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Sunday, October 18, 2026

Comings & Goings: Green & Tonic Opens

Green & Tonic, a health food cafe, opened today at 17 Jesup Road at the corner of Taylor Place and Jesup Road. (See WestportNow June 11, 2016) Owners Jeff and Cai Pandolfino, Cos Cob residents, announced that two grand opening receptions will be held Thursday and Thursday, June 23 from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. with food samplings, beverages and champagne. Pandolfino said he and his wife plan to expand the concept regionally and nationally. Currently Green & Tonic cafes are located in Darien, New Canaan, Cos Cob, and Greenwich in addition to Westport. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

Levitt Season Opens Sunday, June 26

The Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts announced today it will launch its 43rd summer season on Sunday, June 26 at 7 p.m. with Desert Highway – A Tribute to the Eagles.

Desert Highway performing at the Levitt on Aug. 1, 2014. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Opening night is presented free and is sponsored by People’s United Bank. Because opening night is traditionally a highly anticipated event, free tickets will be distributed in advance, an announcement said.

They will become available to the public at noon on Thursday online at http://www.levittpavilion.com. No tickets will be distributed at the venue, the announcement said.

It is a return appearance for the Eagles tribute band. Desert Highway performed at the Levitt in August 2014.

Critics Honor Playhouse’s Anne Keefe

Anne Keefe, Westport Country Playhouse associate artist, was honored Monday night with the Tom Killen Award at the 26th annual Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. The award, named in honor of the late critic who died at age 33 in 1989, is given in recognition to years of achievement and service to Connecticut’s professional theater. The ceremony took place at Hartford Stage. Guests included representatives of the state’s theaters, as well as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo by Peter Chernot

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Looking at ‘Blade Runner’ 34 Years Later

‘Blade Runner,” a 1982 science fiction film that has become cult film, had a Westport Cinema Initiative (WCI) screening at Westport Town Hall Sunday night. Following the screening, there was a talkback with one of its stars, Sean Young (l), and Susan Granger, a Westporter who is film critic for WestportNow and numerous other outlets. Young talked about the making of the iconic film, working with co-star, Harrison Ford and Academy Award-winning director Ridley Scott. She also discussed her long film career spanning over 30 years. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

Friday, June 10th, 2016

Gallery: Westport Historical Society Garden Party

Scenes from tonight’s Westport Historical Society Garden Party at the Westport Woman’s Club in advance of Sunday’s Hidden Garden Tour. J.C. Martin and Eileen Lavigne Flug for WestportNow.com and contributed photos

Comings & Goings: Acqua Successor is Boca

By James Lomuscio

Opening up a new restaurant in Westport’s highly competitive atmosphere is undoubtedly daunting. It’s even more challenging if it’s your first time owning one.

Revisson Bonfim will live the American Dream when he opens his Boca restaurant in space occupied for 20 years by Acqua Ristorante Mediterraneo. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

But for Revisson Bonfim, a 42-year-old investment banker who studies emerging markets, the planned opening of his Boca restaurant in August at the site of soon-to-close Acqua Ristorante Mediterraneo at 43 Main St. facing Parker Harding Plaza is the American Dream coming full circle. The restaurant, whose name is Spanish for mouth, will offer dishes from Spain, Italy and France.

“I’m originally from Brazil, and I moved to the United States when I was 16,” said the East Norwalk resident. “My very first job in the United States was working at a restaurant in Greenwich.”

The place was Manero’s, the same company that for decades had an iconic Saugatuck restaurant at the site that is now Rizzuto’s.

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

3D Work

Artist Norm Siegel uses 3D glasses tonight to look at his work “Hostamania 3-D” on display at the Westport Artists Collective Pop Up Show at the Westport Arts Center. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

‘Larger Than Life’

Allison Carey, 18, of Fairfield poses tonight with her “Larger Than Life” portrait on display at the Pop Up Show of the Westport Artists Collective at the Westport Arts Center. Allison, who graduated today from Westport’s Greens Farms Academy (GFA) where she won an arts award, intendeds to pursue her interests in art at Dartmouth College. Her subject is one of the studentst taking part in GFA’s Horizons Student Enrichment Program, which addresses the achievement gap in low-income Bridgeport students. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com

Student Neo-Expressionism at Pop Up Show

Among works on display at tonight’s Pop Up art show at the Westport Arts Center was this one by Sam Agnew, 18, of Westport who graduated from Greens Farms Academy today and shared an art prize with fellow student, Allison Carey, 18. The painting, “Frederick attempts to understand a banana,” is a Neo-Expressionist exploration of the surreal imagery of his dreams. Sam, who will enter the five-year combined degree progam at Tufts University and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the fall, is among 45 high school students from Fairfield and Westchester Counties chosen to exhibit their works at the iCreate exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich beginning Saturday. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Helen Klisser During for WestportNow.com