'Art in the Windows' at Waveny Park

This community event allows art to be more accessible to residents of and visitors to New Canaan.

Bringing Flair and Spice to a Dinner Party

An entertaining lady's home journal holds key to style and flair.

  Sheila McCaffery can overwhelm you with her meticulous notes for a dinner party. She wants you to throw one on the same scale that she does but this is a gal who doesn’t believe in doing things by halves. In a time when cookbooks, culinary magazines and TV food shows can be more intimidating than inspiring, Sheila shows you how to become a successful hostess. An accomplished cook who learned by doing, she excels in the ideas department. An important tool to achieve the level of success that she has had is through the keeping of a journal. A chronicle of dinner parties that span four decades, her journals are virtual textbooks for home entertaining. Sheila recently came to the Greenwich Garden Center to present a slide show of her dinner …

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New Canaan’s Own Make Music in Manhattan

Kayte Crum of New Canaan helped play a major role in organizing “Tunes in Times Square."

Ridgefield Author Maurice Sendak Dies At 83

The celebrated children's author was best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are."

Ridgefield's famed children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died Tuesday. The celebrated children's author, best known for his book "Where The Wild Things Are," was "widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century," the New York Times reports. The Times reports that Mr. Sendak died of complications from a recent stroke, according to his longtime editor, Michael di Capua. "Where The Wild Things Are" was published in 1963, and the story of a little boy named Max who sails into his dreams to have a "wild rumpus" with imaginative, sometimes nightmarish monsters was a bestseller. The Times described his work: "In book after book, Mr. Sendak upended the staid, centuries-old tradition of American …

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The Glass House Launches Conversations in Context 2012

Hosts include Michael Graves, Robert A.M. Stern, Michael Maharam and Murray Moss.

NCHS Art Show and National High School Ceramics Show

The New Canaan Society for the Arts presents “Through Our Eyes II”, A New Canaan High School Art Exhibition running through May 6th in the Betty Barker Gallery at the Carriage Barn Arts Center in Waveny Park.

Nutmeg Book Review

'50 Shades of Grey': Just How Smutty Is It?

Plenty, but it's also unintentionally humorous and so badly written it hurts (and not in a good way).

  In keeping with the number theme in the title, here's what you need to know before buying "50 Shades of Grey." Number of times the protagonist, Anastasia Steele, says "Crap" or "Holy Crap": 86 Number of times Anastasia refers to her lover Christian Grey and his moves as "hot" or "freaking hot": 37 Number of times a specific part of the female anatomy is referred to as "down there": 6 If fine writing is like bittersweet truffles, this book is like a wad of Gummi Bears stuck to your back teeth. To use another food metaphor — and I'm not sure this author knows what a metaphor is — it's the literary equivalent of eating Sugar Smacks for dinner. Author E.L. James gives us the first-person perspective of a naive 21-year-old college graduate …

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New Canaan’s “Script Doctor”

Screenwriter GiGi New believes that everyone has a story to tell and just needs a little help to get it down on paper.

Whether she’s teaching a class or working with aspiring screenwriters one-on-one through her consulting business, The New Way, New Canaan resident GiGi New uses her gifts to help others get that story they’ve always wanted to tell down on paper. Beginning her career as an actress — New credits her ear for dialogue to her time on stage. “I’m of Latin descent, so when I started out, all my auditions were for the maid or the nanny or had to be done with a heavy accent — I was so disheartened by that!” New said. “I kind of went down the rabbit hole and reassessed what I wanted to do, knowing I wanted to stay in the business.” The answer came to New through a series of events worthy of a film themselves. One day, New was telling a funny story …

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Report: Dick Clark Dies at 82

The iconic producer and TV host suffered a heart attack, ABC News reports.

Famed TV host, producer Dick Clark died today at the age of 82, ABC reports. The longtime host of “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve" reportedly died of a heart attack. He had suffered a stroke in 2004 but “returned to the airwaves” for the last several years, according to ABC News. Clark became a household name after the afternoon dance show he hosted in the 50s became the popular “American Bandstand,” and from there Clark started the successful Dick Clark Productions company in Hollywood, according to ABC.  

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