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THEATER TO STREAM

Lincoln Center Theater joins fray

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Easter Eggspress rolls out The Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, Conn., again will roll out the Easter Eggspress, Saturday and Sunday and April 2-3.

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By Elisabeth Vincentelli

New York Times

Theater has faced many battles in the past year, and one of them has been the hurdles in streaming archived productions online.

Now, two major American institutions have joined the fray, and are sharing some of their stash.

The first offering in Lincoln Center Theater’s Private Reels series is the off-Broadway production of Christopher Durang’s comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which went on to win a Tony Award for its Broadway run.

Led by David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen and Sigourney Weaver, the cast is firing on all cylinders and makes the most of Durang’s riff on Chekhov transplanted to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Though April 11; lct.org In Chicago, the Goodman Theatre’s archival streaming program, called Encore, kicks off with Christina Anderson’s “How to Catch Creation,” which toggles between decades as it looks at the elusive, fraught and, in this case, broadly defined creative process (through March 28). That will be followed by a stage adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s magical-realist novel “Pedro Páramo” by playwright Raquel Carrió and director Flora Lauten, of the Cuban company Teatro Buendía. March 29-April 11; goodmantheatre.org ‘The Thanksgiving Play’ Dream cast alert! As part of the Spotlight on Plays series, Keanu Reeves, Heidi Schreck, Bobby Cannavale and Alia Shawkat have signed up for a livestreamed SEE THEATER, PAGE E5

IF YOU GO Event: Easter Eggspress When: Saturday and Sunday, and April 2-3, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Where: Connecticut Trolley Museum, 58 North Road (Route 140) in East Windsor, Connecticut Admission: $13; members pay half price. Purchase tickets at ct-trolley.org More information: 860627-6540 or ct-trolley.org

three filled eggs.

“Our museum is ‘alive’; you actually get to experience trolley history with a trolley ride and more. You are not just viewing static displays,” Alimberti said.

While at the Connecticut Trolley Museum, visitors can learn about each car they ride.

Inside the visitor center they will find static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a children’s Easter movie and a gift shop.

The Connecticut Fire Museum features antique fire trucks and apparatus.

All activities and Fire Truck Museum admission are included with admission.

Admission is $13 per person

By Cori Urban (any age), and museum memSpecial to The Republican bers pay half.

Alimberti said the he Connecticut Trolley Museum COVID-19 pandemic necesEaster Eggspress will take again will roll out the Easter Eggplace on Saturday and Sunday sitates there be fewer people on campus and that safety and April 2-3 from 10 a.m. to spress, and motormen in early protocols be followed.

4:30 p.m.

1900s attire will show riders what The Connecticut Trolley Motorwoman Cotton-Tail Museum is located at 58 will be roaming the grounds it was like then to ride on a trolley.

North Road (Route 140) in and posing for pictures dis“For us it’s a great way to Eggspress in a great family East Windsor, Connecticut. tantly from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. start off our … season as we activity for all ages. It’s a For more information call Children will receive an have been closed since Degreat Easter event with many 860-627-6540; for informaEaster egg with a surprise cember,” said Gina Maria L. Easter-related activities and a inside when they complete a tion including hours of operAlimberti, business manager trolley ride; and you can visit scavenger hunt, make a bunny ation, to purchase tickets and for the East Windsor, Conthe Fire Truck Museum, which ear craft or visit the Fire Truck to read the COVID-19 visitor necticut, museum. “Easter is housed on our property.”

Museum; they can earn up to policy go to ct-trolley.org.

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Exhibit uses children’s books to explore civil rights movement ‘Picture the Dream’ on display through July 3; online gallery talk on April 22

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By Anne-Gerard Flynn

Special to The Republican

hen awardwinning children’s book author Andrea Davis Pinkney agreed to curate “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books,” the new exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, she was unaware of how significant its creation and timing would be.

IF YOU GO Event: “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books” exhibit Where: The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, 125 West Bay Road, Amherst When: On display through July 3 Hours: Thursday and Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; Closed Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

Admission: Adult: $9; youth (under 18), student, teacher, and senior: $6; members free. Advance ticket purchase online is strongly recommended.

More information: carlemuseum.org

illustration shows the nicely dressed girl reading “For Whites Only” carved on a public bench.

“The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights” written by Carole Boston Weatherford is illustrated by Tim Ladwig whose illustration early in the show from the book is Emmett Till’s wake, while another later in the show from the Bryan Collier’s illustrations are part of the children’s book “All Because You Matter” by Tami Charles, which is included in “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through book depicts Barack Obama being sworn in as president of Children’s Books,” a new exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst. the United States in 2008.

(BRYAN COLLIER; SCHOLASTIC INC.) Her research five years ago “When you move through into what books were includ- barked on this five years ago, the movement to end the the show, I always tell people Jerry Pinkney’s works in the ed in similar shows revealed did we plan it that way? No.” you are going to feel different show is from Patricia McKracial injustices of Jim Crow there had been “no exhibition “It points to the fact that at the end than you did at the legislation; Rosa Park’s refusal issack’s “Goin’ Someplace that illuminates the power of these issues have always beginning,” Pinkney said. that year to sit in a segregated Special,” a story about a young African American girl the picture book medium as a existed and they will continue section of an Alabama bus; “You are going to experience lens into the civil rights move- to exist and we will continue the Supreme Court decision a taking a stroll in her Southern a range of emotions as you ment.” This surprised her, as to come together - aims and year earlier that ruled racially town in the 1950s. Pinkney’s SEE EXHIBIT, PAGE E11 did how relevant the content arms in solidarity to make segregated education unconwould be when the exhibit, those changes,” Pinkney said. stitutional; the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and organized by the Carle and “It is our hope that ‘Picture Freedom; and the Black Lives the High Museum of Art in the Dream’ will encourage Atlanta, debuted in August at families to ask questions and Matter Movement that dates to 2013. the Georgia museum. reflect on what it was like, “The vision of the show is Picture books in the show what happened and where we that picture books are the one are now with respect to equal- include “Child of the Civil medium that can really spark ity and civil rights.”

Rights Movement,” written The exhibit features more important conversations

by Paula Young Sheldon, than 80 images by 44 artists, daughter of civil rights leader among children and families,” Pinkney said. “When whose selection was partly Andrew Young, and illustrated by Raul Colon. One of it opened last summer at the refined by the sections of Colon’s illustrations from that High, we were right in the the show that highlight both book in the exhibit shows a swill of George Floyd. John individuals as well as stories young African American girl, Lewis had just passed away. told around the lens of racial hands folded upward, as she We were embarking on an segregation. looks with concern toward a election. Months up to now Its time span includes the threatening crow emerging white supremacists would be 1955 murder in Mississippi from the clouds. storming the Capitol.” of 14-year-old Emmett Till, She added, “When we emOne of veteran illustrator whose death helped galvanize 63 Cabot Street, Chicopee Center (413) 592-0220

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MUSIC

Northampton Jazz Fest presents concert series

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N RECOGNITION OF Jazz Appreciation Month in April, the Northampton Jazz Festival will present a virtual jazz series, “Up Jumped Spring” each Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

The series is a collaboration between the Northampton Jazz Festival, Northampton Open Media and The Parlor Room and will produce four, hourlong jazz concerts over the month. Northampton Open Media will record the jazz performances of local and regional musicians at The Parlor Room in Northampton and will then stream them free of charge over Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and Northampton Community Access Channel 12 each Tuesday.

“One of the goals of this organization is to support local and regional musicians.

The pandemic has cast a dark shadow over jazz musicians’ ability to play for hire,” Northampton Jazz Festival President Ruth Griggs said.

“The jazz festival is in a perfect position to help mitigate that through its online jazz series.”

For more information and to link to the April virtual performances, visit northampton jazzfest.org.

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a lot more things than I knew about,” Butler, 71, said.

“So, I started writing a memoir for my grandkids to read, and that’s been fun going through stuff — old times and growing up in Birmingham, and all that.”

The band played its final show in 2017, almost 50 years after it was founded.

• Chunk Archives Recordings has dropped a two-CD/ Beatles’ drummer said. “It digital release of “Hotel was great to meet her and Massachusetts,” an amplified musically she’s great. She’s a reissue of the 1994 compilation. beautiful human being.”

Bass player Gene Simmons, left, performs with guitarist TomThe original Chunk Records Finneas is featured on my Thayer as drummer Eric Singer plays behind them as the release, based on the scene one of the songs on the new rock band KISS performs at the Prudential Center in Newark, around the Bay State Hotel record, along with Paul N.J., on Aug. 14, 2019. (ARISTIDE ECONOMOPOULOS / NJ ADVANCE MEDIA) in Northampton, has been McCartney, Dave Grohl, newly remastered. It now Joe Walsh, Lenny Kravitz, comes with another volume • Lana Del Rey has just re- Sheryl Crow, Ben Harper, leased “Chemtrails Over The Corinne Bailey Rae, Jenny on a second disc.

Country Club,” her seventh Disc 2 expands the breadth Lewis and Chris Stapleton. studio album. of the compilation, and The album, her first since features local favorites such • Black Sabbath bassist 2019, contains two previousas SPOUSE, The Aloha Geezer Butler has been ly released singles, “Let Me working on a memoir, he told Steamtrain, King Radio, Love You Like A Woman” Drunk Stuntmen, Tag Sale, Cleveland.com. and the title track.

The legendary heavy metal and Ware River Club.

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He said Chunk founder Mal Thurscritical acclaim across the Bassist Geezer Butler of day said. “The album was very he is about halfway through board, with several publicaBack Sabbath is working on a tions giving it five out of five much a product of its time: the the autobiography. memoir. stars. post-Nirvana alt-rock boom, “I started out because Liner notes The album also features which was about to come to a when my parents died, I always wished I’d asked them • It looks like KISS fans can people always want you to do a cover of Joni Mitchell’s sticky end.” a new album, but then they kiss their hopes for any new “For Free,” on which Del Rey go, ‘That’s great. Now play material goodbye. collaborates with Zella Day Both Paul Stanley and your hits.’ So honestly, at this and Weyes Blood.

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DVD RELEASES

Tom Hanks travels the West in ‘News of the World’ Tribune News Service

“News of the World,” a Western with a surprisingly topical message, tops the DVD releases for this week.

Tom Hanks plays Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, who travels from one Texas town to the next, reading newspaper stories to large crowds amid a (gulp) deadly epidemic in 1870.

The movie is directed by Paul Greengrass (“Flight 93,” “Bourne” films). Greengrass previously worked with Hanks on “Captain Phillips.”

Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang had this to say: “Like a few recent Westerns, ‘News of the World’ is an imperfect but sensitive attempt to confront, or at least sidestep, some of the reductive tropes and historically problematic representations of the genre.”

But ultimately, Chang found “News of the World” to be something of a bumpy ride: “Greengrass can be as shrewd and skillful a storyteller as his hero, even if ‘News of the World’ finally inspires something less than total belief.”

Theater

Also new on DVD “Breaking News in Yuba County”: A woman buries her husband’s body after he dies of a heart attack while cheating on her, and she tries to keep it secret.

“Castlevania Season 3”: Adult animated TV series based on video game series.

“Hero Dog: The Journey Home”: Dog leads shipwrecked blind man out of the wilderness.

“Soulmates, Season 1”: AMC series about company that develops a sure-fire way to match people to their soulmate, for better or worse.

“The Undoing Limited Series”: HBO thriller series starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

New on Digital HD “Cosmoball”: Earthlings and aliens play space soccer with the fate of the planet hanging in the balance in this Russian sci-fi sports movie.

“Donny’s Bar Mitzvah”: Revisiting a wild 1998 bar mitzvah, via video of the event.

“Doors”: Otherworldly doors un-

Helena Zengel, left, and Tom Hanks appear in a scene from “News of the World.” (BRUCE W. TALAMON / UNIVERSAL PICTURES VIA AP)

expectedly appear around the Earth, and they lead to trouble. (DVD, Bluray release: April 6) “Earwig and the Witch”: 3D animated version of British children’s

book. (DVD, Blu-ray release: April 6) “Sheep Without a Shepherd”: A family man and his daughter are on the wrong side of the law in this Chinese thriller.

streams that currently include its 2017 production of “Julius Caesar” (through March CONTINUED FROM PAGE E2 27). But it is also a longtime reading of Larissa FastHorse’s champion of new American satire, in which a well-meanplays, such as Mary Kathryn ing drama teacher decides to Nagle’s “Manahatta,” a drama that juxtaposes the cutthroat put on a culturally sensitive world of New York City fiThanksgiving pageant – except she can’t seem to find any nance in the 21st century with ‘Theater: A Love Story’ Native Americans to particithe Dutch acquisition (to put pate. March 25-29; Know Theater in Cincinnati it politely) of Manhattan from broadwaysbestshows.com did not take the easy way with the Lenape nation 400 years a new effort from playwright earlier. March 29-April 24; American Musicals Caridad Svich, which interosfashland.org Across the Atlantic rogates the nature of theater Some of us remember the and what makes a play a play. Women’s Solo Turns olden days of 2004, when The IAMA Theater ComTheater about theater can get pany in Los Angeles presents Mark Schoenfeld and Barprecious and self-congratuFrom left, David Hyde Pierce, Genevieve Angelson and Sigour- latory, but this show, which ri McPherson’s “BKLYN two solo comedies from ney Weaver in “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” which mixes drama and movement, Latinas. Sheila Carrasco the Musical” was known will be streamed through Lincoln Center Private Reels series, as “Brooklyn the Musical” avoids that trap. While it is portrays a gallery of charat the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in New York, Oct. 24, 2012. acters in “Anyone But Me,” during its Broadway run. admittedly a little long, the Theater has faced many battles in the past year, and one of Does everything need a cool production rewards attention. while Anna LaMadrid’s “The Oxy Complex” checks in on a abbreviation? NVM. Still, it’s them has been the hurdles in streaming archived productions Through March 27; online. (SARA KRULWICH / THE NEW YORK TIMES) knowtheatre.com certain Viviana during a panhard not to root for a show demic that just keeps going that ends in a sing-off pitting Oregon ShakeLondon. Through April 4; sey and Peter Mills Weiss and going. (The title refers to someone named Brooklyn speare Festival stream.theatre created waves with their oxytocin, a hormone released (Emma Kingston) against This beloved company in brilliant and deeply unsettling during childbirth, so there someone named Paradice ‘Protec/Attac’ might be hope.) Through April Ashland, Oregon, has kept “(50/50) old school anima(Marisha Wallace). This new A few years ago, Julia Moun- tion.” So expectations are busy during the past year with 18; iamatheatre.com production was recorded in high for the duo’s new piece, “Protec/Attac,” which is getting a developmental stream as part of a minifestival of four new works presented on consecutive evenings by the experiment-happy Brick Theater in Brooklyn. From March 26; bricktheater.com

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MOVIES REVIEW

‘The Father’ is meticulously constructed story Anthony Hopkins plays man grappling with onset of dementia

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Rated: PG-13 Running time: 97 min.

Playing at: Select theaters and available tomorrow on premium video on demand

By Ann Hornaday

Washington Post

In the intricate, exquisitely crafted movie “The Father,” Anthony Hopkins plays Anthony, an elderly gentleman living in a well-appointed flat in London, which he’s been sharing with his daughter Anne (Olivia Colman), until she informs him that she’s moving to Paris to be with a man she’s recently met.

Such is the inciting incident in what promises to be a wrenching but touching story of filial loyalty, agonizing separation and self-discovery. But very little is what it seems in this meticulously constructed jewel box of a film, which reveals ever more complicating and contradictory facets as the reality of Anthony’s experience becomes progressively clearer.

Or murkier. Directed by Florian Zeller, here adapting his own play with the help of screenwriter Christopher Hampton, “The Father” is ostensibly about a man grappling with the onset of dementia, when simple recall and daily logic can become quandaries of existential depth. Is the woman he calls Anne really Anne? Or is it another character

Olivia Colman, left, and Anthony Hopkins appear in a scene from “The Father.”

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entirely, played by Olivia Williams? Is Paul (Rufus Sewell) Anne’s husband or an interloping malefactor?

Anthony turns on the headlights for Laura (Imogen Poots), a sweet-natured caretaker Anne wants to hire before she departs for France. His twinkling, avuncular flirtation will ring true to anyone who has witnessed firsthand how convincing cognitively challenged people can be, when reflexive charm and muscle memory take over from the confusion that threatens to sink the whole ship.

Hopkins slips seamlessly into his role as the vulnerable, imperious, terrified and cantankerous Anthony; he’s lovable and exasperating in perfectly equal measure as he swims against the invisible tide of aging and mental decline. “The Father” provides sensitive, superbly compassionate insight into many things, including the fragility of dignity, the ghost prints left by grief and love, and the abiding mysteries of consciousness itself.

Aided by a masterful production design by Peter Francis, Zeller plunges

viewers into Anthony’s mind as it shifts and seizes, trying to make sense of a present that insists on blurring into the past. Not since “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” has a filmmaker so thoroughly put the audience inside the experience of a protagonist, to such shattering emotional effect.

As grim as the subject is, viewers might expect “The Father” to be a downer. But it’s such a powerful theatrical experience, and such a handsome chamber piece for the combined talents of its accomplished cast, that it’s improbably bracing. Its ingenious hall-ofmirrors construction transforms what could be a dull, maudlin wallow into a lively, improbably inviting battle of wits - between Anthony and the people who love and torment him, and between Zeller and the audience.

“The Father,” ultimately, is a paradox: as nuanced as it is bluntly direct, as tough as it is tender. In its own elegant, confounding, chimerical and compassionate way, it’s a lot like life.

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‘Operation Varsity Blues,’ ‘Rose Plays Julie’ lead new films Matthew Modine plays college admissions coach William “Rick” Singer in “Operation Varsity Blues,” a documentary that interweaves interviews with reenactments.

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BY Ann Hornaday

Singer, a college admissions coach hired by millionaires In the illuminating, absorb- and billionaires to get their ing, deeply troubling docuchildren into the country’s mentary “Operation Varsity most prestigious schools. As Blues: The College Admissions he explains in the course of the Scandal,” director Christomovie, there are three ways pher H. Smith tackles a story to get into elite universities: that became tabloid fodder The front door of pure merit; thanks to some well-known the back door of impossibly Hollywood players, but that high-dollar philanthropic had much deeper implications contributions; and the “side in terms of privilege, priordoor,” whereby students are ities, the commodification accepted as recruits to one of of higher education and a the institution’s sports teams. wildly distorted version of the It’s that portal that Singer American Dream. The film exploited by way of bribes, fakery and padded test scores, in centers on William “Rick” Washington Post

many cases not just deceiving the schools in question but the kids themselves. Working with a briskly efficient script by Jon Karmen, Chris interweaves explanatory interviews with clever re-enactments, using dialogue taken verbatim from FBI wiretaps. The effect might sound weird, but it’s wonderfully effective in immersing viewers within a story that, ultimately, implicates all of us.

Matthew Modine plays Singer as a hyper-energetic cipher, darting hither and thither to close one more deal; but the

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Marvel’s latest double act arrives on small screen Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan star in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’

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By Dave Itzkoff

New York Times

hen Anthony Mackie got the call that the executives at Marvel Studios wanted to meet with him shortly after the release of the 2019 superhero blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame,” he figured he was either getting a new gig or getting fired.

But after several years and multiple Marvel films in which he had played Sam Wilson, that airborne ally of Captain America who is also known as the Falcon, Mackie was feeling optimistic.

“I’m walking in with the assumption that the next ‘Captain America’ movie is going to be me,” he said.

So Mackie traveled to the Marvel offices in Burbank, California. “I put on a suit,” he said.

“I sit there like they’re about to tell me the best news I could ever get.” His ebullient voice receded ever-so-slightly as he continued: “Then they’re like, ‘We’re going to do a TV show,’” he said.

Beyond the fleeting dismay that he wasn’t being offered another film, Mackie said he was fearful that he wouldn’t be able to translate the Marvel brand to TV. “I was taken aback,” he said, “mostly because I didn’t want to tarnish the Marvel moniker.”

This was how Mackie first learned of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” the new Disney+ series that made its debut March 19 and continues the adventures of those two reluctant allies, played by him and Sebastian Stan.

Arriving two weeks after the finale of “WandaVision,” “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is Marvel’s second show that seeks to extend the characters and momentum of its cinematic universe into streaming television. Its narrative mission is straightforward: to tell the next chapter in the story of

its title characters, last seen in “Endgame,” after an aged Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) has retired as Captain America and given his shield to Sam Wilson.

In both its story and its subtext, this show asks, how can the Marvel franchise continue without one of its most prominent figures?

As Stan explained: “We’re going to explore where these two guys left off, with one big character missing — the prominent figure that brought them into each other’s lives. Where are they, and how are they coping with the world?”

“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” consisting of six 45-to-55-minute episodes to be rolled out weekly, offers timely explorations into the nature of patriotism and extremism and the values of inclusivity, diversity and representation, set in a world striving for stability after a global catastrophe.

The Falcon (Anthony Mackie), left, and the Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan) look to fill the void in a world with no Captain America in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” (MARVEL STUDIOS / DISNEY+)

It is also a series freighted with implications for the Wilson character and for Mackie the actor, who, in a universe with precious few Black heroes, now have the chance to become full-fledged lead characters after long careers as sidekicks.

“I’ve gotten used to being the guy overlooked,” Mackie said.

“It’s become part of my brand.”

The stage was set for “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” about two years ago, when Disney introduced its Disney+ streaming service and turned to its subsidiary studios for

Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) looks down at the shield he inherited from Captain America in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” (MARVEL STUDIOS / DISNEY PLUS)

original content.

At the same time, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was arriving at a narrative turning point with “Endgame,” which said farewell to beloved characters like Steve Rogers while creating opportunities for new champions to rise.

Stan has rolled with Marvel’s twists and turns for a decade.

He joined the movie franchise as Steve Rogers’ loyal pal Bucky Barnes in “Captain America: The First Avenger” (2011) and his character was upgraded to become a fearsome assassin in the sequel “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” (2014).

When Marvel initially told him about its idea for a TV series, Stan said, “It was straightforward and sort of ambiguous at the same time.”

There was an inherent logic in pairing him with Mackie and letting them play off each other, Stan said: “I was like, yeah, that sounds awesome — that also sounds like it could be a million different things.”

A few months later, Stan said, the studio came back with a more detailed plan for a sixhour storyline that would offer “enough time to build scenes and go into their personal lives

— a day in the life of Bucky Barnes, a day in the life of Sam Wilson — as you haven’t seen it before.”

The TV project was also carefully weighed by Mackie, who said he has begrudgingly embraced a kind of team-player status he has gained from his roles in films like “The Hurt Locker” and “Half Nelson.”

“I always joke with everybody, if you’re a white actor and you want to be nominated for an Oscar, you need to get me to star opposite you,” he said.

Most of all, Mackie, who has spoken openly about his desire to see more representation in Marvel projects, said he hoped for a narrative that embraced the complexity of his final scene in “Endgame.”

In that sequence, when Rogers asks his character how it feels to hold the Captain America shield, Wilson replies, “Like it’s someone else’s.”

From Wilson’s perspective, Mackie said that moment “wasn’t an opportunity — it was a major burden.”

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DINE & WINE

Brewery copes with label typo, beer barrels take flight and more

I The Storrowton Tavern on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield will be offering both an Easter dinner and brunch experience this year. (HOANG ‘LEON’ NGUYEN / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

Easter dining options abound

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ASTER DINNER OFferings, both “to-go” and “dine in,” are at the top of the menu this week as restaurants across the Pioneer Valley promote their holiday options for both on-site and at-home enjoyment.

The Munich Haus German Restaurant in Chicopee has put together an “Easter Feast” that serves up to 10 people. Its baseline main dish component is baked ham, but those ordering can opt for an additional-charge leg of lamb upgrade. Sides such as soup, salad, potato, and more are part of the package, as is a dessert selection.

Family-style takeout packs designed for smaller gatherings are also available.

For in-house dining, the Munich Haus is featuring a table d’hote menu with multiple entree possibilities.

More details are available at the restaurant’s website, munichhaus.com.

The Federal in Agawam is promoting Easter takeout with a takeaway dinner that serves six. Headlining the package are glazed ham and turkey breast with side dishes, salad, and rolls. A carrot cake for dessert is built into the

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base price as well.

Add-ons such as truffled mac & cheese, chicken Bolognese, and braised beef short ribs are available to further enhance The Federal feast.

Easter dinner packages must be ordered by calling 413-789-1267 by March 30.

More menu detail is available at The Federal’s website, thefederalrestaurant.com.

Nationally, the Cracker Barrell chain is promoting Easter dinners to-go — available in two sizes at crackerbarrel. com/Explore/easter Champney’s Restaurant and Tavern at the Deerfield Inn says it’s ready to help out with the holiday dinner. It is offering “Easter Dinner at Your House”; the pick-up package serves four and includes

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T’S FINALLY SPRING, so time for a little spring cleaning of my virtual desk.

First up is the story about a typo on a beer label leading a brewer to make sure no customers thought the brewery engaged in cruel practice to make the brew.

The beer cans, made for Snowbank’s new pale lager which employs lime puree and pink Himalayan sea salt, had a typo which turned “sea salt” into “seal salt.” When the brewery received 7,000 of these cans, the owners knew they needed a way to fix them.

“When we got them, it was like, ‘What do we do?’” brewery co-owner Dave Rosso said, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

“We’re usually pretty good at catching this stuff.”

at protecting wildlife.

Second up today is the brilliant tale of Amanda and Thomas Evans, who moved from Fort Myers, Florida, to Cape Coral, Florida, just before the pandemic went into full swing last year, according to WZVN-TV, ABC 7.

With people not going out or engaging in much of a George Lenker social life, the couple found it Beer Nut difficult to make new friends in their new neighborhood.

In the end, they turned to Since replacing the cans would not only cost $900, but beer.

The pair put up flyers that also be wasteful the brewery decided to just make light of read, “Hi, we’re new to the its error, and just assure cus- neighborhood and would like tomers that “no seals were to meet our lovely neighbors. harmed in the making of this We will be in our driveway beer.” with drinks, ready to meet any neighbors who would like In addition, Snowbank Brewing donated the $900 it to stop by. We can’t wait to would have cost to rewrap the meet you.”

As Amanda said to ABC 7, cans to the World Land Trust, SEE BEER, PAGE E12 a conservation group aimed

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Also making a limited-time-only appearance among the chain’s sandwich selections is a Heinz 57 burger and a Hot Honey SuperMelt built with fried chicken tenders.

Two main-dish salads are part of this springtime lineup.

These are a Buffalo chicken entree salad and an Asian chicken creation that incorporates ginger-glazed grilled chicken, mandarin oranges, almond Chipotle Mexican Grill locaslices, and fried wonton strips tions rolled out a new menu served atop mixed greens. option – Quesadillas, a “digThis Friendly’s seasonal ital-only” item that can only menu is slated to be available at be ordered online or in an app. participating locations through • Friendly’s Restaurants (CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL, INC.) are promoting a seasonal selec- early June.

Hugh Robert is a faculty on the restaurant industry (and tion of menu items.

A duo of burger and sandwich member in Holyoke Community to support the association’s College’s hospitality and culinary offerings incorporate maple lobbying efforts), the survey arts program and has nearly 45 pepper bacon as an accent – a reached out to 3,000 restaurant companies. years of restaurant and educaVermonter burger that’s also tional experience. Robert can be According to the Survey topped with white cheddar Group’s analysis, almost 30% and a bacon-garnished roasted reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com. of respondents said that they turkey SuperMelt. didn’t expect their business to return to normal levels for at least a year, while another 32% expect that “normal” customer traffic would take at least seven to 12 months to materialize.

Ten percent of those operators queried were doubtful that business would ever return to pre-pandemic levels.

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Side dishes • Despite spells of historically harsh weather in Texas and the Southwest, restaurant sales during February showed encouraging growth as states and localities lifted indoor dining bans and relaxed capacity restrictions.

However, according to a survey by the National Restaurant Association’s Survey Group, restaurant operators on the whole remain somewhat pessimistic about the future.

As part of the association’s ongoing efforts to quantify the impact the pandemic is having

ous add-ins.

One characteristic that makes this new menu selection unique is its origin. A quesadilla option has been the most common of requests at Chipotle, and its introduction represents management’s recognition of that groundswell of customer sentiment.

Equally significant is the Quesadilla’s status as a “digital-only” menu item. During test marketing the filled tortilla fold-over could only be ordered through the Chipotle app.

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baked ham and a whole roast chicken along with sides and a choice of desserts.

Champney’s dine-in Easter experience is available in seatings scheduled from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Dinner is a four-course menu with entree options such as roast leg of lamb, baked ham, or an artisanal mushroom risotto. For more information about Champney’s Easter offerings, call 413-774-5587.

The Log Cabin Banquet & Meeting House in Holyoke is inviting area residents to enjoy its Easter with a Mount Tom view. On April 4, the Log Cabin will be offering Easter dinner from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with a four-course, single-priced menu. Entree options will range from roast turkey and prime rib to a plant-based “chicken” Marsala.

Reservations, which are essential, can be made online at thelogcabin.com.

The Log Cabin’s sister operation, the Delaney House in Holyoke, is focusing some of its efforts on Easter brunch to-go.

Its brunch package, which is sized to serve from four to six guests, has fresh fruit salad, a broccoli cheddar strata, French toast, and waffle wedges among its components. Assorted add-ons are also available.

More information, including an online ordering link, is available at delaneyhouse.com.

The Storrowton Tavern in West Springfield will be offering both an Easter dinner and brunch experience this year.

Dine-in service with the Tavern itself will feature an all-inclusive menu of the dishes upon which Storrowton has built its reputation – fresh roasted turkey, broiled sea scallops, Yankee pot roast, and prime rib.

An appetizer selection will be included with dinner as will a table platter of assorted Easter treats for dessert – mini eclairs, cookies, brownies, assorted sweet bars, and more.

In the adjoining Carriage House an Easter Sunday brunch menu will be available.

That brunch will begin with

breads, sweet rolls, salad, and fresh fruit presented at the table “family style,” while entree choices like baked ham, roast prime rib, eggs, corned beef hash and more will be part of the staff-served buffet. A platter of three-bite desserts will be delivered to every table to bring the brunch to a close.

All inclusive, family style dinner take-out will be available from Storrowton, with roast turkey, baked ham, or prime rib as featured entrees.

Reservations for both the Tavern and the Carriage House can be made by calling 413732-4188.

The Table 3 Restaurant Group’s three Sturbridge locations – Avellino, The Duck, and the Cedar Street Grille – are each offering both dine-in and Easter takeout options on April 4.

Avellino and The Duck will be focusing on a sit-down Easter dinner, while the Cedar Street Grille will be taking an “Easter brunch” approach to the holiday. For more details go to table3restaurantgroup. com.

At least one area restaurant has recognized the takeout business opportunity presented by another spring-season religious observance, the Passover Seder.

Mezze Bistro + Bar in Williamstown is providing help with Seders in Northern Berkshire County by making available a selection of sides and entrees both traditional and contemporary. Mezze’s Passover To-go menu can be viewed at mezzebistro.com.

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Winter white wines perfect for early spring

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ERTAIN SEASONS seem to pair perfectly with certain wines.

Spring and summer often conjure up images of cool, refreshing white wines.

There’s also nothing better than a bottle of cold, sparkling wine on a hot, summer afternoon.

And when the weather gets crisper and colder, many people (including myself) often gravitate toward heartier red wines in the fall and winter.

I know there’s nothing I love more than a robust red wine from Spain or France’s Chateauneuf Du Pape or Burgundy regions on a cold, snowy night with roasted chicken or a hearty stew.

But in recent years, I have found that certain white wines seem to more than hold their own during colder, longer nights.

I like to think of these wines as winter whites.

And while winter may technically be over, there are often many days and nights in early spring that feel more like January or February.

So what makes a white wine perfect for winter or other, colder days?

Like many red wines, these heartier white wines can hold their own with robust foods and flavors. These wines also sometimes often have a meatier texture, but not always.

The bottom line is they simply taste great when there’s a chill in the air and frost on the ground. Hope you enjoy.

these wines is how earthy yet subtle they taste. They have a wonderful, mineral-like finish with hints of lighter, more aromatic flavors. Definitely a wine (and a wine region) worth getting to know better.

Recommended wine: 2019 Paco & Lola Celebration Albarino ($25 SRP) – This fresh, fun wine illustrates why albarino wines can be so memorable and so fascinating. I can still vividly remember tasting this wine from the Rías Baixas subregion in Galicia several weeks ago. Here, the flavors range from mineral-like to fresh, citrus-like flavors, including hints of mango, melon and pineapple. This wine also has a floral-like finish and aromas which give the wine a light, seductive quality. This absolutely wonderful wine is sure to please from one sip to the next.

rieslings being crafted in this corner of Canada.

White Burgundy: No article about winter white wines would be complete without mentioning the chardonnay wines produced in France’s Burgundy region. I have made several trips to Burgundy specifically to learn more about these intense, flavorful wines.

And what continues to amaze me is the subtle differences from one village or even one field to another. Many of the best chardonnay wines can be found in the Cote De Beaune region just south of NuColumnist Ken Ross says winter white wines can hold their its-Saints-Georges to Santenay. own during colder, longer nights. Here are three of the white If you have a lot of money to wines Ross recommends for early spring. (KEN ROSS PHOTO) spend, you can’t go wrong with many chardonnays from Meurtainous country creates many sault or Puligny-Montrachet, outstanding red and white which consistently produce some of the best white wines in wines, including its delightful, the worth. But if you’re looking distinct gruner veltliners. They German or Canadian ries- for something more affordable taste like a combination of from Burgundy, keep reading.

New Zealand sauvignon blanc ling: Riesling grapes thrive in cold weather climates. And Recommended wine: (slightly grassy) and a chardonnay from France’s Chablis when it comes to crisp, dry, Jacques Bavard Sous Le Chateau Saint Romain ($31 SRP) region (crisp, mineral-like refreshing rieslings, Germa– This particular Burgundy flavors). Best of all, many Aus- ny’s famous for its fabulous trian gruner veltliners cost less dry rieslings, particularly from white wine can be hard to find.

Ken Ross than $15 a bottle. the Mosel region. But as some (I found this one online.) But Wine Press Recommended wine: readers might remember from this wine is a great example 2018 Rainer Wess Gruner previous columns, I cannot of some of the outstanding, chardonnays.

Veltliner ($16.99 at Provisions say enough great things about relatively affordable (you Recommended wine: 2018 in Northampton) – I could the outstanding, dry riesling can easily spend $100 on a Gary Farrell Russian River Se- have easily picked a half wines from Canada’s Niagara chardonnay from Meursault lection Chardonnay ($35 Sugdozen gruner veltliner wines, region in southern Ontario. or Puligny-Montrachet) white gested Retail Price) – There are but I wanted to highlight this Like rieslings from Germany, wines from other, nearby, so many great chardonnays to delicious wine one more time. Canada consistently produces under-the-radar Burgundy choose from in Sonoma Coun- This wine has a crisp, slightly some of the driest, crispest villages like Saint Romain and ty. But I decided to highlight grassy finish reminiscent of rieslings bursting with fasciMonthelie in the southern nating flavors. this one from one of the best a New Zealand sauvignon part of the Cote De Beaune Recommended wine: Cave region. What I love about this producers in one of my favorite blanc. There’s nothing sweet parts of Sonoma, the Russian or cloying about this intense, Spring Riesling Dolomite ($18 particular wine – and many Winter white wines Canadian SRP) – When we’re River Valley. This outstanding delightfully dry white wine other chardonnays from Saint perfect for early spring able to freely travel again, chardonnay made by Gary bursting with flavor. It is an Romain and Monthelie – is Sonoma chardonnay: how crisp, dry and refreshing it I highly recommend a long Farrell winemaker Theresa absolute joy to drink.

Compared to its California tastes. This wine also has a lot weekend trip tasting wines Heredia bursts with wonderful, Spanish albarino: Expect neighbor, Napa Valley, many dense, dark flavors. Hints of of structure, which means the in Canada’s Niagara region. I wines from Sonoma County flavors (chalky, dense, minerknow that New York’s Finsea mist, fog and smoke make to read more about this type ger Lakes region gets a lot of al rich) last for a full minute of wine and the region where often have an earthier, more this brooding wine a perfect attention for its wines, but after each sip. This truly robust finish. Part of it has choice for a crisp, cold night by it comes more in the next few remarkable wine is perfect for weeks. Albarino is the name of I personally think Canada’s to do with the cooler nights a warm, blazing fire. anytime of year. this Spanish white wine grape. Niagara region consistently and coastal influence on the Austrian gruner veltliner: (It’s called alvarinho in PortuCheers! produces the best wines in vineyards in this hilly part As some of you might remem- guese.) And the region where Wine Press by Ken Ross Eastern North America. This of Northern California. And you can find these outstanding dry, crisp riesling from Cave appears on Masslive.com every when it comes to winter white ber, I wrote about these wonMonday and in The RepubSpring in Jordan, Ontario, is a wines, these ideal conditions derful white wines a few weeks wines is Galicia in Northwest lican’s weekend section every ago. For everyone else, let me Spain and the northern part perfect example of the amazconsistently produce powerful yet subtle California ing, understated, mineral-rich Thursday. simply say that this mounof Portugal. What I love about

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general public. “‘Picture,’ meaning the power of the picture book, and CONTINUED FROM PAGE E3 ‘dream,’ meaning the dream move through — frustration, for equality, Martin Luther anger, joy, hope, faith, feeling King’s dream, the dream we all of solidarity.” have for a world where we can Many of the images in the celebrate and embrace social show, Pinkney added, are “a justice,” Pinkney said. great indicator and signifier “The first section of the that children were really at show, ‘A Backward Path,’ is the forefront of the civil rights about what it was like, where movement.” we were as a nation, as a world These include one of George at the start of the civil rights Ford’s illustrations from Robert movement in the 1950s when Coles’ “The Story of Ruby Rosa Parks was sitting on that Bridges” about the 6-year-old bus. When segregation and Jim who became the first African Crow ruled the land. When kids American to integrate an could not go to school together. elementary school in the South When they could not share a in 1960. drinking fountain. When they “A key takeaway for children, were often discouraged to be white, Black, people of all PJ Loughran’s illustration for the book “Turning 15 on the Road friends.” races, backgrounds is that no She said the second section, to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March” matter how old you are, you “The Rocks are the Road,”

by Lynda Blackmon Lowery. (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC.) can make a change,” Pinkney highlights what happened watched that speech on televi- Parks Inspired a Nation” and said. “A small, brave change when “people stood up.” sion with the 250,000 march- “Martin Rising: Requiem for a can make a big difference.

“This is really the civil rights ers and my dad, the late Philip King” are in the exhibit.

It doesn’t need to be overly movement in full force,” J. Davis, one of the first African dramatic.”

“My immediate family is Pinkney said. “The March on Pinkney termed the show American interns to work in reflected, but I consider this a Washington; the Brown vs. the “brainchild” of Alexandra the House of Representatives show of a family of creators,” Board of Education decision; Kennedy, the executive direcin 1959, there on the mall and I Pinkney said. “We are all in the abolishment of segregation tor of the Eric Carle Museum, truly believe when I was in her this. The creators, the curatori- in public spaces; the Greenswho asked her to curate it, and tummy that I heard that speech al team, the viewers, we are all boro, North Carolina sit-ins where Black students and white called it the “reflection of my and it affected me very deeply.” one family that is moving this conversation forward.” students, boys, girls, South, heart, soul and DNA.” Pinkney, who is vice presi“I was born in D.C. weeks dent and executive editor for The show, which is on view North, all came together in after the March on WashingScholastic Trade Books, has through July 3, is divided into solidarity to make these things ton,” Pinkney said. “My dad collaborated on 60 books with three sections. The title refers happen.” was there. He marched with husband Brian Pinkney and to its intent, said Pinkney, a She called the last section, King. My mother was not pertheir “Sit-in: How Four Friends Carle museum trustee who is “Today’s Journey, Tomorrow’s mitted because she was going Stood Up by Sitting Down,” giving a free, online gallery Promise,” about “modern to have me and couldn’t go. She “Boycott Blues: How Rosa talk on April 22 at 7 p.m. for the activism.”

“This being Black Lives Matter,” Pinkney said. “We have come full circle. It is young people who are at the forefront on the sidewalks and streets. Leading this movement forward. Having stood on the shoulders of those that came when the rocks were in the road, when we were on the backward path. Now we have young people — today’s generation moving equality forward.”

She added, “The final section rings a note of hope, saying it is a new day. We are coming together. There is hope on the horizon.”

“There is that gorgeous piece

by Kadir Nelson with all the faces of different complected children,” said Pinkney of one of Nelson’s paintings from his 2012 picture book illustrating Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

She referenced as well the image of the “grandmother sitting on the stoop with her child” by Purple Wong in Zetta Elliott’s “Milo’s Museum” “The grandmother is wearing the Black Lives Matter’s T-shirt and there is that generational connection happening,” Pinkney said. “We want folks to have dialogue, unpack some of these complex conversations and ultimately understand we have come a great distance, there is more work to be done but we are keeping our eyes on that prize and moving forward with hope on the horizon.”

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Contains strong, bloody violence and crude language throughout.

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(Rosa Peixoto). After Vanessa is accepted into medical school, Justino develops a mysterious CONTINUED FROM PAGE E6 illness that leaves him with most compelling character disturbing hallucinations. Slant in “Operation Varsity Blues” magazine writes: “While in Justino’s quiet demeanor the film isn’t the semi-fictionalized might be seen as veering close Singer but the real-life John Vandemoer, a former Stanford to indulging the stereotype of the stoic, silent indigenous persailing coach who emerges as the film’s most poignant figure. son, Da-Rin’s approach to the story, inflected by collaboration R. Available on Netflix. Contains some coarse language. 100 from the indigenous actors in minutes. the main roles, Myrupu and Peixoto, defies tired represenAlso streaming tational means of humanizing Set in Brazil and directed by oppressed natives through visual artist and filmmaker eliciting the universal values of Maya Da-Rin, “The Fever” cen- the ‘family of man.’” Unrated. ters on Justino (Regis Myrupu), Available at afisilver.afi.com. a Desana Tribe native working In Tukano and Portuguese with as a security guard in a freight subtitles. 98 minutes. yard, and his daughter Vanessa

A temperamental perfumer (Emmanuelle Devos) develops an unlikely friendship with her financially struggling chauffeur (Grégory Montel) in the odd-couple comedy-drama “Perfumes.” The Guardian calls the film “extremely French but quite enjoyable.” Unrated. Available at afisilver.afi.com and virtualavalon.org. In French with subtitles. 100 minutes.

an “emotionally cathartic thriller” and an “intense revenge story.” Unrated. Available at afisilver.afi.com. 100 minutes.

Based on the best-selling 2012 novel by Andy McNab, a former member of the British Special Air Service (SAS), “SAS: Red Notice” is a thriller about a suspended SAS soldier (Sam Heughan) who must face off against a terrorist (Ruby Rose) “Rose Plays Julie” is a slowthreatening to blow up the burn Irish psychological thriller Channel Tunnel. The film also about a veterinary student stars Andy Serkis, Tom Hopper (Ann Skelly) who uncovers a and Tom Wilkinson. According unsettling secret about the to the New Musical Express, circumstances of her birth the film is “so close to being fun when she decides to track down that it’s a real shame to see it the mother who gave her up let down by a lousy script, lazy for adoption years earlier (Orla directing and enough army Brady). Film Threat calls it both cliches to fill a dozen ‘Call Of

The documentary “Wojnarowicz” (whose full title is a less printable one) looks at the life and career of the controversial artist/activist David Wojnarowicz, who died of AIDS in 1992, and whose art - at once personal and political - has been called provocative, angry and sometimes obscene. The Art Newspaper calls the film “a bumpy ride that presents his art as a rapid-fire moving target with an explosive soundtrack.”

Unrated. Available at afisilver. afi.com and virtualavalon. org. 108 minutes.

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the shield,” he continued. “He wasn’t looking for a promotion at work.”

For the Marvel faithful, the series revisits characters from the “Captain America” movies like the intelligence agent Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) and the villainous Helmut Zemo (Daniel Brühl).

It also introduces a new potential antagonist, John Walker (played by Wyatt Russell), who in the comics was an adventurer and potential successor to Captain America.

He believes he is a better embodiment of American values than Steve Rogers.

As it has with other projects, Marvel is being coy about plot specifics. But the makers of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” said the series would confront the same questions that the country has been asking itself in recent, turbulent months: Who is an American, and who gets to decide what principles the country stands for? What compels people to take extreme actions in the name of what they believe is patriotism?

Kari Skogland, who directed all six episodes, said that the series continued to embrace the same contentious themes — “not just topical issues but hard-to-talk about issues” — that Captain America

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pioneered as a comic-book character. On his first cover, in 1941, the hero was depicted punching Hitler in the face, and he evolved over decades to reflect Americans’ ambivalence about their leadership and the actions taken in the name of their nation.

The comics that Marvel published in its formative era “were born of a time where the world was healing from a very particular series of events,” said Skogland, who has also directed shows like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Americans” and “The Walking Dead.”

“They came from a postwar, anti-fascist space and were talking about the morals and ethics that were prevalent at the time,” she said. “They’ve never shied away from that.”

Stan said it was inevitable that viewers would see parallels to recent crises like the Jan. 6 Capitol attack in the series — not because its creators specifically anticipated or copied these events, but because they sought to tell a story about a country at a perilous crossroads with itself.

“Watching the things that were happening to the Capitol were incredibly disturbing,” he said, “and they were also particularly disturbing for us because in some way they mirrored things that are happening in the show. You can’t do a show like this and not talk about those things.”

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That’s right, Sierra Nevada we met some people in passing. Typically, you would bring slung a barrel filled with beer people cookies or pie or invite 438.81 feet. them over for dinner, but we Sierra Nevada decided to set weren’t sure about how people the record to promote their were feeling.” new beer, Big Little Thing Anthony added that it was Imperial IPA, a 9% brew. The funny to see people’s reactions catapult was loaded with a to their “free beer” sign in their 120-pound keg, which then driveway. jettisoned the beer as far as “We had a few people do a well-hit home run in most a double-take; free beer is a baseball parks. The launch pretty easy way to get people to broke the previous record by show up.” more than 200 feet.

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