Tony-Winning Broadway Show Coming to Stamford
Milford resident Al Recchia opens the play 42nd Street at The Kweskin Theatre in Stamford this summer.
Arts
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Bringing Flair and Spice To A Dinner Party
An entertaining lady's home journal holds key to style and flair.
Sheila McCaffery can overwhelm you with her meticulous notes for a dinner party. She wants you to throw one on the same scale that she does but this is a gal who doesn’t believe in doing things by halves. In a time when cookbooks, culinary magazines and TV food shows can be more intimidating than inspiring, Sheila shows you how to become a successful hostess. An accomplished cook who learned by doing, she excels in the ideas department. An important tool to achieve the level of success that she has had is through the keeping of a journal. A chronicle of dinner parties that span four decades, her journals are virtual textbooks for home entertaining. Sheila recently came to the Greenwich Garden Center to present a slide show of her dinner …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Ridgefield Author Maurice Sendak Dies At 83
The celebrated children's author was best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are."
Ridgefield's famed children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died Tuesday. The celebrated children's author, best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are," was "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," the New York Times reports. The Times reports that Mr. Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke, according to his longtime editor, Michael di Capua. "Where The Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, and the story of a little boy named Max who sails into his dreams to have a "wild rumpus" with imaginative, sometimes nightmarish monsters was a bestseller. Mr. Sendak wrote and illustrated more than a dozen solo picture books and over 80 books in all -- one more posthumous …
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Cherry Blossom Fest Celebrating Mill River Park Progress This Saturday
The park will be celebrating progress of the Mill River Collaborative work and the heritage of cherry trees planted there more than half a century ago.
In 1926, Junzo "Junior" Nojima moved from Japan to Stamford and, over the next 30 years, fell in love with the city. He even opened one of the first Japanese-owned restaurants in the state. On April 27th, 1957, Nojima planted 100 cherry trees in Mill River Park and personally cared for them years after. As Mill River Park underwent revitalization, the original trees planted by Nojima had cuttings taken from them. The Stamford Tree Foundation took these cuttings and cultivated them into 8-foot tall trees carrying the same lineage as the originals. This Saturday, a huge festival will be filling the lot next to the park for the first annual Cherry Blossom Festival being billed under the new Mill River Park. The park itself is still undergoing…
Monday, April 30, 2012
Nutmeg Book Review
'50 Shades of Grey': Just How Smutty Is It?
Plenty, but it's also unintentionally humorous and so badly written it hurts (and not in a good way).
In keeping with the number theme in the title, here's what you need to know before buying "50 Shades of Grey." Number of times the protagonist, Anastasia Steele, says "Crap" or "Holy Crap": 86 Number of times Anastasia refers to her lover Christian Grey and his moves as "hot" or "freaking hot": 37 Number of times a specific part of the female anatomy is referred to as "down there": 6 If fine writing is like bittersweet truffles, this book is like a wad of Gummi Bears stuck to your back teeth. To use another food metaphor — and I'm not sure this author knows what a metaphor is — it's the literary equivalent of eating Sugar Smacks for dinner. Author E.L. James gives us the first-person perspective of a naive 21-year-old college graduate …
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Veteran Sportswriter, Former Stamford Resident Jack Cavanaugh to Discuss 'Season of '42'
Jack Cavanaugh to discuss new book, baseball's contributions to the American war effort and morale.
Baseball’s hold on the nation’s sporting masses was severely tested during the early months of World War II. With news of Axis victories in Europe, Africa and Asia dominating the headlines, and rationing becoming part of America's daily life, major league baseball – by comparison – seemed inconsequential. Jack Cavanaugh, a veteran sportswriter, radio newsman and author, has tackled the national pastime and its effect on the war effort in his new book, Season of ’42: Joe D, Teddy Ballgame, and Baseball’s Fight to Survive a Turbulent First Year of War (Skyhorse Publishing). The Wilton-based author will be discussing and signing copies of his new book at the Whittemore Memorial Library in Naugatuck on Wednesday, May 16, starting at 6:30 p.m…
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Stamford's Alive@Five Concert Lineup Announced
This year's Alive@Five concert series is being presented by the Stamford Town Center, Reckson and BevMax.
Foreigner and Los Lonely Boys will headline this summer's Alive@Five concert series, scheduled kick-off Thursday, June 21, in Stamford's Columbus Park. This year's Alive@Five concert series is being presented by the Stamford Town Center, Reckson, and BevMax (plus there are additional sponsors of the individual shows). Additional acts will include G. Love & Special Sauce, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Matisyahu, Hot Chelle Rae, and Javier Colon, according to a press release. The concerts begin at 5 p.m. and will run seven consecutive Thursdays until August 2, 2012. The B-52s headlined last year's Alive@Five concert series.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
New Vocal Studio Opens in Stamford
Crillera Vocal Studios, according to a press release, will offer instruction for both novices and seasoned singers.
Welcome to Stamford, where anyone can learn to sing and dance. Following the opening of a new dance studio run by trainers for Dancing With The Stars, critically-acclaimed opera singer Virginia Herrera-Crilly has reportedly opened a new vocal studio in Stamford. Crillera Vocal Studios, according to a press release, will offer instruction for both novices and seasoned singers. "If you can speak, you can sing!" Herrera-Crilly said in the release, describing the philosophy behind her new vocal studio. "Singing is the most natural thing in the world. Think of the infant crying for hours in the crib. Does she ever tire, get hoarse or lose her voice? We 'unlearn' the gift of song that is our birthright and the good vocal instructor knows how to …
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Report: Dick Clark Dies at 82
The iconic producer and TV host suffered a heart attack, ABC News reports.
Famed TV host, producer Dick Clark died today at the age of 82, ABC reports. The longtime host of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve’ reportedly died of a heart attack. He had suffered a stroke in 2004 but “returned to the airwaves” for the last several years, according to ABC News. Clark became a household name after the afternoon dance show he hosted in the 50s became the popular “American Bandstand,” and from there Clark started the successful Dick Clark Productions company in Hollywood, according to ABC.
Titanic, 100 Years Later: Disaster Spawned International Ice Patrol [VIDEO]
Killingworth native is chief operations officer for the New London-based lifesaving agency formed as a result of the Titanic disaster in 1912.
The iceberg that collided with the Titanic on April 14, 1912, was likely made of ice that was 3,000 to 6,000 years old and was one of 400 icebergs annually “calved” off the coast of Greenland. Prior to 1913, there was no systematic way of monitoring the potentially dangerous presence of icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. In the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, however, the International Ice Patrol was formed. Headquartered in New London at the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center, the IIP has continuously monitored iceberg presence in the North Atlantic for the last 99 years. According to Lisa Mack, Coast Guard commander of the International Ice Patrol, members of the IIP have annually dropped two or three …
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