Art About Town
Art About Town brings hundreds of original works of art to 70 shops and restaurants, turning the downtown Westport shopping district into one continuous gallery for strolling, appreciating, and purchasing quality art.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Gospel Music Rocks The Westport Arts Center
Singer Angela Clemmons had the Westport Arts Center (WAC) rocking Sunday afternoon as she presented upbeat, soulful sounds of gospel music.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Ridgefield Remembers Author Maurice Sendak
Friends and neighbors of Mr. Sendak remember the author and his quirky sense of humor.
“But the wild things cried, 'Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!' And Max said, 'No!' The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye.” Ridgefield’s Maurice Sendak was a man whose poetry and drawings inspired millions and touched childhoods worldwide, but whose small-town life was marked with deep personal friendships and a love for his community. Mr. Sendak, the children’s author who wrote and illustrated “Where The Wild Things Are,” among many other influential, genre-breaking works, had a way of writing stories that played with the fears and trials of growing up, …
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Playhouse Season Opener is a Hit
As promised, The Westport Country Playhouse delivered 'something worth talking about' Saturday night with its season opener “Into the Woods.”
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Ridgefield Author Maurice Sendak Dies At 83
The celebrated children's author was best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are."
Ridgefield's famed children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died Tuesday. The celebrated children's author, best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are," was "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," the New York Times reports. The Times reports that Mr. Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke, according to his longtime editor, Michael di Capua. "Where The Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, and the story of a little boy named Max who sails into his dreams to have a "wild rumpus" with imaginative, sometimes nightmarish monsters was a bestseller. Mr. Sendak wrote and illustrated more than a dozen solo picture books and over 80 books in all -- one more posthumous …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Report: Dick Clark Dies at 82
The iconic producer and TV host suffered a heart attack, ABC News reports.
Famed TV host, producer Dick Clark died today at the age of 82, ABC reports. The longtime host of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve’ reportedly died of a heart attack. He had suffered a stroke in 2004 but “returned to the airwaves” for the last several years, according to ABC News. Clark became a household name after the afternoon dance show he hosted in the 50s became the popular “American Bandstand,” and from there Clark started the successful Dick Clark Productions company in Hollywood, according to ABC.
Titanic, 100 Years Later: Sinking Filled with Tales of Irish Tragedy
The Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society dedicated its April newsletter to the anniversary of the tragedy, which resulted in the deaths of 78 Irish.
The Titanic was built in Belfast, set sail for New York from Queenstown in County Cork and carried 120 Irish passengers. On April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" behemoth sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic, 78 Irish lives were lost — the fourth-highest number among the more than two-dozen nationalities aboard the ship. (More British passengers — 223 — died on the Titanic than any other nationality. 119 American passengers perished, the second-highest total.) Ireland's link to the most famous maritime disaster in history is memorialized in the April edition of "The Shanachie," the quarterly publication of the Hamden-based Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society. "I didn't really know much about the Titanic as of December," says …
Monday, April 16, 2012
Titanic, 100 Years Later: Sinking's Centennial Spurs Film, TV Explosion
Whether you're captivated by the story of the Titanic or not, you can't avoid the avalanche of film and television offerings commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
When an anniversary as meaningful as a centennial comes around, you've got to expect a little fanfare and the inevitable TV special or two. But the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has brought new meaning to the term "commemoration." There's been hundreds of ceremonies in towns throughout the Eastern Seaboard, if not the country. There's been numerous Titanic-themed exhibits opening, including one in our backyard designed by Dr. Robert Ballard at the Mystic Aquarium. But most conspicuously, the past few weeks have seen a flood of tributes, commemorations and investigations on cable television channels up and down the dial. And, of course, the re-release of the James Cameron blockbuster "Titanic" in 3-D, which grossed more…
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Titanic, 100 Years Later: Ballard Opens Interactive Exhibit in Mystic [VIDEO]
The famous explorer unveiled a multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art interactive exhibit at the Mystic Aquarium Wednesday that brings visitors up close to the search for and discovery of the RMS Titanic.
It was just past 11 o’clock in the morning Wednesday, and Dr. Robert Ballard — renowned international explorer and the discoverer of the most famous shipwreck in history — bounced from the bowels of his latest project at the Mystic Aquarium like he was on springs, flashing a wide grin and thrusting his hand at yet another in a long line of media members waiting to talk to him about the RMS Titanic. “Where’s Joe?” he chided the reporter when she told him which publication she was representing. “Joe’s on vacation!” replied the female reporter, who matched his enthusiasm. “Oh, so he’s letting you do this story? You’re Joe today!” Ballard had reason to be upbeat. He, along with aquarium and Sea Research Foundation officials, unveiled “Titanic…
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Titanic, 100 Years Later: Why Titanic Continues to Fascinate Us
Richard D. Rabbett, a co-founder of the nonprofit SS United States Conservancy and a former board member of the Providence-based Steamship Historical Society of America, is one of a select few setting sail for the Titanic's final resting place to memorial
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." — French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859‐1941) This month, the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Titanic, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner in the world at the time of her loss from striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912. I will be among a very lucky few who will be out in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 14‐15 over the actual site of the Titanic wreck, 100 years later, to commemorate the many people who so tragically lost their lives in the disaster. Like so many others, I first learned of the Titanic tragedy as a child in grade school. As a teenager, my interest in …
