Stamford gears up for restaurant weeks
Scene…Riverside resident and
"Good Morning America" cohost Lara Spencer was seen having dinner at Tony’s at the J
House in Riverside recently.
Out there…Stamford Downtown 2024 Winter Restaurant
Weeks take place Feb. 19 through March 3. Over those two weeks, 31 Stamford restaurants will join together to participate, offering seasonal prix fixe lunch and dinner menus Dana Tyler. The novel is based and special promotions, including on love letters, many of them 4th Quarter, Acuario unpublished, from the Gilded Restaurant, The Americano, Age to and from Roosevelt and Bar Rosso, Barcelona Restaurant his first love, Alice Lee. Calvi’s & Wine Bar, Bari 167, Bedford first book “Dear George, Dear Hall Craft Kitchen & Bar, Mary: A Novel of George Washington’s Blackstones Steakhouse, The First Love,” is the basis Capital Grille, Capriccio Café, of a Smithsonian Channel documentary. Chez Vous Bistro, Columbus Calvi is a Westchester, Park Trattoria, Divina, Fin II, N.Y. native and resides there Garden Catering, Hudson Social, with her family. Tickets are $15 Kotobuki Japanese, Cuisine, for historical society members Kouzina Greek Taverna & and $20 for nonmembers. For Bar, Noches de Colombia, Quartiere tickets and more information, Neighborhood Italian, visit greenwichhistory.org. Siena Ristorante, Terra Gaucha Out there… Greenwich Choral Brazilian Steakhouse, Tomatillo Society is performing a special Taco Joint and ZAZA Gastrobar. concert with the Vassar College For more info, visit stamforddowntown.com/events/restaurant-weeks. Treble Chorus “Illuminaire: Darkness to Light” on Feb. 24 at Scene… The Westchester 4 p.m. at the Greenwich High County, N.Y. mansion of School Performing Arts Center. “The Tonight Show” legendary The 95-voice choral society will host Johnny Carson in Rye, be joined by a guest ensemble, N.Y. is on the market for over $5 the Vassar College Treble Chorus, million. The mansion, built in under the leadership of the 1928 and located at 7 Puritan Choral Society’s new music Road in Rye, was also used as a director and conductor, Christine backdrop on MTV’s hit show Howlett. For more info, go “Teen Cribs.” to gcs-ct.org.
Out there… The Bruce Museum Out there… The Palace Theater in Greenwich is featuring in Stamford is featuring Date Night on Valentine’s Day, "The Simon and Garfunkel which is Wednesday, from 6 to Story" on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. 9 p.m. The evening will feature The documentary will chronicle exhibit tours, tarot readings the journey shared by the folkrock workshops and more. Tickets duo, Paul Simon and Art are $30 with a 20 percent discount Garfunkel, and will feature for members and students. original film footage and a full For more information or live band performing all their tickets, go to brucemuseum.org. hits. For tickets (which range in
Out there… The Greenwich price from $44.50-$74.50), go to Historical Society on Strickland www.palacestamford.org. And Road in Cos Cob is featuring that’s all for now.
Emmy award-winning journalist Later… and author Mary Calvi, who “Love is the only force capable will discuss her latest novel “If a of transforming an enemy into a Poem Could Live and Breathe: friend.” -Martin Luther King, Jr. A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s
First Love” on Feb. 22 at 6 p.m.
Calvi will be joined in conversation by "CBS News" co-anchor
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