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Arts and Entertainment
NHS stageplay reflects schools’ problems
NAUGATUCK — The borough’s public school system has engaged in a fair amount of debate with various stakeholders over the last several months. Last weekend, theatergoers in the Naugatuck High School auditorium bore witness to an entirely different breed of debate. The NHS Drama Club presented “12 Angry Jurors” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. The... »
City Hill students explore culture through art
If music, as the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once famously wrote, is the “universal language of mankind,” visual art is probably not far behind. At least that seems to be Andrea Jakiela’s philosophy. The City Hill Middle School art instructor tries to impart a sense of multiculturalism to her students by including in the... »
Woodland hosts annual Fall Fine Arts Night
BEACON FALLS — Jazz legends John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Thelonius Monk all were revived, so to speak, at Woodland Regional High School’s Ninth Annual Fall Fine Arts Night Tuesday. An 11-piece student jazz ensemble, led by music teacher Stephen St. Georges, hammered out original arrangements of Coltrane’s “Blue Trane,” Monk’s “Blue Monk” and... »
Borough band discusses tour, new album
I recently got a chance to sit down with Adam Lopez, drummer for the locally-based pop-rock band To Write a Riot! to discuss their record, “The Party Law,” their recent national tour, their music, and their desire to spread their message of hope and inspiration to middle- and high-school students. Adam can be reached at... »
Thunder in the Valley awes area residents
Reverse the curse. You thought that was about baseball? Actually, it’s about Thunder in the Valley, the Naugatuck High School marching band’s home show. After four consecutive years of rain forcing the show indoors, Thunder in the Valley finally saw some sunshine Saturday. The event hosted eight bands this year, including the United States... »
Rain doesn’t hold off Riverfest
BEACON FALLS — Rain, rain did not make the hundreds upon hundreds of people go away at the 11th annual Beacon Falls River Fest and Duck Race Saturday at Beacon Hose Co. No. 1 and Volunteer Park. Despite an overcast—and sometimes very wet—late morning and afternoon, more than 1,000 visitors flocked to downtown Beacon... »
Senior center hosts cribbage group
NAUGATUCK — “Ten,” says Pina Divito as she slaps a king of spades onto the table. “Fifteen for two,” Elaine Broderick counters, playing a five of hearts and moving a red peg two spaces ahead of the second on a wooden board. “Twenty,” says Velma Sego, the organizer of this cribbage group at the Naugatuck Senior... »
Beacon Falls to hold 11th Riverfest Saturday
BEACON FALLS — Lions Club member, Merchant’s Association founder and local business owner Bob Bradley can recall the state of the Naugatuck River as he was growing up—it was a different color all the time, he said, depending on what the chemical plants upriver were dumping on any given day. It was “just hideous... »
Woodland AP Art students showcase
BEACON FALLS — The ten artists whose work is featured in the above slideshow are Woodland High School’s AP Two-Dimensional Design and AP Drawing and Painting students. »
Local artists dazzle NHS crowd
NAUGATUCK — Fine art of two distinct styles lines the walls, sits upon easels and peeks out of opulent gilded frames. Elegant classical music emanates from the center of the room, percolating through canvas, wood and glass media, filtering at last into the ears of patrons sipping wine and nibbling cheese wedges. Flashbulbs fire... »