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Connecticut Magazine

American cultural periodical of the 20th and 21st centuries

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ42915721
Source-derived summary

Connecticut Magazine is an American monthly magazine covering the life, culture, politics, and style of the state of Connecticut. Founded in 1971, it was purchased in 2017 by the Hearst Corporation. It is a sister magazine of The Connecticut Bride. It is unrelated to the magazine The Connecticut, published from circa 1898 to 1908.

History

Connecticut Magazine, based in New Haven, Connecticut, was founded in 1971. It is unrelated to the magazine The Connecticut, published from circa 1898 to 1908.

On June 5, 2017, the Hearst Corporation purchased Digital First Media, absorbing Connecticut Magazine as well as the Connecticut newspapers The Middletown Press, The New Haven Register, and The Register Citizen, in Torrington, and the weekly publications The Post-Chronicle, The Milford-Orange Bulletin, The ShoreLine Times, The Dolphin, in Groton, The West Hartford News, The Foothills Trader, in Torrington, The Litchfield County Times and The Fairfield & Westport Minuteman.

Offices and personnel

Connecticut Magazine is based at 100 Gando Drive, New Haven, Connecticut.

Group Publisher and President: Mike DeLuca

Managing Editor: Lidia Ryan

Assistant Managing Editor: TinaMarie Craven

Designer: Bryan Haeffele

Annual issues

The magazine's biggest annual issues are lists including: "Best Restaurants (Readers' Choice)," "Best Doctors," "Top Dentists," and "Best of Connecticut."

Sections

The magazine's dining section includes reviews, recipes, and restaurant listings. The health section lists the best doctors and dentists in the state.

Editorial summary

“Connecticut Magazine” enters the record as american cultural periodical of the 20th and 21st centuries. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Connecticut, Magazine and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2017, 1898, 1908—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Connecticut, Magazine and American.
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“Connecticut Magazine” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Connecticut, Magazine and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q42915721. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2017, 1898 and 1908.

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This entry incorporates text from Connecticut Magazine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.