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Premium Content Going alt-classical with Brooklyn Rider

A man walked into a bar, and a string quartet was playing … There's no punchline, because this is no joke.

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Say cheese! Why it's worth the drive to Shady Glen

Premium Content We're all used to seeing campaigns waged against hot-button issues on billboards across the country. Smoking. Drugs. Guns. But perhaps the most disturbing campaign recently surfaced in Albany, N.Y.: a campaign against cheese.

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A musical connection with ECSO concert

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You know what people are going to say: these two make beautiful music together.

Aw.

By "these two," we mean: Toshiyuki (Toshi) Shimada, who is, of course, the music director of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra; and the soloist for Saturday's concert, pianist Eva Virsik -...

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Trim down this Cajun dish for Fat Tuesday

Mardi Gras is the sort of celebration that can make every city in America want to be New Orleans. Between the parties and parades and all those rich foods, what's not to love?

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Song Spinner: Herff Jones

Mystic-based band Herff Jones discuss the story behind 'Momentary Collapse' and how they recently integrated a new guitar player.


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Testimony ends in trial over Globes broadcast deal

Testimony concluded Tuesday in a trial that will decide whether the Golden Globe Awards remain on NBC through 2018 with a federal judge...

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Puck to be honored by Beard Foundation

The James Beard Foundation's Lifetime Achievement award this year will go to Wolfgang Puck, whose menu for The Academy Awards Governors...

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Classic Crossword

Try your hand at the Universal Daily Crossword puzzle.

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Race the clock in daily Sudoku logic puzzles.

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Can you uncover the hidden image by solving the puzzle?

Bridge & Chess

Daily games from the print edition.

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Premium Content Say cheese! Why it's worth the drive to Shady Glen

We're all used to seeing campaigns waged against hot-button issues on billboards across the country. Smoking. Drugs. Guns. But perhaps the most disturbing campaign recently surfaced in Albany, N.Y.:...

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White: Take a break from New England cuisine, try Southern food

I love living in New England, especially Connecticut. And I'm very much a Northeast woman, having been raised in...

Ghee: What it is and how to use it

Why not just use butter?

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Marisa Nadolny

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Premium Content Netflix tip: "Color Me Kubrick"

Any John Malkovich fans who missed the 2005 movie "Color Me Kubrick" should know it streams now on Netflix. And don't miss it. It's more or less a true story and Malkovich, in his...

Premium Content Movie tip: "The Artist"

This charmer is both a throwback - an homage to pre-talkies and old-time Hollywood - and a surprise - what kind of crazy person would expect a silent, black-and-white film to become a hit...

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Fashion models organize to fend off abuses

Models are more than just pretty faces. They're often overworked, underfed and underage independent contractors with little say when things go bad behind the scenes.

Many are just...

From shipwreck in Italy, a treasure now beckons

In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th century Bohemian...

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Premium Content Going alt-classical with Brooklyn Rider

Since the advent of mass-marketed recorded music, classical musicians have sought to "cross over" into popular styles, whether it's opera superstar...

Premium Content A musical connection with ECSO concert

You know what people are going to say: these two make beautiful music together. Aw. By "these two," we mean: Toshiyuki (Toshi) Shimada, who is, of...

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Premium Content Gala dance performance at Conn College

As host for the American College Dance Festival Association's New England Conference, Connecticut College is wrapping the conference up with a big...

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Premium Content Friday benefit to boost Arts Café - Mystic

Very few of the great poets spent a lot of time crafting verse about zombies - and that's perhaps best.

However, the estimable Arts Café -...

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Premium Content Exploring styles and movements at Flo Gris

It's true that fine art over the ages has been clustered with "...isms," from Realism and Neo-classicism to Impressionism and Tonalism to...

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Britain marks Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday

He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters...

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Your stars - Feb. 9

CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Tyson Houseman, 22; Mia Farrow, 67; Joe...

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