CANDY!

Everyone loves candy. It's one of the highlights of life as a child and long after most other guilty pleasures have reached the stage of inappropriate, candy remains an acceptable vice.Who doesn't love popping open one of those movie size boxes of Rainbow Nerds and pouring as many as possible into your mouth?

On Halloween there is nothing more satisfying than a great trick-or-treat stop. That said, there is little more frustrating than a bad trick-or-treat stop. With a nod to out most macabre holiday, Sad City looks at Halloween candies.

Hartford Stage Pass

Hartford Stage is offering Stage Pass, a $38 season ticket, for young adult theater goersages 18-27. Purchasers will receive unlimited admissions to all Mainstage productions at Hartford Stage for the 2012-2013 season. Stage Pass is available through Sept. 29 and can be purchased by calling the Hartford Stage Box Office at 860-527-5151, or in person by visiting the Hartford Stage Box Office. Purchase requires a valid State ID. 

The 2012-2013 season includes: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, world premiere musical, October 11-November11; the 15^th Anniversary production of A Christmas Carol, November 23-December 29; Breath and Imagination – The Story of Roland Hayes, world premiere with classical and gospel music, January 11-February 3; Man in a Case, featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov, February 21-March 24; Beth Henley’s Abundance, April 4-28; Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, May 18-June 16.

Visit www.hartfordstage.org for more information and to learn more about the shows for the 2012-2013 season. 

Sad City Classic: Where Are They Now? Local Celebrities From the 1980s

(Originally posted by Jumper September 13, 2010)


Being self-centered children of the 1980’s, we decided to take a Sad City Hartford trip down memory lane and look at some of Connecticut’s local celebrities, then and now.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Somehow this list ended up being really WFSB biased. It’s probably because that’s just what our parents made us watch as kids. Send us suggestions and info on local celebrities you would like to see covered in the future.)

Sad City Travels: Addison County Fair

With the Big E underway, fair season is in full swing in New England. While fairs are pretty fun everywhere, they seem a little more fun in rural Vermont. Included in the afternoon, a tractor show, a tractor pull, an arm wrestling contest including a female division, and food, lots of food. Consumed during the afternoon; ribs, a pulled pork sandwich, a maple doughnut, (lots and lots of maple, which means lots and lots of great) fried dough, and the topper of them all, the harbinger to hardened arteries, maple fried bacon. Sometimes you just have to throw caution to the wind.

Hartford Pic of the Week

With the Spring Cup cars in Louden, New Hampshire this weekend, all eyes will be on the 24 and Jeff Gordon as he tries to dig out of an early hole in The Chase.

Hartford Pic Of The Week

Hartford Denim Co. Presents 860ph0

Our good friends Hartford Denim Co. have teamed up with Resurrection and YellowHouse to bring us the first ever 86ph0 party Monday September 17. This party pretty much brings everything but the kitchen sink, and it's entirely possible a kitchen sink could be found at the flea market. Booze, music, Vietnamese food, and a flea market? Is there anything else you need? Nope.

Party starts 630 at 30 Arbor St. See you there. Email us your best finds at the flea market!