As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a couple of days, only to be quickly replaced… Read more »
Every year, the City of Danbury, Connecticut hosts an annual Memorial Day parade. This year the Danbury Police Department and CityCenter Danbury have planned a 5K road race on the parade course immediately before the start of the parade. This year’s 5K will benefit… Read more »
As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a couple of days, only to be quickly replaced… Read more »
seeking asian female is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy—an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds online. Debbie Lum, a Chinese American filmmaker, documents and narrates… Read more »
Nearly a third of veterans deemed at high risk for suicide don’t receive the recommended follow-up care after they’ve been discharged from Veterans Health Administration inpatient mental health facilities, according to a new report from the VA inspector general. The report — which… Read more »
Prominent national figures engaged in Lyme disease diagnosis, treatment and advocacy will be featured speakers at a seminar to be held as part of the Lyme Awareness Month Health Fair on Tuesday, May 14 at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury. The Ridgefield Lyme… Read more »
As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a couple of days, only to be quickly replaced… Read more »
MCCA (Midwestern Connecticut Council of Alcoholism), and Stand Together Make a Difference (Danbury’s local substance abuse prevention coalition), have partnered to launch a media campaign and ask parents, students, community leaders and community members to “stand together to reduce underage drinking.” The key… Read more »
I made a decision to go to Salton Sea in the middle of July last summer. Located 110 miles northeast of San Diego, California and 70 miles north of Mexicali, Mexico, Salton Sea is way out in the Sonoran Desert, 226 feet below sea… Read more »
Words have meanings. “Stuff” is both verb and noun, and both its uses have a generically unpleasant sensibility. Beloved icons of past eras are neither “stuff,” nor do we “stuff” them anywhere. But the last 50 years have created more stuffed stuff than… Read more »
-fine arts architecture has left the building One son loves opera, studies Italian to better appreciate it, and has sung it at the highest collegiate level (in the chorus). This spring he sang in Verdi’s Falstaff, where at the end of the production… Read more »
Everyone of a certain age remembers “In Living Color” – the great 1990s weekly comedy TV show that helped launch the careers of the Wayans family – Kim, Shawn, Marlon, and Dwayne as well as Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and David Alan Grier. In… Read more »
As some of you may know, having a job where you are stationed in front of a computer all day awards you with plenty of time to surf the internet. Every week, great content becomes popular for a couple of days, only to be quickly replaced… Read more »
Grammy nominated trumpeter and vocalist Hugh Masekela is touring the United States this month, and this Friday, he and his band are making a stop in Middletown, Connecticut at Wesleyan University in celebration of Masekala’s new album, Jabulani. Some of Masekela’s earliest memories are… Read more »
“Out of the midst of the beautiful Lake Nicaragua spring two magnificent pyramids, clad in the softest and richest green, all flecked with shadow and sunshine, whose summits pierce the billowy clouds.” -Mark Twain On the busy streets of Granada, Nicaragua, it is… Read more »
DANBURY – Western Connecticut State University professor of anthropology Dr. Rob Whittemore will host the 14th annual African Film Festival every Wednesday this February. There will be two showings each Wednesday, from 1 to 2:30pm and 6 to 7:30pm. With the exception of one… Read more »
Reporters, professors, and Lt. Paul Vance gathered at the University of Connecticut two weeks ago to discuss the role of accuracy, respect, and social media in the coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The timing of the panel couldn’t have been… Read more »
The American Psychiatric Association, the Connecticut Psychiatric Society, the Connecticut Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and two individuals filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that Anthem Health Plans discriminates against patients with mental illness. The complaint, filed in federal court, says Anthem and its… Read more »
The Westside Care Center in Manchester is ranked among the best nursing homes in Connecticut, receiving a ‘five-star’ rating for overall quality under a federal rating system. At the same time, Westside has the state’s highest percentage of residents who receive antipsychotic drugs,… Read more »