Before I get into the nuts and bolts about Dagwood’s Kansas City BBQ,  or in the this case the ribs and pulled pork, lets define BBQ. We here in the Northeast really don’t do it. BBQ is all about slow cooking, wood smoke, and in most, but not all cases a kick ass sauce, or [...]

                                  Time to reflect on the year that has passed and ring in the New Year. I am not going to do a year in review thing, as everyone and their brother has got one of them planned, and [...]

First and foremost I want to say Thank You. From what started as a group on Facebook, to where I am now, has been an incredible journey. One that has only just started, but, yet has come so far. One that has such a bright future.And one that has long and difficult path that I [...]

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Make Do And Mend might currently reside in Boston, but they actually formed a little further south, in West Hartford. These guys have been making serious commotion in the post-hardcore scene since their 2006 debut, because their sound bears the grit that only bands from New England have. It’s a trait rooted in the hard [...]

“Without a jar, or roll, or antic Without a stop to Willimantic & Rain nor snow ne’er stops its flight It makes New York at nine each night” -Rudyard Kipling, the Kim Kardashian of English writers Mr. Kipling was referring to the Air-line railroad, on which he was a noted passenger, when he penned that [...]

Final bookstore signing for THE LEGEND OF HOBBOMOCK: THE SLEEPING GIANT before Christmas.  This Sunday, Dec. 18 from Noon to 4 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble North Haven, 470 Universal Drive, HOBBOMOCK author Jason J. Marchi and illustrator Jesse J. Bonelli will be signing copies of their wildly popular book. This picture storybook is for readers [...]

And here I was thinking that I could put my feet up, watch the stock market, and spend some time on the phone with my investment clients. Little did I know that my lovely wife, Carol, wanted to recruit me for an “image filled”  holiday newsletter bringing everyone up-to-date on the happenings here at Ashlawn. [...]

Good riddance to the days when you could walk into a bar and order a pint of some enigmatic, yellow stuff that was just called beer.  Stops like Willimantic’s Main Street Cafe are the kind of restaurant/pub/brewery hybrid that offers all sorts of hues and hop counts.  Every month there’s a new menu of beer [...]

The Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of “A Doctor in Spite of Himself” by Moliere is a zany frolic born of Commedia Dell’Arte influenced by Saturday Night Live. Adapted by Christopher Bayes and Steven Epp, and directed by Mr. Bayes, the play follows the antics of a peasant woodcutter, Sganarelle, played with well-honed comedic physicality by [...]

Connecticut is probably the biggest of the “little” states in this great big country of ours. Seriously, think about it. We have 4 REAL seasons. Ocean and mountains. Okay, the mountains are proportional to the size of the state, but they are the Berkshire Mountains… Metropolitan meets rural New England, and often in less than [...]

One of the great things about having this website, and the Social Media presence that goes along with it is that people find us. Funny how this Interweb thing works. Guess the people at Google are onto something. Last week while going through the never ending emails, I came across one asking to see if [...]

Over the next few weeks, I am going to be featuring some great gift ideas from our small businesses in the State of Connecticut.Small business is what made this country great, and is always one of the major contributors to rebuilding our economy whenever it has gone through a major downturn. Typically at least 60% [...]