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Who knew that until the middle of the last century, East Granby, Connecticut, was a center for Connecticut Shade, a hand-tended tobacco leaf used as a…
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Want to be a political journalist or biographical historian? Forget graduate or journalism school. Read Robert Caro’s "Working: Researching, Interviewing,…
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Friday marks the 200th birthday of one of America’s greatest poets – Walt Whitman – and Yale’s Beinecke Library is honoring him with a pop-up…
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Sacred Heart University will lease a long-shuttered movie theater in Fairfield, Connecticut, and turn it into a community theater.The Sacred Heart…
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A Yale University graduate was one of the first celebrity photographers, known to us now as the paparazzi. Photographer Jerome Zerbe is the subject of a…
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The rebuilding of the Sag Harbor Cinema is still underway after a fire gutted the historic theater over two years ago.The Sag Harbor Partnership bought…
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Two major New York City museums have announced they will no longer take money from the family behind Stamford-based Purdue Pharma.The Metropolitan Museum…
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American novelist Philip Roth has died. He was 85. Roth’s work is known for its unflinching look at the human character. His style was deeply…
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“More than any other food, cheese has personality,” writes Liz Thorpe in her gorgeous, yummy, almost overwhelming treatise, The Book of Cheese: The…
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There’s an old proverb popularized by Mel Brooks that sums up “Fractured Continent,” William Drozdiak’s fine, eminently readable analysis of European…