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ON THE COVER

Opera tradition continues Encore virtual performance to assist Blandford Historical Society

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By Keith O’Connor

The Blandford Historical Society will present online a special encore performance of the 2013 Bel Canto Opera on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The Bel Canto performers include (rear from left) Diego Silva, Gustavo Feulien and Doug Martin; and (front from left) Elise Brancheau, Eve Queler and Lara Secord-Haid.

Special to The Republican

he COVID19 pandemic has robbed many arts lovers of the ability to enjoy a live performance.

For 25 years, the Blandford Historical Society has presented its annual fundraising Bel Canto Opera — and this year will be no different, only it will be a virtual experience.

On Saturday at 7:30 p.m., the historical society will present online a special encore performance of the opera presented in 2013. The date is the actual day and time that the performance had been scheduled for this year.

5 podcasts to bring theater into home

By Phoebe Lett

New York Times

In the United States, stages mostly remain dark. But there is another option for finding that full immersion into the magic of the theater, and that is through podcasts. These shows, available on most listening apps, will challenge the assumption that you need to be in a theater seat to be transported into another world.

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Assistant, written by Asher Benjamin in 1797.

The White Church of What: The Blandford Historical Society presents a special Blandford, built in 1822, encore presentation of the 2013 Bel Canto Opera When: Saturday at 7:30pm sits high on a hill in BlandWhere: RSVP at thewhitechurch.org for a link to the show ford, which was settled in Cost: Suggested donation of $35 1732. The historic building More information: thewhitechurch.org/special-encoreis owned by the Historipresentation-of-the-2013-bel-canto-opera/ cal Society and is open by appointment in the summer Diego Silva, tenor with Eve and used as a setting for wedbuilding, which in two years dings and concerts.

Queler and Douglas Martin we will be celebrating its There is a link to the perforconducting and accompany- 200th anniversary,” Norcross ing on piano. mance on The White Church noted.

“We didn’t want to let the The program includes arias website at thewhitechurch.

The cornerstone of the year go by without presenting from Don Giovanni, LaBoorg. Click on the RSVP button building was laid by Capt. heme, Carmen and more. the opera in some way and and a link to the program will Isaac Damon, of Northampton, the principal architect.

Norcross said money to keep the tradition going be sent to you. The Historical Society is working on Isaac Damon based his for the 26th year,” said Chips raised from past concerts, about $200,000, have been design on two known prede- providing access to two other Norcross, president of the cessors: a church in Pittsfield performances as well.

Blandford Historical Society. used to help preserve the The taped performance

by Charles Bulfinch dated Patrons watching online building. features Elise Brancheau and are asked to consider a $35 “We are about two-thirds of 1789-93, and drawings for a Lara Secord-Haid, sopranos, the way through on a major church in a carpenter’s hand- donation, which is the cost book, The Country Builder’s of one ticket.

Gustavo Feulien, baritone, restoration project on the

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“We didn’t want to let the year go by without presenting the opera in some way and to keep the tradition going for the 26th year.”

CHIPS NORCROSS, PRESIDENT OF THE BLANDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY

“Free Shakespeare on the Radio: Richard II” brings the Bard’s play to life with clever adaptations for the ear.

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“Free Shakespeare on the Radio: Richard II” Shakespeare in the Park is one of New York City’s most beloved traditions. Every summer in Central Park, world-renowned performers act out the comedies and tragedies of the Bard in the openair Delacorte Theater. But the pandemic this summer prevented live performances of this year’s play, “Richard II.” Instead, it aired in four parts on radio station WNYC, and now anyone can now enjoy “Free Shakespeare on the Radio: Richard II.” At the heart of this history is a deeply fractured society, a wrongfully murdered man and a demand for justice, revenge and revolution against broken systems – themes that are all too timely.

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Deep dive into ‘crime of the century’ The Dark Zone to livestream at the Lizzie Borden House

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By Heather Adams

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he crime of the century” could be making its way into your living room.

And while that might be frightening to most people, to true-crime buffs it might just be the perfect social distancing event.

Illuminated by a backyard lamp, the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast glows as the moon peeks through the clouds in Fall River on May 16, 2019. Abby Borden and her husband Andrew Borden were murdered in this home allegedly by their daughter, Lizzie Borden, left, on Aug. 4, 1892.

Lizzie Borden was ultimately found not guilty. This original home is now the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast, where guests can spend a night. The Dark Zone will be livestreaming 24/7 for four days at the house beginning tomorrow. (LISA DEJONG / THE PLAIN DEALER)

The Dark Zone also had a similar event at the Conjuring House in May. “This is something that had never been done and is a first for the world’s paranormal community,” the organization said of the May event. “These videos represent some of the events of the groundbreaking weeklong livestream.”

During the livestream at the Lizzie Borden House, the group will “review the murders, the trial and discuss

possible alternate theories HOW TO WATCH with true-crime experts and What: The Dark Zone presents: Lizzie Borden Murder historians. Then, our paraHouse LIVE normal guests will dive deep When: Tomorrow at noon until Tuesday at 3 a.m. into the haunting sharing their Where: thedarkzone.tv, The Dark Zone on Roku or stories, theories and evidence Apple TV while teeing up interactive Tickets: $20; can be purchased online at thedarkzone.tv experiments and nightly ghost More information: thedarkzone.tv hunts.”

“Will Lizzie herself make an appearance?” the website asks.

You might just have to be brave enough to find out.

Tickets for the event are $20 and can be purchased online.

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The Dark Zone will be live streaming 24/7 for four days at the Lizzie Borden House beginning tomorrow.

Located in Fall River, the house is known as the double-murder scene where Abby and Andrew Borden were hacked to death in 1892.

Lizzie was the No. 1 suspect in her father and stepmother’s deaths but was acquitted by a jury. The case remains unsolved.

Now a bed and breakfast, people come from all over the world to have their own supernatural experiences.

People have reported feeling cold spots, hearing footsteps and voices and seeing full bodied apparitions of the Borden family.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, tours had been shut down temporarily. The tours reopened July 8 and are limited to 10 people, according to the website. There are no walk-ins and everyone on the tour must wear a mask. Gloves are not required, but in order to touch and inspect things in the house while on tour, guests must be wearing a fresh pair of latex gloves.

But if you’re not ready to take a tour in-person or you want to go above and beyond the usual tour, The Dark Zone’s virtual option might be for you.

“You’ll have unparalleled access to the entire haunted location,” The Dark Zone’s website states.

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MUSIC

Big E stages dark for now, but hopes high for 2021

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T IS THAT TIME OF year when we typically check in with John Juliano of Mellowship Entertainment, entertainment buyer for the annual Eastern States Exposition, to discuss the lineup for The Big E’s multiple concert stages.

Like all other events in the Age of COVID, the fair, and its plethora of live music offerings, has been put on hold.

“This might be our shortest conversation ever,” joked Juliano when reached for comment about the scuttled entertainment calendar. “Like everyone else, we are hanging in there and hoping for the best.”

The 2020 Big E was scheduled to take place Sept. 18 to Oct. 4 at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield and while much of the Court of Honor stage lineup had already been announced with acts such as Jesse McCartney, The Yardbirds, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Juliano was holding off on announcing the headliners for the Big E Arena.

“We were working on coordinating those announcements when COVID-19 hit,” he said. “And we put everything on hold.”

The initial plan with the acts that were committed for 2020 was to postpone until next year. Juliano said that approximately 30% of the acts have tentatively agreed to take the 2021 dates. It gives the fair a solid base to work from and may leave some opportunity to add up-and-coming and breakout performers if slots open up.

Few industries have taken as big of a hit during the pandemic as the live event industry, where social distancing guidelines and capacity limitations make it all but impossible to stage a concert.

“The drive-in concert is a great idea, but it doesn’t really work financially,” said Juliano.

“People want to go to shows.

It remains to be seen when they will be able to do that.”

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The crowd reacts to the performance of Canadian pop singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen as she performed at The Big E Arena last year. John Juliano of Mellowship Entertainment, entertainment buyer for the annual Eastern States Exposition, said that approximately 30% of the acts originally scheduled for this year’s fair have tentatively agreed to take the 2021 dates. The 2020 edition of The Big E was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (FREDERICK GORE PHOTO)

“Those shows and the crowds are something I will never forget. It would be sad if new concertgoers were never able to experience that.”

JOHN JULIANO, MELLOWSHIP ENTERTAINMENT; ENTERTAINMENT BUYER, EASTERN STATES EXPOSITION

Juliano is looking at the return to school as a benchmark moving forward.

“If somehow they can open, and do it safely, then there is some hope for live events,” he said.

Juliano, who remembers being on the floor of the Springfield Civic Center for concerts during the ’70s, and whose own Big E concert productions (Def Leppard, Destiny’s Child) often stretched the capacity limits of a wide-open fairground, wants a safe resolution to the pandemic so live entertainment can return in its previous incarnation.

“Those shows and the crowds are something I will never forget,” he said. “It would be sad if new concertgoers were never able to experience that.”

The 2021 Big E is scheduled to run from Sept. 17 to Oct. 3.

Liner notes • The Blue Man Group, which has put performances on hold during the global pandemic, has announced a series of shows in Worcester in 2021.

The performance group will hold court at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts from June 10 through June 13.

The run will consist of evening shows each day along with matinees on June 12 and June 13.

Tickets are available through the venue website at thehanovertheatre.org.

Blue Man Group is a performance art group that was formed in New York in 1987 and went on to international fame.

The group maintains a continuous production regionally through the Charles Playhouse in Boston.

• Joe Bonamassa is coming “live” to a screen near you with

one-night-only pay-per-view concert to promote his new release “Royal Tea.” The concert will take place Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. Tickets are available through Live Nation

at livenation.com or through the artist’s site at jbonamassa. com.

Hailing from upstate New York, Bonamassa got his start playing the regional blues clubs (including Theodores’ in Springfield) and his star rose considerably when PBS picked up his recorded concert at Royal Albert Hall in 2009. Since then, 11 of his solo albums have reached No. 1 on the Billboard blues charts.

Bonamassa has structured a tiered ticket package for his event, which includes the basic livestream for $20 up to a Commemorative VIP package for $99. The latter includes a download of “Royal Tea,” a T-shirt, your name included in the credits, and your photo printed out and placed in the venue as an “audience” member.

The show will be broadcast from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

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• Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Live Nation to produce a virtual concert that will take place Saturday at 6 p.m.

Tickets for the livestream event start at $15 and are available through Live Nation at livenation.com.

Megan Thee Stallion is one of the top-selling artists of the day with her hit single “Savage,� which topped the charts, and her Cardi B collaboration “WAP,� which also hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

KISS has extended its “final� run into 2021 with new dates in Massachusetts and Hartford.

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the Xfinity Theatre in Hartford on Aug. 21.

Tickets for the original dates will be honored and tickets for both are still available through Live Nation at livenation.com.

This is not the first farewell for the influential rockers.

The band also had to cancel its annual KISS Kruise this summer.

guitarist who founded The Fabulous Thunderbirds in the late 1970s. His first solo release was the 1994 album “Strange Pleasure.�

Last year, he released “Baby Please Come Home.�

• KT Tunstall has announced a new date for her postponed show at the Bull Run on Route 2A in Shirley.

Tunstall will now perform at the • Blues guitarist Jimmie venue on Feb. 11, 2021.

Vaughan’s show at Infinity Hall gas Tickets purchased for the original been canceled. date will be honored. Ticket refund The performance, scheduled for information is available at bullrunrestaurant.com.

Aug. 23 at the Hartford venue, has Tunstall came to prominence after been scrapped due to the impact of a 2004 live solo performance of her COVID-19. • KISS has extended its “finalâ€? run song “Black Horse and the Cherry Ticket holders will be emailed for into 2021 with new dates in Massarefunds and questions about refunds Treeâ€? on the BBC show “Later ... chusetts and Hartford. with Jools Holland.â€? can be emailed to harftordboxoffice@infinityhall.com.

The rock group’s “End of the She will also be making up a Vaughan, brother of the late Stevie postponed date at the Iron Horse in Road� tour will now play the Xfinity Ray Vaughan, is a celebrated blues Northampton on Feb. 10.

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‘The Parsnip Ship’ If you miss the joy of discovering an up-and-coming playwright or witnessing performances that challenge your expectations of what theater can do, look no further than the live-event-turned-podcast “The Parsnip Ship.� The Brooklyn-based organization endeavors to elevate marginalized voices and emerging playwrights, staging their works before a live audience with musical performances and an interview with the playwright. Each new show spotlights the experiences of marginalized people, like the Japanese transgender woman in Ashley Lauren Rogers’ “The Last Ring� or the San Francisco

lesbian couple navigating in vitro fertilization and bipolar II disorder in “Delicacy of a Puffin Heart� by Stefani Kuo. Before each show begins, the organization’s artistic director and the podcast’s host, Iyvon Edebiri, asks the playwright, “What would the world be missing if it did not have this play?� “Fireside Mystery Theater�

In “Fireside Mystery Theater,� a troupe of actors and host Ali Silva have come together once a month for nearly a decade to put on a delightfully stylized variation of the classic “old timey radio� tradition. The episodes feature sound effects, musical acts

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Magnetic ‘Tesla’ gives visionary his due Drama stars a brilliant Ethan Hawke

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By Justin Chang

Los Angeles Times

he past few years have brought a fresh resurgence of interest in the life and legacy of Nikola Tesla, the popularity of an Elon Musk electric car being only the best-known example. You can find Tesla’s tall, dark-suited frame and mustachioed frown in graphic novels and video games; you can hear his innovations extolled in the lyrics of rock songs and even a 2018 stage musical.

The movies have done their part to exploit his considerable mystique without necessarily drawing him in from the sidelines: David Bowie played him as the drollest of enigmas in “The Prestige” (2006), and Nicholas Hoult gave us a peek at Tesla the wily young

‘TESLA’ Rated: PG-13 Running time: 102 min.

Playing: Rent or buy on iTunes, Google Play and other streaming platforms and pay-TV operators; general release where theaters are open.

upstart in the more recent “The Current War.” You could say that history itself consigned Tesla to a subordinate role, that of the tragically thwarted genius — remembered as much for his lopsided rivalry with Thomas Edison and his ill-fated dealings with various titans of industry as for his groundbreaking advances in the study of electrical power and wireless communications.

In their quietly entrancing new drama, “Tesla,” writer-director Michael Almereyda and his star, Ethan Hawke, have conspired to give this Serbian-born, American-made visionary his cinematic due. Their aim, superficially stated, is to illuminate how a turn-ofthe-century iconoclast managed to anticipate and revolutionize a future that few of his contemporaries saw coming.

But Almereyda, never one to embalm

Ethan Hawke appears in a scene from “Tesla.” (CARA HOWE / IFC FILMS VIA AP)

unconventional minds in conventional storytelling, has no interest in a mere recitation of his subject’s accomplishments. As in “Experimenter,” his aptly titled, thrillingly unorthodox portrait of the social psychologist Stanley Milgram, he infuses classical narrative with an invigorating formal playfulness.

If “Tesla” emerges a remarkably intuitive match of filmmaker, actor and sub-

ject, it is one that took its time coming together. Almereyda wrote the script decades ago (Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski was eyeing it in the early ’80s), though it wasn’t until recently that the stars aligned and the financing was acquired. There is nothing new about the challenges of bankrolling an intelligent drama for discerning adults,

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ONLINE STREAMING

‘Chemical Hearts,’ ‘Desert One’ among new releases

By Michael O’Sullivan

decline known as adulthood.

Take Henry with a grain of The line that opens the ad- salt. That’s arguably how the olescent tear-jerker romance world feels to many teens, “Chemical Hearts” — spoken and this weepy but well-made in voice-over by teen protag- love story certainly gets that onist Henry (Austin Abrams) histrionic emotional state — will immediately cleave right. Based on a 2016 novel the audience into two camps, by Krystal Sutherland, the depending on which side of film tells the story of 17-yearyour 20th birthday you fall: old Henry’s relationship with “You are never more alive Grace (Lili Reinhart), a morose classmate who shuffles than when you’re a teenager.” Ahem. By that measure, around campus with a cane anyone old enough to drink and a limp, refusing to drive has ample reason to, and may her own car and wearing as well start planning their shapeless boys clothing that own funeral, as they slide hides her figure. The gradual unraveling of her mysinto the slow and protracted Washington Post

Austin Abrams, left, and Lili Reinhart in “Chemical Hearts.”

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terious backstory parallels their evolving relationship, which grows from platonic to romantic (albeit fraught with sniffle-inducing obstacles).

Abrams and Reinhart are an appealing pair, even if Henry’s hobby of kintsukuroi — the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics — is a bit of an obvious metaphor. (Warning: you may grow sick of the Beach House song “Take Care” by the sixth or seventh time it’s played.) R. Available on Amazon Prime Video. Contains strong language, sexuality and teen drug use. 93 minutes.

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“Yes, God, Yes” stars Natalia Dyer as a teen navigating sexuality, shame and guilt while attempting to unlock her individuality.

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Teen desire is tough cross to bear in ‘Yes, God, Yes’

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or about the oversights of a film industry where potentially great projects can languish for years. But they are especially worth noting in the case of “Tesla,” which is, in more than one sense, a movie about the uneven distribution of power.

It’s the story of a stubborn, uncompromising genius in conflict with a series of dubious benefactors, many of whom want to funnel his gifts into more conventional and lucrative forms.

Almereyda doesn’t belabor the metaphor, and he probably would be the last person to describe himself as any kind of visionary. But it is hard to shake the sense that he and Hawke, who starred in his offbeat Shakespeare adaptations “Hamlet” and “Cymbeline,” have forged a kinship with their subject that goes beyond mere empathy. It is also hard not to view “Tesla” as the latest of Almereyda’s movies — including “Experimenter” and his melancholy futuristic drama “Marjorie Prime” — to explore the intrinsic connections between science and filmmaking, to treat the cinematic medium as a rich amalgam of the rational and the poetic.

Eve Hewson appears in a scene from “Tesla.” (CARA HOWE / IFC FILMS VIA AP)

crucial perspective on Tesla, one that is by turns appreciative of his genius and critical of his shortcomings.

On occasion, Anne will neatly demolish the fourth wall by whipping out a MacBook and running a Google Image search on some of the movie’s real-life figures — including her wealthy father, banker J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz) — a nifty fact-checking gag that also ties Tesla’s moment to our technologically advanced present. Sometimes Anne informs us that something we’ve just witnessed didn’t actually happen, just in case you were confused by that scene of Tesla and Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) attacking

For all its arch devices and anachronisms, including a wonderfully straight-faced, gofor-broke cover of a 1980s pop hit, the effect of Almereyda’s “Tesla” is hypnotic.

It begins with Hawke’s Tesla stumbling around a courtyard on roller skates, then a fairly recent invention — a funny, gently disorienting image of a wildly adventurous mind, forever chasing after new concepts and experiences while often struggling to master its environs. He is accompanied by his friend Anne Morgan (Eve Hewson), a superior skater and the movie’s shrewdly counterintuitive choice of narrator. Providing a rare woman’s voice in a story dominated by the whims and aspirations of men, she adroitly navigates this story from one funny-sad vignette to the next while providing her own

each other with ice cream cones — a deft, ego-deflating visualization of the rivalry that develops after Tesla asks the veteran inventor to finance his new project.

Since that project is a motor that makes use of alternate current, a more elegant and efficient means of harnessing power than Edison’s direct-current methods, no such support is forthcoming. But if the movie’s Edison is arrogant, thin-skinned and easily threatened, MacLachlan’s witty, sympathetic performance resists the yoke of easy villainy. (It’s an inspired reunion too: MacLachlan played Claudius to Hawke’s Hamlet.) A similar emotional generosity in-

forms Jim Gaffigan’s big-hearted turn as engineer and entrepreneur George Westinghouse, who supports Tesla and makes his AC innovations a force to be reckoned with – at least until the company faces bankruptcy and the two are forced to part ways.

Much of this narrative ground was covered in the 1980 Polish film “The Secret of Nikola Tesla,” a creakily effective dramatization best remembered for Orson Welles’ commanding turn as J.P. Morgan. But the two movies could hardly be more different in style and sensibility. For all its arch devices and anachronisms, including a wonderfully straight-faced, go-for-broke cover of a 1980s pop hit, the effect of Almereyda’s “Tesla” is hypnotic. Carl Sprague’s production design has a quasi-Brechtian spareness; the very air seems charged with a strange and lyrical intensity (deepened by John Paesano’s delicately layered score). Cinematographer Sean Price Williams draws us into a world of dark shadows and richly burnished lighting, cast by candles as well as electric bulbs: We are reminded that this seemingly distant, technologically primitive moment was also a time of extraordinary, world-altering flux.

Tesla is an observer, agent and sometimes victim of that flux: His grand visions are the definition of “ahead of their time,” at times leading him into eyebrow-raising realms of study. And Hawke, without exaggerating or diluting Tesla’s eccentricity, distills the character’s strange, sometimes contradictory essence. He is a man apparently without greed who acquired enormous sums and lost them, a thinker who boldly reimagined the parameters of the possible but was ultimately stymied by those very boundaries. What comes through most in Hawke’s brilliantly internalized performance is Tesla’s intense commitment to his work, as well as his weariness about having to continually explain and defend it to men of deeper pockets and lesser minds. The progress of human civilization can be infuriatingly banal, which doesn’t mean our biopics have to be.

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Drive-thru, curbside and delivery part of new norm

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ITH THE COVID-19 pandemic now into its seventh month in the U.S., it’s clear that everyday life, and the role foodaway-from-home is destined to play in it, has changed, almost certainly forever.

Of course, this wave of disruption can’t be characterized as completely unexpected.

The arrival of COVID-19 on the scene has for the most part simply accelerated industry transformations — third party delivery services, “ghost” kitchens, digital payment, and more — that were already underway. Nonetheless, the restaurant world will emerge from the pandemic radically transformed.

Already it’s obvious that eateries that had digital ordering platforms, drive-thru facilities, and the operational agility to quickly shift to “curbside” are now better situated to survive and prosper than those places that shut their doors in mid-March and decided to “wait it out.”

It’s also clear that there will be a number of restaurants — no one seems to have a real sense of just how many — that will fall victim to the current economic downturn.

Earlier this summer, for instance, OpenTable said that one in four of the restaurants it listed were at risk for closure, and, while lobbying this summer for federal aid, the Independent Restaurant Coalition warned that over 75% of independent restaurants might go out of business by the end of 2020.

Earlier this summer, for instance, OpenTable said that one in four of the restaurants it listed were at risk for closure, and, while lobbying this summer for federal aid, the Independent Restaurant Coalition warned that over 75% of independent restaurants might go out of business by the end of 2020.

Both numbers are probably overstated, but there will no doubt be casualties aplenty since, like retail, the restaurant industry has been ripe for

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a thinning of the herd. Apart from a significant number of individual restaurant closings, several small- and medium-sized restaurant chains have already gone into bankruptcy. Major brands haven’t avoided the turmoil either, having had to retrench their own operations and bail out financially troubled franchisees.

However, the events of the

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Side dishes • The Tavern Restaurant in Westfield continues to offer “Family Dinners to Go.” Available seven evenings a week starting at 4 p.m., the dinners are designed to accommodate from four to six people depending on the appetites involved.

The six options offered are all Italian American favorites and include the likes of chicken francaise, eggplant parmigiana, and chicken and broccoli alfredo. A family salad with dressing can be added to any Family Dinner for an additional charge.

Contact the Tavern Restaurant at 413-562-0335 for more details or to place an order.

• Emma’s Everyday Gourmet in Westfield is now open daily starting at 3 p.m. except Sunday for dine-in and takeout.

In addition to the restaurant’s regular menu of homestyle Italian favorites, the kitchen offers three daily specials — an appetizer selection, a specialty pizza, and an entree.

Recent examples of each have included a chicken arancini starter fashioned from black beans, rice, barbecued chicken, and cheddar cheese; a specialty pizza topped with prosciutto, roasted garlic, Swiss cheese, and a Dijon sauce; and an entree of red snapper filet paired with wild mushroom polenta.

Reservations and takeout can be arranged by calling 413-6423221.

• Hanna Devine’s Restaurant in Ware now has a “brother” establishment in Belchertown, having taken over the operation of the clubhouse restaurant at the Cold Spring Country Club on Route 21.

Joseph’s at Cold Spring operates Tuesday through Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from noon until 8 p.m.

Styling itself as an “American restaurant,” Joseph’s offers a limited menu of salads, sandwiches, and entrees. Among the latter can be found favorites such as fish and chips, maple bourbon salmon, and Statler chicken with a roasted fresh herb finish.

The restaurant has first call on the clubhouse patio, an outdoor space with sweeping views of the golf course and the rural landscape beyond, as well as appropriately spaced indoor seating.

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• Max’s Tavern at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield is providing diners with two endof-week options.

Each Friday, Max’s Tavern is presenting “Tavern Tastings,” a multicourse food and beverage event built around a specific set of beverage selections.

Available from 5 until 8:30 p.m., the five course, prix fixe tasting menu features the inventive New American cookery of Max’s Tavern Executive Chef Nate Waugaman. Reservations are required.

On Fridays and Saturdays the restaurant dishes up a prime rib special that’s available for dine-in or takeout. A made-forcouples experience, Prime Rib for Two includes a select bottle of wine.

• The Wendy’s Co. has rolled out a new budget-priced menu option, the Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich. Made from breaded chicken breast strips, the sandwich gets its heat from a chili pepper marinade. Breaded and fried crisp, the strips are served on a warm bun, topped with romaine and a smear of mayo.

The Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich is claiming a permanent slot on the burger chain’s menu.

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• The Villa Rose Restaurant in Ludlow has adopted special hours and menu selections to comply with the current iteration of pandemic guidance.

Seating is available on the restaurant’s patio, in its garden area, and, on a socially distanced basis, in the dining room. The restaurant’s operating hours are noon until 10 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday, with a requested patron dwell time of 90 minutes per group.

The restaurant is also operating on a limited menu basis; the listing of a dozen or so entrees is typically tweaked weekly.

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• Autumn has arrived a month early this year, at least at area Dunkin’ shops. The “coffee-and” chain, one of the earliest pumpkin-spice influencers in the food industry, has reintroduced its fall favorites (as well as some product newbies) for a limited time only.

Dunkin’s pumpkin flavor swirl can be enjoyed in all its coffee, espresso, and hot chocolate drinks; it’s also making an appearance in the new Signature Pumpkin Spice Latte, an espresso-based creation that’s enhanced with pumpkin and vanilla before being topped with whipped cream, a caramel drizzle, and cinnamon sugar.

Also new on the menu is a Chai Latte spiced with cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg.

A selection of new snacking favorites is another part of Dunkin’s fall lineup.

Stuffed Mini Bagels are bagel rounds filled with cream cheese and served warm; they come

in “plain” and “everything” variations.

Maple Sugar Seasoned Snackin’ Bacon is served eight strips to a sleeve.

Steak & Cheese Rollups join the savory snack lineup. Served two to an order, they’re made with sliced steak and American cheese rolled in a flour tortilla.

Classics returning to the Dunkin’ agenda include apple cider and pumpkin donut variations, a streusel-topped pumpkin muffin, and a Maple Sugar Bacon Breakfast Sandwich that also includes egg and white cheddar served in a warm croissant.

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Anti-IPA soldiers should surrender

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HERE IS THE WONderful — if somewhat tragic — story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after World War II ended and spent the next 29 years in the Philippines jungle.

Onoda hid until 1974 because he didn’t believe that the war had actually ended (which happened in the Pacific Theater in August 1945). But his former commanding officer was finally able to convince him three decades later. Onoda said that as a young soldier, he got cut off from his troops but vowed to obey the command he had received earlier to never surrender.

I mention this not only because it’s a fabulous story but because it serves as a perfect intro to my column’s focus today: Beer opinion wars, and specifically India pale ale enemies.

Somewhere back in the 2000s, IPAs started to dominate the craft beer world. They had become increasingly popular before then, but at some point they even started outpacing the always-popular stouts.

Like anything that is elevated by the zeitgeist of whatever age you might be considering, the IPA boom drew considerable backlash.

Traditionalists felt that many if not most IPAs were too unbalanced or lacked complexity.

Others complained that the use of copious hops was a bit of legerdemain that served to hide flaws in the beers. Some just didn’t like super-hoppy flavor profiles as a matter of their personal palates.

These protests all had some validity, and I had a few friends (three come to mind) who aired their anti-IPA views to me regularly.

But guess what? They all now like, if not love, plenty of IPAs. Of course, in the craft beer world, the only thing more plentiful than brews are opin-

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Of course, in the craft beer world, the only thing more plentiful than brews are opinions about brews. ions about brews, and I still occasionally see some kvetching about how there are too many IPAs or most of them aren’t that good or blah blah blah, etc.

Well excuse me, Mr. Onoda, but the war is over. It has been for quite a while.

That’s not to say all IPAs are great or that people shouldn’t drink other styles. That would be ridiculous. But it’s pretty clear that the India pale ale category is so extremely popular that maybe it’s time to let this particular issue go as far as complaining about it.

The main whine more recently has been that IPAs have crowded out other styles. But come on: Are people trying to legitimately claim that they can’t find a wide enough variety in today’s diverse craft beer marketplace? Maybe folks who live in less beer-savvy locales have a minor gripe, or maybe their local brewpub doesn’t make their favored style. But that’s a local issue to take up with the locals.

So if you find yourself complaining about the glut of IPAs (or any beer style), maybe come out of the jungle and see the light. It’s a big beautiful craft beer world we live in.

Cheers.

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4 great Italian pinot grigio wines (mostly) under $10

’VE ALWAYS BEEN A fan of underdogs.

The horse with 50 to 1 odds. (Remember Mind That Bird, the 2009 winner of the Kentucky Derby?)

A No. 16 seed miraculously knocking out a top seed in the first round of the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. (Remember University of Maryland-Baltimore County in 2018?)

A baseball team down three games to none in the bottom of the ninth in a best-of-seven series against their archrivals.

(Who can ever forget the 2004 Red Sox?) Maybe that’s why I have a bit of a soft spot for pinot grigio wines.

Talk to some so-called wine experts and you might think pinot grigio is responsible for everything that’s wrong with the world, from global warming to culottes.

For some time, I have noticed that pinot grigio has become the preferred punching bag for many wine snobs.

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It’s too light.

It’s too bland.

It’s too cheap.

It’s too popular.

Yes, God forbid too many people actually like a particular wine.

One “expert sommelier” interviewed this year in a prominent magazine even went so far as to say that “pinot grigio shouldn’t even be considered wine.”

Seriously?

All pinot grigios are terrible?

There’s not a single good one?

As John McEnroe used to

say, you cannot be serious.

Don’t get me wrong. I realize there are bad pinot grigios out there. Just like there are bad chardonnays or pinot noirs or any wine for that matter.

So this week, as we head into the last, sultry days summer (I know summer doesn’t technically end for another month or so but Labor Day’s just around the corner), I thought now would be a great time to highlight a few refreshing pinot grigios from Italy for under $10 a bottle. I hope you enjoy them as well.

Wines recommended this week • 2019 Cabert Friuli Pinot Grigio ($8.99 at Table & Vine in West Springfield) • 2019 Barone Fini Valdaige Pinot Grigio ($12.99 at Table & Vine) • 2019 Voga Pinot Grigio ($9.99 at Table & Vine) • 2019 Cinta Pinot Grigio ($8.99 at Table & Vine) SEE WINE, PAGE E12

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Forty years after the U.S. military operation to rescue 52 U.S. Embassy staffers taken hostage in Iran in 1979, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Desert One” revisits the abortive 1980 mission. Using a mix of surprisingly thriller-ish animation and stodgier talking-head interviews with former soldiers, intelligence agents, hostages and others — including former President Jimmy Carter — the Oscar-winning director of “Harlan County U.S.A.” and “American Dream” walks us through a brief history of modern Iran before delivering a gripping ticktock of the operation, which involved multiple helicopters and a desert staging area whose code name lends the film its title. There are no real bombshells, but the tale of this rescue attempt is an inspiring one, making the case that the effort was worthwhile, even if it didn’t work. PG-13. Available at afisilver.afi.com.

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money to provide lifesaving medicine to hemophiliacs in developing countries. Irish Film Critic calls the film ­­— executive-produced by hemophilia activist and actress Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) — “inspirational.” Unrated. Available on various streaming platforms.

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Also streaming In the Spanish delayedcoming-of-age drama “The August Virgin,” a woman Cecilia Roth in “The Crimes (played by co-writer Itsaso That Bind.” (NETFLIX) Arana) returns to Madrid during August — the month After her son is convicted when much of the city of the rape and attempted decamps for cooler climes. murder of his wife, a woman While there, she reconnects (Cecilia Roth of “All About with old friends and makes My Mother”) goes to extraorsome new ones, all while dinary lengths to keep him embarking on a journey of reinvention. Brightest Young out of prison in the Argentine thriller “The Crimes That Things calls it a “lovely, fascinating film about self-disBind.” TV-14. Available on Netflix. In Spanish with subtitles. covery and how the places 99 minutes. we come from dictate who we are.” Unrated. Available at theavalon.org and afisilver.

Sally Hawkins plays a woman whose paranoid schizoafi.com. In English, Spanish and German with subtitles. 125 phrenia aggravate her family in “Eternal Beauty.” The Holminutes. lywood Reporter says that the “Bombardier Blood” is doc- visually stylized film “borrows umentary about Chris Bombuckets of quirk from the bardier, a hemophiliac moun- likes of Wes Anderson (design tain climber who commits to sensibility), Michel Gondry climbing the highest peaks on (in-camera trickery) and Paul each of seven continents — Thomas Anderson (general the Seven Summits — to raise gestalt), but that’s OK.” R.

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Directed by Jay Baruchel (“Goon”), “Random Acts of Violence” is a gory slasher film that explicitly questions the appeal of gory slasher films. Slant magazine writes: “Why, the film wonders aloud, are we drawn to such material, and why do we produce it? But the film seems reticent to elaborate on the questions it raises, losing sight of them entirely in an obvious, overlong plot twist that muddies ideas of an artist’s responsibility and art’s effect on audiences into incoherence.” Unrated.

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Never previously released in the United States, the 1981 animation “Son of the White Mare,” a trippy mythological fable by Hungarian animator Marcell Jankovics, has been restored for virtual cinema.

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When the owner of a San Francisco drag club dies suddenly, his estranged mother (“Silver Linings Playbook’s” Jacki Weaver) takes his misfit colleagues and friends under her wing in “Stage Mother,” a feel-good dramedy that the Guardian says feels “a little flaccid.” R. Available on various streaming platforms. Contains sexuality, including an assault, crude language and some drug use. 93 minutes.

“Sunless Shadows” is a documentary about adolescent girls and women who have been imprisoned in Iran for murdering abusive male relatives. The New York Times calls it wrenching, adding that “the most crushing revelation A cameo by Bruce Dern is the one claim to fame of first- comes during a visit from an ex-inmate, who verbalizes the time writer-director Teddy Grennan’s “Ravage,” a horror larger tragedy at stake when film about a nature photogra- she says life outside of prison pher (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) is not any better.” Unrated. who is kidnapped after Available at afisilver.afi.com.

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series follows Victorian Irish postmortem photographers Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) and Molloy (Kerr Logan).

“Deep Blue Sea 3”: Dr. Emma Collins (Tania Raymonde) and her associates return to Little Happy island to study sharks as a suspicious team puts their lives in jeopardy.

“Gunsmoke: The Complete Movie Collection”: Collection includes “Return to Dodge,” “The Last Apache” and “To the Last Man.” “Infamous”: A couple on the lam (Bella Thorne and Jake Manley) livestream their robberies via social media.

“One Night in Bangkok”: A hit man (Mark Davascos) holds a cabbie hostage (Vanida Golten) as he makes his kills.

“SEAL Team: Season Three”: The CBS series picks back up with Jason (David Boreanaz) and the team in Serbia.

“The Flash: The Complete Sixth Season”: The CW series starring Grant Gustin as the DC superhero marches on.

“Washington”: Miniseries follows the life of the country’s first president. Jeff Daniels stars.

Out on Digital HD “Einstein’s Universe”: The 1979 documentary about the world’s most famous theoretical physicist has been remastered and digitally restored.

“One Man and His Shoes”: Documentary explores the history and legacy of the American sensation that is Air Jordan sneakers.

“Centigrade”: After an intense snowstorm, a man (Vincent Piazza) and his pregnant wife (Genesis Rodriguez) remain trapped in their car. Out on Digital HD tomorrow.

“Driven to Abstraction”: Documentary examines an infamous $80 million art scheme.

Out on Digital HD tomorrow.

“Entwined”: A doctor (Prometheus Aleifer) becomes enchanted by a woman (Maria Eglezaki) suffering from a mysterious skin condition. In Greek and English. Out tomorrow.

“Rogue”: A hired gun (Megan Fox) sets off with a team to Africa on a rescue mission. Out tomorrow.

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tongue. There’s also a slight hint of grapefruit flavors on the finish, which make this CONTINUED FROM PAGE E10 citrus-like wine a perfect, About pinot grigio warm summer afternoon Pinot grigio wines have been drink. around since the 1200s in parts of France, particularly in 2019 Barone Fini Valdaige Pinot Grigio the Burgundy region. Nowadays, you can find pinot grigio Region: Trentino-Alto wines from around the world. Adige, Italy These light, refreshing wines Tasting notes: Made with often have a slightly floral pinot grigio grapes from and citrus-like finish. That’s 25- to 30-year-old vines in why I personally think they’re the Valdadige region, which among the best summer white is part of the larger Trentino-Alto Adige region, this wines ideal for hot, sunny days. And I’m not alone. Pinot wonderful, flinty, refreshing grigio wines are the third most wine has a wide range of subtle flavors — from hints popular wines in the United of lemon and grapefruit to States. (You can read more a touch of melon. Definitely next week about the most the most understated of the popular wine.) four wines and one of my faPinot grigio vs. pinot gris vorite, affordable white wines It’s easy to confuse pinot this summer. grigio with pinot gris. That’s because they’re the exact 2019 Voga Pinot Grigio same grape. It’s just a matter Region: Venezie, Italy of what certain wine growTasting notes: Made with ing areas call wine made pinot grigio grapes from from this versatile grape.

Italy’s Venezie region (which Italian winemakers call this is part of the Friuli Venezia grape pinot grigio. French Giulia), this crisp, clean, dry winemakers call this grape white wine packaged in a pinot gris. As for the rest of modern-looking capsule-like the world, take your pick. glass bottle just might make Both names are often used, you rethink what’s possible sometimes in the same wine for pinot grigio wines. Here growing area. the flavors have a more mineral-like finish with a Where pinot grigio hint of sea salt. Yes, there grapes are grown are definitely hints of lemon You can still find pinot gris and lime familiar to fans of wines in France, especially Italian pinot grigio. But I was in the Alsace region. But impressed by the range of there are many other regions flavors and their subtlety. where pinot grigio wines thrive, including California, 2019 Cinta Pinot Grigio Oregon, Australia, New ZeaRegion: Veneto, Italy land and parts of Germany.

Tasting notes: Made with But when it comes to pinot pinot grigio grapes grown in grigio, Italy reigns supreme, Italy’s Veneto region in the especially in the Alto Adige northeastern corner of the region in northern Italy. country, this wonderful white wine has a lovely, bright, reWine tasting notes freshing finish. Flavors range 2019 Cabert Friuli Pinot from lemon to hints of lime Grigio and a touch of grapefruit.

Region: Friuli, Italy Here again, this delightful Tasting notes: Made with white wine tastes as refreshpinot grigio grapes grown ing as diving into a cool, crisp in the Friuli Grave region, ocean on a warm, sunny which is part of the larger afternoon.

Friuli Venezia Giulia region Cheers! in northeastern Italy, this Wine Press by Ken Ross apbright, light, refreshing white pears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Repubwine abounds with lemon lican’s weekend section every and lime flavors that seem Thursday. to dance on the tip of your