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Our guide to holiday shopping.
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Blogs
Year in Review: Top 10 Albums of 2008
01 Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours (Modular) In a year when music journalists and bloggers alike are...
 12/31/2008 By Drew
Our Holy Senate
The U.S. Senate is looking more and more like the House of Soprano. "Disgraced" Illinois...
 01/02/2009 By Alan Bisbort
This Wednesday in Stamford: Lola Montes
I'll be showing the Cinémathèque Française's restoration of Max Ophuls'...
 01/05/2009 By Ann Lewinson
Bob Dylan and The Parisian Prowler
Charles Baudelaire's 1864 poem "Un cheval de race," from his collection of prose poems...
 12/22/2008 By Scott Warmuth
Reading List
Two good recent profiles of two beloved indie rock figures -- Andrew Bird and Bonnie Prince Billy....
 01/04/2009 By John Adamian
Skate 2 Demo due out 1/8/2009
According to a new Download and Win page on Xbox.com, the demo for Skate 2 will be hitting Xbox...
 01/02/2009 By Scott Niblock
Fairfield County Fair
County Fair: People vs. Peoples
There have been many trademark infringement lawsuits over the years. Notable ones include Prince, the...
 By Chandra Niles Folsom
County Fair: The Magic School Bus
Underage drinking is nothing new. But three Ponus Ridge Middle School students have come up with a...
 By William Squier
Dan Savage
Savage Love: 12/30/08
Relationship columnist Dan Savage joins the Fairfield Weekly.
 By Dan Savage
Top Stories
Death of a Dream
Brazilian immigrants are leaving Connecticut's recession for a better life back home
 By Daniel D'Ambrosio
Halos and Horns
Who was naughty and who was nice in 2008
 By Andy Bromage
Health & Fitness
Gluco-What's-It?
In some places, glucomannan chokes the elderly to death. In Connecticut, Cassandra Forsythe uses it to deflate fat asses.
 By Brianna Snyder
Perfect Conditions
This rotten winter weather is my favorite kind to run in
By David Riedel
News
Fare Game
The Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority upped fares because of expensive gas. So will the price come down now?
 By Rob Sullivan
Arrested Redevelopment
A shovel-ready project that would turn a brownfield in Georgetown into an eco-village has been snagged by governmental bureaucracy and the credit freeze
By Marc Ferris
Dining
Pig Out
Get stuffed with meaty roast pork and tasty exotic sausages at The Old Heidelberg in Bethel
 By Elizabeth Keyser
Cars
Germany Plugs In
An ambitious plan for one million EVs
 By Jim Motavalli
Film
And 2008 Goes to the Dogs...
A canine comedy and two real dogs from Tom Cruise and Frank Miller
 By Ann Lewinson
The Mail
The Mail
Should we really be surprised that Republicans and Democrats have rigged the funding game in their...
 By FCW Readers
Arts
Paint and Piety
The mansion in the back of St. Philips in Norwalk has gone from private estate to convent to teen center to eyesore to now an artists guild
By Wendy Logan
Last Calls
Jim Florentine is too afraid of cops and lawsuits to pick up the phone
 By Keith Loria
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7 Days
Jan 1-7
 By FCW Editorial
Music
And the Beat Goes On
Second-wave ska band The English Beat is back and playing Bridgeport
By Ben Erickson
Hammond, Tape and Shrooms
Gregg Allman talks (and laughs) about music and a bunch of other stuff
 By Sean Corbett
CD of the Week
New release by Cobra Verde
 By John Adamian
Most Popular
Welcome to Where You Are
Our yearly guide to getting out and getting it on in the merry old county of Fairfield
 By FCW Editorial
Yes, Wii Can
I'm not to blame for being lazy: technology just made it too easy
 By Erin Lynch
5 Years Later
A report from our man in Iraq
 By Daniel Smith
The Doctor Is Out
The state wants doctors to treat the uninsured, but not enough to pay them a fair wage
 By Andy Bromage
Regis Leaves Greenwich!
The shell-shocked town—and our infatuated reporter— wrestle with the possibility of a Reeg-less Fairfield County
By Drew Taylor