Every year, Florence Griswold Museum's Wee Faerie Villlage outdoor fantasy art installation has a literary theme, and this year, organizer David D.J. Rau thought "Alice in Wonderland" would …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:15PMMark Twain attended a seance in 1866 and wrote about it with his customary cynicism and wit.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:18AMStéfano Alcántara's portraiture is so lifelike, so finely detailed and nuanced, that his work should be hanging in an art gallery. But that won't ever happen. His canvases are human bodies…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 09:28AMIn 2008, David Hajdu published "The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic Book Scare and How It Changed America," a historical look at 1950s paranoia aimed at the perceived moral depravity of com…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:33PMThe New York World's Fair came to Flushing Meadows in 1964 and 1965, and then it was gone forever. Unlike Disneyland, which can be visited again and again, the World's Fair lives on only in …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AMWho Will Win? Who Should Win? And Why? The Academy Awards bring out the critic in everyone. It starts when the nominations are announced — "Whaddya mean, Ben Affleck wasn't nominated?…
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