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"Studies of Herb and Dorothy Vogel" by Will Barnet

Collecting Calls

Why does a person start collecting art? To make money, perhaps, or to show the world one’s impeccable taste. Or maybe to support a beloved artist and to share that...

Collecting Calls

Why does a person start collecting art? To make money, perhaps, or to show the world one’s impeccable taste. Or maybe to support a beloved artist and to share that...

Educational Center for the Arts

Reaching for the Arts

When we first meet, Educational Center for the Arts director Jason Hiruo tells me about one of the ECA’s star students, Michaela Coppola. Coppola recently earned a place in the...

Reaching for the Arts

When we first meet, Educational Center for the Arts director Jason Hiruo tells me about one of the ECA’s star students, Michaela Coppola. Coppola recently earned a place in the...

"Windows into Heaven" at Knights of Columbus Museum

That‘s the Spirit!

Perched at the mouth of State Street, the Knights of Columbus Museum has acted as a gallery and archive of Catholic history and culture for over 30 years. The museum’s...

That‘s the Spirit!

Perched at the mouth of State Street, the Knights of Columbus Museum has acted as a gallery and archive of Catholic history and culture for over 30 years. The museum’s...

The Honeycutters at Spaceland Ballroom

Big Bang

The Space—the rare all-ages concert stage that can attract national acts, and even rarer for being in the middle of Connecticut—just sort of happened. The venue, which serves food and...

Big Bang

The Space—the rare all-ages concert stage that can attract national acts, and even rarer for being in the middle of Connecticut—just sort of happened. The venue, which serves food and...

Thornton Wilder

Wilder Things

Even though the playwright, teacher, lecturer, screenwriter, opera librettist and novelist Thornton Wilder (pictured above) was born in Wisconsin in 1897 and lived for a time in China and California,...

Wilder Things

Even though the playwright, teacher, lecturer, screenwriter, opera librettist and novelist Thornton Wilder (pictured above) was born in Wisconsin in 1897 and lived for a time in China and California,...

Legacy Theatre artist’s rendering

House Keeping

The old Puppet House Theatre a.k.a. Stony Creek Puppet House, which has stood for over a century at 128 Thimble Islands Road in Branford, is set to get a deserved...

House Keeping

The old Puppet House Theatre a.k.a. Stony Creek Puppet House, which has stood for over a century at 128 Thimble Islands Road in Branford, is set to get a deserved...