Weekend - September 17, 2020

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Old Sturbridge Village will showcase New England crafts and trades from the early 19th century during Craft Weekend on Saturday and Sunday. The Village’s craftspeople will showcase their skills by crafting more complicated or unique items that are not usually displayed at the village. Among the many demonstrations planned for the weekend are forging, above, and wool dyeing, left. (OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE PHOTOS)

IF YOU GO Event: Old Sturbridge Village Craft Weekend When: Saturday and Sunday, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: 1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, Sturbridge Tickets: Adults: $28; seniors (55 and over): $26; college students (with valid college ID): $14. Up to three kids 17 and younger are admitted free when accompanied by an adult paying full admission now through Nov. 28. All visitors and members will be required to purchase and/or reserve their tickets online at osv.org/plan-your-visit.

More information: Online, osv.org

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Celebration of artisans

Old Sturbridge Village Craft Weekend to showcase early 19th century trades

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By Cori Urban

Special to The Republican

hroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Derek J. Heidemann, coordinator of historic trades at Old Sturbridge Village, has seen people turning more and more to crafts as a means of coping with the uncertainty around them.

“I think that for many people, the pandemic has encouraged them to dive into the world of craft and develop a new appetite for creating things with their hands,” he said.

So the upcoming Craft Weekend event will celebrate the talented staff at Old Sturbridge Village and give them a platform to showcase their abilities. “It also serves as a means to bring together our community around crafts that they are passionate about,” Heidemann said.

A new addition to this year’s event is the “Exhibition of Craft,” which invites visitors and museum staff to

enter examples of items that they have made this year in an unjudged exhibition.

Old Sturbridge Village will host its annual Craft Weekend Saturday and Sunday, showcasing the major industries and crafts of the early 19th century and their relevance and impact on life today.

Planned demonstrations in a variety of subjects have been adapted for viewing outdoors and feature a full schedule of events, including tailoring, quilting, bonnet making, wool dyeing and knitting, book binding, making tin coffee pots, making ladies walking shoes, basket making, straw braiding, and timber framing conOld Sturbridge Village potters will fire struction. up the 15,000-brick kiln outside the Village potters will fire up the SEE VILLAGE, PAGE E4 pottery shop. (OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE)

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‘Hobo dinner’ to benefit railway station Annual fundraiser turned into ‘Grab and Go’ event

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By Cori Urban

Special to The Republican

f beef stew and corn pudding sound to you like the makings of a good meal, you’ll want to get on board with this fundraiser: Chester Railway Station is planning this year’s Hobo Harvest Dinner fundraiser as a “Grab and Go” event on Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

The takeout meal will include traditional homemade “trackside” stew with beef, carrots and potatoes, corn pudding (a baked side dish made with corn, milk, eggs, butter and flour), rolls and butter, and homemade apple or pumpkin pie.

to enjoy this dish.”

The meal has taken on a new form because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had been a sitThe Chester Railway Station is planning this year’s Hobo Harvest Dinner fundraiser as a “Grab down meal with two seatings of and Go” event on Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

70-80 people.

“We had great luck doing our annual festival, Chester On Track, as a virtual event in May,” Pierce said, adding his hope that this fundraiser, too, IF YOU GO will be successful despite the DAVID L. PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE CHESTER FOUNDATION INC. Event: “Grab and Go” Hobo pandemic.

Harvest Dinner Proceeds from the “Grab and a mountain, the first built upon arrival, and your packaged for those under 5.

When: Saturday, 4:30-6:30 “These (prices) are lower than Go” meal will go into the gener- through wilderness, and the order will be given no-contact p.m. al fund to maintain the historic first built by large numbers of to you in your vehicle by a hobo usual because no beverages will Where: Chester Railway Stabe available. This is because railroad station that houses re-enactor. immigrant laborers.” tion, 10 Prospect St., Chester only two volunteers can be in a museum, a 101-year-old There will be a limited num“We were fortunate to be able Cost: $10 for ages 12 and ber of socially distanced spaces the small caboose kitchen at caboose rented out for camping to save it from the wrecker’s up, $5 for ages 5-11, children once,” Pierce said. and a number of antique rail ball in 1990 by moving it across on the granite benches for under 5 are free eating on the lawn. There will To place an order and get paycars. the tracks and have faithfully For more info: Call 413The station was built in 1862 ment details, call 413-354-7878, be no indoor seating. maintained its integrity; there 354-7878 or email dave@ with a timber frame, with or email dave@chesterrailway Prices are $10 for those 12 and is a deep sense of devotion to its chesterrailwaystation.net American chestnut and black older, $5 for ages 5-11, and free station.net. upkeep as well as presentation walnut among the materials to the public,” he added.

“The trackside beef stew is a used. “It is up for a National Those who want to order close substitute for the mulligan Historic Landmark Designa“Grab and Go” meals are asked tion in September,” Pierce said. to pay in advance and will be stew that was a common hobo “It is a representative element issued an ID document to print mainstay,” explained David L. Pierce, president of the Chester of the Western Railroad, which with name and order information. Present this document was the first railroad to climb Foundation Inc., the nonprofit that runs Chester Railway Station. “There was no specific list of ingredients for mulligan stew; they just tossed in whatever was available at the time.

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MUSIC

Bruce Springsteen to release new album next month

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UMORS THAT have circulated for weeks regarding a new Bruce Springsteen album release were authenticated last week with an announcement on the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s website.

“Letter to You,” a 12-track studio album recorded with the E Street Band, is set for release on Oct. 23.

The title track and lead single is available now through brucespringsteen.net and streaming on YouTube.

Longtime Springsteen fans will recognize several song titles, such as “If I Were a Priest” and “Janey Needs a Shooter,” which go back decades, but have been rebirthed here with the E Street Band.

“I love the emotional nature of ‘Letter To You,’” said Springsteen in a released

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15,000-brick kiln outside the pottery shop. The 24-foot-tall structure heats up to more than 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit and can fit up to 800 pieces stacked 10-feet high within its walls.

“While our artisans on staff at the museum are regularly demonstrating their crafts throughout the year, Craft Weekend is a chance for them to take on particularly difficult projects that give them the opportunity to both challenge themselves and highlight their experience and skill,” Heidemann said.

The craft program at the museum is popular with visitors, and this weekend gives them the opportunity to immerse themselves in activities that often only happen once a year. For example, Craft Weekend is the only time that museum staff fires the wood-fired pottery kiln each year.

‘LETTER TO YOU’ TRACKLIST: 1. One Minute You’re Here 2. Letter To You 3. Burnin’ Train 4. Janey Needs A Shooter 5. Last Man Standing 6. The Power Of Prayer 7. House Of A Thousand Guitars 8. Rainmaker 9. If I Was The Priest 10. Ghosts 11. Song For Orphans 12. I’ll See You In My Dreams

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statement. “And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”

A video accompanying the lead single is also available on the website.

The recording was produced

Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You,” a 12-track studio album recorded with the E Street Band, is set for release on Oct. 23.

by Ron Aniello, who Springsteen has worked with since 2012’s “Wrecking Ball.”

Liner notes • While the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is currently closed to the public

due to the global pandemic, the machine behind the Great Barrington venue is up and running, and planning a virtual event for October.

“Moving People, Moving Mountains,” a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the

“While our artisans on staff at the museum are regularly demonstrating their crafts throughout the year, Craft Weekend is a chance for them to take on particularly difficult projects that give them the opportunity to both challenge themselves and highlight their experience and skill.”

Derek J. Heidemann, coordinator of historic trades, Old Sturbridge Village

This year there will be an evening component to the program that will allow visitors to view the kiln firing and other craft demonstrations after hours.

For many visitors, a highlight of their experience when visiting the museum is not only viewing craft demonstrations, but being able to purchase objects made by the artisans. “Not only are these objects special in that they are handmade, but they remind people of their own experience visiting Old Sturbridge Village and hopefully encourage them to become involved in a craft themselves,” Heidemann said.

Safety protocols will be in place during the Craft Week-

nonprofit organization that runs the venerable theatre, will take place online on Oct. 11 at 7:30 p.m.

The event will honor organization founder Lola Jaffe and feature performances from

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Available tickets will be released each week on Wednesday, with three blocks of time per day for arrival: 10 to 11:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., or 1 to 2:30 p.m. Once in the Village, visitors are welcome to stay until the museum closes at 5 p.m.

For more information, visit osv.org.

end. “Since the museum a new, online reservation reopened in early July, we system at osv.org/planhave followed strict safety your-visit. protocols,” he said. All visitors and staff are required to wear masks, and sanitizing stations are located throughout the museum.

“We have also moved most of our programs outdoors, which allows us to offer a strong experience for visitors in the comfort and safety of outdoor spaces,” Heidemann said.

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Rosanne Cash, Michael Feinstein, Brian Stokes Mitchell and The Fab Faux.

Registration for the event is free and fans are asked to make a donation to the organization. Registration details are available at mahaiwe. org/15.

The Mahaiwe originally opened in 1905 and hosted the stars of the day including conductor John Philip Sousa.

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Tickets purchased for the previous dates will be honored.

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• Billy Joel, who holds the record for most shows played at New York’s Madison Square Garden, has pushed off his monthly residency until 2021. • Modern English was Joel began playing a monthly heading out on tour this summer to celebrate the band’s show at the famed venue in 40th anniversary.

2014 and vowed to continue as With that, and every other long as demand for tickets was concert tour put on hold by strong. It took COVID-19 to Billy Joel, who holds the record for most shows played at New COVID-19, the band has deinterrupt his run.

York’s Madison Square Garden, has pushed off his monthly cided for a virtual celebration • The Wailers will have The “Piano Manâ€? was schedresidency until 2021 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. to wait to play a scheduled uled to play in March of 2020, instead.

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MOVIES DVD RELEASES

‘Succession: The Second Season’ makes chaos fun

By Katie Foran-McHale

derstand that if they don’t wear their masks and physically distance we’re never going to get a third season?”

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A hit HBO series to catch up on before the Emmys on Sunday tops new DVD releases for this week.

“Succession: The Second Season”: Everybody’s favorite media family horror show returns with Kendall (Jeremy Strong) at his most broken, completely attached to Logan (Brian Cox) after his father has cleaned up his son’s manslaughter. Meanwhile, led to believe she’ll take over Waystar Royco, Shiv (Sarah Snook) sabotages her job with presidential hopeful Gil Eavis (Eric Bogosian), not to mention her surprise open relationship with Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), and Roman (Kieran Culkin) goes behind Logan’s back to get Naomi Pierce (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) on board to help the family buy out the legitimate news operation PGM via Rhea Jarrell (Holly Hunter).

In the unhinged schemes department, Connor (Alan Ruck) proceeds with his presidential campaign, cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) proves to be

Jeremy Strong plays Kendall Roy in “Succession.” (GRAEME HUNTER / HBO)

less innocent than the family thought, and Marcia (Hiam Abbass) shows rightful rage at Logan’s increasing betrayals.

It’s another flawless season from creator Jesse Armstrong, scoring 18 Emmy nominations. And it’s one that provides such greatest hits as Kendall’s peak cringe “L to the OG” rap,

just, all of Holly Hunter (as well as every appearance of the best character of the series, which remains the theme song, composed by Nicholas Britell), and the look on Logan’s face as he learns his son can be the kind of killer he can respect after all.

As Twitter user ohJuliaTweets tweeted last month: “Do people un-

Also new on DVD “Killing Eve, Season 3”: The groundbreaking queer cat-and-mouse drama series created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge continues as Dasha (Harriet Walter) pressures assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) to come back to work as now-ex-MI6 agent Eve (Sandra Oh) tries to stay under the radar.

“Weathering with You”: Animated film follows a boy who encounters a girl who can change the weather around her. In Japanese.

“21 Jump Street”: The 2012 film starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, as well as its “22 Jump Street” sequel, is being released on 4K Ultra HD. “Becky”: A rambunctious teen (Lulu Wilson) confronts a ruthless home invader (Kevin James) while visiting her father (Joel McHale).

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‘The Social Dilemma’ leads new releases

By Michael O’Sullivan

family of five. Whether these interstitial scenes – several of The title of the documenwhich show Vincent Kartheistary “The Social Dilemma” er playing three versions of a captures a conundrum: It’s humanoid “Artificial Intelligence” meant to represent the great that we can order up a way, say, Facebook’s “persuacar using a ride-booking app and have it appear, like magic. sive-technology” algorithms work to encourage engageBut tech also has a dark side.

The film explores the person- ment – are really necessary is al and political dangers of debatable. The interviews are social media – as addictive, the red meat of the film, and time-sucking activities and include such compelling subjects as former Google Design as platforms that have been Ethicist Tristan Harris, now weaponized for disinformation and division. It does so founder and president of the with a hybrid of standard Center for Humane Technology. What Harris and the film’s documentary – talking-head interviews with Silicon Valley other subjects have to say is well worth listening to – and insiders who have become alarmed by what they helped hair-raising enough. PG-13. create – and somewhat goofy Available on Netflix. Contains some mature thematic elements, dramatizations featuring disturbing, violent images, actors playing a multiethnic Washington Post

Tristan Harris, left, appears in “The Social Dilemma.” (NETFLIX / EXPOSURE LABS)

about the phenomenon, including “Knock Down the House,” “Represent” and A record number of women now, most recently, “Surge.” ran for office in 2018 – a fact Like those earlier films, this evidenced by the proliferation one follows a group of female of documentaries that have candidates (but without the sprung up, like mushrooms, hindsight name recognition suggestive material and brief strong language. 93 minutes.

of “Knock Down the House’s” then-unknown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). Jana Lynne Sanchez of Texas, Lauren Underwood of Illinois and Liz Watson of Indiana – all Democrats running for Congress

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MOVIES FILM REVIEW

‘Devil All the Time’ journeys into humanity’s darkness

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By Katie Walsh

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t’s the sonorous narration that grabs you at first, a voice lush and resonant with time and place, warm, yet almost ominous, recounting a tale set in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and Coal Creek, West Virginia, back in 1957. This is the voice of author Donald Ray Pollock, of Knockemstiff, who worked at the local paper mill until age 50, when he decided to enroll at Ohio University to earn a degree in English. He sold his first short story collection, “Knockemstiff,” in 2008, before his debut novel, “The Devil All the Time,” came along in 2011. This is his yarn, and he recounts the bone-chilling events within it beautifully.

Bill Skarsgard as Willard Russell, left, and 9-year-old Michael Banks Repeta as Arvin Russell in a scene from “The Devil All The Time.” (GLEN WILSON / NETFLIX / TNS)

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“A House Divided, Season 2”: Soap opera follows the scandals of the Sanders family.

“No Safe Spaces”: Documentary follows Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager touring college campuses to discuss free speech.

“Outlander: Season

Five”: The time-traveling Starz drama series returns after Brianna (Sophie Skelton) and Roger’s (Richard Rankin) wedding.

“Outpost: Season 2”: In the second season of the CW fantasy series, Talon (Jessica Green) must face the evil Prime Order trinity.

“Roman Holiday”: The 1953 rom-com starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck is being released on

Tom Holland appears as Arvin Russell in “The Devil All The Time.” (GLEN WILSON/NETFLIX/TNS)

Pollock’s voice is the guiding light through the film adaptation, directed and co-written by Antonio Campos, and his authorial voice is the discovery that’ll knock ya stiff. “The Devil All the Time” is a gooey slice of Appalachian noir, and Pollock tears the lid right off the pie that is 1950s small-town Americana: cute waitresses, church picnics and crooner tunes (and white, heteronormative, patriotic, pious). Underneath the golden exterior, he exposes a lurid world of murder and mayhem. Sticky red pie filling sure does look a lot like blood, after all.

The world Pollock reveals is ruled by lust, death, violence, war and religious fervor. From this soil is borne Arvin Russell (Michael Banks Repeta, then Tom Holland), son of Willard (Bill Skarsgard) and Charlotte (Haley Bennett), grandson of Emma (Kristin Griffith), stepbrother of sorts to Lenora (Eliza Scanlen). Arvin’s young, terrifying life is about to thrum with

Blu-ray with a new restoration.

“Stephen King 5-Movie Collection”: Collection includes both versions of “Pet Sematary,” “The Stand,” “The Dead Zone” and “Silver Bullet.”

“Tommaso”: An artist living in Italy (Willem Dafoe) struggles with addictions and martial problems with a much-younger wife (Cristina Chiriac).

near-constant tragedy.

Campos lets Pollock do the talking and his cinematic storytelling follows suit. Pollock’s conversational style mimics oral storytelling and smalltown gossip, jumping forward and ahead in time, flashing back seven years or three months, giving away the ending before the ‘THE DEVIL story’s been ALL THE TIME’ told. Campos follows this rrrt rhythm, findRated: R ing a mesRunning time: 138 min. merizing and Playing on: Netflix foreboding flow, aided in part by an uneasy, anticipatory score by Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans. It’s a tightly-wound, messy, moody odyssey into the heart of humanity’s darkness, with Pollock leading the way.

“The Devil All the Time” is an

Out on Digital HD “Wheels”: A young Brooklyn man (Arnstar) dreams of becoming a famous DJ while caring for his family in a tough neighborhood.

“Mambo Man”: A Cuban farmer/music promoter risks it all on an enticing deal. Stars Idolka de Erbiti, Yudexi De La Torre Mesa and Mo Fini. In Spanish. Out tomorrow.

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“Murder in the Woods”: Teenagers fight to survive in a cabin in the woods. Out tomorrow.

“Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs”: Computer-animated film follows a woman who must save a group of princes who have been turned into dwarfs. Features voice talents of Chloe Grace Moretz, Sam Claflin, Gina Gershon and Jim Rash. Out tomorrow.

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DINE & WINE

Survey finds customers happy with restaurants, but cautious about dining out

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ESET BY SIX months of shutdowns, supply disruptions, and mandated capacity constraints, the restaurant industry continues its struggle to understand what the future might hold for it.

On the macro level, August showed overall gains in restaurant sales, producing some of the best numbers since the pandemic shutdowns began in March. The pace at which sales improved, however, has slowed, in turn suggesting that the industry needs to prepare for a persistent slump that’s likely to last well into 2021 and beyond.

Data aggregated by Black Box Guest Intelligence, a firm that tracks restaurant industry performance, suggests that customers remain cautious about returning to restaurants even though they report general satisfaction with the quality of food, service, and cleanliness they are encountering when they do.

One growing negative is consumer perception of value in dining out. Beset by rising costs, operators have increased menu prices, and consumers have noticed, creating concerns for some customers as to whether or not they can afford to dine out as frequently as they did pre-pandemic Adding to that negative value perception is weak overall consumer confidence and general economic uncertainty, two factors that are likely to make consumers think twice about their future levels of restaurant spending.

For its part, the National Restaurant Association has launched a “Restaurant Revival” campaign, the objective of which is to persuade consumers to head back to restaurants. The campaign highlights the ServSafe Dining Commitment, a program the Association is sponsoring that includes food handling

suggesting its Bloomin’ Fried Chicken, Pineapple & Pork Medallions, or shrimp-garnished salmon finished with a Creole sauce. In the between-bread category, Outback is now preparing braised beef, fried chicken, and prime rib sandwiches.

Two new dessert options – butter cake with strawberries and a chocolate fondue flight – have also been added to the menu.

There are Outback Steakhouse locations on Riverdale Street in West Springfield and at Enfield Square in Enfield.

• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has tweaked its bill of fare, adding chicken potpie to the entree lineup as well as introducing new kids’ offerings.

Young diners can now enjoy Guests enjoy their lunch outdoors at UNO Pizzeria & Grill in Springfield. Data aggregated by mini-confetti pancakes at Black Box Guest Intelligence suggests that customers remain cautious about returning to breakfast and slider-style restaurants even though they report general satisfaction with the quality of food, service, and cheeseburgers at lunch. A cleanliness they are encountering when they do. (HOANG ‘LEON’ NGUYEN / THE REPUBLICAN) new kids’ dessert option, the dirt cup dessert, features to do so. Hours of service are dishes with innovative flavor chocolate pudding layered 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Monday profiles. with chocolate cookie crumbs through Friday, and reservaStarter selections introtions are required. duced include Aussie Twisted and garnished with gummy Slated for periodic revision, Ribs drizzled with spicy sauce, worms.

A fall season dessert specialthe menu currently includes and entree choices now featy, carrot cake, is also being the likes of crab and corn ture five classic “steak-and” offered through Oct. 11. chowder, braised greens selections. in a parmesan broth, and For those not in a red meat SEE MENU, PAGE E9 slow-roasted half chicken. Ra- frame of mind, Outback is tatouille lasagna is available, Hugh Robert as are Moroccan-style grilled Off The Menu lamb patties.

WESTFIELD Reservations for dining at Open for Lunch & Dinner and specialized training for Bistro Les Gras must be made restaurant reopening. online. Go to bistrolesgras.

A video entitled “The com and look for the resy.

Sounds We Crave” that com link there. was produced as part of the Restaurant Revival campaign • The menu at Outback can be view at youtu.be/ Steakhouse locations has 3Jsfm9rD32M. undergone a major overhaul, with a number of new and Side dishes updated appetizers, entrees, • Bistro Les Gras in and desserts now available.

Northampton has reopened The motivation for the change after an August break. The has been to offer more options Indoor and Outdoor Dining restaurant has resumed outat lower prices, an objective Curbside Take Out Service Available door dinner service, which it that’s been achieved by reinwill continue to maintain until troducing past guest favorites weather makes it impossible as well as developing new 2 Broad Street, Westfield • 562-0335

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Most recent is a New England Craft Pub “pop-up,” a gastropub-style experience CONTINUED FROM PAGE E8 that’s evocative of an area • September is Lobster fall-season institution, The Month at all MAX RestauBig E. rant Group locations, with Featuring 18-plus regional lobster-based menu offerings beers and ciders on tap as being showcased. well as live outdoor entertainAt Max’s Tavern at the Na- ment, the New England Craft ismith Memorial Basketball Pub specializes in finger foods Hall of Fame in Springfield, such as cordon bleu bites with the kitchen staff has created Thai sauce, Irish nachos, and a whole lineup of options Buffalo chicken meatballs featuring the tasty underseas served with ranch dressing. denizen.

Three different slider Carrot coconut lobster variations – Buffalo chicken, bisque is being promoted, as Rueben style, and turducken is a lobster cobb salad and a – are being served, and two Tavern lobster roll prepared entrees – chicken potpie and either hot or chilled. shepherd’s pie – are availThree lobster entrees are able. on the September agenda. In For dessert, the Pub is promoting The Big E cream puff. addition to a grilled Maine Socially-distanced seating lobster, the kitchen is preparing crab-stuffed baked is offered both inside and out, lobster and a classic lobster and reservations are strongly thermidor, with its stuffing of encouraged. mushrooms and herbs.

The New England Craft Pub A hot buttered lobster roll is operates on Thursdays and being promoted at Max Burg- Fridays from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.; er in Longmeadow, as is a lob- on Saturdays from noon to 8 ster cobb salad dressed with p.m., and on Sundays from sherry vinaigrette. Lobster is noon until 6 p.m. also playing a role in a Surf The Log Cabin Banquet and & Turf burger, where lobster Meetinghouse answers at 413meat – along with Gruyere 535-5077. cheese and bacon – serves as garnish for a half-pound beef • During September burger. “coffee-and” giant Dunkin’ is giving members of its DD • Its function business sePerks loyalty program a midverely impacted by pandemweek pick-me-up with Free ic-necessitated limitations, Coffee Wednesdays. Every the Log Cabin Banquet and Wednesday through Sept. 30, Meetinghouse in Holyoke DD Perks members can enjoy has developed a number of a free medium-sized hot or strategies to replace its lost iced coffee. banquet and meeting bookThe offer is available to ings. those who use their DD Perks

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card at time of payment or who order ahead using a Dunkin’ app that been registered with DD Perks.

Membership in DD Perks can be activated by enrolling on the Dunkin’ app or at DDPerks.com.

• Chef Sarah Stegner, who co-owns the Prairie Grass Cafe in Northbrook, Illinois, has teamed up with public relations consultant Cindy Kurman to promote Sept. 22 as National Eat Local Day. The goal of National Eat Local Day is to honor and support local farming. Home cooks and restaurants alike are encouraged to mark the occasion with a complete meal created from locally-source ingredients.

Farmers’ markets, food stores that sell local produce, and restaurant operators who would like to promote National Eat Local Day can get more details by emailing national eatlocalday@kurman.com.

Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and • Irvine, California-based Taco Bell has announced that culinary arts program and has nearly 45 years of restaurant it is once again pruning its menu, with four selections to and educational experience. be eliminated on Nov.5. Taco Robert can be reached online at Bell’s announced motivations OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com

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• StarChefs, a national restaurant industry publication, is honoring 22 “rising stars” from the Boston restaurant scene with a Rising Stars Restaurant Week.

Scheduled to run from Sept.

22 through Oct. 4, the promotion is conceived as providing promotional support to those rising stars during the difficult times all restaurants are currently facing.

More details on the Rising Stars Restaurant Week can be found at starchefs.com/ cook/content/starchefs-

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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store’s Kids Mini Confetti Pancakes include three mini pancakes filled with fruity cereal and served with syrup and butter. (CRACKER BARREL OLD COUNTRY STORE)

The New England Craft Pub, a typical Big E fixture, is popping up at the Log Cabin in Holyoke through Oct. 4, and offering fair favorites such as the cream puff and turducken sandwich.

for the changes are to make room for new items as well as to offer customers faster service.

Slated for removal are Mexican Pizza and three items that are made with shredded chicken – a soft taco, a burrito, and a quesadilla melt.

Taco Bell locations will also no longer have pico de gallo available for customers who prefer their food made “fresco style.”

The chain has dropped 25 items from its menu in the past year as part of a program of “menu decluttering.”

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FEW WEEKS back, I wrote a column extolling India pale ale and its market dominance.

Well, not everyone took kindly to what might have been seen as a bit of trashtalking.

To make matters worse, one of the folks who took exception to my column was a priest, the Rev. Matt Foley, who is decidedly not a fan of the style. I was raised by an Irish Catholic mother, so it makes me uneasy to have a man of the cloth on the other team.

So, to balance the ledger a bit, I decided to write a sort of a devil’s advocate column (oops, sorry for the terminology, Father Matt!) about why some folks are not exactly thrilled about how IPAs dominate the craft beer world these days.

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in a smoky bar for this conversation, so although bars are not currently open (and if they were, they don’t allow smoking anymore), let’s use our imaginations and picture that fantasy scenario for the sake of this column. (But while the scenes here are imaginary, F-Sharp is a real person, this conversation and these opinions are real – and are his.)

The bartender delivers our beers and F-Sharp takes a good haul off his choice, a “I like to believe Prior’s Double Dark. that my favorite “Where did you get that?”

I ask, astounded. Prior’s beer is one I Double Dark has been MIA haven’t had yet.” for years.

“Hey, this is a fantasy setF-Sharp ting, right? So I’m drinking what I want.” Then he narBecause I am a fan of the rows his eyes and shakes his IPA style and can’t honestly head at my beer, as he knows take an anti-IPA position, I it’s an IPA. enlisted an old pal who has, “Look, I don’t have anything against IPAs in general, shall we say, a somewhat as long as they’re balanced,” blasé attitude toward IPAs, he said. “I found too many especially the super-hoppy modern style. He is a veteran of them were becoming topheavy with hops. It was all of the booze biz, and although he no longer trafficks about ‘more.’ It wasn’t about in beer, he used to sell plenty ‘better.’” of it when he worked at The Of course, being oldSpirit Haus in Amherst way school, F-Sharp also saw back in the day. the big IPA boom of the past “I sold a lot of beer, but I’ve decade or two as largely a drank more beers than I ever hipster trend. sold,” he said with a wink.

“I would say the majority of Because he prefers to the guys drinking them were remain anonymous, let’s just 24 years old, bald, with tatcall him F-Sharp. Under nor- toos on top of their tattoos,” mal circumstances back in he said with a wink.

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Kosher wines perfect for Rosh Hashanah

NEW YEAR STARTS at sundown on Friday this week.

The start of the Jewish new year.

The two-day celebration known as Rosh Hashanah also marks the beginning of the High Holy Days, including Yom Kippur, which takes place on Sept. 27 and 28 this year.

And for those of you celebrating the start of a new year, here are a few, great kosher wines to celebrate the occasion.

I’ve written about some of these kosher wines in the past.

Many of these wines cost less than under $25, including a few under $15. Most of these wines are from Israel, but I also included two outstanding kosher Champagnes from France because who doesn’t love sparkling wine when it comes to celebrating the start of a new year? Let me add that both Champagnes listed below are kosher according to kosherwine.com.

In addition, I have also included several, delicious kosher wines that were recommended earlier this year for Passover by Michael Quinlan, Fine Wine Buyer for Table & Vine in West Springfield.

Hope you enjoy.

Kosher wines for Rosh Hashanah • 2017 Recanati Upper Galilee Chardonnay ($14.99 at Table & Vine in West Springfield) • 2017 Or Haganuz Amuka Shiraz ($17 Suggested Retail Price) • 2016 Jerusalem Vineyard ‘4990’ Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon ($25 SRP) • Laurent Perrier Non Vintage Brut ‘La Cuvee’ Champagne ($45 SRP) • 2008 Laurent-Perrier Brut Millesime ($80 SRP) Michael Quinlan’s recommendations • 2017 Dalton Canaan Red ($16.99 at Table & Vine)

Several of the Kosher wines recommended for Rosh Hashanah. (KEN ROSS PHOTO)

are kosher.

Fortunately, many kosher-certified wines say so on the bottle. And many wine stores often have a kosher wine section so customers can easily find such wines in their stores.

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• 2017 Barkan Vineyards Classic Chardonnay Dan Israel ($13.99 at Table & Vine) • 2017 Barkan Vineyards Classic Pinot Noir Negev Israel ($13.99 at Table & Vine) What is kosher wine?

Kosher wines are different than organic wines or other, similar agricultural designations. That’s because kosher wines must adhere to Jewish dietary laws in order to labeled kosher.

Specifically, in order for a wine to be considered kosher, it needs to made by people who observe the Sabbath. There are lots of other rules governing kosher wine as well, including making sure that all the ingredients

Wine tasting notes 2017 Recanati Upper Galilee Chardonnay One of my favorite kosher wines, this clean, crisp, dry chardonnay has a beautiful, light floral finish. This chardonnay almost has a sauvignon blanc or pinot grigio like finish. If you love light, clean, crisp white wines, you’ll love this chardonnay from Israel.

2017 Or Haganuz Amuka Shiraz For those of you who prefer lighter red wines, this understated shiraz may just be the wine for you. Very light with a subtle hint of raspberry flavors, this easy-drinking red wine goes well with a wide range of foods, from sweet desserts to lighter meat or fish dishes.

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But turning serious, he admits he has softened his view, if only a tad.

“Well there are some excellent IPAs, and even double IPAs, that I will drink as long as they have a balance to them and create a beer synergy,” he said, sipping a bit of a whiskey that he ordered.

“What I don’t like sometimes is when I walk into a nice beer bar, and instead of asking what type of beer they have, I have to ask “what else do you have besides IPAs?’ If you have nine beers on tap and six of them are IPAs and there are just only three other styles, that’s rather silly and shortsighted.”

But being a pragmatist who used to sell beer himself, he also understands supply and demand.

“Look, if the market is driving it, and the demand is there, then so be it. But I like variety and like trying new things,” he said with a shrug.

“I like to believe that my favorite beer is one I haven’t had yet.”

He draws the line, however, at the newer so-called “New England IPAs,” which are known for their cloudiness.

“I think it’s a shame that the region of New England has to be associated with that style,” he said. “Having been an amateur brewer for a number of years, we always tried to remove the yeast from the beer, not put extra in. I’m sure there are some good ones, but it’s not a style I’m particularly gravitating toward.”

Our chat wanders over to how great the Spirit Haus was far before its time, and days (and nights) spent at The Drake in Amherst. But those tales are for another day (and upcoming column).

We’ve now finished a few beers each, and as F-Sharp throws down for the tab, he sums up his attitude: “I just like things that are balanced between the hops in the malt,” he said. “And doesn’t leave me more thirsty after I drink it than when I started.”

Cheers to that.

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interconnected tale that spans from 1957 to 1965, give or take, following the life of young Arvin and the corrupt characters he orbits and collides with, from nefarious preachers to dishonest cops and killers roaming the countryside. Inhabiting the cursed characters is a murderer’s row of talent. Arvin is a meaty role for Holland, who gets to explore the dark side of the only honorable man in

The drama “Huracán” tells the story of an aspiring mixed Tilda Cobham-Hervey in martial arts fighter (played “I Am Woman.” (LISA TOMASETTI / by writer-director Cassius QUIVER DISTRIBUTION) Corrigan) who suffers from

Inhabiting the cursed characters is a murderer’s row of talent. Arvin is a meaty role for Holland, who gets to explore the dark side of the only honorable man in the bunch. the bunch. Jason Clarke and Riley Keough, each always simultaneously sinister and seductive, make for a terrifying twosome, while Skarsgard is unforgettably haunted as a WWII vet who can’t shake the horrors he witnessed in the South Pacific. The only bum note in the whole ensemble is Robert Pattinson as the lecherous Reverend Teagardin.

Pattinson makes a big, bold

choice, but in his performance, he takes “audacious” a hair too far and wanders right into “terrible” territory.

It is in many ways a damning indictment of religious mania that supplants common sense and self-preservation. There’s a tinge of the feverish and obsessive in every horrifying action, men driven by their own demons, in whatever form they take: bad

memories and even worse desires that threaten to repeat and recycle themselves.

“The Devil All the Time” is a tapestry of inherited traumas, the story folding in on itself, again and again, any loose end braided back into the weave. It’s a stark but masterfully told reminder that the past is always close at hand, and inextricably intertwined with our destiny.

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2016 Jerusalem Vineyard ‘4990’ Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon The 4990 on this stunning red wine refers to the Hebrew year when Ramban, a Spanish Talmudic scholar, who immigrated to Jerusalem in response to destruction of his homeland in Spain by crusaders. But you don’t need to know the back story of the wine’s name to appreciate its intense, earthy, complex flavors. Give this wine at least 20 to 30 minutes to smooth out after opening the bottle. This powerful red wine then has a very soft, fragrant, subtle finish.

Laurent Perrier Non Vintage Brut ‘La Cuvee’ Champagne One of my favorite Champagne producers, Laurent Perrier has been making great champagne since 1812.

(And remember, Champagne can only come from the Champagne region in France.) I could have easily picked several other Laurent Perrier Champagnes (including their “Brut Nature,” another outstanding one) but I decided to recommend this one since it’s affordable, readily available and delicious. Its flavors are crisp, dry, slightly nutty (think roasted almonds) and refreshing.

Michael Quinlan’s recommendations 2017 Dalton Canaan Red When asked to recommend a kosher wine for Passover, Quinlan’s first recommendation was this easy-drinking, medium-bodied red wine from Israel. “I think the quality of this wine is really good,” Quinlan said earlier this year. Table & Vine’s website also describes this wine as having “notes of black pepper, cherries, and plums, low tannins and soft vanilla tones.”

2017 Barkan Vineyards Classic Chardonnay Dan Israel (Also recommended by Ken Ross) Quinlan’s other recommended kosher wines included two wines made by Barkan Vineyards in Israel.

“It’s such a particularly warm environment to be growing grapes and yet their wines are really well mannered, really well balanced,” Quinlan said. I couldn’t agree more.

Last year, I recommended Barkan’s Classical Chardonnay, which has a fascinating blend of soft, subtle flavors ranging from peach to sea salt, roasted butter and a slight hint of green apple.

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One Pound Meatball

Frigo’s is keeping the tradition alive with the 1 pound famous meatball starting September 1st through September 30th.

Frigo’s mouthwatering homemade 1 pound meatball will be available at both locations.

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2017 Barkan Vineyards Classic Pinot Noir Negev Israel (Also recommended by Ken Ross) If you’re looking for another kosher wine from Barkan Vineyards for Rosh Hashanah, I highly recommend their Classic Pinot Noir.

2008 Laurent-Perrier This wine has soft, subtle, Brut Millesime fruit-forward flavors that reChampagne producers ally hit their stride an hour or often blend together grapes two after you open the wine. harvested during different This complex wine may even years. But when the grapes need a day to reach its full come out just right one potential. The second day I particular year, producers tasted this wine, its flavors will make a vintage Chamreally smoothed out and the pagne with the grapes from fruit flavors were less intense that particular year’s harvest. and more subtle and cherry This smooth, elegant, crisp, like. Let me add that this dry Champagne is made with wine goes great with slightly grapes grown in 2008. A sweeter or spicier foods. blend of equal parts charCheers! donnay and pinot noir grapes from several different villagWine Press by Ken Ross es in the Champagne region, appears on Masslive.com every this wine is 100% delicious Monday and in The Republican’s weekend section every and sure to delight anyone Thursday. ringing in the new year.

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