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Potluck Slideshow Feb. 24 at Billings Forge

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Published Feb. 9, 2010 at 10:17 a.m.

Janice La Motta (pictured at right), program coordinator at the Studio at Billings Forge, 563 Broad Street in Hartford, is arranging a community event at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, February 24. La Motta said she hopes it might “develop into a regular forum for bringing together diverse members of the arts community, and anyone else [ ... ] ...

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Hartford Arts Stimulus Prompts 70+ Letters of Intent

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Published April 29, 2009 at 6:13 p.m.

Apologies for my hiatus while I worked on a term paper. Back to business: Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez (pictured, at center) announced this evening that the city’s Department of Development Services received over 70 letters of intent Monday in response to its announcement two weeks ago welcoming proposals for its arts and heritage jobs grant [ ... ] ...

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Will the City Arts Stimulus Create Jobs for Artists?

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Published April 15, 2009 at 11:22 a.m.

In his state of the city address last month, Mayor Eddie Perez announced what he called a Hartford arts stimulus—a proposed $1.7 million increase in grants to Hartford arts organizations to “create new works, new performances, and expand facilities.” He anticipated the stimulus would create hundreds of new jobs in the city—and would be used [ ... ] ...

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Kal Penn Abandons House, MD, for White House, D.C.

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Published April 11, 2009 at 12:40 p.m.
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Kal Penn has hung up his hospital scrubs. His character died on "House" last week so that Penn can start a new job—in the White House. He'll work as associate director at the Office of Public Liaison, as the point person for the arts and Asian-American communities. He spoke to Ramin Setoodeh ...

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