from a press release:

Old-fashioned Flea Market Returns to the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

Norwalk, Conn., August 3, 2010 – The Great Lawns of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum at 295 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT will be brimming with one-of-a-kind merchandise and must-have collectibles Sunday, August 29, 2010, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. when flea market vendors will gather for the museum’s third annual Old-fashioned Flea Market.

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from a press release:

Fall ArtSpot at Center For Contemporary Printmaking

NORWALK, CT – On  September 16^th, the Norwalk Arts Commission kicks off the fall art events with Center for Contemporary Printmaking hosting the fall ArtSpot.

The Center of Contemporary Printmaking (CCP) opens the fall exhibition, “Grace Shanley & Ron Pokrasso : Recurrence of Memory”, with a gallery reception September 16, from 4-7 PM, 299 West Ave., in Mathews Park, Norwalk, CT., 203-899-7999, www.contemprints.org. In conjunction with the opening reception, the Norwalk Arts Commission ArtSpot will be launched at 5:30 PM, while the gallery reception is in progress. Refreshments will be served. Admission is free.

“The City of Norwalk encourages the spirit of the arts community in Mathews Park,” said Mayor Richard Moccia.  “I’m pleased to support the Arts Commission’s efforts to bring our cultural organizations together by moving these events to our many diverse venues such as The Center of Contemporary Printmaking.”

The ArtSpot is the Norwalk Arts Commission’s periodic networking event where artists, musicians, performers, designers, and producers meet and mingle with businesses, supporters and patrons. It’s always an exciting mix of people and attractions.

“Our ArtSpots are always an exciting venue to not only be around creativity but encourage our community to be creative,” said Chairwoman of the Arts Commission Jackie Lightfield.

This month also features Norwalk Arts: Inside/Out, a city-wide event that highlights the many arts and cultural organizations that operate and thrive in Norwalk. Norwalk Arts: Inside/Out takes place on Saturday September 25^th, from noon to evening.

I’m a big fan of taking a look at then and now photos of historic places. My bookshelves are in fact filled with Paris Disparu, Lost Boston, New York and Philadelphia. In working on my tour of Jack The Ripper sites, I was happy to discover that the London Musuem had put out a street museum iPhone app that put historic photos overlayed onto the modern street landscape. That was a very cool look at the evolution of London. This series of photographs puts a poignant context to World War II. Continue Reading

The puppet parade in SoNo.

The kick-off to this years SoNo celebration was a huge success thanks to Mystic Bowie and his amazing band. Yeah that includes Renard and the crew who delighted the crowd with favorites including A DeeLite sample. Yea groove us on the house. Thanks for the shout out, rock on and enjoy a snap of our band in action, the Mayor a groovin’ and the photo courtesy of creative director Andy Liverant who experimented with the zero zoom iPhone and concluded a real camera was needed.

Canon did the classic tsotchke schwag giveway at the Vancouver Olympic games, a coffee mug. But not just any coffee mug. There giveaway was an Olympus lens in the form of a coffee mug. Needless to say they were one off, expensive to make and destined for schwag lore. Until now. An enterprising company has recreated the camera lens coffee mug thistime with a Canon lens. At $24.00, the photojojo camera lens mug it is a cheap thrill.

A little bit of cinema al fresco:

http://rollingroadshow.com/

Throughout August’s hazy summer nights, the Alamo Drafthouse and Levi’s® will be taking the Rolling Roadshow to the people under the unified banner of ‘We Are All Workers.’

Rooted by one of the nation’s founding principles, We Are All Workers hits the road with nine seminal screenings proving that everybody’s work is equally important. True to form, each screening will be in the location where the film was shot or set.

Inspired by the spirit of the American worker, the Alamo Drafthouse and Levi’s® have curated an eclectic line up that ranges from the the birth of the oil nation in Paul Thomas Anderson’s THERE WILL BE BLOOD to the futuristic corporate nightmare of Paul Verhoven’s ROBOCOP. Championship contenders are crowned and humbled as Sylvester Stallone embarks on an an epic ROCKY-THON on the Liberty Steps, while Marlon Brando is washed-up ON THE WATERFRONT of the New Jersey docks. Law breakers are saluted as DIRTY HARRY takes to San Francisco’s Washington Square Park, Quentin Tarantino with JACKIE BROWN (schedule permitting), and Chicago’s finest, THE BLUES BROTHERS tear their musical mission from God across the country. Closing out the Roadshow is the the defining immigrant worker story of THE GODFATHER: PART II which will screen from the rooftops and chimney stacks of New York’s Little Italy.

All Rolling Roadshow ‘We Are All Workers’ screenings are free, open to the public and will be accompanied by related events at each location. For more information and updates on individual shows and their related events, check back on the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow page or the Levi’s® Facebook group!

Here is the lineup:

• August 6 JACKIE BROWN, at Los Angeles’ Del Amo Fashion Mall
• August 7 DIRTY HARRY, at San Francisco’s Washington Square Park
• August 8 THERE WILL BE BLOOD, at California’s Kern County Museum
• August 8 CONVOY, at the Ft. Davis drive-in in Las Vegas, N.M.
• August 13 THE BLUES BROTHERS, at Chicago’s Joliet Prison
• August 14 ROBOCOP, at Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center
• August 19 ROCKY I-III, at the Philadelphia Art Museum
• August 20 ON THE WATERFRONT, at Hoboken’s Pier A
• August 27 THE GODFATHER PART II, on a Manhattan rooftop near Little Italy

The long lost film explaining open air markets for us city slickers. Mini emus indeed.

Saturday, August 7
7:00 – 11:00 pm

The smash-hit musical show that has been all around the world is now at Stepping Stones. For those of you not yet converted, Sing-A-Long Sound of Music is a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical, complete with subtitles so that the whole audience can sing along.

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The Norwalk harbor Saturday last day of July.