Tracey O'Shaughnessy

1 month ago | ctinsider.com | Tracey O'Shaughnessy

WATERBURY — Cherie has been planning her wedding since she first unwrapped her Fairytale Dream Wedding Barbie. For years, Cherie, the main character in Jacques Lamarre's new comedy “The Wedding Binder" at Seven Angels Theatre beginning Friday, has been assembling a binder with all of the requisite wonders that will ornament her wedding.It's a production. And Lamarre, who has written more than 20 plays, most of which are comedies, has seen it happen.

2 months ago | ncadvertiser.com | Tracey O'Shaughnessy

Shauna L. Figueroa, co-facilitator of a seminar on the stereotype of "the angry Black woman," says she has experience it herself. Welcome 2 Reality/contributedAnthony Gay, director of curricula and development of Waterbury's Welcome 2 Reality, has been leading a monthlong session on perceptions of black women and their impact.

2 months ago | milfordmirror.com | Tracey O'Shaughnessy

Your hands are chapped. They're red. They're raw. Tiny, hyphenated slits have formed along your fingernails. Welcome to winter, the season that wreaks havoc on the biggest organ in your body, your skin, the body's fortification against the pitilessness of nature. Worse, the very action you want to take as more winter storms loom — long shower, blazing fireplace, jacking up the car's heater to near-searing levels — is only going to make matters worse.

2 months ago | ncadvertiser.com | Tracey O'Shaughnessy

"The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters" (W.W. Norton, $18.99)In February 1965, a 21-year-old Canadian singer-song writer calling herself Joni Mitchell gave birth alone in a Toronto hospital to a blonde girl she named Kelly Dale Anderson. Without support from her boyfriend or parents, she spent 10 days with the child before giving her up for adoption. She would not see her again for 30 years.

2 months ago | ncadvertiser.com | Tracey O'Shaughnessy

George Bellows, "The Coming Storm," 1916 New Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedNew Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedMary Cassatt, "Woman and Child," late 19th or early 20th century New Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedNew Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedJohn Henry Twachtman, "Harbor Scene" New Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedNew Britain Museum of American Art/ContributedCan we stand another exhibit on Impressionism? Of course we can.