A Night In Hartford

1. With winding down on Sunday, tonight is great night to hit the town, have some good food at a decent price and take in some entertainment too. Participating restaurants offer a special three-course, fixed-price menu that gives you the opportunity to sample the best they have to offer for only $23. For a list of participating restaurants and their menus, visit A Taste of Hartford’s Web site.

2. Black Eyed Sally’s, one of the participating restaurants, is famous for its barbecue and blues music. The popular nightspot hosts the Gas House Gorillas at 9 p.m. The band's repertoire encompasses a broad range of styles that include jump blues, gypsy swing, early rock ‘n’ roll, Cajun music and the occasional funk groove. For Black Eyed Sally’s $23 Taste of Hartford menu, visit this link.

3. Another participating Taste of Hartford restaurant is City Steam Brewery Cafe. Happy Medium performs there tonight. To see the restaurant’s Taste of Hartford menu, click this link.

4. On this day in history, 1990, Susan Hendrickson uncovered three large bones in Faith, South Dakota. The bones turned out to be part of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found. The bones were found to be 65-million years old.

5. Today will be sunny with a high in the lower 80's. Temperatures will settle around 60ºF tonight, according to National Weather Service reports.