Some places seem to communicate with you when you visit. Not audibly, of course, but they somehow impart the echo of a life lived long ago. That’s the feeling I get at Planting Fields Arbo…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:00AMBy JAKE COYLE CANNES, France (AP) — Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another. In Lynne R…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy LINDSEY BAHR Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theater…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 12:11PMBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album Work It Out” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMLONDON (AP) — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was ordered held in custody after appearing Friday in a British courtroom to face a charge that he seriously beat a music producer in a Lond…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:18AMBy MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — You can’t keep Stanley Tucci from his beloved Italy just like you can’t keep cheese from lasagna. The Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning actor is once again…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:00AMCANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: no nudity. While nu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 01:53PMBy DAVID FISCHER MIAMI (AP) — Just in time for bathing suit season, the HistoryMiami Museum is opening a new exhibit that examines the relationship between the evolution of swimwear and th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:30AMBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Paddington bear going on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in “Paddington in Peru” and Alexander Skarsgard playing a robot with free will in Appl…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 04:45AMBy MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — The last time Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman went on a motorcycle adventure, they rode cutting-edge, electric Harley-Davidsons. For their latest trip, th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy MARK KENNEDY NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Seller, the Broadway producer behind such landmark hits as “Rent,” “Avenue Q” and “Hamilton,” didn’t initially write a memoir for us. …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMEverett and another winner were fellows of the NEA, which is cutting back funding.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 05:07PMIt didn’t begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving “Star Wars” have an inescapable gravity. May 4 …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMBy The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The popular whodunit series “Poker Face” starring Natasha Lyonne returning for its second season and Steven Soderbergh’s sleek and lean spy th…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMBy FRANCESCA PRIMAVILLA and TRISHA THOMAS ROME (AP) — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact tha…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy LINDSEY BAHR “How to Train Your Dragon” filmmaker Dean DeBlois has heard the “remake fatigue” concerns. In Hollywood’s quest to get family audiences to movie theaters, the indus…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMThe “Battle to Survive a Broken Heart” is set to be auctioned off May 21.
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 02:02PMBy DEEPTI HAJELA NEW YORK (AP) — Growing up on the south side of Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley was given the message early on: What one wore as a Black man mattered. Wesley’s …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:45AMBy ANJUM NAVEED RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Trucks thunder along Pakistan’s dusty highways and through bustling city streets, like rolling canvases ablaze with color and poetry, transfor…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMNominators gave nods to George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Bob Odenkirk in their debuts.
SOURCE: Denver Post at 07:36PMBy JOCELYN NOVECK He’s a dream in the kitchen — and elsewhere in the house. He makes a mean cream-puff tower. And he’s got moves like Jagger. Alas, Antonin Carême has been dead since …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:15AMBy SILVIA IZQUIERDO RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Members of the LGBTQ+ community on Tuesday modeled creations inspired by Lady Gaga’s iconic style at a fashion show in Brazil featuring …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy BEATRICE DUPUY NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion icons like Dapper Dan, Janelle Monáe and the late André Leon Talley are known for their distinctive approaches to sartorial style — bold splas…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy LEANNE ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Like all brides, Elana Goldin had high hopes for her wedding photos and video. “I loved their images,” she said of the company picked by her dad and fu…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy The Associated Press Ethan Hunt’s last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari A…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy KIM COOK Interior designer and stylist Jonny Carmack has a “fruit room” in his Danbury, Connecticut, home. Colorful faux produce bedecks every inch, from the cherry-shaped ceiling fix…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy SHARON LURYE NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival each spring is known for hosting some of the world’s most famous jazz, funk and rock acts. Yet it’s also b…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMNEW YORK (AP) — Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick going to Italy for a wedding and some mafia intrigue in the movie “Another Simple Favor” and Tina Fey and Steve Carell reuniting for the …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 07:15AMBy MEGAN JANETSKY and FERNANDA PESCE MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The …
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AMBy JACK BROOK NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival kicks off on Thursday, bringing together a smorgasbord of the city’s most iconic homegrown artists for the nex…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:00AMBy FARAI MUTSAKA CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — A pair of white hands blinding a Black face. A smiling colonizer with a Bible, crushing the skull of a screaming native with his boot. Chained…
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