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Food Follies: Our fat-filled, sugar-saturated and ultra-processed diets

By Alan Bisbort

If, as the saying goes, you are what you eat, then the average American is a Grade A, blue-ribbon hog. That, at any rate, is one of the...

Wilson Phillips at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Feb. 23

By Mike Sembos

Best of Fairfield County Readers' Poll 2012 - Click here to vote!

A surprising connection between invasive plants and Lyme disease

By Gregory B. Hladky

Latest News

A candidate for Connecticut's U.S. Senate seat drives to Mexico for a campaign stunt

Racial profiling/police mess could cost East Haven millions

ICE loses another expensive lawsuit triggered by the arrest of undocumented immigrants in Connecticut

Pamphleteers for Pot

Bridgeport mayor's PAC friend gets whacked with big fine by the SEEC

Medical Marijuana: The Reality Show

East Haven mayor and new police chief seem oddly uninformed about racial profiling issue

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Music

Lionel Loueke Trio performs at Wesleyan's Crowell Concert Hall on Feb. 25

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Dining

Cave a Vin hosts a Global Wine Tasting Discussion on Feb. 26

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Seen on the Scene

The Arts

Art homepage	Stage homepage	Film homepage
Morning Dew: 'Weatherproof' exhibit at Barnes-Franklin Art Gallery in Farmington	'Predictable Heart: The Music of Justin Rugg' playing at New Haven's Firehouse 12 on Feb. 23	The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour stops at two different Connecticut locations this weekend

From Our Blogs

"Community" returns March 15!

By Alison Geisler

There is a god in TV heaven, you guys. Word got out yesterday that "Community" returns to the airwaves in a few weeks, on March 15, in it'...

People are afraid of being without their phones

By Tom Z

According to...

Counting Crows heading to MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods in April

by Michael Hamad

Remember them? Sure you do: "Mr. Jones," "Round Here," "A Long December," that one from one of the Shrek...

Album of the Day 2/21/12: The Field Recordings - The Elastic Nostalgia

Chip McCabe

One of my favorite things in the world is when I hear a band on some type of recorded medium and then watch them pull it off live. The...

Surprise, Kate Upton is good-looking

By Tom Z

There’s an interesting article in the New York Times discussing supermodel Kate Upton’s rise to fame. Upton was dismissed by the...

Interracial relationships are on the rise

By Tom Z

According to a new study, interracial relationships are at an all-time high. 14.6% of U.S. marriages are now interracial, a giant leap...

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Commentary

Leisure & Recreation

Leisure	Green Wheels	High Concept
The 40th Annual Winterfest, Feb. 25 & 26 at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield	Green Wheels: Calling a Green Taxi	High Concept: Should butane be avoided?

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Genetically modified crops may be contaminating local crop fields	Malloy "shrink government" plan isn't exactly a big cost cutter
Rebranding Connecticut: Can marketing help our state?	Connecticut listed as worst place to retire... or maybe not. Can we be the worst and be happy about it?
Experts re-examine medical marijuana	A moderate third-party candidate could hurt both Obama and the GOP
Connecticut: the last refuge of the wild moderate Republicans?	Will Obama's controversial Secure Communities program, or S-Comm, make more problems for cops?
Should We End Black History Month?	Super PAC Attack: A new media project out of Wesleyan follows the money

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Everyday People

TMI	Bartender Buddha
TMI: Kimberly Mattson Moster, owner of Kimberly Boutique in West Hartford	Bartender Buddha: Casey DiCostanzo of Billy Tee's in Cromwell