No, this is not about the dog days of summer although on some level there may be a sort of parallel. This is about a home grown organization right here in Essex, CT, a 501 (c)3 organization Dog Days, whose sole mission is to help find people to adopt and save man’s best friend from [...]
The 5th Annual Shoreline Wine Festival, August 13 and 14, 2011, will celebrate fine wines from Connecticut Wineries and Vineyards from all over the state. Pair this with some of the area’s finest foods, with the backdrop setting of a beautiful farm orchard and background sounds of tasteful music to put you in the mood. [...]
Bishop’s Orchards Farm Dinners at the Medad Stone Tavern will take place on August 5 and 6, beginning at 6pm. The menu, prepared by La Cuisine’s Executive Chef Uli Weil, will celebrate the height of summer’s flavors. The entire meal will feature local ingredients; many from the Bishop’s field just half a mile away, as [...]
One of the hardest things for me to write about for this series on New Haven is for stores such as idiom, and Tracy b Boutique. I am not a fashionista, and definitely not female. But I do know style and elegance when I see it. And idiom offers women the apparel and accessories that [...]
When I started this campaign, the one store that intrigued me the most was Celtica. I was nit sure what I was going to see when I walked in there. Obviously, the whole green thing pops into mine. Possibly Notre Dame memorabilia, and of course, Guinness. needless to say, I was pretty far off on [...]
Tracy B started her shop 4 years ago, this past spring, she chose New Haven because “New Haven has become a destination, and you can’t find a mix of people like this in a small city anywhere else in New England. I have lived in New Haven for a long time, I love New Haven, [...]
“I hate to be a kicker I always long for peace But the wheel that does the squeaking, Is the one that gets the grease.” If you’re going to complain, learn to do it right says Guy Winch, PHD, author of “The Squeaky Wheel” which explains how to complain to get the results you [...]
Man, does that name ever ring a big bell! Always a consummate musician, Brian MacDonald was an integral part of the fantastic Thunder Road, a tribute band long before the musical landscape was littered with tributes. Performing to wide acclaim from the late ‘70s into the early ‘90s, Brian and this ground breaking band pounded [...]
Absolutely blazing today, Kinda remionds me of my days on Okinawa and in the backwoods of Camp Lejeune. Actually a little bit cooler here, but pretty damn close. It could be worse. Dallas has had temps over 100 degrees for almost 3 weeks straight. And the first person to say it’s a dry heat will [...]
The Shoreline Arts Alliance is celebrating Shakespeare on the Shoreline’s 10th anniversary and is pleased to continue to bring “classic theatre under the stars” to the Shoreline community. Performances of The Three Musketeers by Connecticut Free Shakespeare, under artistic and managing directors Ellen Lieberman and Bert Garskoff, will be presented August 3 – 7 at [...]
Join Mary Jones at her next Girls Night Out! It is Wednesday, July 27 at 6 pm at The Gallery in Glastonbury, and it’s her 1st Believe Team Girls Night Out! Mary created her Believe Team last year to help women live more confidently, and 4 members of her team will present an interactive program, [...]
Lately, I have been getting a bunch of Gift Cards and Gift Certificates. And just as frequently, I am being told where I can go. So, I have decided to combine the two. You tell me where to go, and I will go there. And then, i will give this stuff away. Now, the question [...]
Are you a would be Postindustrial Urbanite? Maybe you are an Eclectic Urbanite? Maybe you just like a little Urbanism from time to time? Generally speaking, an urbanite is a person interested in and or living in densely populated areas such as a city like New Haven. Why? Well, that could be a matter of [...]
The State of Connecticut has many beaches to offer. So many, and so diverse that we will be adding to this article as we go, and we will have articles specifically devoted to as many beaches as we can fit into this website. Seeing as I have pretty much unlimited space, I guess that means [...]
What happens when the Shoreline’s Premier Source for Craft Brew gets behind a cause? After a the immediate and spontaneous fermentation, the answer became quite obvious. A beer festival was in good order and why not? For a good cause, at the heart of the CT Shoreline, the task was set and the eager ‘hop-heads’ [...]
Shoreline Out and About is a community to share local events,activities, restaurants on the Connecticut shoreline, New Haven to New London. We are off to a great start, and have many events planned for the coming months, so join up and let the madness begin.