About 8,000 people paid to attend (an average of 4,000 per day, with another 500 total comped in) the two-...Tags: Los Angeles, Lyme, Health, George Clinton, Connecticut
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Best Museum
1st) Yale Peabody Museum
"Where else can you bring the kids to interact with a gigantic bed bug (like the one in director Derek Briggs' hand in the photo below), catch an educational puppet show and check out an array of fish skeletons that are not...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Museums, Florence Griswold
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Best Local Art School
1st) Paier College of Art
Paier College of Art has a philosophy: not all artists starve. To keep students eating after loans and graduation, they learn from professional artists in order to become a professional in the commercial art world. Founded in...Tags: Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Entertainment, Education, Colleges and Universities, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Romantic Dining In Connecticut
Visit Vivo Seasonal Trattoria at the Marriott Hartford Downtown, 200 Columbus Blvd., for a four-course dinner on Sunday, Feb. 13 or Monday, Feb14.
The restaurant, which serves Mediterranean food and has an Italian wine bar, will begin seating on both...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Appetizers, Connecticut, Lifestyle and Leisure, Salads
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Eclectic Mix Is Of The Moment
"It's all in the mix" was the refrain last weekend at the Interior Inspirations show in Old Lyme, a fund-raiser for the Child & Family Agency of Southeasatern Connecticut. "The matchy-matchy thing is over," declared New York designer Larry Laslo. He...Tags: Pakistan, Lyme, Philosophy, Connecticut, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Carmen Anthony: A Little Piece Of New York For 15 Years
mfillo@courant.comCarmen Anthony Vacalebre had already established a successful fast-food business in the 1970s and 1980s with his Me Ma and Arby's franchises. But he wanted to step it up by opening a New York City-style steakhouse, the kind he liked to frequent. He...Tags: Plainville, Wethersfield, Steaks, Potatoes, Connecticut
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Close-up on Old Lyme
The Hartford CourantHOW IT GOT ITS NAME: Likely named after Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, in England. A settler, Matthew Griswold, apparently left England from the port of Lyme Regis. ORIGINS: Set off from Saybrook in 1665, the town was incorporated in 1855 as South Lyme. The...Tags: Lyme, Entertainment, University of Connecticut Men's Basketball Program, Old Saybrook, Childe Hassam
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Learning The Language Of Interior Design
Just as you can master a foreign language like Chinese, you can learn the language of interior design, says New York interior designer Alexa Hampton.
"In fact, when you look at a room, you're reading it," she says. "It's a vocabulary that you can learn."...Tags: Connecticut, Interior Design, White House, Pimlico, Music
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New Book Visits 28 Private Gardens
"A house comes alive with a lot of people," says garden writer Jane Garmey, "but I think a garden is a much more private and personal experience. When you see a garden, you get to know the person whose garden it is." Garmey's new book, "Private Gardens...Tags: Lyme, Washington (U.S. state), Connecticut, Hobbies, Arts and Culture
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