IonHartford

Never was jazz more needed than this past Wednesday evening.  After a long day at city hall which ended with the quintessential political submarine attack, myself, Mercy and Angelito went home and prepared to call it a day.  We had plans to meet friends for an evening of food and literature at a reunion meeting [...]

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I think that one of the many reasons I love Hartford is the one default attribute always thrown around in such conversations: it’s distance to New York City. Boston is also used in the discussion but I get really bad “Everybody Loves Mary” type of acne every time I get near that dirty [...]

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I’m officially off the “stop saying there’s nothing to do in Hartford” bandwagon. I think a case has been made on this and other blogs that if you don’t know that Hartford has many kick ass things happening, then you just aren’t looking. Tonight we had yet another example of this, Monday Night [...]

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A couple links forwarded to me of some random mentions of la paloma sabanera which remind us what the bigger picture is. The first link here is regarding our 3rd anniversary party (pictured above) and the second is regarding the mural that was painted outside our store in our first summer.

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First and foremost, I must apologize for the extended no post. With my current campaign for city council underway, I feel uncomfortable writing about all the roller coaster type activity in this years race. I will try to instead point to posts by Kerri at Real Hartford, the Undercurrent Blog, www.ctnewsjunkie.com, Helder Mira’s [...]

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Months and months of persuasion from members of various left leaning political org’s have succeeded. I sought and acquired the endorsement of the Connecticut Working Families Party for a seat on the Hartford City Council.

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