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Dr. Darnell Young

Brushing Up

Overflowing bags of Halloween loot—Tootsie Rolls, cherry-flavored lollipops and mini Snickers bars—hang around long after the holiday is over, a daily temptation. Dr. Darnell Young won’t say what his favorite...

Brushing Up

Overflowing bags of Halloween loot—Tootsie Rolls, cherry-flavored lollipops and mini Snickers bars—hang around long after the holiday is over, a daily temptation. Dr. Darnell Young won’t say what his favorite...

CT RollerGirls

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...

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...

Stuffed monkey at the CT Children’s Museum

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,...

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,...

Robert Messore at Toddler Tunes

Child‘s Play

After Toddler Tunes is over, while they’re packing up plastic bags of Cheerios and buckling squirmy toddlers into strollers, parents might just catch a glimpse of guitarist Robert Messore’s other...

Child‘s Play

After Toddler Tunes is over, while they’re packing up plastic bags of Cheerios and buckling squirmy toddlers into strollers, parents might just catch a glimpse of guitarist Robert Messore’s other...

Connecticut Folk Festival and Green Expo

Getting Together with the Folk

The Connecticut Folk Festival has changed its form several times over the years. This year it even considered changing its location—from its longtime Edgerton Park site on the edge of...

Getting Together with the Folk

The Connecticut Folk Festival has changed its form several times over the years. This year it even considered changing its location—from its longtime Edgerton Park site on the edge of...

Closer to Free

Good Exercise

Labor Day’s the first holiday of the school year, but a lot of folks don’t feel like resting that week. They prefer to run, bike or just play in the...

Good Exercise

Labor Day’s the first holiday of the school year, but a lot of folks don’t feel like resting that week. They prefer to run, bike or just play in the...