Way to go West Hartford! ... We work hard to make our town a destination, even get recommended by Kiplinger's, and now you want to throw a wet towel on it by enforcing a silly 10 PM curfew on outdoor dining?? (The Courant's story is here) ... Yes, a notice was mailed out to numerous dining establishments in town last month by the West Hartford police, reminding them that the town has a 10 PM curfew on outdoor dining which needs to be adhered to ... So the rule is that anyone who orders food in
Phoenix Coyotes general manager Don Maloney faces the tough task of maintaining the momentum of last season's surprising team while dealing with the financial restrictions put in place by the NHL ...
Miles Davis, with John Coltrane, performs "So What" in a live concert video from April 1959 ... The album, "Kind of Blue", is a jazz milestone.I was about three months old at the time, so I don't remember if I watched it ... More than likely I was too busy shitting myself to pay attention to the TV ... However, I did eventually see Miles Davis perform live, way back during the late 1980s at the Newport ...
Every cinephile knows to at least pretend to like ... Jean-Luc Godard's first feature—a witty mashup of American noir and French chic—is as much an art-house staple today as it was in 1960, which is precisely why it's getting the 50th-anniversary reissue treatment this month. Think of Belmondo aping Bogart with his cigarette, Seberg flacking the , or the director's game-changing jump-cuts, and you realize that various elements of the film have never gone out of style. This may get me booted
The internet makes periodic, seemingly in-nocuous appearances throughout Jennifer Egan's new novel, ... In the first chapter, a character considers Googling her psychiatrist. Later, members of an African safari reconnect on Facebook, and a character's 9-year-old daughter spends much of her time "in a pink beanbag chair, doing homework on her laptop and IMing her friends." But it is not until the final chapter, titled "Pure Language," that it becomes apparent that Egan is using online
Absentee Ballots for the upcoming Referendum on June 15th are available in the Town Clerk’s Office, Room 313, Town Hall ... Due to the limited time-frame, State Statutes do not allow Absentee Ballots to be mailed, so you have to go get them in person ... The Town Clerk’s office is open ... Monday and Wednesday 8:30 – 4:30 p.m, ... Tuesday 7:30 – 4:30 and ... Thursday 8:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.; ... Closed Fridays. (mostly because we need more money for the schools and can't afford to
"By any measure, Connecticut has one of the worst property tax burdens in the nation, routinely much higher than national average. With a state income tax that hits lower- and middle-income wage earners the hardest, over-reliance on property taxes adds immensely to the overall unfairness of tax burdens in our state. Property taxes perversely undercut "smart growth," drive expensive sprawl and foment no-win competition for development among cities and towns." - Kevin Sullivan ... Kevin Sullivan,
This has got to be the laugher of the weekend -- Janet Peckinpaugh says she will primary in the 2nd CD -- against 2 other candidates on the Republican side to run against Joe Courtney. Last week, on Face the State, she couldn't recall who she voted for in November of 2008, or, um, if she voted at all. Probably couldn't tell you who was running, either ...
The West Hartford Taxpayers Association had a small army of citizens out gathering signatures, and they claimed that people couldn't sign the petitions fast enough, despite an effort put out by WHFirst to pass out leaflets asking people to refrain from signing and to "support the schools" ... The Town Clerk verified that the WHTA gathered more signatures than the required 6 percent of registered voters. The actual number of signatures needed was 2,295 and the Town Clerk certified 2,405 names,