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The Place 2 Be, a comfort food and cocktail restaurant with two branches in Hartford, has expanded into West Hartford.

Blue Back Square Sold to Connecticut Real Estate Development Company Charter Realty Announced Sale Share this article WEST HARTFORD, Conn., May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  Charter Realty & Development Corp. is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of Blue Back Square, one of the most sought-after destinations in the region, boasting some of the finest entertainment, restaurant, retail, and housing experiences in the Greater Hartford region. Located at 65 Memorial Road, West Hartford, the pr...

Financial Times list of The Americas Fastest Growing Companies 2021. This prestigious award is presented by the Financial Times and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The FT The Americas Fastest Growing Companies comprises the enterprises that contribute most heavily to economic growth. 500 companies are featured on the list, which was announced online on April 13, 2021 and can currently be viewed on the FT website. Out of the millions of active c...

Sally Phillips to Star in How to Please a Woman Australian Comedy Drama (EXCLUSIVE) Patrick Frater, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Sally Phillips, the British actor known for her role in all three Bridget Jones movies, will head the cast of Australian comedy drama film “How to Please a Woman.” Pitched as a warmhearted look at sexuality and vulnerability at all stages of life, the film casts Phillips as a 50-something woman who has the inspired idea of launching an all-male house-cleaning...

"We are squirming, just waiting until we can reopen,” said Jen Alexander, the founder and executive director of Kidcity Children’s Museum in Middletown. March 11 will mark one year since the Middletown museum shut its doors.  Despite the states plan to lift capacity restrictions later this month, visitors will have to keep waiting to explore their exhibits. "No, we wont be reopening for a while and I havent really set a reopening date,” said Alexander. “People might be ready to go out ...

Robert Connolly and Eric Bana Reteam on Eco-Fable Blueback Patrick Frater, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director Robert Connolly (“Balibo”) and star Eric Bana (“Hanna,” “Hulk), both currently riding high at the Australian box office with “The Dry,” will reunite on “Blueback,” a film billed as a family-friendly, ecologically activist celebration of the natural world. Connolly has been developing the project for more than two decades. At one stage it was envisaged that acto...

Richard Rosenthal and the managing partners of Max Restaurant Group used to meet every Tuesday at one of the group’s 10 eateries, driving for hours at times to sample each restaurant’s specialties and talk business. Since the pandemic, however, the weekly meeting happens on Zoom, and Rosenthal knows that’s bad for his business. Image “It’s a better way of us meeting,” Rosenthal said of videoconferencing, adding that he also now allows Max office employees to work from home. Although...

Ever since the first Samsung Galaxy Note made its debut back in 2011, the smartphone market has constantly pushed towards larger and larger handsets. Big phones allow you to have larger displays, bigger batteries, and more room to mess around with things like multiple camera sensors. All of that stuff is fine and dandy, but in this quest to make gigantic smartphones that bring everything but the kitchen sink, theres been an unfortunate side effect — phones have gotten really difficult to use....