Things To Do Near You

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since I have written about concert venues, so let’s do that today!  Today, I am going to be going over the upcoming shows at The Saratoga Performing Arts Center! For those of you who don’t know, it’s another outdoor summer concert venue. I will not be going over all of their upcoming shows, because a lot of them are classical music, and I am positive that none of you reading care about that. Because I certainly don’t. The first show they have on June 18 is one of the biggest stars in the world right now: Jelly Roll, who will be joined by some rising star named Kashus Culpepper, who is such a rising star that he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. The next show they have on June 19 is another big country music celebration: Riley Green with Clint Black, Drake White, and Hannah McFarland. I’m only familiar with Clint Black because he was on The Masked Singer, but does anybody else know who any of these people are? The next show they have on June 23 is...

Hello everyone! In my recent blog post about events in Stamford this summer, I mentioned that there was still one more that I needed to talk about, so now I am going to talk about it! Before I get into it, I’m going to talk about another summer event that used to happen in Stamford Downtown called Alive At Five.  As its name suggests, Alive At Five was an outdoor summer concert series on Thursdays that would start at 5:00, except that is not actually when the headliner would start performing, as they would go on stage MUCH later, which I am saying from experience. The series went for so many years, and got so many artists that fall under the categories of artists you have never heard of, and artists you used to hear from, but not anymore. In other words, the type of people who either have been on or are going to be on The Masked Singer. Yes, I can tie so many things back to The Masked Singer.  These concerts were held in Columbus Park in Downtown Stamford, and they proved to b...

Hello everybody! I am still experiencing some writers block, so I took some inspiration on what to write about from my dad, who suggested that I write about a place I have already been to a few times this year: Winfield Street Coffee!  As its name suggests, it’s a chain of coffee shops in Connecticut, New York, and Florida. Okay, that’s not what its name suggests at all. In fact, some of you who are reading this probably thought it was a coffee shop that is located on Winfield Street in some town or city. But no, it’s a chain that has six locations. Two in New York City, two in Naples, Florida, and the two locations that I have been to, Rye, New York and Stamford, Connecticut. The story of this place actually goes all the way back to 1925, when Winfield Delicatessen first opened in Norwalk, Connecticut, and quickly became a beloved neighborhood staple.  In 2015, a man named Breno Donatti, who came from Brazil to America at the age of 18 years old and had worked his way up in t...

Hello everybody!  Let me tell you all something right now. I was struggling so hard to think of what I would write about for this blog post. I started two different blog posts and ultimately decided not to write about them. I started writing about the evolution of Adam Pally on game shows, but then I just ultimately lost interest, and then I tried giving restaurants of Hell’s Kitchen contestants another try, but then writing essentially the same things over and over again was just too boring for me, so I found myself just completely lost as to what I was going to write about. I could not think of anything that I felt was worth writing about, and everything I could think of would either involve me repeating myself yet again, or me talking about things that didn’t have much information that was worth talking about.  So, ultimately, I just decided to write about one of my favorite places in the world, Stamford, and the various things you can do there this summer! The first event ...

Hello everybody!  I went back and forth for such a long time on what my next blog post would be. I started thinking that I was going to write about restaurants of former Hell’s Kitchen contestants in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, then I thought I was going to write about the Village of Bronxville, which I went to last weekend, then I thought I was going to write about the towns of both Mahopac and Bronxville, but mostly just the restaurants in them, before finally deciding on restaurants of past Hell’s Kitchen contestants, but after I had written about only a small number of restaurants, I just felt like writing about more restaurants was just draining me, so I deleted everything I had written, and just sat there waiting to decide on what I would write about, before I figured that I would write about what made the most sense at the time: Playland Park in Rye!  I’m sure that all of you reading are familiar with it, but there is a big reason why I have chosen to write a...

Hello everybody! I had so much fun writing about Foxwoods Resort Casino last week, I figured I would do something similar this week! If you’re wondering what I mean, this blog post is going to be covering the other major casino and entertainment complex in Connecticut: Mohegan Sun Arena!  It is located on 240 acres of the Mohegan Indian Reservation in Uncasville, Connecticut along the banks of the Thames River. It also features two hotel towers with more than 1,500 rooms, a large retail and dining promenade, a spa, a 100,000 square foot convention center, more than 364,000 square feet of gaming space with over 6,500 slot machines, 370 table games, a race book, and a 10,000 seat multi-purpose venue. This is going to be interesting for me to write about because there is so much for me to talk about. I mean, much like Foxwoods, it also has a lot of restaurants and exciting upcoming shows, but there are also some other things it has that are unique to it that I will talk about right no...