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A Facebook campaign alleges racism at a Preston nightclub

By Gregory B. Hladky

The Brookside Café is located in the small southeastern Connecticut town of Preston, but it’s getting a pretty big reputation...

La Luna's Happy Hour Acoustic Summer Series begins June 1st

By Alison Geisler

Madison native Nicole Frechette cuts a record in Music City

By Marc Ferris

Crime & Punishment: Two men arrested after police heard them singing a song about their crime

By Nick Keppler

Latest News

The state cracks down on labor-law violations at construction sites

Tech Crunch: Computer troubles hobble the state commision on human rights

State anti-discrimination agency can't get a break and can't get computer glitch solved

And the war keeps going on...

A Dead Issue: Will CT's Death Row Inmates Die of Old Age?

Could Connecticut's high park fees keep tourists away? Maybe that new ad campaign can help.

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Music

A.J. Croce performs at The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook

By Alison Geisler

Lindsey Buckingham performs at The Ridgefield Playhouse

By Mike Sembos

An epic performance of Carmina Burana at the Bushnell in Hartford

By Michael Hamad

CT.com's Music Page

Dining

Sun BBQ Fest, June 1-3 at Mohegan Sun

CT.com's Food & Drink Page

Leisure

Celebrate Eli Whitney Barn Day on June 2nd

CT.com's Leisure & Etc. Page

The Arts

CT.com's Art Page	CT.com's Theater Page	CT.com's Film Page
The American Landscape in Transition, at William Benton Museum of Art in Storrs	42nd Street playing at The Kweskin Theatre in Stamford	Steve Guttenberg promotes his new memoir at The Avon Theatre in Stamford

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From Our Blogs

This Week's Horoscopes!

By Angelina Diana

Aries

There's no such thing as a good energy drink

By Tom Z

ModernMan.com has a new article that offers up the best natural energy drinks, for people who are sick of the usual Red Bull, Monster, etc....

There's a race war happening

By Tom Z

Drinking, drugs, risky sex and loud music go hand-in-hand

By Tom Z

Women charged with putting menstrual blood in her boss's coffee

By Tom Z

Album of the Day 5/23/12: The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre

Chip McCabe

I have to be honest that I've been meaning to write about this album since its release date at the tail end of 2011 but (thankfully) the...

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Commentary	Green Wheels	Albums
Connecticut's fearful lawmakers could learn a lesson from California	Green Wheels: The EV race is on, but it's more tortoise than hare	CD of the Week: Meiko, The Bright Side

Everyday People

TMI	Bartender Buddha
TMI: novelist Toni Andrews	Bartender Buddha: Ester Saraiva at Rio Bar and Grille

Seen on the Scene

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Connecticut's GOP and a little CATO Institute lecture on how good guns are	Connecticut police departments will use tactics learned in warfare
Connecticut's new medical pot plan will protect patients from getting fired, unless they're getting stoned at work	State Comptroller Lembo is pissed about North Carolina anti-gay vote, but he's still going to Democratic national convention there
Commuters find ways to get to work other than riding alone in cars	Taser International sponsoring Connecticut Police Chiefs Association annual bash
Democrats waving good riddance to Whitnum with a resolution condemning her comments about other candidates	Gentile and McGuigan: the reputed mob dude and the former chief state's attorney