Weekend - November 5, 2020

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CiderDays takes on a new form as the season-long Cider Trail 2020, which takes visitors to 16 stops where they can explore the world of cider and apples.

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CiderDays expands its sweet annual run Season-long Cider Trail 2020 celebrates all things apple

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By Cori Urban

Special to The Republican

rganizers of this year’s cider event that has blossomed beyond Franklin County are hoping they will be racking one success after another.

The annual CiderDays has taken on a new form — the season-long Cider Trail 2020 — which leads visitors to 16 stops where they can explore the world of cider and apples.

Carr’s Ciderhouse in Hadley is a family-run operation committed to handcrafting small batch, naturally made hard ciders as well as apple cider-based products for the pantry. It is one of the locations along the Cider Trail 2020. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Local orchards and cider makers will welcome guests for fresh picked apples, sweet cider, hard cider, cider donuts, apple brandy and spirits all in safe, socially distanced venues.

The change is disappointing, said Lisa B. Davol, marketing and events manager for the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce. “The events and workshops and tastings are core to CiderDays, but the biggest aspect of the event is the community that it engenders. People come not only for the workshops but to see their ‘cider family’ each year. … They look forward to the familiar faces and camaraderie around cider.”

CiderDays usually takes place during the first weekend in November and has grown

in the past 26 years into an internationally recognized event that draws some 4,000 visitors from the United States, Canada and Europe. It features apple tastings, orchard tours, workshops on making sweet cider, cooking demonstrations, fermenting hard cider and more.

This year, because of COVID-19, the celebration of all things apple will be a fall self-guided tour of orchards, cideries and related venues.

Organizers decided that this year, with restrictions on crowds and other pandemic-related limitations, to suspend the big gatherings they usually have, encourage people to come to Western Massachusetts for a longer period than

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Pioneer Valley Symphony to present ‘Evolving Voice’ at Smith College in Northampton some years ago, when she also presented master classes and lessons.

By Clifton Noble Jr. PVS Chorus Director Sarah Paquet Special to The Republican will serve as moderator, hosting the ike the rest of our bodies, our voices undergo chang- event on behalf of the orchestra, and fielding questions from the online es as we age. If you are a vocalist who has wondered audience.

“While planning our virtual offerhow to sing healthily and well for as long as possiings for the year,” Paquet said, “the ble, the Pioneer Valley Symphony Orchestra’s Virtu- PVS team felt that a session on the voice throughout the lifespan would al Offerings has just the program for you. be of interest to both our membership On Saturday at 7 p.m. the PVS pres- nois, where she is a professor of music and the greater singing community ents vocal performance expert Karen and co-chair of musical performance. in the valley. (PVS Music Director) Brunssen in an online lecture/disIn 2018 she published a comprehenTian Hui Ng connected with Karen cussion entitled “PVS Presents: The sive reference volume, “The Evolving when she visited Smith College, and Evolving Singing Voice.”

Singing Voice: Changes Across the immediately thought of her as the Brunssen is past president of the Life Span,” documenting how changes ideal presenter for such an event. She National Association of Teachers of in respiration, vibration, and resobrings a wealth of experience as a nance impact singing over a lifetime.

Singing (NATS). She teaches voice at world-renowned performer, teacher, the Bienen School of Music at North- She has spoken on the subject around and clinician, and has tremendous western University in Evanston, Illithe world, including a brief residency depth of knowledge on the topic.”

Online event features vocal expert Karen Brunssen

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Karen Brunssen

Brunssen’s own singing career spans more than 30 years, and includes solo appearances with Chicago, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Houston, Cleveland, St. Louis, National, San Diego, Seattle, Milwaukee, Netherlands Radio, Halle, and Mexico City Symphony Orchestras, Cincinnati Opera, Music of the Baroque, Grant Park Music Festival, Chicago Opera Theatre, Carmel Bach Festival, Prague Autumn Festival, Thomaskirche in Leipzig, Aspen Music Festival, and the Berkshire

“The apples are here and they make life better! We need to support our growers and cider producers to keep these staples of the local economy going. And the outdoor nature of the event is perfect for socially distancing. It is a time to connect with the land and get away from our computers and isolation and out into nature.”

Lisa B. Davol, marketing and events manager for the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce

port other local businesses,” Watson said. “By keeping an apple culture vital, we also protect local landscapes and keep them in productive use, not just turn everything into second homes or other development.”

This year’s trail includes: Artifact Cider Project in Florence; Artisan Beverage Cooperative in Greenfield; Bear Swamp Orchard, Distillery and Cidery in Ashfield; Beaver Pond Distillery in Petersham; Berkshire Cider Project in North Adams; Carr’s Ciderhouse in Hadley; Clarkdale Fruit Farms in Deerfield; Headwater Cider in Hawley; New Salem Preserves and New Salem Cider in New Salem; Phoenix Fruit Farm in Belchertown; Pine Hill Orchards in Colrain; Ragged Hill Cider Company in West Brookfield; Ryan & Casey Liquors in Green-

field; Shelburne Falls Cork in Shelburne Falls; Stan’s Liquor Mart in Belchertown; and West County Cider in Shelburne.

“By exploring a few places along the trail, sampling and maybe buying a bottle or two to take home, people can really get a good sense of what high-quality craft cider from Western Massachusetts is all about and explore the characteristics that make it unique,” Watson said. “You can learn a lot about cider and distinctive apple varieties by just tasting and talking with the people who know it best.”

Cideries and orchards in surrounding counties have been wanting to be a part of CiderDays in the past but there was not the organizational capacity to expand beyond Franklin County.

“With so much change and uncertainty in the world, we

can count on the apple harvest,” Davol said. “The apples are here and they make life better! We need to support our growers and cider producers to keep these staples of the local economy going.

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And the outdoor nature of the event is perfect for socially distancing. It is a time to connect with the land and get away from our computers and isolation and out into nature.”

Organizers are excited about the first Cider Trail.

“Maybe a positive of this pandemic is it encouraged us to be creative with our offerings,” Davol said. “Maybe this trail will stick around for future years in some capacity as part of the larger event.”

Go to CiderDays.org for details of each venue’s offerings and a map of the stops.

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just the first weekend in November, and spread the event out even further in space and time. “In the past, people from outside Franklin County have asked if we would consider expanding event to include other related venues in Western Mass., and we thought this was a logical time to try out a new wrinkle.

Hence the Cider Trail,” said Benjamin A. Watson, a member of the CiderDays volunteer organizing committee.

Some venues will host special events on different weekends, and some will have them during the traditional CiderDays weekend, which this year is Friday through Sunday.

There is a rich tradition of apple growing and cider making throughout Western Massachusetts, especially in Franklin County, which has become recognized nationally and internationally as one of the centers for artisanal cider production. “It’s important to support our orchardists and our cider producers as small local businesses during this time, just as it is to sup-

“Take pride in what you can do, and let go of what you can’t do, but always enjoy the effort to do your best.”

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LUES LEGEND TAJ Mahal is getting into the livestream business.

The Grammy Award winner, who grew up in Springfield, will offer a virtual concert from the UC Theatre stage in Berkeley, California.

The concert takes place on Nov. 17 at 9 p.m.

Tickets are available through dspshows.com.

Born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks Jr., the artist was raised in Springfield and worked on a Palmer dairy farm during his teen years. It was while he was majoring in animal husbandry at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that his interest in a musical career bloomed and Taj Mahal was born.

Mahal, a member of the Blues Hall of Fame, won his third Grammy at the 60th Grammy Awards, nailing down the trophy for best contemporary blues album. The award came from his work with Keb’ Mo on the collaboBlues legend Taj Mahal, who grew up in Springfield, will presrative effort “Tajmo.”

Liner notes • After testing its reopening strategy with some comedy shows, Foxwoods Resort Casino plans on opening up its Grand Theater to live music again with a November concert.

Almost Queen, the tribute to the classic rock band, is scheduled to play at the Mashantucket, Connecticut, casino today at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 and are available through the Foxwoods Box Office at foxwoods.com and through Ticketmaster outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets purchased for the group’s previously scheduled date will be honored.

The casino has listed a tentative schedule on its website along with a select number of confirmed socially distanced performances.

The Grand Theater has a

ent a virtual concert from the UC Theatre stage on Nov. 17 at 9 p.m. Tickets are available through dspshows.com.

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seating capacity of 4,000.

Foxwoods has instituted a list of guidelines for its “confirmed” shows that include: socially distanced assigned seating, mask requirements, and prohibition of food or beverage in the theater.

A complete list of guidelines is available at foxwoods.com.

The next confirmed socially distanced music performance is DC Young Fly at the Fox Theater on Jan. 16.

However, for King & Country has announced a virtual performance of its “Little Drummer Boy” Christmas show on Nov. 29.

The show is part of the “Live at the Ryman” series from the Opry House in Nashville.

Tickets are $20 and available through ryman.com. for King & Country has won four Grammy Awards. “Burn the Ships,” for King & Country’s third studio album, was released in 2017.

The single “Joy” was nom• Local fans of the Christian music duo for King & Coun- inated for the 2019 Grammy try will get a chance to catch Award for best contemporary a glimpse of the group via a Christian music performance/ livestream event. song.

The group was scheduled to play the MassMutual Center • Best-selling girls group in May on its “Burn the Ships” TLC will be the subject of a tour. That show was resched- documentary that is set to air uled to June and then moved in 2021. again to a May 2021 date.

“Biography: TLC” will air on

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the A&E network.

The program will chronicle the career and collaboration of Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas.

Having sold over 85 million records worldwide, TLC is the best-selling American girl group. After the death of Lopes in 2002, the remaining members continued on as a duo.

TLC’s most recent release was 2017’s “TLC” and in 2019, they embarked on the “Whole Lotta Hits” tour with Flo Rida and Nelly.

Nov. 21, and Dec. 5.

Tickets are available through pattygriffin.com.

“I am hoping with these shows to raise awareness and maybe a little funding too for some of these places that are struggling to stay afloat in this shut down,” said Griffin in a statement.

Griffin is a native of Maine who went from playing coffee houses to becoming a roots music icon revered for her singing and songwriting.

• With her North American tour on hold due to COVID-19 restrictions, Lindsey Stirling has planned a livestream holiday concert for fans.

Stirling will play two show (3 and 8 p.m.) on Dec 12.

Tickets are $20 and available through onlocationlive. com.

The singer/ violinist was scheduled to play the Toyota Oakdale Theater this past summer. That show has been moved to Aug. 18, 2021.

Stirling performed on “America’s Got Talent” in 2010. Her fifth studio album, “Artemis,” was released in 2019.

• Patty Griffin will set up shop at the Continental Club in Austin, Texas, next month and deliver three performances to benefit independent ven• Rob Zombie has anues that have struggled during nounced plans to release a the enduring pandemic. new album in 2021, his first Griffin will offer virtual acsince 2018.

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“The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy” is due out in March and was introduced last week with the lead single “The Triumph of King Freak.”

The Haverhill native and his band White Zombie are noted for melding horror/sci-fi themes with heavy metal.

In addition to being a seven-time Grammy nominee, Zombie is the writer/director of eight feature films.

His reimagining of John Carpenter’s “Halloween” topped the box office upon its release in 2007.

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Colvin’s summer tour was to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her “Steady On” release. The 1989 debut won a Grammy for best traditional folk album and featured performances from artists like Bruce Hornsby, Suzanne Vega, T-Bone Wolk, and Soozie Tyrell.

• While professional sports leagues have utilized a “bubble” protocol to play during COVID-19, rock band Flaming Lips made headlines earlier when it announced it would utilize actual plastic bubbles to allow fans to enjoy a live concert.

Now the group has released video of the concert that was held in Oklahoma City.

• Richard Thompson has The video, which can be announced the release of his viewed online, shows lead singer Wayne Coyne stage-diving first memoir.

The book “Beeswing: Losing into a crowd of bouncing plastic My Way and Finding My Voice pods filled with fans seemingly 1967-1975” is due out on April having the time of their life.

6, 2021.

The video is for the song The story will trace his life “Assassins of Youth.” from his childhood, through The Flaming Lips just rehis Fairport Convention days, leased its “Greatest Hits Vol. and subsequent work with his 1” and were scheduled to play former wife Linda Thompson. the Palladium in Worcester on Thompson has also anAug. 5. The group is reportedly nounced a livestream event on considering a tour utilizing the Dec. 16 at 8 p.m. bubble concept.

Tickets are available through The band has won three richardthompson-music.

Grammy Award including two com. for best rock instrumental.

• Shawn Colvin had planned to be in and around New England quite a bit this summer before COVID-19 hit.

The singer-songwriter was scheduled for shows at the Cabot Theater in Beverly, Infinity Hall in Hartford, and an opening slot on James Taylor’s Fenway Park show.

Now, Colvin is looking ahead to the Christmas season and will deliver a holiday-themed, livestreamed show on Dec. 17 at 8 p.m.

“I’m very happy to announce that I’ll be doing another livestream on Dec. 17!” she said in a statement. “In 1998 I released an album called ‘Holiday Songs and Lullabies’ and for this holiday season I’ll be performing the whole record, plus additional holiday favorites, with a band.”

Tickets are available through

• Rocker Peter Frampton has released a memoir.

“Do You Feel Like I Do?” is a career and life retrospective written with Alan Light, who has penned books on everyone from Johnny Cash to Prince.

The 352-page tome is available now through Amazon and other book-sellers.

Frampton is one of rock’s most celebrated guitarists.

At 18 years old he joined Steve Marriott in forming one of the original supergroups, Humble Pie. His 1976 release, “Frampton Comes Alive!,” remains one of the best-selling live records of all time.

• It has been a tough stretch for fans of outlaw country music.

Just a few days after the passing of Jerry Jeff Walker, the

outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000.

Tickets purchased for the original date will be honored.

BNL’s tour will also feature Gin Blossoms and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

Patty Griffin will deliver three virutal performances to benefit independent venues that have struggled during the enduring pandemic on Nov. 7, Nov. 21, and Dec. 5. Tickets are available through pattygriffin.com. (JEROD HARRIS / GETTY IMAGES)

genre lost another giant with the death of Billy Joe Shaver.

According to published reports, the country singer died at age 81 of a massive stroke.

Shaver was known for hits like “Georgia on a Fast Train” and “Honky Tonk Heroes.”

He songs have been recorded by the likes of Willie Nelson, Bobby Bare and Johnny Cash.

Shaver lived a bit of an outlaw Jerry Seinfeld will perform at existence as well, and in 2007 Foxwoods in Mashantucket, he was acquitted of shooting Conn., on July 31, 2021. a man in the face at a bar in (SOUTH JERSEY TIMES FILE PHOTO) Waco, Texas.

• Comic Andrew Santino’s show at Mohegan Sun’s Comix Club has been postponed.

The show was scheduled for Nov. 5. A new date has yet to be announced.

The postponement may or may not be related to COVID-19 as the Comix Comedy Club is open, hosting stand-up events and holding live music and karaoke events.

Santino is a stand up star that was featured in the Showtime series “I’m Dying Up Here.”

Box Office at 413-586-8686 and online at iheg.com.

Tickets purchased for the previous dates will be honored.

Jewell is originally from Boise, Idaho, but is signed to the Northampton-based Signature Sounds label.

Jewell is touring to support her latest release “Gypsy.”

• When Barenaked Ladies postponed its 2020 “Last Summer on Earth” tour, the Mohegan Sun stop was the only date to be rescheduled (July 10, 2021).

• Songwriter Eilen Jewell The band has now rounded may finally be coming back to out its 2021 schedule and has Northampton. announced new dates for its One of many 2020 concerts to undergo multiple postpone- other postponed New England ments, Jewell has already seen stops. her April and September show The tour will come to the go by the boards.

Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion on July 9 and the Rockland Now, Jewell is scheduled to Trust Bank Pavilion in Boston arrive on the Northampton stage on July 18, 2021, at 7 p.m. on July 11.

Tickets for the show are availTickets for the show are available through the Northampton able through all Ticketmaster

• Forced to cancel its 2020 tour due to coronavirus, My Chemical Romance has rescheduled its routing for 2021 and will make up its postponed September show in Boston.

The band will play TD Garden on Sept. 13, 2021.

Tickets for the show are available through all Ticketmaster outlets and locations including ticketmaster.com and by phone at 800-745-3000.

Tickets purchased for the original date will be honored.

My Chemical Romance formed in New Jersey in 2001.

The band recorded five acclaimed studio albums before a 2013 breakup and reunited for a show in October of 2019.

• Jerry Seinfeld’s touring plans have once again been interrupted by the coronavirus.

The comic was scheduled to play two New England dates in 2020; the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester on April 10, and the Grand Theater at Foxwoods on July 18.

The Worcester show was postponed and at this point has not been rescheduled.

The Foxwoods date, originally moved to December, has now been set for July 31, 2021.

Tickets purchased for the original dates will be honored.

The Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner is best known for the sitcom “Seinfeld,” which he co-created with Larry David. It ran on NBC for 11 years and continues to be popular in syndication.

“Seinfeld,” currently streaming on Hulu, will make the jump to Netflix in 2021 under the terms of a five-year deal reportedly valued at more than $500 million.

His latest projects include the Emmy-nominated web series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” and his Netflix special “Jerry Before Seinfeld.”

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MOVIES / TELEVISION DVD RELEASES

‘Misbehaviour’ follows 1970 Miss World contest

By Katie Foran-McHale

competitors, including the fed-up and favored-to-win A feminist infiltration of a Marjorie Johansson aka Miss beauty pageant from severSweden (Clara Rosager), al angles tops the new DVD aspiring broadcaster Jennfier releases for this week.

Hosten aka Miss Grenada “Misbehaviour”: Sally Al(Gugu Mbatha-Raw), and an exander (Keira Knightley), a overwhelmed Pearl Jansen aka “mature” University College Miss Africa South (Loreece London student and a mother, Harrison), the first Black South clashes with young feminist Jo African contestant.

Robinson (Jessie Buckley). But Directed by Philippa when Sally quickly discovers Lowthorpe and written by her seat at the academic table Gaby Shiappe and Rebecca is more of a high chair (her Frayn, the film masterfully words), she joins forces with explores the dynamics of the Jo and the brand-new womdawn of the women’s liberation en’s liberation movement. movement in the UK, showing Exhausted and angry with the intersections of class and patriarchal standards equating race without pandering. Jessie physical attractiveness with a Buckley’s Jo brings the fire, woman’s worth (not to mention while Mbatha-Raw’s reserved self-worth), their target is the Miss Grenada carries the tre1970 Miss World competition, mendous weight of not only the hosted by comedian Bob Hope patriarchy but white supremacy. Bonus: Leslie Manville is (Greg Kinnear). Meanwhile, we meet some of the pageant’s an absolute delight as Hope’s Tribune News Service

past and present horrors of the Black experience in the United States.

“Blackbird”: A mother (Susan Sarandon) suffering from ALS attempts to resolve issues with her daughters (Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska) while planning her assisted suicide.

“Craig Ross Jr.’s Monogamy, Season 1”: Four couples head to Los Angeles to try to fix their troubled relationships via polyamory.

“The Crown - Season 03”: Keira Knightley, left, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in “Misbehaviour.”

The third season of the hit (PARISA TAGHIZADEH / SHOUT! STUDIOS) Netflix series follows Queen wife, Dolores, teeming with “feeling women” to honoring Elizabeth II (Olivia Colman) resentment of his womanizing “women’s feelings,” it’s a cafrom 1964 to 1977. thartic watch. and eventually reveling in the “Hard Kill”: A security expert (Jesse Metcalfe) fights to women’s liberation efforts Also new on DVD save the daughter of a billionduring the show.

“Amigo Skate, Cuba”: aire tech CEO (Bruce Willis) From witnessing the power of women organizing and Documentary follows illegal while attempting to keep his Hosten making history, and the skateboarding in Cuba. destructive technology from ultimate reactions to Hope’s “Antebellum”: A writer getting into the wrong hands. pageant bit about preferring (Janelle Monae) is ensnared by SEE DVD, PAGE E7

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“Kick-Ass”: Comedy-action film starring Aaron Johnson as a teenage crime-fighting power-free superhero is being released on 4K Ultra HD. “The Mortal Storm”: The 1940 film following a family in Germany torn apart by fascism has been remastered.

“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda”: Documentary follows the life of the Japanese composer. In Japanese and English.

Out on Digital HD “Acute Misfortune”: Young biographer Erik Jensen (Toby Wallace) is lulled into a toxic relationship with artist Adam Cullen (Daniel Henshall) over the course of their interviews.

“Attack of the Demons”: Animated film follows a trio of small-town Colorado friends who find themselves fighting murderous demons.

“Blind”: A depressed, visually impaired author (Alec Baldwin) is reawakened by an affair with a married woman (Demi Moore).

“Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection”: Collection includes 60 theatrical shorts and interviews centering on Looney Toons’ lovable stinker.

“Love in Dangerous Times”: A couple (Ian Stout and Tiffany Groben) begin a romance amid the worsening of the pandemic.

“Possessor Uncut”: An assassin (Andrea Riseborough) controls brain implants that force people to take out her VIP targets.

“Cup of Cheer”: A journalist (Storm Steenson) heads back to her hometown and hits it off with a cocoa shop owner in this spoof of TV Christmas movies.

Out tomorrow.

“Kindred”: A pregnant woman believes her dead boyfriend’s family is attempting to control her and her child. Out tomorrow.

“Mortal”: A man (Nat Wolff) discovers he has powers right from ancient Norwegian gods.

In Norwegian and English. Out tomorrow. Available on DVD and Blu-ray Nov. 10.

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‘American Dharma’ leads new releases

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of a child in jeopardy and a distraught mother (Marta Nieto) – the slow-burn thriller “Madre” is set 10 years after the disappearance of a six-year-old boy.

Unrated. Available at afisilver. afi.com. In Spanish and French with subtitles. 128 minutes.

Washington Post

In 2003, the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made “The Fog of War,” a masterful portrait of former defense secretary Robert McNamara in which McNamara’s singular combination of protective justification and self-awareness created a fascinating, densely layered psychological profile.

Morris used the same strategy to less edifying effect in “The Unknown Known,” about Donald Rumsfeld.

Now, with “American Dharma,” the format has reached the rock bottom of diminishing returns. In this ambitious, frustrating and finally toothless film, Morris sets out to interrogate Stephen Bannon, one of President Donald Trump’s most notorious advisers and, not incidentally, a filmmaker himself.

Using clips from Bannon favorites such as “Twelve O’Clock High,” “The Searchers” and Orson Welles’s “Chimes at Midnight,” Morris seeks to create a grand unified theory of Bannon’s psyche, leading him in a wide-ranging conversation about his philosophical evolution from a “touchy-feely” liberal to right-wing culture warrior. When “American Dharma” made its North American debut at Toronto two years ago, Morris insisted that his aim was to “understand our enemy.”

But in the absence of genuinely probing questions or intellectually vigorous pushback, the film winds up letting Bannon run out the clock, flattered by Morris’s attention – Bannon tells Morris that “The Fog of War” inspired him to make documentaries – and increasingly delighted when he realizes his interlocutor isn’t laying a glove on him. (For a fair, engrossing and entertaining depiction of Bannon and his agenda, watch Alison Klayman’s far more effective “The Brink.”)

“American Dharma’s” final image might be the most revealing moment in a film that turns out to be a dual portrait of two men equally entranced with the

Stephen Bannon is the subject of the documentary “American Dharma.” (UTOPIA /TOPIC)

Morris seeks to create a grand unified theory of Bannon’s psyche, leading him in a wide-ranging conversation about his philosophical evolution from a “touchy-feely” liberal to right-wing culture warrior. spectacle of dazzling self-belief.

R. Available on Topic. Contains strong language and some sexual material. 97 minutes.

Also streaming The documentary “The Donut King” tells the story of Ted Ngoy, a Cambodian immigrant who rose to the top of a multimillion-dollar empire of Southern California doughnut shops. The Hollywood Reporter calls the film “an undeniably moving portrayal of how America, in providing a home to desperate exiles, has been in turn rewarded for its generosity of spirit.” Unrated. Available at afisilver.afi.com and themiracletheatre.com. In English, Chinese and Cambodian with subtitles. 94 minutes.

“First Vote,” is a documentary portrait of several politically engaged Chinese Americans,

including a gun-toting tea-party-favorite candidate in the South; an Ohio podcaster who became a citizen to vote for Trump; a liberal journalist; and a college professor teaching about race and racism. Unrated.

Available at afisilver.afi.com.

In English and mandarin with subtitles. 60 minutes.

In the horror film “His House,” a young couple from war-torn South Sudan (Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku) seek asylum in England, where they sense that their new home is occupied by a sinister supernatural presence. The Guardian calls the feature debut of British director Remi Weekes “the work of someone with a lot to say and a lot to show, hinting at a promising career both in and out of the genre.”

TV-14. Available on Netflix. 93 minutes.

Tired of being dateless on festive occasions, two single strangers (Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey) agree to act as each other’s platonic plus-ones for every holiday for one year in the rom-com “Holidate,” only to discover that they have developed – gasp! – actual feelings for each other. TV-MA. Available on Netflix. 104 minutes.

A sequel to Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Oscar-nominated short of the same name – a harrowing story

Billed as the first Polish slasher, “Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight” is about attendees at a rehab camp for tech-addicted teens who are terrorized by an evil entity. TVMA. Available on Netflix. 103 minutes.

“Political Advertisement X: 1952-2020” is the 10th edition of a collection of television ads from U.S. presidential campaigns going back to the 1950s, first put together in 1984 by media artists Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese, and updated every four years. Unrated.

Available at afisilver.afi.com.

90 minutes.

“Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb” is a documentary about the discovery, in 2018, of the tomb of an Egyptian high priest that had been untouched for 4,400 years. TV-PG. Available on Netflix. 104 minutes.

In “The Soul of America,” a documentary based on Jon Meacham’s 2018 bestseller of the same name, the writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer offers insights into America’s present by examining its past. TV-PG. Available on HBO. 77 minutes.

Jaeden Martell, Chris Messina, Chloë Sevigny and John Turturro star in “The True Adventures of Wolfboy.” Flickering Myth calls the film a “dark fairy tale” about a lonely, outcast boy with hypertrichosis – a condition that causes abnormal hair growth over the face and body – who goes off in search of his mother. PG-13. Available on various streaming platforms.

Contains some disturbing violent content and terror. 88 minutes.

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DINE & WINE

Low-alcohol, no-alcohol brews trending upward

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ITH THE clocks being turned back a few days ago, change is in the air, and I feel it’s time once again to clear my virtual desk off and write about some notes of interest.

Low-alcohol and no-alcohol brews are trending upward. For the past year or two, craft beer has started embracing low-alcohol brews. Beers such as Brooklyn Brewery’s Special Effects (0.4% ABV), a hoppy brew that is tagged as having “all of the satisfaction, none of the buzz,” may provide a blueprint for other brewers.

A bottle of Heineken’s first alcohol-free beer, called Heineken 0.0. Low-alcohol and no-alcohol brews are trending upward.

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on a while ago in the column and which (correctly) remains under the spotlight: the lack of diversity in the craft beer business. The most recent numbers I could find from 18 months ago show that only 1% of independent George Lenker craft breweries have Black Beer Nut owners and a slightly higher number, 2.4%, are LatiIn the U.K., a third of young no-owned. adults have reduced alcoWhile this is being adhol consumption, with 23% dressed by a variety of going completely without industry leaders, there is a booze, according to research new book that I’d like to read by the Society of Indepenthat addresses this issue: dent Brewers over there.

“Beer and Racism: How Guinness just released its Beer Became White, Why It alcohol-free stout. While Matters and the Movements high-octane beers are still to Change It” by Nathaniel extremely popular, there Chapman, assistant professeems to be a growing thirst sor of sociology at Arkansas for beer that can be enjoyed Tech University. over longer periods of time The book doesn’t seem like without the accompanying a beach read — it’s described buzz (and hangover). as a “much-needed critical How many smaller craft and interdisciplinary path to brewers will adopt this model examine and understand the and offer low- or no-alcohol racial dynamics in the craft beers remains to be seen, but beer industry and the popthe trend seems to indicate ular consumption of beer” that some should get a jump — but that’s fine with me. If on the competition craft beer is going to conSEE BEER, PAGE E10 Next up is a topic I touched

Veterans Day dining deals offered to military, retirees

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RIGINALLY OBserved to commemorate the Armistice that ended World War I, Nov. 11 has since taken on a deeper meaning as a day that celebrates all who have stepped forward to defend their country.

Once again this Veterans Day, restaurant chains are taking the opportunity to say thank you to those who have served. What follows is a sampling of deals and complimentary meals that those brands with local outlets are making available to veterans and, in nearly all cases, those currently serving in the military as well.

Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar restaurants are promoting a dine-in, free meal from a limited menu on Veterans Day. Proof of service is required.

Buffalo Wild Wings locations are offering veterans, as well as active-duty personnel, a free order of 10 boneless wings with fries on Nov. 11.

Participating Chili’s restaurants are serving veterans and active-duty service members a complimentary entree from a selected menu. The offer is good for dine-in only.

A free slice of Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake is the Veterans Day thankyou that Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has available to veterans when they dine in on Nov. 11.

Friendly’s Restaurant locations will be giving away, on a dine-in basis only, an All-American Burger meal to veterans and active-duty service member visiting participating locations during lunch and dinner on Veterans Day. On Nov. 11, from 5 to 9 p.m., Golden Corral is offering a free sit-down “thank you” dinner for military veterans, retirees, and active duty members.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers will be treating military per-

A free slice of Double Chocolate Fudge Coca-Cola Cake is the Veterans Day thank-you that Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has available to veterans when they dine in on Nov. 11.

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sonnel and veterans to a free Tavern Double Burger with steak fries anytime between Nov. 12 and Nov. 30. To be eligible for the offer, those

redeeming it must be a part of the chain’s loyalty program.

More information is available at redrobin.com.

Veterans as well as those currently serving in the military get a free hot brewed coffee on Nov. 11 at participating Starbucks locations.

Texas Roadhouse will be handing out vouchers for a free meal to all veterans and active duty military from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Veterans Day. Vouchers will be distributed in the parking lots at Texas Roadhouse locations.

With all these offers and

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2 outstanding vegan wines from Italy

ANY PEOPLE know and search for organic wines.

Biodynamic wines have also gained a loyal following in recent years.

But what about vegan wines?

What does it take for a wine to be considered vegan?

And are they any good?

Based on this week’s wines from a winemaker in Italy, some vegan wines are absolutely outstanding.

Both red wines recommended this week come from Bocale, a vegan-certified winery located in Italy’s Umbria region.

Below, you can learn more about this winery, vegan wines and read a short interview with Valentino Valentini, owner and producer at Bocale. Hope you enjoy.

This year we wanted to increase our efforts, gaining the vegan certification for our wines and starting a threeyear path to obtain the organic certification.

This is the result of a different concept of agriculture, that we pursued since the beginning.

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we focused more and more on the consumers and their health.

Bocale’s wines are therefore produced without any animal derivates, eggs or dairy products. This is the first step to protect our customers, not only the ones that choose a vegan lifestyle, but also those affected by allergies. Our priority is to produce high quality and unique wines, made from our indigenous grapes that are good for men’s and environment’s health.

Wine tasting notes 2017 Bocale Montefalco Rosso Grapes: 70% sangiovese, 15% sagrantino, 10% merlot and 5% colorino Tasting notes: What I love about both of these wines is how fresh and vibrant Was it difficult for your the flavors are from start to winery to make the switch finish. Let me add that while to making vegan wines? the wines have crisp, clean flavors and aromas, they are It wasn’t difficult at all, as not overpowering or cloying or sweet. They’re dry, smooth, we stopped to use products, elegant and refined. In the during fermentation and case of this red blend, there clarification, with residual are slightly floral aromas and of animal derivates, eggs or flavors, along with hints of dairy over a few years. ripe cherries, chocolate and We try not to be too invasive during the winemaking pine nuts. process so we avoid adding unnatural products to the 2015 Bocale Montefalco wine in order to preserve its Sagrantino good components. So, the Grapes: 100% sagrantino only thing we had to do was to Tasting notes: This intense, powerful, refined wine apply for the certification. illustrates just how great vegan wines can be in the hands When did you first try of skilled winemakers. This vegan wines? show-stopping single-grape wine also demonstrates I tried vegan wines for the just how delicious sagrantino-based wines taste as well. first time in the U.S., while I Here, the finish is longer, was traveling to promote my smoother, silkier and even wines. The U.S. is a country more powerful without being where wine culture is widely overpowering. Its flavors spread. range from roasted blackberries and dark chocolate Do you think consum- to slightly spicy notes along ers will be receptive to with a touch of fresh vanilla. A vegan wines? truly delightful, complex wine ready to enjoy now.

I hope that our care and Cheers! attention could be appreciatWine Press by Ken Ross ed by the consumers in order appears on Masslive.com every Monday and in The Repubto lead agriculture and food lican’s weekend section every production to be more and Thursday. more a flagship for envi-

coronavirus pandemic has somewhat strangled draft sales to bars and restaurants, which gets delivered via kegs.

In trying to compensate for lost sales, brewers have been forced to try and up their can sales, thereby adding to a

supply-and-demand problem that has also been influenced by an uptick in other canned beverage sales during the pandemic, as people are forced to drink more at home.

The reduction of single-use plastics has also made cans

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The two recommended vegan wines from Italy.

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vegan, all its wines are organic and aged in French oak barrels. Bocale produces roughly 35,000 bottles each year.

This week’s recommended wines 2017 Bocale Montefalco Rosso ($20 Suggested Retail Price) 2015 Bocale Montefalco Sagrantino ($40 SRP) What is vegan wine?

As many vegetarians probably know, something classified as vegan cannot contain any animal products, including eggs or dairy products.

Many wines contain animal products used to process and clarify the wine. Such processing agents often include milk protein (casein), gelatin (animal protein) or egg whites (albumin). In recent years, some wineries have stopped using such animal products to process and refine their wines, including Bonny Doon Vineyards in California and

ronment sustainability and respect of human’s health.

Interview with winemaker Valentino Valentini’s written responses to my questions.

Q. Why did you decide to

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Bocale in Italy.

About Bocale Winery Located 3 miles outside the center of the small Italian village of Montefalco, Bocale Winery is run by the Valentini family, which has deep roots in Montefalco. (The family has been living and working there for more than a century.) Bocale’s vineyards are located on a 1,500-foot-high hill nicknamed the “balcony of Umbria.” Along with being

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make vegan wines?

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more popular for all types of beverages.

Industry experts have said they could sell hundreds of millions of more cans if they could be produced fast enough. Here’s to hoping they soon can (no pun intended).

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Side dishes • Brunch has returned to the Delaney House in Holyoke. Like much else in life, the re-created Delaney House brunch is different from its pre-pandemic form. A threecourse, fixed-price menu replaces the grand buffet, with first course choices including smoked salmon, avocado toast, and a strawberries and pineapple parfait.

For main course options guests will be offered their choice of steak and eggs, a customized classic omelet, fried chicken and waffles, or a plant-based power breakfast. All entrees will come with home fries, sausage, and bacon, as well as family-style pancakes and French toast.

Three different sweet endings will be available to bring brunch to a close.

Specialty brunch cocktails will be available to enhance the brunch experience, with the assortment including various Bloody Mary creations as well as cocktails and mimosa-style tail drinks.

Brunch, which also comes with a bottomless champagne cocktail, is $39.95, tax and gratuity not included. Hours of service are 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reservations are handled through opentable.com.

The Delaney House answers at 413-532-1800.

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In the case of the Burger King test, consumers choosing the reusable containers will be charged a deposit at • As part of its corporate the time of sale, much in the strategy to introduce more same manner that soft drink sustainable packaging materials into its operations, fast bottle deposits are currently food giant Burger King recollected. The plan is to have cently announced that it was the deposits refunded once beginning a test of reusable the BK containers are reto-go containers for food and turned via the Loop System.

If the program is successful, beverage items. it is also expected to result in The test is planned to take enhanced customer loyalty place next year in New York and increased frequency of City, Portland, Oregon, and Tokyo. Burger King is collabo- purchase. rating with New Jersey-based TerraCycle, which has Hugh Robert is a faculty developed the Loop shopping member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and platform. culinary arts program and has Loop currently distributes products in reusable contain- nearly 45 years of restaurant ers rather than single-use and educational experience. packaging. Consumers then Robert can be reached online at recycle the empty containers OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com. recently been relying solely on outdoor dining; its current menu can be viewed at bistrolesgras.com.

Brunch has returned to the Delaney House in Holyoke with a three-course, fixed-price menu replacing the grand buffet.

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quest to reassure customers, some restaurants are investing in air purification technology for their dining room spaces.

Two area establishments, Mulino’s Trattoria in Northampton, and Mezze Bar + Bistro in Williamstown, have turned to iWave Air of St. Louis to make the air in their dining rooms safer.

Currently enjoying a good deal of favorable “buzz” in • This fall the Eastside restaurant industry circles, Grill in Northampton has iWave manufactures a proprietary ion-generating system been promoting a special that can be retrofitted into extakeout package for those isting air handling equipment. planning an at-home date The company claims that its night. Designed to complement a streamed film or con- low-maintenance technolcert evening, “Eastside and ogy can effectively destroy Chill” is a complete dinner COVID-19 virus particles in package for two that includes circulating air, citing an indea bottle of wine, two soups or pendently-conducted series house salads, two entrees, and of tests. In those trials an iWave unit removed 99% of a dessert to share. airborne virus particles from Entree choices include the likes of chicken etouffee, a pe- an enclosed space after only • Fazio’s Ristorante and tite strip steak, sweet pepper 30 minutes of operation.

Pizzeria in East Longmeadglazed chicken, and butternut iWave’s web address is ow is offering still another ravioli. There’s also a “Half iwaveair.com. way to feed a family in the Size Entree” alternative for form of their new “$10 Take those with smaller appetites.

• While many independent ’N’ Bake” entrees.

Price for the Eastside and restaurants have downsized Fully prepared and ready Chill package is $65, and retheir operating schedules to to be baked at home, the duced pricing without alcohol focus on the end-of-week refrigerated selections were or for half-sized portions is trade, Bistro Les Gras in introduced in late September. available.

Northampton has gone in a Options vary from day to day, For complete details, go to different direction, operating but can include favorites such eastsidegrill.com or call 413- Monday through Friday only, as chicken marsala, shep586-3347. serving dinner from 5 to 8:30 herd’s pie, chicken mac ’n’ p.m. cheese, eggplant rollatini, and • As part of their ongoing The restaurant has most

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SELECTIONS Orders must be placed by Monday, November 23rd and picked up by Wednesday, November 25th at 4pm.

To Order, stop by the store or call 413-732-5428 (Springfield) or 413-525-9400 (East Longmeadow)

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Traditional Thanksgiving Feast

Serves 10-12 people $225.00 Additional Servings $19.90 each

Serves 10-12 people $189 Additional Servings $17.90 each

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Stuffed or Unstuffed Boneless Turkey Breast Homemade Sausage Stuffing with herbs, onions, celery and carrots Cranberry Sauce Garlic Mashed Potatoes Roasted Butternut Squash with Brown Sugar Fresh Turkey Gravy Garlic Knots Choice of one Pie: Apple, Pumpkin, Pecan, Chocolate Cream

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Fresh Oven Roasted Turkey Homemade Sausage Stuffing with herbs, onions, celery and carrots Cranberry Sauce Garlic Mashed Potatoes Roasted Butternut Squash with Brown Sugar Fresh Turkey Gravy Garlic Knots Choice of one Pie: Apple, Pumpkin, Pecan, Chocolate Cream

Thanksgiving Feast Add-Ons Side Dishes Serve Up To 12 People | Each pan is a 9”x13” size Butternut Soup $12/quart Garlic Mashed Potatoes $30/pan String Bean Almandine $30/pan Butternut Squash with Brown Sugar $35/pan Homemade Sausage Stuffing $30/pan Turkey Gravy $8.99/quart Roasted Fingerling Potato $30.00

Stuffed Artichokes $6.99/each Cranberry Sauce $4.99/sauce Store Baked Pies $11.99/each (Apple, Pumpkin, Pecan, Chocolate Cream) Whole Turkey 10-15 lbs (serves 10+) $80 Boneless Turkey Breast | Stuffed $65 | Unstuffed $45 Brussel Candied Pecan $35.00

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Choral Festival. Her recordings include “Telemann’s Day of Judgment,” Mozart’s “Mass in C minor,” Monteverdi’s “Vespers of 1610,” and Sousa’s “Desiree.”

Brunssen’s students have gone on to win many competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and have sung professionally and in young artist programs with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera and many others. She is constantly active as a clinician, master teacher, panelist, adjudicator, and presenter worldwide, most recently at the 2020 Online Eurovox Conference for the European Voice Teachers Association, the 2020 Classical Singer Virtual Conference, etc.

Asked about her own early singing history, Brunssen remembered, “My mother says I was singing in tune at the age of 1-1/2 years when she could recognize the tune, but not the words, to ‘Jesus Loves Me,’ when I’d be left to play in the crib until she could come and get me.

“At age 6 I took some piano lessons, and the teacher eventually called my mother to say I should just quit. ‘Karen has no abilities,’ the teacher said.

‘Her mind wanders too much.’

So I quit, but I loved singing always and learned to play a few chords on the ukulele when I was 9 or 10.”

Brunssen loved the folk music of the time – songs like “Michael Row the Boat Ashore,” “Kumbaya,” and “500 Miles.”

When she was 11, her parents bought a spinet organ and arranged for six free lessons.

“I loved it and continued to improve quickly,” she said. “By age 13 I played my first church service at our Lutheran church and by 10th grade I was our church organist. I sang in junior high with a robust, chesty sound. I learned to play the guitar and went around singing for events as Karen and Her Guitar.

Her high school choir director gave Brunssen some serious voice lessons and helped her

to find her head voice, and her vibrato. He gave her her first solo opportunity and she was sold on singing.

“I majored in voice at Luther College, got lots of solo opportunities, and loved choir with Weston Noble. I had no big singing plans, by my voice grew. I went to Yale School of Music for one semester, then quit and came home and worked as a front desk clerk at the local nice hotel from 6-2 p.m., then came home and taught a steady stream of high school voice students from 3-8 three nights of the week.”

Brunssen participated in the Summer Blossom Festival for three years, then married her college boyfriend. “That was almost 44 years ago now,” Brunssen said. “His career was as a high school choral director, so my teaching continued. We lived in Chicago and I got into Music of the Baroque, Chicago Symphony Chorus, etc. I started getting lots of solo gigs with ensembles and finally got an agent in New York (Dispeker) and got to sing all over the place.”

Brunssen always taught voice as well, first at the high school level, then at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois, and finally at Northwestern, where she has been “very happy” for 27 years and is a full professor.

Her vast experience as singer, teacher, and clinician is put down in print in her book, and it offers her a great deal of information for such presentations as the one she will give on Saturday to the PVS audience.

She hopes to instill in her listeners the confidence “that singers can and should sing throughout their entire lives, and that their physical bodies change constantly, requiring them to consider what is best for their voices to do.”

“Expectation for ourselves and those we may be working with as teachers or conductors need to be realistic and are not the same from age to age. Take pride in what you can do, and let go of what you can’t do, but always enjoy the effort to do your best.”

Further information and tickets at $15 each for Brunssen’s presentation are available on the PVS website, pvsoc.org.

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