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”Phantoms and Fire” brings a new twist to the Halloween season at historic Old Sturbridge Village with a series of haunting outdoor performances and seasonal activities.

This is the cast of “Nevermore,” a series of six outdoor performances that bring to life the short stories and poems of author Edgar Allen Poe. (OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE PHOTO)

IF YOU GO Event: Old Sturbridge Village presents “Phantoms and Fire” When: Wednesdays through Saturdays, through Oct. 31, with three times for arrival at 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m.

Where: Old Sturbridge Village, 1 Old Sturbridge Village Rd, Sturbridge Tickets: $16 per adult and $12 for youth ages 4-17. Children under 4 are free to the Village during this event. Pre-registration is required, with tickets available at osv.org/ event/phantoms-and-fire.

More information: osv.org/ event/phantoms-and-fire.

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ically for Old Sturbridge Village and partner Coggeshall Farm Museum. “Nevermore” welcomes a professional cast to the historic village to bring to life the short stories and poems of author Edgar Allen Poe, told from the perspective of characters who have just witnessed these terrors occur.

The stories will play out simultaneously in six different locations throughout the village and tell familiar tales of horror, revenge, obsession and deception.

Performances will be repeated throughout the night so visitors can see and experience them all.

The result is “Phantoms and For younger visitors, there will Fire,” which brings a new twist to be a new 2020 version of Trick-orTreat at the village called “Clues the Halloween season at historic & Candy.” Making their way Old Sturbridge Village with a series of haunting outdoor perfor- throughout the commons, famimances and seasonal activities. lies can collect clues and stamps “Due to restrictions and regula- that can be turned in for a big bag tions as a result of COVID-19, we of goodies at the end of their visit. wanted to serve the larger numParticipation in “Clues & Canbers of people in a safe, spread dy” is open to all ages. Costumes out, yet fun environment,” said are encouraged at the event, but Daniel P. Friel, director of public COVID-safe facemasks must be and government relations at Old worn following state and local Sturbridge Village. “‘Phantoms guidelines. and Fire’ also allowed us to enGuests can enjoy live music gage all ages in the absence of our during “Phantoms and Fire” Trick-or-Treat event, which over with the “Mysterious Melodies 1,500 people attend annually.” of Lawrence Trailer,” a haunting A cornerstone of the new event take on the acoustical stylings of local singer/songwriter Lawrence is “Nevermore,” a series of six Trailer. outdoor performances written and directed by P.J. Griffith specifSEE VILLAGE, PAGE E3

‘Phantoms and Fire’ Haunting performances, seasonal activities await at Old Sturbridge Village

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By Cori Urban

Special to The Republican

The Headless Horseman will ride again, making appearances throughout the night during “Phantoms and Fire” at Old Sturbridge Village.

(JOHN COLLINS PHOTO)

hen COVID-19 restrictions and regulations necessitated a change in Halloween plans at Old Sturbridge Village, staff members conjured up a new interactive, family friendly program that combines museum theater with a modified Halloween experience.

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“Our visitors love being able to enjoy the village atmosphere after hours, especially during the fall season while participating in the traditions and fun that Halloween brings.”

HALLOWEEN

Haunted houses find ways to operate during pandemic

DANIEL P. FRIEL

Village Food and beverages will be available for purchase during the event at the ghoulishly transformed “Prospero’s Tavern.”

The Headless Horseman will ride again, making appearances throughout the village.

“Our visitors love being able to enjoy the village atmosphere after hours, especially during the fall season while participating in the traditions and fun that Halloween brings,” Friel said.

According to Friel, there has been “great attendance” at the village since it opened with pandemic-related guidelines in July. “Over the past month we have seen over 2,000 visitors each weekend, Friday through Sunday. We believe that attendance for ‘Phantoms and Fire’ is going to be equally as positive if not better.”

More than 2,000 tickets have been sold already for “Phantoms and Fire.”

Tickets are on sale now and are $16 per adult and $12 for youth ages 4-17. Children under 4 are free to the Village during this event.

“Phantoms and Fire” will take place Wednesdays through Saturdays through Oct. 31, with three times for arrival at 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m. Once in the village, guests are welcome to stay until the event concludes

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Even the video was shot using a drone to allow for social distancing. The company also requires guests to book tickets online in advance, wear a mask, and they will be given disposable gloves.

By Heather Morrison Hammond Castle Musehmorrison@masslive.com um, which reopened in July, There’s an eerie silence transforms its hallways each where screams typically fill year to scare visitors — and the halls in many haunted this year is no different.

The castle offers “The Horhouses this year. ror of Abbadia Mare,” trickPlaces like Chamber of Terrors in Salem, Fright Fest or-treating, daily tours, and at Six Flags New England and spiritualism tours on ThursFear Town in Seekonk are all days. “The Horror of Abbadia Mare” sold out so quickly it closed this year due to the added an additional show. coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s very beautifully theatBut some, like DementedFX in Holyoke and Franken- rically presented,” said Linda stein’s Castle at the Salem Harvey, executive director.

Wax Museum, have found “It’s really fun, a little scary, little spooky, not over the top. ways to remain open.

“You want hand sanitizer? And it’s just a wonderful way to listen to stories and travel We’ve got enough to drown throughout the castle from a blue whale,” a video on room to room.”

DementedFX’s Facebook The castle also is following page states. social distancing regulations, The haunted house has 20,000 square feet, allowing requiring visitors to wear masks and have additional for what the company said is above and beyond Massa- hand sanitizer and hand chusetts required protocols. washing stations.

“We’re abiding by more “We do try and make you protocols than your typical feel safe and comfortable SEE HAUNTED, PAGE E7 grocery store,” the video

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“Phantoms and Fire” brings a new twist to the Halloween season at historic Old Sturbridge Village with a series of haunting outdoor performances and seasonal activities. (JOHN COLLINS PHOTO)

each night at 8 p.m.

Pre-registration is required, with tickets available at osv. org/event/phantoms-andfire.

“Phantoms and Fire” also

will be at Coggeshall Farm Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, on Oct. 25 and Nov. 1.

More details can be found at coggeshallfarm.org/event/ phantoms-and-fire.

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Longmeadow native named finalist in jazz competition

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ailey Brinnel, a local jazz artist who got her start singing in bars with her father, Dave Brinnel, is on the verge of national recognition in the jazz world.

that will follow a performance of original songs.

Daniels is known for his on-screen work in hit films such as “Dumb and Dumber,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” and “The Martian,” along with acclaimed roles in series such as “The Newsroom,” and “The Looming Tower.”

He has recorded six fulllength albums.

• For the fist time in seven months, an arena concert is scheduled in the U.S. Rap group Three 6 Mafia has announced plans to hold a socially distant, mask-mandated arena concert in 2020.

The show is scheduled for Rupp Arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on Dec. 11.

Tickets for the event are on Longmeadow native and jazz artist Hailey Brinnel is a finalist in the Sarah Vaughan Internation- sale now through all Ticketal Jazz Vocal Competition. master outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000. fan base.

Seating capacity will be limitThe band will perform a ed to 15% (just over 3,000) and livestream concert on Nov. 21 tickets will be sold in “pods” of with tickets on sale through four or less. dice.fm.

Three 6 Mafia formed in 1991 The announcement was made by co-founder Steve Lu- in Memphis. In 2006 the group kather and longtime member won the Academy Award for Joseph Williams.

Best Original Song at the 78th Academy Awards for their song Joining the group will be keyboard players Dominique “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” Donnie Moorhouse from the film “Hustle & Flow.”

Taplin and Steve Maggiora, LiveWire bassist John Pierce, vocalist • Forced to cancel his 2020 Warren Ham, and drummer summer tour due to COVID-19, albums, eight Grammy nomiRobert Searight. nations and is the first woman Toto formed in the late 1970s Niall Horan is looking to a to be twice inducted into the and hit its stride with the 1982 virtual performance to benefit Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, with his road crew. triple-platinum release “Toto Fleetwood Mac in 1998 and as Horan will perform from IV” which garnered hits “Africa,” “Rosanna,” and “I Won’t a solo artist in 2019.

London’s Royal Albert Hall Liner notes Hold You Back.” The group has on Nov. 7 with tickets to the HAILEY BRINNEL • Stevie Nicks is bringing won six Grammy Awards.

• Comic Brian Regan has livestream on sale through his her “24 Karat Gold” tour to the settled on a new date for his 4, which was postponed to June website (niallhoran.com). big screen.

28. Tickets purchased for those • Actor-singer Jeff Daniels appearance in Worcester.

“Our crew members are the More than a dozen select is coming to the Iron Horse Regan will play the Hanover shows will be honored. ones that have basically been theaters across the state will air Theatre for the Performing Vanity Fair has referred to Music Hall. forgotten about,” he said in the film on Saturday or Sunday. Arts on March 25, 2021, at 8 Regan as “The funniest standVirtually, that is. a statement. “If there’s no Theater locations and tickets p.m. up alive.“ The performer is offering touring, they don’t have a job. are available online through He has seven hour-long com- up an exclusive livestream Tickets are available through They’ve been left behind.” edy specials to his credit and stevienicksfilm.com. event for the Iron Horse in the venue website at hanover The “Nice To Meet Ya’” tour Recorded over two nights his second Netflix special was Northampton on Dec. 4 at 8 theater.org. named for a Horan single, was during her sold-out “24 Karat released in 2019. p.m.

The show is a rescheduled scheduled for a May 1 stop at Gold” Tour, the film features a date from two previous atTickets for the show are $15 Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. set-list of Nicks’ vast catalog as tempts to play Worcester that • Toto has re-formed with a and available through a link were thwarted by the panHoran began his singing a solo artist and a member of new lineup and has announced on the venue site at iheg.com. demic. Regan was originally Fleetwood Mac. plans for a virtual event to Fans also have a chance to sub- career as a member of One mit questions for a live Q & A Nicks has had six Top Ten scheduled to perform on April introduce the members to its Direction.

The 25-year-old Brinnel, who now lives in Philadelphia, is a finalist in the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.

Brinnel submitted songs from her upcoming release, “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles,” to the competition and was selected as one of five finalists for the esteemed award that comes with a $5,000 cash prize.

The finalists are scheduled to perform in March at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

“I am ecstatic, and frankly completely overwhelmed, to be a finalist for this year’s Sarah Vaughan Vocal Jazz Competition!” said Brinnel. “I can’t wait to perform with the other four amazing finalists at the full event in March.”

Along with regular appearance at jazz venues throughout the New York and New Jersey area, Brinnel is a faculty member at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts.

Local fans can follow Brinnel through her website at hailey brinnel.com.

“I am ecstatic, and frankly completely overwhelmed, to be a finalist for this year’s Sarah Vaughan Vocal Jazz Competition!”

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Bruce Springsteen living in the moment

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By Lindsay Zoladz

New York Times

very music fan with blood burning in their veins has felt the sting of missing live shows since March, but the pain has been particularly acute for Bruce Springsteen, an artist who has spent the past six decades onstage, yet says he’s just now hitting his stride.

“I’m at a point in my playing life and artistic life where I’ve never felt as vital,” he said on a Zoom call from his New Jersey home. “My band is at its best, and we have so much accumulated knowledge and craft about what we do that this was a time in my life where I said, ‘I want to use that as much as I can.’”

Springsteen, 71, was stationed in a small, utilitarian home office, with primary-color file folders hanging on the wall in place of flashier décor, to discuss “Letter to You,” his first record with the

E Street Band in six years, and an Apple Plus film of the same name that captures the kinetic experience of recording it last November. Both are out tomorrow.

“Letter to You” often harks back to a time much earlier than that, though: The elegiac rocker “Last Man Standing” is an ode to the band Springsteen joined as a teenager, the Castiles (and a meditation on the fact that, after the death of his friend George Theiss in 2018, Springsteen became the only surviving member). And three of the album’s songs originated almost 50 years ago,

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Bruce Springsteen’s new album, “Letter to You,” drops tomorrow. (DANNY CLINCH PHOTO)

when Springsteen was an unknown, writing florid, Bob Dylan-esque ballads.

“The record is the first record that I’ve made where the subject is the music itself,” he said. “It’s about popular music.

It’s about being in a rock band over the course of time. And it’s also a direct conversation between me and my fans at a level that I think they’ve come to expect

over the years.”

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

Q. Like everyone else, this year

hasn’t exactly gone how you’d expected. You’re putting out a record that you can’t yet tour.

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MOVIES / TELEVISON ONLINE STREAMING

‘Martin Eden’ leads new films

By Michael O’Sullivan

Washington Post

Elle Fanning stars as Catherine the Great in Hulu’s new take on the subject, “The Great.” (OLLIE UPTON / HULU / TNS)

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Elle Fanning reigns in ‘The Great’

By Katie Foran-McHale

Tribune News Service

“The Great: Season One”: For those who loved 2018’s critically acclaimed raunchy satirical period piece “The Favourite,” co-writer Tony McNamara is back as creator of Hulu’s “The Great,” also a critically acclaimed raunchy satirical period piece, this time centering on a barely true retelling of Empress Catherine the Great’s introduction into Russian royal life.

New to Russia, Catherine (Elle Fanning) is an idealist, set on spearheading the country’s education policy and eager to please her husband, Emperor Peter III (Nicholas Hoult). She quickly discovers he’s not only a dolt but a sadistic one, and the two begin to plot against each other.

The jokes are acerbic and profanities abundant, but as the season progresses, so grows the series’ heart. Fanning’s performance in particular carries “The Great,” wrote Los Angeles Times critic Robert Lloyd in his review.

“The dialogue is crisp and a little eccentric, the performances impeccable, the production first-rate, Nathan Barr’s score subtly arresting,” wrote Lloyd. “Above all there

is Fanning, a porcelain figurine come to complicated life, who grounds the series even as she seems to float through it.”

Also new on DVD “Alone”: A killer (Marc Menchaca) hunts a woman (Jules Willcox) who escaped from his clutches in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.

“Amulet”: A woman (Carla Juri) and her elderly mother invite an ex-soldier (Alec Secareanu) into their home of terrifying secrets.

“Cut Throat City”: A group of friends plan a heist in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Stars Shameik Moore, T.I., Wesley Snipes, Terrence Howard and Ethan Hawke.

“Going Attractions”: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace”: Documentary explores the history of moviegoing.

“The Haunting”: The 1999 horror film starring Liam Neeson and the horrors of Hill House has been remastered on Blu-ray.

“House of Shadows”: A woman (Harriet Madeley) inherits a cursed house following her family’s deaths.

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Transposed from early 20th-century Oakland, California, to a vaguely mid-century Naples, filmmaker Pietro Marcello’s Italian-language adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel “Martin Eden” features an intense performance by Luca Marinelli in the title role of an unschooled aspiring writer consumed by love, ambition and politics. It’s a performance that won him the best-actor prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, and deservedly so. Marinelli’s acting, which unfortunately includes some rotten teeth and strange hair color changes as the character finds publishing success (but inner misery) late in the story, is fiery and polemical. Martin rails against a world that has let him down – in love, presumably – even as he achieves fame and success. As in the novel, Martin is mistaken for being a socialist (like London, who was one), but he actually believes only in the power of the individual to improve himself, through education.

London’s novel was a critique of such a selfish worldview, but it’s often difficult to parse the arguments that Martin – or rather Marcello, assisted by his co-writer Maurizio Braucci – makes, ad nauseam, throughout the film. That’s because the story is set in an unrecognizably fictionalized “Italy” in which the country’s actual political gyrations are freely

Luca Marinelli, center, plays the title character in “Martin Eden,” an Italian adaptation of Jack London’s 1909 novel.

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dispensed with for nonspecific allusions to an unnamed war and generic class inequality.

Ultimately, it’s a story of unrequited love: Martin is spurned by his cultured girlfriend (Jessica Cressy) until he has made it, by which point it is too late. His passion is palpable and moving, but that part of the story is weighed down by dull political theory. Unrated.

Available at afisilver.afi.com and virtualavalon.org. In Italian, Neapolitan and French with subtitles. 129 minutes.

Two rather different but worthy prison-themed documentaries are out now.

“Time” follows New Orleans car dealer Fox Rich (formerly Sibil Fox Richardson) as she works to free her husband Rob Rich (formerly Rob Richardson), who was sentenced to

Cynthia Chandler, left, and Kelli Dillon in “Belly of the Beast.”

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60 years in prison for the 1997 armed robbery of a Louisiana credit union. “Belly of the Beast” is an exposé about the illegal practice of sterilizations performed on women in California’s prison system without informed consent.

The latter film is the more traditional of the two movies, following crusading attorney Cynthia Chandler – co-founder and former executive director of Justice Now, which advocates for the abolition of prisons – and Kelli Dillon, who was unknowingly sterilized while incarcerated. It’s shocking to hear the rationale for forced sterilization, articulated by former prison OB/GYN James Heinrich (as reported by journalist Corey Johnson of the Center for Investigative Reporting): It’s cheaper than welfare.

The black-and-white “Time,” on the other hand, is a more artful and ambitious work in scope and tone, mixing fly-on-the-wall footage shot by filmmaker Garrett Bradley with home movies shot by Fox Rich over 21 years, after she herself was released from 3 1/2 years in prison for her role as an accessory to the crime.

Bradley’s film accomplishes two things at once. It’s a portrait of a woman with a steel will and undying love; and a meditation on the passage of

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time itself, as we watch the Rich’s six sons grow up. Both films echo a single theme: The penal system has become a form of modern-day slavery, and needs to be reformed. “Belly of the Beast.� Unrated.

Available at afisilver.afi.com.

82 minutes. “Time.� PG-13. Available on Amazon Prime Video. Contains some strong language. 81 minutes.

as you possibly can, and still have a little bit of enjoyment,� Harvey said.

They plan to continue their events throughout other holidays this year, too.

In December, Santa will be making a visit. There won’t be any lap sitting but children will still have the opportunity to see him.

But they welcome guests anytime. “We put our heart and soul into each tour,� she said, adding that “it’s beautiful here.

It’s beautiful on the water. It’s gorgeous. The surrounding gardens around the castle are so pretty. It’s just kind of a fun way to get out and do something unusual.�

See the list below to see the status of other haunted experiences: • Barrett’s Haunted Mansion in Abington is not running its typical haunted house. Instead, it is hosting a drive-in experience that shows a double feature of horror films. “And just to keep you wondering what that noise was outside your car, our creatures will be roaming the grounds waiting for the right moment to make you scream,â€? the website states. • Chamber of Terrors in Salem is not open this year. • DementedFX in Holyoke is open with restrictions and safety protocols. • Factory of Terror in Worcester, Fall River and West Warwick is open with restrictions, such as online only ticket purchases. • Fear Town in Seekonk is not open this year. • Fright Fest at Six Flags New England in Agawam is closed this year along with the park. • Fright Haven in Stratford, Connecticut, is open this year. • Ghost Ship Harbor in Quincy is open and includes a VIP option, which is a private tour with instant access to the haunted houses. • Haunted Graveyard at Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, is closed this year.

Also streaming Having barricaded themselves in their respective apartments during a pandemic that is turning people into bloodthirsty zombies, neighbors Aidan and Eva (Tyler Posey and Summer Spiro) develop a socially distanced attraction in the thriller “Alone.�

As Aidan tries to figure out a way to rescue his acrossthe-courtyard crush from the descending hordes, he enlists the assistance of an enigmatic stranger (Donald Sutherland).

R. Available on various streaming platforms. Contains violence, bloody images, some crude language and partial nudity. 92 minutes.

Donald Sutherland stars in “Alone.� (LIONSGATE)

“She Is the Ocean� is a documentary portrait of nine women around the globe, each of whom shares a passion for the sea. Its subjects include a cliff diver, marine biologist, oceanographer and several surfers. Unrated. Available at virtualavalon.org, themiracletheare.com and Angelika virtual cinema. 99 minutes.

First-time filmmaker Cooper Raiff wrote, directed, co-edited and produced the South

by Southwest award-winning “S---house,� a romantic dramedy about a lonely college freshman named Alex (Raiff) Jimmy O. Yang (“Silicon who falls for his sophomore Valley�) plays an office worker resident adviser (Dylan Galupursuing his dream of perform- la). The Hollywood Reporter ing stand-up comedy in “The writes: “Raiff is so credible Opening Act,� whose support- in the part one can’t help but ing cast also features Cedric suspect there’s a lot of him the Entertainer, Ken Jeong, Bill in Alex; the film’s willingBurr, Alex Moffat and Whitney ness to look so frankly at his Cummings. Unrated. Available vulnerability, in an unmanipon various streaming platforms. ulative way, feels especially 90 minutes. refreshing now.� R. Available on various streaming platforms.

The documentary “Push�

Contains strong language looks at the global housing cri- throughout, sexuality and drug sis through the eyes of lawyer and alcohol use. 100 minutes.

Leilani Farha, as the former U.N. Special Rapporteur on The documentary “White Adequate Housing “unearths Riotâ€? revisits the formation familiar tales of poor residents of the Rock Against Racism being forcibly evicted to make movement in late-1970s way for luxury investment England, catalyzed by a racist, units to be sold to wealthy xenophobic rant by a drunken overseas buyers,â€? according to Eric Clapton during a 1976 the Guardian, which calls the concert in Birmingham. The film a “powerfulâ€? exposĂŠ of a New Music Express calls $217 trillion scandal. Unrated. the debut feature by Rubika Available at afisilver.afi.com.

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The Hammond Castle Museum offers spooky and spiritual tours throughout October. The museum is also planning on tours for Christmas this year. (HAMMOND CASTLE MUSEUM)

• Haunted Overload at Demerrit Hill Farm in Lee, New Hampshire, is open but warns customers that by going they “voluntarily assume all risks to exposure to COVID-19.â€? • Hysteria at Connors Farm in Danvers is closed this year. • Legends of Fear in Shelton, Connecticut, is open but restricted based on COVID-19 and weather. • Nightmare Acres in South Windsor, Connecticut, is closed this year. • Nightmare Vermont in Essex Junction, Vermont, is selling tickets for a virtual experience. • Pittsford Haunted House in Pittsford, Vermont, is closed this year.

• Salem Wax Museum & Haunted Neighborhood’s Frankenstein’s Castle is open with no live actors. Instead it has “all new animatronic scares.â€? The Haunted Witch Village is closed. • Trail of Terror in Wallingford, Connecticut, is open but tickets for general admission are not available. Instead, customers can buy group tickets or VIP tickets. • Witch’s Woods in Westford is open with restrictions, such as online only ticket purchases. • 13 Nights at Jiminy in Lanesborough is closed this year. • 715 Haunted House in Canton is closed this year.

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DINE & WINE

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Safety of indoor dining worrisome

HOUGH THE TOPIC hasn’t been grabbing headlines recently, the question of indoor dining’s relative safety during the current pandemic lingers in the minds of diners and restaurant owners alike.

Many jurisdictions, most recently New York City, have permitted restaurant dining rooms to open as long as certain protocols were observed — scaled-back capacity, socially distanced seating, staff with masks and gloves, and face coverings worn by patrons except while actually consuming food or drink.

Recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has, however, called into question the efficacy of “social distancing” in indoor settings, with the agency citing the disease transmission risk from airborne particles that can float in the air for hours.

The National Restaurant Association has updated its guidance to those establishments reopening their dining rooms, encouraging owners and operators to provide proper ventilation, citing “some (COVID-19) transmission risk” from airborne particles.

Health departments in some parts of the country are taking a more aggressive stance on the subject of air

ters, family style, with entrees to include Oktoberfest pretzel chicken, house-made sausages, traditional schnitzels, and German style meatballs served over egg noodles. Similarly presented, the sides at the feast will feature spatzle, sauerkraut, and braised red cabbage.

A dessert tray of Central European sweets will also be Hugh Robert included.

Off The Menu Entertainment for the two evenings will be the Berkshire flow. In New York City, restauMountain Wanderers on Friday rant HVAC systems have to and the Vagabonds on Saturday evening. be professionally tested and Tables are $210 and can be certified; in cities like San reserved by calling the Munich Francisco and Miami, operaHaus German Restaurant at tors are expected to maintain A waiter delivers food to a table at Bottino Restaurant in Chelsea as New York City restaurants open for limited capacity 413-594-8788. proper fresh air circulation through the use of mechanical indoor dining on Oct. 1 in New York. (BRYAN R. SMITH / AFP) • Joseph’s at the Cold Spring ventilation.

Designed to reflect pandemic in Belchertown has begun servLocally, as part of efforts to Side dishes • The Munich Haus Gering breakfast on Saturday and realities, the celebrations are make patrons feel safe, some restaurants are keeping their man Restaurant in Chicopee organized around tables of six, Sundays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Operating out of the clubhouse windows open even when the will be presenting its second se- which must be reserved and ries of Oktoberfest celebrations purchased in advance. and providing seating both heat is on, while others are on Friday and Saturday from 6 indoors and out, the restaurant A selection of Munich Haus investing in ion-generating SEE MENU, PAGE E9 to 9 p.m. favorites will be served on platfiltration systems designed to remove dust, bacteria, and virus particles from circulatTABLE 3 RESTAURANT GROUP table3restaurantgroup.com ing air.

Regardless of the efforts made by those involved, it appears that absolute safety while enjoying a restaurant meal cannot be guaranteed.

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produces a classic assortment of morning food favorites.

In addition to egg platters and “scrambles,” Joseph’s prepares an Irish breakfast with corned beef hash, eggs, and bacon. Three variations on eggs Benedict are available, as are pancakes with either chocolate chips or blueberries baked in.

Hearty appetites are accommodated with combo choices such as chicken and waffles, steak and eggs, or biscuits and gravy.

Joseph’s at the Cold Spring answers at 413-323-4888.

• La Cucina di Hampden House in Hampden plans to wrap up its program of outdoor entertainment on Saturday with the appearance of The Storytellers starting at 7 p.m.

The restaurant, which operates with limited outdoor and indoor seating, continues to also offer “family style” meals to-go. Selections include chicken parmesan, crazy alfredo, braised beef short ribs, and more, with each family style package sized to serve six people. Salad and bread are included.

La Cucina di Hampden House can be reached at 413566-8324.

• Operating on a limited, four-day-a-week schedule, Mario’s Cafe Ambiance in East Longmeadow has been promoting Wednesday night as Prime Rib Night.

The once-a-week “hump day” special, which is priced at $21.95, features prime rib, of course, but also includes a baked potato, a side salad, and a homemade popover.

Current operating hours for Mario’s Cafe Ambiance, which otherwise serves Italian American fare, are Wednesday and Thursday 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., and Saturday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The restaurant answers at 413-224-2295.

alternatives, including a lamb burger finished with lemon-garlic aioli and a Connecticut-style burger steamed over beer.

Wood-fired pizza is a house specialty, with exotic topping combos such as potato-bacon and Portuguese sausage.

Handheld options like street tacos and Brie and bacon grilled cheese are available, as • The Vanished Valley are plates of beer battered fish Brewing Company of Ludlow, and chips.

Vanished Valley’s website can one of the region’s newest be found at Vanishedvalley. brewers and purveyors of La Cucina di Hampden House in Hampden plans to wrap up com.

The taproom answers at craft-style beers, continues to its program of outdoor entertainment on Saturday with the 413-610-1572. operate its beer garden and appearance of The Storytellers starting at 7 p.m. taproom Wednesday through (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN) Hugh Robert is a faculty Sunday weekly; the taproom Mondays back into its weekly member in Holyoke Community Kitchen menu offers a selection opens at noon all five days.

College’s hospitality and culinary operations plan, doing business of fall themed favorites that In addition to finely crafted arts program and has nearly 45 from 6:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. can be ordered for front porch malt beverages, Vanished years of restaurant and educaOutdoor dining on the restau- pickup, for enjoyment on the Valley has an ambitious food rant’s side patio continues, with establishment’s back porch, or agenda. tional experience. Robert can be heaters promised to ward off reached online at OffTheMenuThe operation’s kitchen for inside, socially-distanced Guy@aol.com. autumn chills. The restaurant is dining. prepares six different burger also offering socially distanced Seating at Mezze, either indoor seating. inside or out, is by reservation Take-out and curbside pickup only, with the establishment remain available. Orders operating Thursday through can be placed online at part Sunday. A one-price, threenersrestaurant.com or by course menu is served to those calling 413-786-0975. dining on site.

In order to ensure patron • The debut of a new place to safety and comfort, Mezze has eat has been a relative rarity of installed heaters on its outdoor dining deck and has also late, but last month the North Hadley Sugar Shack in Hadley invested in air purifiers for its opened The Shack 181, a grill dining room.

For more information on and beer garden that it had ACROSS FROM THE BEACH - Mezze’s dining options, go to created as part of its growing THE VILLAGE GREEN. Rates from mezzerestaurant.com. family of businesses. $60 - $85 to 5/21/21 (excluding holidays, Open Thursday through • Uno Pizzeria & Grill locaSunday with both outdoor and some restrictions apply). 3 Night Special indoor seating, The Shack fea- tions claim to be “brazenly buyoff season starting from $140 all week. tures burgers, chicken, steak, ing votes” during the run-up to Ocean views and efficiencies available. and farm pizzas as well as craft this November’s election. The beers, local wines, and artisan focus of the brand’s electionFREE continental breakfast in season. eering, however, isn’t focused hard ciders.

All rooms have refrigerators and cable TV. on a particular political party.

The Shack is open Thursday and Friday from 4 to 8 p.m., on Instead, Uno’s is soliciting Heated outdoor pool. Take children to the votes for one of six new pizza Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 8 beachside playground. Close to several variations vying for a place on p.m., and Sunday from 11:30 golf courses, tennis courts, whale watch the chain’s permanent menu. a.m. to 6 p.m.

Votes are cast in the form of To view The Shack 181 menu cruises, ferries to Nantucket and Martha’s a free pizza that comes with online go to northhadleysug Vineyard, restaurants, shops, bike trails and every pizza purchase of equal arshack.com. The operation many more of the Cape’s unique attractions. or greater value; the free pizza answers at 413-585-8820. variation customers select rep10% Senior Discount. South • Kicking its to-go efforts up resents a vote for that particuShore Drive, South Yarmouth, MA 02664. a notch, Mezze Bar + Bistro in lar kind of pie taking a spot on Uno’s menu.

Williamstown has introduced 1-800-487-4903. www.vgreenmotel.com.

“Candidate” pies include the “Mezze Ghost Kitchen,” an a Bianco Love Thin Crust; a enhanced takeout menu.

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spicy Rattlesnake Deep Dish; a Cheese and Hot Oil Thin Crust; and a Mac & Cheese Deep Dish.

After the first week of voting the Bianco pie, with its garlic and four-cheese topping, was in the lead, but “voting” will continue until Nov. 3.

For more details on the promotion, go to unos.com.

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DINE & WINE White Lion is a refreshing throwback to just good ol’ tasty beer that has flavors that sit mostly in the middle of the “wildness” spectrum: certainly not boring, but also nothing any beer drinker has to fear trying.

Outstanding Burgundy red wine under $30

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OU COULD LITERally spend your entire life exploring the charming French villages in Burgundy and easily never taste the same wine twice.

For such a small slice of France (many of the best wine villages here take up a narrow, 43-mile-long slice of land about the same distance as Springfield to Greenfield), Burgundy produces an astounding array of red and white wines due to a complex blend of different soils.

This week’s recommended wine, an outstanding Burgundy wine under $30.

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Mike Yates, brewmaster at White Lion Brewing Co., is now brewing beer in its new space in Tower Square, the first commercial brewery in Springfield in 70 years. See more photos at MassLive.com. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN)

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NE GREAT ASPECT of being a columnist (as opposed to doing straight news or features) is that you get to state your opinion. This is somewhat crucial when writing about subjects such as music, film, and beer, of course.

One negative aspect is that you rarely ever get to break hot stories. That lesser side of the job reared its head this week with the news that White Lion Brewing announced that it had finally started brewing at its downtown Springfield location — making it the first brewery to do so in the city since before Prohibition. Since this column is weekly, and I turn my copy in almost a week in advance, you’re just hearing about it from me today.

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White Lion begins brewing in Springfield Tower Square, see story online at MassLive.com.

1500 Main St. It also will feature a tap room, kitchen and private event room.

(Those latter facets have not George Lenker opened yet.)

Beer Nut What I will say is that I’ve been looking forward to this However, my esteemed for six years, ever since owner colleague Jim Kinney broke Ray Berry, brewer Mike Yates the news last week. and I met at the sorely missed I won’t repeat the details Northampton venue, The of Jim’s news story much Foundry, in 2014. here, except for the nuts and I already had known Mike bolts: It will be a full-profor years and so felt excited duction brewery that will about what he might bring to brew, package and distribute White Lion, and Ray immeSEE BEER, PAGE E12 beer from Tower Square,

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Best of all, this delightful red wine is relatively affordable (less than $30 a bottle), something that’s not always the case when it comes to many great Burgundy wines, which can easily cost hundreds of dollars or more for a single bottle.

And even though most villages in Burgundy produce only two types of wine – pinot noir and chardonnay – the difference from one village to another, or even one vineyard to another in the same village, can be mindboggling. (A winemaker in Burgundy once told me you could give the exact same grapes to several different winemakers and each one would produce a completely different wine and I agree, but that’s a different story.)

That’s why I wasn’t especially surprised when I recently tasted the 2018 Domaine Parize Pere Et Fils Givry 1er Cru Clos Les Grandes Vignes ($26.99 at Table & Vine in West Springfield), another outstanding pinot noir from Givry, a less well-known village in the southern part of Burgundy.

About Givry Givry is the name of a village in the southern part of Burgundy. Specifically, Givry is located just south of Mercurey, a better-known wine village in the Cote Chalonnaise region of Burgundy just south of Cote De Beaune.

Confused already? Don’t worry. All you need to know is the Cote Chalonnaise region is relatively unknown compared to Cote De Beaune, which is the southern part of the better known Cote D’Or region, the name given to some of the best wine growing villages in Burgundy.

Givry is best known for producing some of “the most charming and the most stylish” red wines of the Cote Chalonnaise region, according to Clive Coates in his 2008 book, “The Wines Of SEE WINE, PAGE E12

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“The Owners”: An elderly couple seek revenge on a group of young people who attempt to ransack their home.

Stars Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham.

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“Scare Package”: Anthology comedy horror ties together deadly events at Rad Chad’s Horror Emporium.

“The Secrets We Keep”: A woman (Noomi Rapace) kidnaps her neighbor (Joel Kinnaman) after she’s convinced he committed crimes against her during World War II. “Spree”: A rideshare driver hatches a sinister plot for online popularity. Stars Joe Keery, Sasheer Zamata and David Arquette.

“The Vanished”: A devastated couple (Anne Heche and Thomas Jane) on vacation search for their missing daughter.

“Tremors: Shrieker Island”: A wealthy man sics a giant, deadly worm on unsuspecting island visitors. Stars Jackie Cruz, Richard Brake and Jon Heder.

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“The Amityville Harvest”: A documentary film crew faces a subject who uses dark magic against them.

“Monster Force Zero”: A group of cosplayers obtain actual superpowers to fight aliens.

“Tar”: An evil life form emerges from Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits and terrorizes the city.

“Friendsgiving”: A group of friends get together for a tumultuous makeshift Thanksgiving dinner. Out tomorrow.

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going to be a process before people are comfortable rubbing up against one another again. But if somebody told me, “That’s never going to happen again,” that would be a big life change for me. That act of playing has been one of the only consistent things in my life since I was 16 years old.

I’ve depended a lot on it not just for my livelihood but for my emotional well-being. So if somebody said, “Five years from now, maybe” – that’s a long time, particularly at my age. I’m 71, and I’m thinking, “Well, I know one thing. I’m in the mood right now to burn the house down for as long as I can.”

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At what point did you realize it needed to be an E Street Band record?

there’s no religion in it. There’s just spirit, I hope.

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A. I knew I wanted to make

a record with the band, and I knew I wanted it to be the pure instrumentation of the band: two keyboards, the guitars, the bass, drums and saxophone, and I didn’t want anything else. I didn’t want to demo or have preconceptions of the music, so I didn’t touch the songs until I taught them to the band. My blueprint for what I was doing was basically the two songs that we’d done in the past that were cut completely live, “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and “Born in the U.S.A.,” which is like two takes.

So we cut about a song every three hours, we did two a day, and we were done in four days.

And on the fifth day, we rested.

Broadway show and now the “Letter to You” film and some of the reflections on this album, I get the sense that you’re starting to think about your legacy.

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Legacy was on my mind when I was, like, a kid. The older you get, the more you realize, who the (expletive) (COLUMBIA RECORDS) knows! (Laughs) Who knows what’s going to last and not now was a bit of a joyride. The last.

John Sayles, a director friend thing about those songs: Every of mine, said, “I make my line is insane! And somehow movies for right now. I make they end up making sense about something. I’m not sure them for the audience that’s going to come and see them how I did it at the time. right now and take them into I hear you grappling a their lives.” Because nobody lot with spirituality on this knows what’s going to happen record, especially in a song tomorrow. And I’ve sort of takRecording wasn’t allike “The Power of Prayer.” en that as my mantra the past I take it you saw the ways that easy for you.

20 or 25 years, that my records As I’ve gotten older, I’ve are for today. people playing ”Born in the Oh, no, recording used to kind of become a spiritual I just try to find a vein of U.S.A.” outside Walter Reed be hell on earth. I spent years songwriter just by nature, by present energy in what I’m when President Donald the things I’ve grown interest- doing and in the language that Trump was there earlier this making records sometimes. ed in. At the end of the day I’m I’ve learned to make my music Even “Western Stars” took a month. How did that make long time. It was not a painful writing about my own spiritual both current and relevant at you feel? Decades after life, and I’m addressing yours. this point on. I think if you Ronald Reagan, people still process, but it was a lengthy keep the inner spirit of what We make a lot of music that seem to be misunderstand- process. ing that song. you’re doing alive, you remain addresses the soul; that’s the Aside from the new relevant. I remember playnature of our band. WhethThat is my lot in life. er I heard, as I say on the ing behind Roy Orbison in material, there are three (Laughs) That is my lot in life, record, Ben E. King’s voice, 1988. I was surprised at how songs on this album that incredibly present and current and I have learned to live with you wrote in the early or the Drifters, some of the his music felt, and it was all beit with a smile. I mean, I do otherworldly doo-wop of the 1970s. What made you believe that as much as it is the return to them? early ’60s – I just find a great cause that was the way he was singing it. I realized it was not writer’s job to write well, it is essence of spirit in them. It I had been working on old to Roy. It was not nostalgia the listener’s job to listen well. was something that I wanted a box set of music from our And yet still, on occasion, I’m to communicate when I wrote to him. It was as alive in his heart and in his spirit in 1988 as vault, so I came across a bunch my own music. It’s not sort going to hear something like it was in 1960. of those songs that I had that. of dogmatic or overblown; recorded for John Hammond, I still believe it’s one of my the previous vice president best songs, and when we play of Columbia Records who it, it just has a cumulative discovered me and got me power that remains with it.

Collecting Donations for Your Local Cancer cer Con Connection o nection The pride that people feel as a signed. I had done a demo for Breast part of that music is true. But to him in 1972 when I was 22, Everyone yone Cancer come Welcome understand that piece of music and these songs were on it, Awareness Month you need to do what adults are and they were songs I’d written previous to my first record. capable of doing, which is to hold two contradictory ideas of So I happened to come into contact with that music, and one thing in your mind at one there were a couple of others time. How something can be that I thought might be fun for prideful and at the same time the band to play. call to account the nation that It’s fun to go back and see you’re writing about. That was how wild my lyric writing was just a part of that piece of muAEStoresGreenfield AdamEveGreenfieldMA sic. It’s a song that’s not neces- and how uninhibited it was at sarily what it appears to be. a certain moment, and to be Pleasure, Ad Pl Adventure, & F Fun able to take that and bring it 18 Main St., Greenfield, MA • 413-774-9800 You got the band back into the present with the band www.Greenfield.AdamEveStores.com together for “Letter to You.” and sing it in my voice right Mon-Thurs 10am-9pm, Fri. & Sat. 10am-10pm, Sun. 12pm-7pm

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got it right. And I must say the beer is great, too. In a craft beer world populated with inCONTINUED FROM PAGE E10 creasingly wacky styles and exdiately impressed me with treme versions thereof, White his enthusiasm, intelligence Lion is a refreshing throwback and vision for what he wanted to just good ol’ tasty beer that White Lion to become. And has flavors that sit mostly in always at the goal line for the the middle of the “wildness” business was the idea that it spectrum: certainly not boring, would do its actual brewing but also nothing any beer within the city confines, ideally drinker has to fear trying. downtown.

I love a lot of the more exAnd while it took a little treme beers and breweries out longer than I (or Ray, or Mike) there, but I admit that sometimes I open some of their cans expected, the result seems with a little trepidation. I never worth the wait. As Ray once worry with White Lion. I know said to me about finding a I’ll like it to some degree or location in the city and taking the time to do so: “We want to another.

So congrats to all involved get it right.”

Well, with the brewery sitting with the project. I can’t wait to in Tower Square, I think they visit the tap room.

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Burgundy.” I definitely agree based on this wonderful red wine from Domaine Parize Pere Et Fils.

In particular, Givry has 25 “premier cru” vineyards, a term used to describe wines made from exceptional grapes.

One of the “premier cru” vineyards in Givry is Les Grandes Vignes, the vineyard where the pinot noir grapes were grown to make this week’s recommended wine.

About Domaine Parize Pere Et Fils This family-owned winery (“fils” is French for “sons”) has been making wine in Burgundy for six generations, according to the winery’s American importer, Ideal Wines. Like most wineries in Burgundy, Domaine Parize Pere Et Fils produces pinot noir and chardonnay wines, along with a small amount of aligote, a distinct white wine produced by several other wineries in this southern part of Burgundy. The winery is has been fully organic for several years and produces roughly 4,000 cases of wine each year.

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I will confess that I was a bit skeptical about how good such a young red wine would taste at this early point in its development. I personally tend to enjoy many red wines (especially from Burgundy) after they’ve had a few years or more to mature. Such fears were completely unnecessary. I’m sure this wine will age beautifully over the next three to fivw years, but why wait? This wonderful wine tastes great right now.

This charming, vivacious wine abounds with fresh, ripe fruit flavors, including fresh-picked raspberries and blackberries. Right from the first sip, this pinot noir delivers a fascinating blend of vibrant fruit notes along with hints of dark chocolate and a slightly meaty texture. Let me add that while the fruit flavors are lively and prominent, they are not overwhelming or sweet or cloying. Instead, they simply hit all the right notes like a skilled jazz pianist.

One more thing, as Lieutenant Columbo used to say.

I last had a sip of this wine several minutes ago and I can still taste and feel its soft, silky finish on the tip of my tongue, always a great sign. A truly delightful wine that deserves more recognition.

Cheers!

Wine Press by Ken Ross appears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Republican’s weekend section every Thursday.