People show up hours before the parade begins to claim their viewing spots and have roadside picnics, but festivities officially begin at 11 on Saturday.
The Hartford Police Department has released a traffic advisory for March 10th:
The I-84 Eastbound Capitol Avenue Exit Ramp will be closed from 9:00 a.m. through 3:00 p.m.
The following streets will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning at 10:30 a.m.:
Capitol Avenue between Main Street and Broad Street
Main Street between Capitol Avenue and Church Street
Asylum Street between Main Street and Spruce Street
Ford Street to Trinity Street
Trinity Street between Ford Street and Capitol Avenue
Conlin Whitehead Highway at Columbus Boulevard Exit (Columbus Exit will be open)
Streets will begin to reopen at approximately 3:00 p.m.
The Artists Collective, created in 1970 to offer a safe and constructive haven for at-risk youth, serves upwards of 1200 students in its programs each year. Besides workshops in music theory, the award-winning organization offers group workshops for blues guitar, piano, saxophone, trumpet, woodwinds, drums, violin, bass, and vocals at their 1200 Albany Avenue facility.
Garfunkel and Oates — featured in the video — did not make an appearance at La Paloma Sabanera on Wednesday evening, but two locals did a rousing cover of this song to wrap up the monthly edition of Syllable: A Reading Series.
Julie Beman singing with Colin Campbell on guitar
Each month, writers are invited to submit pieces of writing on a theme. Those selected are allotted ten minutes to read. Most pieces are spoken word, though this time around there were several musical selections.
This is not just another poetry open mic.
Writers read short fiction, creative nonfiction, sketches, plays…really, anything that could stand alone.
This most recent reading revolved around the theme of love.
Some pieces covered the terrain one would expect — first loves and the loss of love. During one person’s recounting of her misadventures in love, she read from diary entries penned as an adolescent. Hilarious.
People move around, in, and out of Hartford all the time.
Usually, these moves involve a borrowed pick-up or rented U-Haul.
On Saturday morning, Tony Cherolis transported his possessions from East Hartford to his new home in the South Green neighborhood using his bicycle.
He was not alone.
About six friends helped Cherolis lug boxes, a sofa, chairs, and an assortment of other belongings across the Charter Oak Bridge and Founders Bridge with nothing more than muscle and a few wheels. Continue reading 'An Urban Move: No Gas Required'»
You could spend all winter working on growing out your leg hair while watching reruns of 30 Rock, but why? Here are some alternatives to that scenario: Continue reading 'February Events'»
There’s proof — in the form of a corset designed to be worn by a four-year-old girl — at the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) that this trend of sexualizing young girls did not begin this century.
Starting on January 14th, CHS will be leading two behind-the-scenes tours every second Saturday of the month to give visitors the chance to see other quirky items, such as as a body preserver. This was a type of casket with space for ice, a spigot for draining out melted ice, and horse hair insulation. A lever allowed mourners to adjust the position of the corpse for better viewing. Emily Dunnack, the Head of Education Programs at CHS, said that other strange-to-us death customs from the past included making jewelery out of the deceased person’s hair, and evidence of this is also among items at CHS. Continue reading 'What’s Behind the Mantel?'»
With schools closed today for the holiday, many families lined Park Street to watch the small parade. The “three kings” riding camels were the highlight.
The parade began near SAMA (Spanish American Merchants Association) at 95 Park Street. Here, people could pose for photos beside the camels while waiting for festivities to get moving. Continue reading 'Feliz Día de Reyes'»