Category: Beyond Hartford
01
Jun
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A Guide to Getting What You Need for Growing Your Own
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Lack of imagination is what creates limitations for people. We observe this in folks who see cities as mere expanses of concrete and asphalt. These...
05
May
Flipside
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On a recent Saturday groups of residents volunteered to clean scattered areas around the city. These annual (or semi-annual in some spots) events, besides achieving...
22
Jan
Headline Fail
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here’s one unfortunate side effect of the Courant and Fox-61 merger: more inaccurate headlines. A story published in the Courant today, reprinted from FOX CT,...
20
Jan
Want Some Hate Speech with Your Coffee?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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My work revolves around rhetoric. Since that word gets thrown around in such a negative way, let me explain better. I teach argumentative (or persuasive)...
05
Jan
Hello Governor
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“Shared sacrifice” was a phrase Governor Malloy repeated during his inaugural speech. He spoke to the need for being fiscally conservative and played to the...
29
Dec
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New Year’s Eve
by Kerri Ana Provost
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My favorite part of New Year’s Eve is pure schadenfreude: watching people dressed for Hawaii stumbling about New England in the dead of winter. I’m...
23
Dec
Hartford Baking Company
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Hartford Baking Company is not in Hartford, but in West Hartford. The cafe is clean and well-lit, but in a strip mall located in...
19
Dec
While You Were Shopping…
by Kerri Ana Provost
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…a group of LGBT activists staged a die-in at Westfarms Mall yesterday.
08
Dec
Admiring Kyle Andrew Phillips
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Humility. That’s the word that came to mind during my first tour of The Admiration Series exhibit in the Hartford Public Library’s ArtWalk gallery. The...
08
Dec
Censored Art at Real Art Ways
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Trends from the 1980’s have made a resurgence in the last few years, nearly all of which have been unfortunate: tight jeans, legwarmers, huge sunglasses,...