In election year, a Ferrell-Galifianakis ticket
"The Campaign" is a broad comedy made from broad intentions: Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis simply wanted to make a movie together. In the film, which opens Friday, they play two North Carolina...
View ArticlePhilly library features Joyce, Sendak and ... Stephen Colbert?!
Talk show host Stephen Colbert's foray into children's books has landed him alongside some exalted literary company. A playful new exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum & Library pairs priceless...
View ArticleE-book review: Chaucer pens wildly entertaining trip to 2036
With a title like “Queens are Wild” and an author named Chaucer, readers might expect a bawdy novel filled to bursting with at least 25 shades of gray. Indeed, this “poli-sci-fi” novel delivers on the...
View ArticleSales Tax Holiday week returns Aug. 19-25
As retailers gear up for their annual back-to-school sales, parents and students might want to wait until next week to shop so they can get an extra 6.35 percent off. Connecticut will conduct its 12th...
View ArticleDo you need a publisher? Look in the mirror
So you've written a novel. Congratulations. Now what? Back in the old days — 2007 — you would agonize over every word in your make-or-break email query, submit it to umpteen literary agents and wait...
View ArticleThe promise betrayed|Adams' lens captures the west's fall
The West saved Robert Adams' life. And then it broke his heart. It broke in tiny, cube-size morsels like the tract houses that scar the desert landscapes outside Denver. And it broke in huge swaths of...
View ArticleInitiative allows students to get daily dose of music
The prescription is simple: add a dose of music to daily lessons in English, social studies or science. That's the treatment being dispensed to students this fall thanks to a new educational initiative...
View ArticleSunday, Aug. 12, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012: This year you zero in on what you feel is important. As a result, you generally will succeed. Your fiery energy and serious attitude mix together well and...
View ArticleNew Jersey man dies swimming in Lake Zoar
OXFORD -- A 26-year-old New Jersey man died while swimming in Lake Zoar Friday night, state police said. The man was swimming with friends in the Jackson Cove Park area of the lake when he disappeared,...
View Article$750,000 sidewalk project delayed from fall to spring
TORRINGTON -- A $750,000 project that will rehabilitate the sidewalks on the west side of Main Street, originally scheduled for fall, will be delayed until spring, city officials said. The federally...
View ArticlePolice ask for leads in theft of tools, car parts from garage
WOLCOTT -- Police are investigating the theft of more than $15,000 worth of tools and high-end car parts from a detached residential garage near the Ehden Lebanese-American Club. The stolen items...
View ArticleSchool-affiliated groups adhere to new money policy
TORRINGTON -- All school-affiliated groups have established accounts with the school district as the school year quickly approaches. A new policy regulating how groups like the PTO handle money went...
View ArticleKuroda pitches 2-hitter, Yankees beat Rangers
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Yankees are in need of a reliable ace right now. Hiroki Kuroda has been the man for the job. Kuroda pitched a two-hitter and the Yankees got consecutive homers from Nick...
View ArticleConnecticut juniors romp to New England golf title
Rhe Connecticut junior golf team put a whupping on New England. Sometime Tuesday afternoon I wouldn't be surprised if the Massachusetts State Police rounded up the Connecticut teen golfers, led them to...
View ArticleAll-State receiver's transfer request runs into snag
WATERBURY — As Sacred Heart High welcomes its new head football coach, Cortez Johnson, today for the opening day of conditioning practice, three would-be senior starters — All-State wide receiver David...
View ArticleSeymour's Osiecki mulling his future at UConn
STORRS — Seymour's Mike Osiecki has left the UConn football team. Whether it is a permanent departure is up to him. Coach Paul Pasqualoni said Tuesday that he granted Osiecki a few days to return home...
View ArticleCBS executive chosen to lead Big East
NEW YORK (AP) — As the Big East prepares to negotiate a television contract that could make or break the conference, it has chosen a man who has been part of some of the biggest media rights deals in...
View ArticleUConn applauds choice to lead Big East
STORRS — The Big East's naming of CBS executive vice president Mike Aresco as its new commissioner was roundly applauded nationally. At least two people at UConn couldn't be happier with the decision....
View ArticleWilby expects to name interim head football coach soon
As high school football conditioning practices begin today for many teams statewide, there are quite a few changes going on along the sidelines around the Naugatuck Valley League and Greater Waterbury....
View ArticleFight suspect pinned by police in downtown Torrington
TORRINGTON -- Shortly before 11 p.m., three Torrington police officers had a suspect pinned on the street outside 40 East Main Street downtown. Police said the man was a suspect in a fight that took...
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