The Taíno tribe of the Caribbean, once believed extinct, is making a comeback in Connecticut
Connecticut lawmakers want to acknowledge the Indigenous heritage of Caribbean islands like Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and ...
Catch a piece of Americana this week in CT with everything from bluegrass to Kelsea Ballerini
The Courant’s arts picks for Feb. 9-15 include bluegrass bands, country star Kelsea Ballerini and singer/songwriter Eric ...
Black History Month is here: 5 CT events to check out this week
Black History Month is here, along with a bevvy of events across Connecticut worth checking out. We have gone ahead and ...
This is the top museum in every New England state, according to Conde Nast Traveler
Visiting the museums is a great way to "tour through the nation's best cities and most charming towns." The post This is the ...
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Percival Everett's 'James' awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction
Everett's acclaimed reworking of Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry ... All three fiction nominees were published by Penguin Random House and all three nonfiction finalists by Simon ...
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Percival Everett’s ‘James’ awarded Carnegie Medal for fiction
NEW YORK (AP) — For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind. “I remember making friends at age 13 with ...
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‘A kind of musical Mark Twain’: A look at Randy Newman
Jackson Browne says Randy Newman is “the foremost satirist of our times.” And the composer John Williams has called him “a kind of musical Will Rogers or Mark Twain.” Critic Robert Hilburn has ...
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House passes Laken Riley Act, sending the first bill to Trump to sign into law
is expected to be the first bill President Donald Trump signs into law after returning to the White House this week. The House vote was 263-156, with 46 Democrats joining all Republicans in ...