Living • Published Mar 27, 2024 10 am
By Juliana Gribbins
It’s gone. No warning, no lead up. Just gone.
There are places that should be encased in amber, preserved forever just as they are. Sometimes you don’t think about this ...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
St. Pat’s Day has come and gone, but there’s still time to enjoy the Irish Cream Spiced Shamrock at One World Roasters, 967 North High Street, East Haven. Eric Ciolino of...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
Congrats to Petonito’s Pastry and Cupcake Shoppe, which is celebrating 70 years in business! The bakery, at 190 Main Street, East Haven will celebrate Sunday, April 21 fr...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
Welcome to Bui Vietnamese Cuisine, 4 Brushy Plain Road, Branford! While we were waiting for our recent take-out order, the owner told us he and his family used to have a ...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
Hu Ping-Dolph, a restaurateur with nearly 25 years in the industry, recently opened Hot Pot, 68 Whitney Avenue, New Haven. At Hot Pot, customers cook a variety of meats, ...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
Bishop’s Orchards Farm Market, 1355 Boston Post Road, Guilford, is back with a fresh new look. With a brand new floor, and a refreshed look, it still feels familiar. Duri...
Living • Published Mar 25, 2024 09 am
By Pem McNerney
A few weeks ago, I was invited to a Pea Planting party to celebrate the beginning of gardening season. I envisioned myself on a sunny day joyfully using a hoe to plant ro...
Living • Published Mar 21, 2024 12 am
Reimagining Food Waste As A Potential Food And Flower Multiplier For Farms And Gardens,
Living • Published Mar 15, 2024 12 pm
By Kathy Connolly
Let This Spring Be The Beginning Of The End For Invasive Plants Near You
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched fresh look at the birth of our country and American politics. History buffs will love this detailed recounting of the part...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
Parasol Against the Axe
by Helen Oyeyemi
Oyeyemi's books are a bit like Prague's paternoster elevators: rich in myth, racked with danger, and quite charming. Her imaginat...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
My Name Was Eden
by Eleanor Barker-White
Are you in the mood for a book that you just can't put down? This book will have you saying, "Just one more chapter!" but you'll ...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
Bad Animals
by Sarah Braunstein
Maeve Cosgrove’s well-ordered life consists of a loving husband, an accomplished, if absent, daughter, and a job at the local small-town M...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
Fruit of the Dead
by Rachel Lyon
Greek mythology echoes through this modern-day retelling, a reminder that we could easily fall victim to the same challenges and vices. W...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
By Aaron Rubin
I feel sorry for everyone who was not in attendance at the Space Ballroom in Hamden on March 1. Point blank: the best show I’ve been to since Killer Kin tore up Cafe Nin...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
Mindsnap Music’s Joetown returns with Irish Blessing and St. Patrick’s Day party at the Softail Grill & Bar, 980 New Haven Avenue (Route 17), Durham on Sunday, March 16. ...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate,” 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, welcomes Canadian powerhouse Celtic music group Leahy on Thursday, March 14, at 7:3...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
An Instrument Petting Zoo, Too
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
GriefShare, a weekly faith-based bereavement support group, offers help, encouragement, and support after the death of a spouse, child, other family member, or friend. Sp...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
Bye, Baby
by Carola Lovering
I picked up this new Carola Lovering book expecting a mystery/thriller and quickly realized it’s a women’s friendship drama with a touch of s...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
The Guilford Craft Expo returns to the Guilford July 19 to 21, bringing with it fine craftsmanship, creativity, and community spirit featuring more than 170 American arti...
Living • Published Mar 14, 2024 12 am
The New Couple in 5B
by Lisa Unger
A must-read for thriller fans! When Rosie and Chad inherit a luxury apartment in one of Manhattan’s storied buildings, they can’t belie...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
Sometimes When You Think You Are Done, You Are Just Starting
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
Music at the Meetinghouse has announced the return of the Shoreline Soul Community Choral Gospel Workshop at the First Congregational Church in Madison, directed by prof...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
After many years of early voting advocacy efforts to bring early voting to Connecticut and the passage of a referendum by Connecticut voters, Shoreline area voters can jo...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
The Hagaman Memorial Library in East Haven will be hosting an evening of horror with a select group of Connecticut horror fiction writers, part of the Horror Writers Asso...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
I value connections of all sorts. My family. My friends. My neighbors. My colleagues at school and at work. And, with nature, that which provides for us and sustains us a...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Aaron Rubin
The Specter of Hendrix Looms Large at Kate Show
“Come the hell on, man. That’s not even fair!”
*Proceeds to throw drumsticks and dreams of being a guitar player ...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
All are welcome to view works by Madison-based painter Don Keene in the lobby gallery at Guilford Art Center, 411 Church Street, Guilford. The exhibit, entitled Abstract ...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, R.J. Cafe, in the back of the bookstore at R.J. Julia, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, several new drink specials are offered, including the...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
The family-owned and operated Cheri's Bakery, 1208 Main Street, Branford, is back open and this time for good! They are offering a wide array of Easter specials for order...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
Welcome to Bui Vietnamese Cuisine, 4 Brushy Plain Road, Branford! The menu includes spring rolls, fried dumplings, shaken beef, crunchy chicken, kimchi, and hot or iced V...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
Bishop’s Orchard and Farm Market will be closed through Sunday, March 10, for a refresh, but is offering curbside pickup in the meantime and is waiving its normal curbsid...
Living • Published Mar 07, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
Save the date! CT Shoreline Cars & Coffee has announced its season opener, and it will be Sunday, April 7, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Moroso, 80 Carter Drive, Guilford. A recen...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder
by C.L. Miller
Orphaned at age 12, Freya was raised by her eccentric Aunt Carole, who introduced her to Arthur, a kind man who become...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
If Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is an American tragedy, as he claimed, his A View from the Bridge is closer to a Greek tragedy. So much so that one director stage...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
It’s February, the month that has all kinds of weather, from cold and snowy to warm and sunny. If you are anything like me, you might be getting antsy to start gardening,...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
By Karen Isaacs
Inside Notes And Comments About Connecticut And New York Professional Theater
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
The Exchange
by John Grisham
This international legal thriller will keep you engaged until the very end. Mitch McDeere is an attorney in a mega-firm in New York who is gi...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Spectral Evidence
by Gregory Parolo
This collection of great richness—intellectual, verbal, even spiritual--is an often harrowing examination of the malignant persistence...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Books By The Sea will return to R.J. Julia Booksellers, 768 Boston Post Road, Madison, on Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6. Attendees will get a chance to discuss n...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
This engrossing story deals with love, marriage, and parenthood. Sarah and Warren were a couple in college and reconnect later in life. Sarah, divorced, and Warren, marri...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
The New Haven Philatelic Society hosts a Stamp and Coin Show from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the fourth Sunday of the month at the YMA Annex, 554 Woodward Avenue, New Haven. Sta...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Connecticut’s Presidential Preference Primary Will Be Tuesday, April 2; Early Voting Will Be In Effect
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
by Hwang Bo-Reum
This is an absolute love letter to readers, to bookstores, to introspection, and the perfect "third place" in everyon...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime
by Casey Sherman
Did I read this book in one day? I did. Did I Google the actors and actresses...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
by Andre Dubus III
The beloved and talented New England writer Andre Dubus III has a new collection of essays about his life experiences. T...
Living • Published Feb 29, 2024 12 am
Cahokia Jazz
by Francis Spufford
In an alternate 1920s USA, the Indigenous city of Cahokia remains a sovereign nation and diverse metropolis. When a white man is murdered...
Living • Published Feb 22, 2024 12 am
By Pem McNerney
I popped by Moon Shots, 1063 Boston Post Rd, Guilford, to pick up a quick cup of coffee. Just a cup of coffee! That’s it! Then I saw their new Winter Warm Menu. I stayed ...
Living • Published Feb 22, 2024 12 am
Breakwater Books, 81 Whitfield Street, Guilford, has announced several events for March and April.
On Sunday, March 3, at 5 p.m., Julia Allain and her book, Everything I ...