Category: Downtown
02
Aug
Middle School Students Bring Pep to Science Center
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A contingent of students from Waterbury chanted a team cheer set to the tune of “Baby Got Back.” Moments before, girls from New Britain danced...
26
Jul
Asylum Hill Barry Square Blue Hills Clay Arsenal Downtown Frog Hollow Hartford North East North Meadows Parks Sheldon/Charter Oak South End South West Upper Albany West End
August 2013 Events
by Kerri Ana Provost
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August 1 Healing Circle on Child and Youth Violence in the Community Room of the Hartford Public Library’s Albany Avenue branch. This event is described...
20
Jul
ConnectiCon 2013: The Funny People Downtown
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Whenever ConnectiCon comes to town, the largely unoriginal jokes aimed at convention guests circulate. What’s actually funny about this annual weekend that transforms Downtown is...
19
Jul
Olympic Medalist Tells Girls to Go on and Shine
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“Don’t be afraid to be great,” Olympic Gold Medalist Gabrielle Douglas told the crowd, including young gymnasts, shortly before changing the name of Trumbull Street...
17
Jul
ConnectiCon 2013
by Kerri Ana Provost
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ConnectiCon is more than a parade of costumed youth.
17
Jul
Aspirations for North Downtown, West Downtown, and a sliver of Clay Arsenal and North Meadows
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“It’s very white,” one resident remarked of the theme in Utile‘s “aspirational photos” for the region being described as “Downtown North.” This was one of...
15
Jul
ConnectiCon 2013: Voice Actor Lauren Landa
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“I don’t watch anime all that much,” Lauren Landa, who has voiced a number of anime characters, told ConnectiCon guests. For most of the audience...
14
Jul
Beauty Max Empty
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you’ve gotten accustomed to window shopping rainbow wigs, well, the storefront on Trumbull Street has emptied.
10
Jul
Scenes from the Sidewalk: Installment 68
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Top of a broken lamppost in Bushnell Park