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People discover a tiny CT town because of its famous homemade ice cream. Unique flavors are key.
Big Dipper Ice Cream Parlour makes and serves their homemade, small batch ice cream out of an unremarkable 1,350-square foot shop in a tiny town. But their award-winning ice cream reaches fans throughout the state, including all the way north through Hartford County and elsewhere. Paul Brault, who’s reopening Bart’s Drive-in in Windsor has said he’ll carry Big Dipper ice cream, because it’s ...
The Market Place Sees Restaurant Shut Down, but Developer Says Eatery Showing Interest in Vacant Site
While construction is still taking place and more new businesses are on the docket, the still growing development of The Market Place on Jerry Dove Drive has lost one of its businesses. David Biafora of Metro Property Management, the developer of The Market Place, said that it recently lost a...
ABB Summer Kickoff and Food Truck Festival Set for Evening of June 1
Just around the corner is a fun-in-the-sun community event to launch the summer season. The 6th Annual ABB Summer Kickoff and Food Truck Festival is set for 5-8 p.m. Saturday, June 1 in downtown Bridgeport. Main Street traffic will be shut down at 4:45 p.m. so the summer fun can spill onto the street.
100s Turn Out For “Freedom Fund” Dinner
Those are the words of the rapper 50 Cent. And that “lyrical poetic audacity,” in the words of Dr. Frederick Haynes III, senior pastor at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, summed up the message of the 107th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner of the Greater New Haven Branch of the NAACP.
Sound Bites: ‘Pizza Capital of the United States’
Good morning — More than 100 Connecticut pizza makers are expected to descend on Washington D.C. on Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) is expected to read a statement into the Congressional Record to declare New Haven the “Pizza Capital of the United States.” She will likely get blow back from her colleagues on both sides of the aisle in New York City, Chicago and anywhere else that claims to have the best slice.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Keep On Rocking in Bridgeport, CT; Show Featured Two Songs the Band Hadn’t Played Since 2018
Neil Young & Crazy Horse road into Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Saturday, May 18, for the latest concert on their 2024 Love Earth Tour. The show, at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater, featured Young and his longtime backing band playing an 18-song set that mixed classics and deep cuts from their long and storied history.
A chosen family emerges from paper and destruction in the Yale Rep’s “The Far Country”
As flames hungrily swallow up San Francisco’s Chinatown and destroy municipal records during the 1906 earthquake, a paper family of Chinese immigrants emerges from the rubble. “The Far Country,” the Yale Rep’s concluding play of its 2023-24 season, follows the journey of an unlikely family, from China’s Guangdong Province...
29 Markle Ct Presents "Dinner on Markle," A Pop-Up Outdoor Dining Event
CTbites is excited to be the Media Sponsor for an incredible dining event going down on June 22nd, DINNER ON MARKLE, “Cultivating Seeds of Community.” BUY TICKETS HERE. 29 Markle Court, awarded “Best New Restaurant” at the 2023 “Crazies Awards” is taking the “Outstanding In The Field” concept and bringing that long communal table dining experience to the streets of downtown Bridgeport. This is going to be an unforgettable event you will not want to miss.
Monroe’s annual Memorial Day Parade is this Sunday
MONROE, CT — The annual Memorial Day Parade, featuring authentic World War II vehicles, cars, floats and marchers on foot, is scheduled to be held this Sunday at 1 p.m. The theme is “Honoring Our Heroes”. The procession will travel from Elm Street and Route 111 north,...
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