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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Wee Faerie Village Gives 'Alice In Wonderland' A Steampunk Twist by Susan Dunne

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 02:15PM
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Twain Exhibit Examines Spiritualism Of The Time by Susan Dunne

Mark Twain attended a seance in 1866 and wrote about it with his customary cynicism and wit.

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 10:18AM
Monday, September 29, 2014

Famed N.Y. Portraitist To Be Part Of Hartford Tattoo Convention by Susan Dunne

Stéfano 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 09:28AM
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Hartford Library To Mark Banned Books Week With Look At Comic-Book Scare by Susan Dunne

In 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 01:33PM
Friday, September 12, 2014

Big E Celebrates 1964 N.Y. World's Fair by Susan Dunne

The 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 01:00AM
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Connecticut's Oscar Favorites From Those In The Know by Susan Dunne and Frank Rizzo

Who 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?…

SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:00AM

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