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Tag: Meet Your City

11 Oct
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Meet Your City: Instead of Brunch

by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s an unpopular opinion, I know. But everything — from the overpriced meals that could be easily made at home, to the stomach-turning portmanteau itself...
03 Oct
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Meet Your City: It’s Autumn. What Now?

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Why live in New England if you aren’t even going to try to do some seasonal things? That does not mean getting “dressed like a...
26 Sep
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Meet Your City: Mullets of Hartford

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Business in the front, party in the back Sarah’s Coffee House/Night Owl Pub Chai lattes and egg sandwiches throughout the day at Sarah’s. The tiny...
19 Sep
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Meet Your City: Ingredients

by Kerri Ana Provost
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People ask me weird questions when I tell them that I live in Hartford. Particularly strange is the idea that I somehow have no access...
12 Sep
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Meet Your City: Small Parks

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Why should Hartford’s large parks get all the glory? We have numerous playscapes and green areas with places to sit down. Columbus Park: On Franklin...
05 Sep
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Meet Your City: Books

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Borrow What’s the deal with these weird birdhouses? Little Free Libraries allow anyone — no ID or face-to-face interaction required — to borrow books indefinitely....
29 Aug
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Meet Your City: (Almost) Free Love

by Kerri Ana Provost
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A friend recently cited expense as a reason to refrain from dating; there are many legitimate reasons for this choice — unwillingness to compromise, lack...
22 Aug
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Meet Your City: Wildlife Viewing

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Hartford has more than pigeons and squirrels when it comes to wildlife, a fact that should not be surprising to anyone who has so much...
15 Aug
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Meet Your City: Parades of Yore

by Kerri Ana Provost
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Today, everything is expected on demand — from ordering groceries online to binge-watching television shows to whatever Tinder is. So, why should it come as...
08 Aug
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Meet Your City: Creepy Hartford

by Kerri Ana Provost
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This is not about normal creepy or anything on the level of unfathomable disaster. Normal creepy is what you’d expect from cemeteries in general, the...