Your Daily Zen: May 24

bright dandelions 

heavy showers soak the ground

fast growing grasses

Local artist Scarlet Deford writes a haiku-a-day for HamletHub.

Photo credit: Vince Alongi / Foter.com / CC BY

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Friday Flix: Memorial Day Weekend Rundown

Holiday weekend equals a big weekend for movies and you have a few to choose from, especially if you’re lucky enough to have three days off.

Still lighting it up in theaters is “Iron Man 3” and the extremely awesome and well done “Star Trek Into Darkness” (my favorite movie of the year so far).

If something new is what you seek, well, you’re covered there too. For laughs, even with awful reviews is “The Hangover Part III.” Will I see it? Sure, but just to see it through. This trilogy got played out the ...

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Lorikeets Exhibit Facts and What YOU Can Expect

It is not open to the public until May 25, but Norwalk and Westport HamletHub were invited hang out with birds for a bit and previewed the Lorikeets Exhibit at The Maritime Aquarium a few days early.

Here is what you can expect:

The Facts

The outdoor aviary (located by the water, past the outside portion of the seals) holds 56 birds. Three of those 56 are lories, which tend to be larger in size and have shorter tails than a lorikeet and both are of the parrot sub-family. In all, there are three diffe...

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