425 stories by "Susan Dunne"
Dick Allen of Trumbull, a poet, essayist and educator who was poet laureate of Connecticut from 2010 to 2015, died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack on Christmas, his daughter announced…
First Night, Hartford's annual New Year's Eve party that takes place in about a dozen downtown locations, is a reliable attraction for parents with children looking for wholesome holiday ent…
Late Tuesday afternoon, a little bit of Old Hartford will be revived downtown, with a carol sing on the majestic steps of the UConn Hartford campus on Prospect Street. For years in the 1960s…
There are many ways to tell a story. The way it's told depends on who is telling it. At this time of year, the story on everyone's mind is the first Christmas. Each December, Knights of Colu…
Marshall Mallicoat, like Wallace Stevens, works at an insurance company in Hartford by day and writes poetry in his spare time. On a recent Sunday evening, he reads some of his poems to an e…
Hartford Symphony Orchestra's three-concert screenings of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was so successful that the HSO will present the sequel, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Sec…
Katherine Emely Gomez was born eight minutes after her sister Emely, and they grew up as close as identical twins tend to be. Then, at age 23, Emely Gomez died during an epileptic seizure. K…
Bill Beverly is the winner of the 2017 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, in honor of his 2016 novel "Dodgers," the Mark Twain House & Museum announced Thursday. Beverly will rec…
"Beasts Made of Night" is set in a dystopian, sci-fi world where aristocrats hire poor youths to cleanse their souls by "eating" their sins. Those sins show up on the sin-eaters' skin in the…
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen are bringing their long-running tour, AC2, to the Toyota Oakdale Theater in Wallingford on Nov. 4. The uninitiated might ask: What do they do on the stage? AC2…
Nine artists have been chosen to paint murals in nine locations throughout Hartford as part of the municipal Hartford Paint the City project. The selections, the result of a public vote, are…
At one point in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," Harry, Hermione and Ron battle a troll in the Hogwarts restroom. In the film, John Williams' music, heavy on the low brass, scores th…
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' "Dangerous Liaisons" was published in 1782 and was set among the French aristocracy in its dying days, just before the Revolution. It told the story of the Vicomt…
Tyshawn Sorey, a composer, experimental musician and music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly referred to as a "genius g…
Years before Thurgood Marshall persuaded the United States Supreme Court to outlaw school segregation, years before he became a member of the Supreme Court himself, he founded the NAACP's Le…
The 6th annual Tommy's Tattoo Convention, a gathering of tattoo artists, people who want tattoos, live music, performances, standup comics and other attractions, runs Oct. 13 to 15 at the Co…
Hartford residents are being asked to help Hartford Decide$ choose which murals should be painted in 14 different Neighborhood Revitalization Zones in the city. Municipal capital improvement…
J. Pierpont Morgan had a fascination " some might say obsession " with the past, an eye for beautiful things and a yen to travel. Most important, he had loads of cash. In the last two decade…
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the broadcast of Alex Haley's miniseries "Roots," Goodwin College will host a conference, "Roots at 40: Reflections and Remembrances," on Oct. 6 from 8…
When veteran children's book author Phillip Stead was asked to write a book from 16 pages of notes scribbled by Mark Twain in the 1880s, he wasn't sure he was up to it. "My first reaction wa…
The Big E is not the place most people think of to see works of art by the Old Masters. It's a place to listen to live music, eat crazy, indulgent foods, ride the carousel and the Ferris whe…
For years, Heaven Skate Park in Hartford has been a legal graffiti space. Graffiti artists have covered every visible surface, primarily with text and tags in a variety of colors, artists co…
The Renascence Arts Festival, a two-day arts and crafts market with live performers and food vendors, will be Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 26 and 27, from noon to 8 p.m. at the FasTrack station…
Old Sturbridge Village is a history museum that depicts a rural town in the 1830s, complete with homes, meeting houses, a school, a store, a bank, a farm, a covered bridge, mills and dozens …
New Haven is many things. A world-famous university town. A center for biomedical research. A mecca for lovers of great museums, theater and night life. The city with the prettiest green in …
