This afternoon Governor Malloy and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Connecticut will receive a waiver exempting Connecticut from fulfilling some of the mandates under No Child L...
Prepare to be overwhelmed. June 1 “There’s a Map for That!” — an exhibit organized by Connecticut Explored and the Hartford History Center — will have its opening recept...
The community will have the opportunity on Wednesday to discuss how Jumoke Academy may be partnering with the Milner Core Knowledge Academy in the 2012-2013 school year. Mismatched Deadlines The last...
Do you know where this blurry photo was taken?
The former Hartford Courant Arts Center at 224 Farmington Avenue has switched ownership again, this time to The Conference of Churches. Once home to the Hartford Ballet, Connecticut Opera, and Hartfo...
Connecticut is not boring. It is revolutionary. Still. But tourism websites and ad agencies never capture this for a multitude of reasons, giving the masses yet another branding campaign to mock. One...
The downpour had stopped only moments before. What were the odds that the VIPs, in their suits and heels, would step out onto a possibly slippery and definitely damp rooftop? In a swankier city the f...
To this day there are individuals who believe President Obama is a Muslim, and of them, those who believe this is a deficit. Every few years the American Psychiatric Association revisits the question...
Bike to Work 2012 Simsbury has had no trouble branding itself: village charm and bicycles. They have infrastructure to support cyclists. Most notable is the visibility of teenage girls on bikes; this...
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The addition of a farmers’ market at the Chrysalis Center on Homestead Avenue will bring the number of such markets in Hartford up to seven — eight, if you include the one at the regional...
Pushpins pierced over twenty countries on a world map, showing the diverse origins of those participating in or just stopping by to learn about the community dialogues on adult education. Among those...
On Friday and Saturday the Knox Parks Foundation will be holding its annual plant sale at 75 Laurel Street. They say they will have plants for “shade gardens, sun gardens, butterfly gardens, ve...
In recent memory, Huck Finn Adventures was forced to stop its underground tours when lawyers decided the trips were too risky. Damned Connecticut, Hog River Journal, and the New York Times have all g...
Mike Rose has said that “we are in the middle of an extraordinary social experiment: the attempt to provide education for all members of a vast pluralistic democracy.” It is an understatement to say ...
Do you know where in Hartford this is? The prize this week will be the usual: 24 hours of smugness.
We were about halfway down the block with our container of leftovers when we heard the proprietor yelling another thanks for our patronage to us. Though not a fancy place, In God We Trust Afrikan Res...
You have two more chances to catch Ragtime at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts: Friday and Saturday. Directed by Brian Jennings — who recently performed in HartBeat Ensemble’s Fli...
From 12-5 today, locally-produced foods will be available for the sampling at La Paloma Sabanera. This includes DiFiore pasta, focaccia from First and Last Tavern, Icing Cupcakes, Mucke’s hotdo...
April Piette, a security officer at 25 Sigourney Street, a State building, says she wants “them to do what they’re supposed to do by contract– pay our pensions.” Employed by S...
According to the 2010 American Community Survey, only 2.6% of Hartford commuters go by bicycle; only 29% of those bicycle commuters are female. If paying $4.08 per gallon has not been sufficient to m...
The rate of invasive breast cancer is 136 in 100,000 for women in Connecticut, higher than the national average of 125 per 100,000. In men, the national rate is 1.2 per 100,000. Hartford has been fou...
Unless you are willing to accept two passes to Strength in Numbers, a film playing at the Wadsworth Atheneum on May 11th, do not guess this week’s mystery photo! If you think you know where thi...
I am often asked about what is going on, as if I am some kind of walking database. My response is usually a suggestion that people read what I have already written. It frees up my brain, allowing me ...
When the Annie Fisher STEM Magnet School community signed appearance waivers for a camera crew a few months ago, they did so under the impression that the footage was going to be used by CPTV and wou...
The community is invited to meet the five candidates seeking to fill the position of Principal at Burns Latino Studies Academy. Candidates will give presentations and take questions for approximately...
Unless you are willing to accept two passes to Strength in Numbers, a film playing at the Wadsworth Atheneum on May 11th, do not guess this week’s mystery photo! In the comments, tell me where ...
Making claims that we live in a post-racial society would get most people laughed at, under the best of circumstances. We recognize that the success of Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, a...
Union Station usually just has trains and buses, but now there is a catamaran in the Great Hall. The “Cat-Fish” was designed by David Murphy and built by eighteen student woodworkers for ...
On the first day of the first annual Connecticut Vegetarian and Healthy Living Festival we learned two things. There are far more vegetarians and veg-friendly people than we anticipated, and, the ven...
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