http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/section.cfm?uid=51 Copyright 2009 Fairfield County Weekly TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 10 Nov 2009 8:52:01 AM CST en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 8:52:01 AM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15398 Alexander Calder: Printmaker Through January 31, 2010. Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr., Greenwich, (203) 869-0376; www.brucemuseum.org Kinetic mobiles and energy-arresting stabiles define the innovations of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in our collective awareness. But paper and ink was his first... By Susan Hood http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15398 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 1:34:17 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15312 Alchemy: Magic, Myth or Science? Bruce Museum, 1 Museum Dr., Greenwich. Tue. - Sat., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun., 1 to 5 p.m. through Jan. 3. $7; $6 for students and seniors. (203) 869-0376, www.brucemuseum.org If an air of foolishness hangs around the popular image of an alchemist — a man... By Elizabeth Keyser http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15312 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 1:34:17 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15313 Niall Ferguson Mon., Nov. 9. Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, 1073 N. Benson Rd., Fairfield. 8 p.m. $45. 203-254-4010, www.quickcenter.com It's said there are no atheists in foxholes. Especially when the ammunition's run out. Certainly all of us taxpayers, thrust as... By Jon Santiago http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15313 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 3:52:03 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15223 Aggregate: Art and Architecture — A Brutalist Remix Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Ave., Westport. Mon. - Fri., 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., noon to 4 p.m. through Nov. 22. (203) 222-7070, www.westportartscenter.org . Curiously, Aggregate: Art and Architecture — A Brutalist... By Jimmy Stamp http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15223 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 3:52:03 PM CST http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15225 Halloween coincides with the change in season, so now is the perfect time not only to go out and get drunk in a werewolf mask, but also to curl up under a blanket with a good book. Thanks to this year's crop of notable horror novels, you can still get a dose of fright if you decide to do the latter.... By Drew Taylor http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15225 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:11:40 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15130 A Reading by Novelist Junot Díaz Mon., Oct. 26, Quick Center for the Arts, 1073 N. Benson Rd., Fairfield University, Fairfield, 8 p.m. $45. (203) 254-4010, www.fairfield.edu/arts. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in working-class New Jersey, Junot Díaz moved through the... By Brian Francis Slattery http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=15130 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 9:55:50 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14916 Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper is, without a doubt, the best debut novel of the year. Bazell, who wrote Reaper while working on his residency at a California hospital, crafted an ingenious, fast-paced thriller that also managed to be a work of art. Beat the Reaper is the tale of Dr. Brown... By Drew Taylor http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14916 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 5:10:00 PM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14626 The Best Technology Writing 2009 Edited by Steven Johnson. Yale University Press, 224 pages, $17.95. Johnson joins Julian Dibbell, danah boyd, and Jack Balkin in a panel discussion, "Writers on Technology and Everyday Life," Wed., Sept. 30, 4 p.m., free, Linsly-Chittenden Hall Auditorium,... By John Stoehr http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14626 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:25:00 PM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14472 Fairfield County is often noted for its connectedness to Manhattan, the not-so-arguable arts and culture epicenter of the whole world. The crazy galleries, epic museums, artists' communities, top schools and hundreds of millions of ideas that exist on the small island are overwhelmingly inspiring.... By Sean Corbett http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14472 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:40:01 AM CDT http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14366 The contrast is eye-catching and oddly endearing: Dozens of brightly hand-painted silk scarves are on display underneath a cheap plastic yellow and red "order here" sign in a defunct Bridgeport luncheonette. The scarves dangle over accordioned temporary half-walls in front of the luncheonette's... By Betsy Yagla http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/article.cfm?aid=14366