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Dante Hicks greets Angel Colon, who was taking a break from the cash register to enjoy the afternoon at La Fabulosa Grocery on South Pacific St. in Stamford, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009.
2/11/2009
I found this while cruising around the South End for a weather photo.
–CP
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The scene after a round of judging at the 133rd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
02/09/2009
I’ve been covering the Westminster for a few years now and no matter how many times I’ve been there, or how many times I’ve watched “Best in Show,” I’m never quite prepared for the often bizarre scene that awaits. Above all, it’s a lot of fun.
This year, along with Sarah Lipman, a reporter and beagle owner, I followed Anna Stromberg, a woman from South Salem, N.Y., who runs a dog grooming business in Stamford. Stromberg and her husband were showing a whippet, Glory Bound (who won Best in Breed) and two Afghan hounds. They will show giant schnauzers tomorrow.
The benching and grooming areas are a bustling with activity all day. Owners, groomers, handlers, fans and members of the media pack into the rows of crates and grooming tables making it nearly impossible to navigate from one end of the room to the other.
Even the press room proved to be fairly entertaining, as Uno, the only beagle to ever claim Best in Show honors (2008) at Westminster, drew a crowd during a press conference of sorts; my famously unyielding cynicism melted slightly as I watched him being all adorable while standing on a table drinking water out of a cocktail tumbler.
Champion or not, dogs will be dogs.
READ SARAH’S STORY: HERE
–CP
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ABOVE: From left, George Bellos, 14, Dimitrios Psaltos, 13, and Demetrios Barkas, 13, get ready for their comedy sketch “The Fire From Olympus” during the Annunciation Greek Afternoon School’s Greek Letters Day program at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Stamford, Conn. on Sunday, February 1, 2009. The event, which coincides with the feast of the Three Hierarches, is put on by the Greek school and celebrates Greek language and culture.
This program was entirely in Greek and despite my ethnic heritage, I understood none of it except that at some point in a comedy sketch, Dionysus nearly received an D.U.I. I suppose this is apt as he is the god of wine, or as it was translated to me, “the god of drunk.”
Jack Daniel, step aside.
–CP
P.S. Also, apparently, it’s possible to riff from Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water on a bouzouki.
Chris Preovolos/The Advocate
ABOVE: The Three Kings, a/k/a, Armando Gonzalez and Roy Morgan, of Stamford, and Florentine Mercado, of Perth-Amboy, N.J., confer in a locker room during the Latino Foundation of Stamford’s annual Three Kings event at the Yerwood Center in Stamford.
There was – as usual – enough slack time in this assignment to duck out and head to Casa Villa for tacos de barbacoa de cabrito. Check out the goat taco action on the Lunch Break Chronicles.
–CP
Photos/Chris Preovolos
ABOVE: From left, Kevin Gallagher, of Stamford, center, and other Santas head from the Brick House Bar & Grille to Tigin Irish Pub and Restaurant during the 2008 Stamford Santa Pub Crawl on Saturday. The costumed revelers drank at several downtown Stamford bars, ending a Tiernans Pub and Restaurant on Saturday night as part of the crawl that was organized and promoted on the internet.
BELOW: Matt Zielinski, of New Rochelle, N.Y., left, and Paul Bergagnin, of Stamford, right, talk over a pint at Tigin.
I was driving east on Broad St. today and a snow-covered Saab with four adults in full Santa costumes pulled up next to me at the red light at Greyrock Place. I reached for my Canon G10 point and shoot, which happened to be on the passenger’s seat. The battery was dead.
Eventually, after heading back home I was able to figure out this was part of a downtown Stamford Santa pub crawl. I decided this must be documented and I caught up with them in front of Brick House Bar & Grille.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Does he come to your work dressed like Santa and mess with you? Leave the man alone, he was work to do!”
–CP
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