A green, smiling dragon and sailboat rock back and forth through ocean waves. A festive train carries candy canes and gifts with bows. A tireless Victorian paperboy throws his newspaper over and over. These are some of the denizens of this year’s Fantasy of Lights, which features 55 sparkling light displays sponsored by local businesses […]
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Roll Players
You probably have a picture of roller derby in your head that feels very 1970s: a bunch of tough gals with campy, sexually suggestive pseudonyms skating in a sloped circle on tiny tires, slamming each other into walls; a scripted sport in the vein of professional wrestling, more entertainment than competition. At CT RollerGirls, parts […]
Touch and Go
Costumes, games, puzzles, puppets, playhouses. Bugs, drums, wheel barrows, Lincoln Logs, a maze. Toy planes and trains and trucks and cars, toy toolboxes, a toy piano. And stuffed animals. Oh, the stuffed animals. Elephants, giraffes, mice, frogs, monkeys. Bears and bees and butterflies and birds and bunnies. That’s the stuff of a child’s dreams, and […]
Enlightened by Eli
Bill Brown is joining time, space, bits of woods and New Haven history before a room of field-tripping fourth graders. (more…)
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