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‘Metal in Bloom’

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Oxbow Gallery exhibit showcases steel, concrete work of Conway artists

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“Metal in Bloom” is a seleconway artist tion of current work by Galt Christopher and Serra, largely featuring sculpture and sculptural wall R. Serra pieces. Galt is showing small has a long bronze sculptures and drawinterest in ings; Serra’s work is mostly the contrast between steel and concrete.

“Bronze is an amazing different materials and material to work with. It can be exploiting their char- formed, welded and cast and with waxes, paints or acteristics. He knows colored patinas. Bronze castings can that the coarseness last for thousands of years too,” Galt said. “All of our work in of painted and oxithis show has an animation dized steel combined to the forms. Much of this apwith the roughness of parent animation is due to the nature of the metal and metal poured concrete can forming process.” be beautiful in some Serra began his career as an illustrator for The Repubway. lican, then the Union-News.

He will show his work along- After leaving the newspaper he became a regular contribside that of fellow Conway utor to the New York Times artist John F. Galt in a new exhibit, “Metal in Bloom,” May Book Review, working with the renowned art director and 6-30, at the Oxbow Gallery in author, Steven Heller. Serra’s Northampton.

Most of the works in the show conceptual illustrations can will be steel and concrete, and be found in many publications

By Adrienne Gaffney

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Work by John F. Galt will be featured in “Metal in Bloom” at the Oxbow Gallery.

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Chris Serra will show his work alongside that of fellow Conway artist John F. Galt in a new show, “Metal in Bloom,” at the Oxbow Gallery in Northampton. (JOHN POLACK PHOTO)

both nationally and internationally. He has been drawing, painting and making sculptural works in his Conway studio for many years.

He has developed his skills by experimenting with many and varied materials throughout the years.

Galt received a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Cortland and a master of fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

He taught sculpture courses at Penn as a Gutman Fellow and now teaches sculpture at Skidmore College; he is a professor in the art department and the head of the sculpture department.

He has worked in many mediums, but bronze casting is the primary process by which he makes sculpture. He has

IF YOU GO Exhibit: “Metal in Bloom” Where: Oxbow Gallery, 275 Pleasant St., Northampton When: May 6-30, gallery hours: Thurs.-Sun. noon-5 p.m.

worked as head of sand molding and foundry operations at Laran Bronze Inc., a major art foundry outside Philadelphia and has substantial experience in industrial metal casting. He worked for many years casting machine parts for industrial and military applications.

For more information about Galt’s work, visit Skidmore. edu; for Serra’s work, go to christoph4serra.com.

“All of our work in this show has an animation to the forms. Much of this apparent animation is due to the nature of the metal and metal forming process.”

John F. Galt

While many cities across the country are increasingly opening up, the state of entertainment remains bifurcated. Socially distanced indoor shows have returned to live-music venues like City Winery in New York and Nutty Brown Amphitheatre in Austin, Texas, while NY PopsUp is offering a series of indoor and outdoor performances at locations across New York state, leading up to the eventual reopening of Broadway.

But until vaccination numbers increase, livestreamed shows will continue. And as the traditional concert seasons near, the scale increases. For example, the Glastonbury Festival (which will not occur in person until 2022) is holding a concert featuring customary top-tier artists. But while signs of a recovery might be in the air in some places, COVID remains top of mind. So kick back and safely enjoy tuning in to some of these multigenre continent-spanning shows.

Van Morrison The day after the release of his latest album, “Latest Record Project: Number 1,” the Northern Irish artist will perform songs from it, along with some bestknown hits, in what will be his first virtual concert.

Morrison has made waves in recent months with his anti-lockdown stance, which included a threat to sue the Northern Ireland Department of Health, and recently released three songs addressing the shutdown, including “No More Lockdown.” None of the three will appear on SEE CONCERTS, PAGE E5

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FILM REVIEW

Dave Grohl’s new rock doc is an epic road trip

By Karla Peterson

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Gather ’round the pop-culture campfire, boys and girls.

It’s time for Uncle Edge and Cousin Exene and Grandpa Ringo to tell you a story about a crazy, beautiful time when future rock stars roamed the Earth in smelly vans, logging thousands of road miles for the privilege of playing live for you and a few dozen of your sweaty friends in a small, also-smelly nightclub near you.

Remember live concerts?

Dive bars? The joys of discovering amazing bands long before they became famous?

Foo Fighters leader and massive rock geek Dave Grohl remembers, and with his new documentary, “What Drives Us,” he wants to make sure that you and your fellow rock ‘n’ roll friends never forget.

Released Friday on Amazon Prime Video’s new Coda Collection channel, “What Drives Us” finds Grohl interviewing dozens of rock stars, indie icons and up-and-comers about their origin stories.

What inspired them to make music? What were those early road trips like? And how did the hours they spent crammed in a van with their cranky bandmates change their lives forever?

“All of the biggest bands in the world, they had to start somewhere. Everybody I know started like this,” Grohl says. “In a van.”

Or almost everybody.

“I realize that I actually never toured in a van,” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says to Grohl at the beginning of the 88-minute film. “Can I go now?”

He’s just joshing. One of the beauties of “What Drives Us” is that everybody is more than happy to talk to the gregarious Grohl, who gets some very famous people to say some

88-year-old multi-instrumentalist Charlie Gabriel of New Orleans’ famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band. They are separated by many decades, but they share a passion for music that is so powerful, doing anything else has never been an option.

There are worse problems to have than too much of many good things, but the whirlwind pace means that “What Drives Us” never has time to go deep on any of the subjects its interviewees are so keen to talk about. And except for the small chunk devoted to Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro and the drug problems that consumed him after the band broke up, there is no real talk about the tolls you pay when you hit the rock-life Dave Grohl of the band Foo Fighters performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 29, 2019. Grohl’s new documentary “What Drives Us” finds him interviewing dozens road.

Still, timing is everything of rock stars, indie icons and up-and-comers about their origin stories. (LEO CORREA / ASSOCIATED PRESS) in music, and the timing on very funny and/or revealing of them probably has enough ing.

“What Drives Us” is pretty things. great origin stories to fill their You will want to get a closer sweet. After more than a year Here’s the Edge, assessing own book. look at that old U2 photo of no live concerts, Grohl’s the results of the first U2 But “What Drives Us” has where everyone has astound- documentary is an express rehearsal, held when the band so much road to cover that ing ’80s hair, hear more from trip to the best seat in the members were still in high watching it is like riding No Doubt bassist Tony Kanal house. It’s a fast ride, but you school: “It was just … cacoph- shotgun on the Autobahn. As about that audience-free 1992 can’t beat the company. ony. It was not good.” Here’s Grohl gets his interviewees gig in Oxford, Mississippi, and Exene Cervenka of X, talking talking about the music that have a pint or two with AC/ “What Drives Us” streams on about touring with the same made them want to be musiDC vocalist Brian Johnson Amazon Prime Video’s Coda people for decades on end: cians, their worst early gigs, so he can indulge in another Collection channel. Amazon “You’re kind of like a family their van-packing methods, round of his enthusiastic LitPrime members can access that wants to kill each other.” the cosmic high of performing tle Richard imitation.

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Peter Newland to premiere music video for health workers

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AST YEAR, SPRINGfield singer-songwriter Peter J. Newland created a social media initiative #thxcrgvr (Thanks Caregiver) to make it easy for everyone to send messages of support and appreciation to front-line health care workers via a message using that hashtag on Facebook and Instagram.

Newland also wrote a song about the pandemic.

“I began writing ‘Lean On Me\Stand By You’ when I realized the difficult times we were headed toward,” he said.

Now the song has become a video.

Newland, formerly of FAT, teamed up with West Springfield photographer/videographer Walt Steinmetz, Andrea Newland and David Newland to create the production team. The video stars Erin Greene Wallace from Greene Room Productions in Monson.

The song and video will premiere in a livestreamed event from Total Eclipse Studios today, which is National Nurses Day, at 7 p.m.

There will be a 45-minute live performance by Peter and his band RadioX, followed by the first-ever screening of the “Lean On Me\Stand By You” video.

The event will be streamed on both YouTube and Facebook. https://www.you tube.com/channel/UCvE_ iJNCXDb42gcg31wNb7Q and Facebook: https://www. facebook.com/peter.new land.71

Peter J. Newland’s video for his new song, “Lean On Me\Stand

By You,” will premiere in a livestreamed event from Total Eclipse Studios today at 7 p.m. (THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

Lil’ Kim revealed she will be publishing a memoir, “Lil’ Kim: The Queen Bee,” in November.

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Liner notes • Indian Ranch in Webster has unveiled its 75th anniversary season and announced a multiyear partnership with Mike’s Hard Lemonade as sponsor of the series.

Five new shows have been added to this season, including Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives on July 31, Tower of Power on Aug. 15, Marc Martel on Sept.

4, Kip Moore on Sept. 26, and 38 Special on Oct. 9. Tickets for these shows are on sale now.

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dates for the North American leg of its “The Last Domino?” tour, which includes a stop in Massachusetts.

The monthlong tour kicks off Nov. 15 at the United Center in Chicago and concludes Dec. 15 at TD Garden in Boston. (The band is playing dates in Europe in September and October.)

Pre-sale tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan system and the general public will have access tomorrow.

The tour, the band’s first in 14 years, features Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks. Original lead singer Peter Gabriel left the group in 1975 and lead guitarist Steve Hackett two years after that.

Nile Rodgers told The Sunday Times that he always has 11 televisions running at home to create an atmosphere of white noise to help his creative process. (ROBB COHEN / INVISION / AP)

• Some people crave silence, but not Grammy 1946 by a local Native Amer- Award-winning artist Nile background,” the 68-year-old ican promoter which expand- Rodgers. founder of Chic said. “The ed over time and became a cable company says I have Rodgers told British newsseasonal campground. The paper The Sunday Times that the most TVs in one house — venue has featured acts such he always has 11 televisions it’s 11 right now — of anyone as Toby Keith, Brad Paisrunning at home to create an they’ve ever known, but I just ley, LeAnn Rimes, Keith atmosphere of white noise to can’t function without that Urban, along with rock and distraction.” help his creative process. He pop artists like Barenaked Rodgers even sleeps with said his mind is like a “hyperLadies, Huey Lewis, and Pat active music machine” and the cacophony.

Benatar. the noise helps him.

“I always fall asleep with For a full lineup of this sum“I need a distraction to the TV on, only to wake the mer shows or more informanarrow my focus, so I have next morning when I just tion, visit indianranch.com. televisions switched on all laugh and think to myself: over my house 24 hours a day, ‘Jesus, how the hell did I sleep • Lil’ Kim revealed she will creating a white noise in the through that?’” he said. be publishing a memoir, “Lil’ Kim: The Queen Bee,” in November.

The book, which will be published by Hachette Books and which is co-written by Kim and Kathy Iandoli, will cover her career — including such forays as early collaborations with Notorious B.I.G and her foray in to the rap collective Junior M.A.F.I.A. — as well as her personal life.

“I’m excited to finally get to tell my story after all this time,” Lil’ Kim told People.

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Stream the best May has to offer There is something for everyone to watch this month

By Noel Murray

Jennifer Lopez performs with her mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, at “Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World” on Sunday, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. The show airs Saturday on ABC, CBS, FOX and YouTube. (JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP)

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From exposés to zombies and serial killers, the month’s new movies and shows have something for everyone.

‘The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness’ In 1976 and ’77, New York City was rocked by a series of shootings and stabbings perpetrated by a serial killer who left teasing notes, calling himself “The Son of Sam.” Eventually a postal worker named David Berkowitz was arrested and pleaded guilty.

Later, Berkowitz insisted he was part of satanic cult that aided in his spree, but subsequent investigations produced no further arrests. Director Joshua Zeman (best-known for the chilling documentaries “Cropsey” and “Murder Mountain”) revisits the murders in this four-part series with Paul Giamatti narrating as the voice of Maury Terry, a journalist who wrote newspaper articles and a book suggesting that Berkowitz did not act alone. Now available on Netflix.

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Rob McElhenney, left, and co-star F. Murray Abraham in a scene from the first season of their Apple TV+ series “Mythic Quest.” The second season starts tomorrow. (APPLE TV+/TNS)

the new album. Saturday, 3 p.m., tickets start at $14.99; nugs.net

‘Mythic Quest’ Season 2 “Ted Lasso” has been Apple TV+’s most talked-about show so far — and rightly so — but this other Apple sitcom deserves just as much buzz.

Season 1 introduced the staff of a popular video-game company, led by gifted egomaniac Ian (played by Rob McElhenney, who also cocreated the show) and brilliant but neurotic programmer Poppy (Charlotte Nicdao). As in the previous episodes, this new season derives its humor from the pretensions and preoccupations of a bunch of committed gamers, but gets its heart from how much passion they have for what they’ve built together. Streaming Friday on Apple TV+.

‘Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World’ The anti-poverty organization Global Citizen is embarking on an ambitious mission with its Vax Live concert to both endorse vaccination against COVID-19 and advocate for global access to doses.

The show, which was taped at Southern California’s SoFi stadium Sunday, will be hosted

by Selena Gomez with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle serving as campaign chairs.

President Joe Biden will also appear, while Jennifer Lopez and the Foo Fighters will be among the acts performing.

Saturday, 8 p.m.; airing on ABC, CBS, Fox and YouTube

‘Monster’ This courtroom drama debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 before falling into distribution limbo, despite largely positive reviews. In the years since, lead actor Kelvin Harrison Jr. has excelled in several high-profile dramas. Here he plays a Harlem teenager who gets arrested for murder after standing near the wrong bodega at the wrong time. Based on Walter Dean Myers’ National Book Award-nominated young adult novel, “Monster” alternates between scenes from the trial and glimpses of the relatively privileged life he led before. The movie

also features the always-riveting John David Washington (pre-“BlacKkKlansman” and “Tenet”) in a minor role.

Streaming Friday on Netflix.

‘The Crime of the Century’ The latest investigative documentary from director-producer Alex Gibney is a two-part exposé in which several experts argue that some major American pharmaceutical companies deliberately helped fuel the opioid crisis. With the help of some of the Washington Post and New York Times journalists who have reported in depth on “Big Pharma” (and with the input of Patrick Radden Keefe, whose book “Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty” was published this April), Gibney and his crew trace the long, often sordid history of legal narcotics. It also relies heavily on some shocking video footage from legal depositions and sales conferences, revealing how corporate decision-makers may have exploited their customers. Streaming May 10 on HBO Max. ‘The Underground Railroad’ Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning novel, “The Underground Railroad,” depicts an alternate version SEE STREAM, PAGE E11

Kehlani Fans of Kehlani can tune

in to see the R&B and pop artist performing her 2020 album, “It Was Good Until It Wasn’t.” As a result of the pandemic, this will be her first time presenting the album in full, as well as her first livestreamed show.

Monday, 9 p.m., tickets start at $20; nocapshows.com/ artist?name=kehlani ‘Glastonbury Festival Presents Live at Worthy Farm’ England’s famed Glastonbury, a jewel in the crown of summer music festivals, will be on hiatus this year, just as it was in 2020. As a consolation, this livestreamed event, held at the festival’s traditional home in Somerset, will include A-list performances from the likes of Coldplay, HAIM and Jorja Smith (and no mud). Hopefully, this virtual sampling can hold festival lovers over until the show goes on in June 2022.

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‘Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.’ Many of the Marvel Comics-inspired movies and TV shows of recent years have paid homage to the company’s influential artist Jack Kirby, but few have embraced his wild ideas and weird designs as openly as this new animated series. Comedian Patton Oswalt cocreated “M.O.D.O.K.” and also voices the title character: a genius-level supervillain with an enormous head, tiny body and a technologically advanced, weapons-bearing hover-chair.

“M.O.D.O.K.” is made for comic book fans with a sense of humor and an appreciation for Kirby’s thick-lined, dynamic style. Streaming Friday on Hulu.

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Daniel Kaluuya shines in Oscar-winning film Tribune News Service A leading awards-season contender that just nabbed two Oscars headlines the new releases for this week.

“Judas and the Black Messiah”: Daniel Kaluuya recently won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his portrayal of Illinois Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, killed in his sleep

by Chicago law enforcement in 1969, with LaKeith Stanfield nominated in the same category for playing the “Judas” in question, a man who infiltrates the Black Panthers at the behest of the FBI. Writing for Tribune News Service, critic Katie Walsh lauded director Shaka King for his focus on Hampton’s words and revolutionary beliefs, saying the movie is “an inspiring portrait of the young activist, paired with an examination of the FBI’s insidious cultivation of informant William O’Neal [Stanfield], who was integral to their surveillance and murder of Hampton. King’s dual focus and stylish cinematic approach makes for a biopic that is at once rousing, maddening and desperately tragic.”

Walsh also praised the performance of the film’s future Oscar winner, saying “Kaluuya, one of the best working actors today, is transformed, and riveting, as Hampton; it’s hard to imagine a better performance by an actor this year.”

In addition to Kaluuya’s Oscar win, the film also claimed best original song, for “Fight For You” by H.E.R., Dernst Emile II and Tiara Thomas.

“The story of Fred Hampton has always been one of frustration, sorrow and anger at [FBI Director Jay Edgar] Hoover’s sick obsession with destroying civil rights leaders who dared to imagine racial justice and equality,” Walsh concludes in her review.

James Norton, left, as George Clare and Amanda Seyfried as Catherine Clare in “Things Heard & Seen.” (ANNA KOORIS / NETFLIX / TNS)

Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from “Judas and the Black Messiah.”(WARNER BROS. PICTURES)

“While ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ allows space for that rage, it also reminds us of the power of Hampton’s words, offering a powerful tribute to the activist whose legacy looms large.”

Also new on DVD “The Little Things”: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto star in this pulpy thriller from director John Lee Hancock. Washington is Joe Deacon, a sheriff ’s deputy who becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer, led by Malek’s young detective character. The investigation comes to focus on a creepy loner (Jared Leto), but is he really the killer?

“The Virtuoso”: Anson Mount plays an assassin sent to a small town on a job by his mentor, Anthony Hopkins, who recently won his second best actor Oscar for “The Father.” Left minimal instruction, the methodical assassin must decipher a cryptic clue to identify his target, with an added complication presented by an alluring woman (Abbie Cornish).

Out on On Demand “Dark State”: A small-town reporter’s investigation of a mysterious car crash leads her to uncover far more than she expected. In the end, she must decide — expose the truth or accept that a global cabal known as the Dark State may actually be ruling the world.

REVIEW

Marriage is scary in horror tale ‘Things Heard & Seen’

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By Adam Graham

The Detroit News

Manhattan couple moves to a farm community in upstate New York in “Things Heard & Seen,” and when an acquaintance reminds them they’re in Headless Horseman country, it’s not surprising that those things heard and seen aren’t going to be puppy dogs and rainbows.

But this slow burn drama is just as much a character study as it is a ghost story.

It doesn’t have jump scares a la the “Conjuring” movies or loud crashes like the “Insidious” chapters, but it’s an intriguing story about

a faltering marriage and a house built on a foundation of lies, with the spirit world lingering just within reach.

Amanda Seyfried is Catherine Claire, an artist married to her professor husband George (James Norton), who has just accepted a new job at a small university in Chosen, New York. George quickly becomes the most popular professor on campus, especially with his female students. His open flirtation with one young girl in town (“Yes, God, Yes’” Natalia Dyer) yields unsurprising results.

Meanwhile George’s department head Floyd (the great F. Murray Abraham) is an open believer in the supernatural. When Catherine reports to him a series of strange occurrences inside their house at night, he opens her eyes to the hidden history of their home and the patterns of the past her marriage is following.

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Berman and Robert Pulcini (“American Splendor,” “The Nanny Diaries”), “Things Heard & Seen” is a quiet study of a man whose world is unraveling set against the backdrop of a psychological horror tale. (It’s based on Elizabeth Brundage’s 2016 novel “All Things Cease to Appear,” which frankly has a better title than “Things Heard & Seen.”) Seyfried and Norton are believable as the couple at its center, and Berman and Pulcini paint them into a world that’s beginning to crumble around them. Yes, things go bump in the night, but in “Things Heard & Seen,” the scares are mostly of the domestic variety.

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‘Without Remorse,’ ‘Percy vs. Goliath’ lead new films

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Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser (a sweetly crotchThe hero of several of Tom ety Christopher Walken), who Clancy’s literary thrillers, stood up to Monsanto, over Navy-SEAL-turned-secret-opthe course of a protracted, erative John Clark — second back-and-forth legal battle, only in popularity to Clancy’s after the company sued him Jack Ryan — has appeared for copyright infringement on screen before, notably in when its patented GMO cano“Clear and Present Danger” la was found in Schmeiser’s and “The Sum of All Fears,” fields — despite his insistence where he was portrayed by that he never purchased the Willem Dafoe and Liev Schcompany’s seeds. (Accidental reiber, respectively. But it’s cross-pollination by plants taken a while for this man-offrom neighboring fields, or action character (originally seeds blown from a passing named John Kelly, before a truck, were plausibly theoCIA-enabled identity change) rized.) The film, which also to take root. That’s something Christopher Walken in “Percy stars Zach Braff as Schmeisthat the producers of “Tom er’s somewhat exasperated vs. Goliath.” (SABAN FILMS) Clancy’s Without Remorse” attorney, and Christina Ricci could reach higher than he hope will happen with this as a doggedly perky anti-GMO imagined. People die, things origin story starring Michael activist, is engrossing enough, B. Jordan. Transplanted from blow up. People blow up, too. if not quite as dramatic as the Vietnam era to today, the The predictable unfolding is the real story. As Percy notes, not unwatchable. Given what his antagonist — represented film opens in Syria, where it is asked to do — which isn’t by a slick attorney played by Kelly and a team of SEALs much, but it does require are performing a hostage Martin Donovan – is faceless. lethal efficiency — “Tom rescue. Months later, after (“There’s no Joe Monsanto,” Clancy’s Without Remorse,” three members of his team he complains.) Nevertheless, are assassinated — along with like its hero, gets the job done. the film’s villain and folk hero Kelly’s pregnant wife (Lauren R. Available on Amazon Prime are sharply delineated, and London) — Kelly makes it his Video. Contains violence. 111 the battle lines laid out neatly. minutes. new mission to identify and PG-13. Available on various punish the perpetrator(s). streaming platforms. Contains “Percy vs. Goliath” draNeedless to say, he stumbles some mature thematic elements. upon a global conspiracy that matizes the true story of 99 minutes.

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Welket Bungu, front, and Jella Haase in “Berlin Alexanderplatz.” (KINO LORBER)

Also streaming Based on the 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin, most famously adapted by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1980 as a 15-hour miniseries, “Berlin Alexanderplatz” resets the story of a man bound to a criminal named Reinhold in present-day Germany, reimagining the protagonist (Welket Bungué) as an undocumented African immigrant. “The main conflict, when it finally arrives, feels not so much born of contemporary urban Berlin, nor even that of Döblin or

Fassbinder,” Variety writes. “It mostly feels Shakespearean, complete with Greek-chorus narration, and Reinhold as the reptilian Iago hissing poison into the noble but flawed Black prince’s ear.” Unrated. Available at afisilver.afi.com. In German with subtitles. 183 minutes.

Based on Rob Doyle’s 2014 novel, the Irish drama “Here Are the Young Men” follows three high school grads (Dean-Charles Chapman, Finn Cole and Ferdia

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Michael B. Jordan discusses ‘Without Remorse,’ building legacy

By Peter Sblendorio

to do — to be able to step into it, it’s very rewarding,” Jordan told the Daily News.

By portraying a classic character from “It forces me to be more ambitious and Tom Clancy’s action novels in a new movie, dream bigger and raise the bar, and challengMichael B. Jordan added a chapter to his own ing myself to continue to show up, day in and legacy. day out, and put the work in and put the time Jordan stars in the thriller “Tom Clancy’s in to try to build a legacy that when I look Without Remorse” as John Clark, a batback, when it’s all said and done, they can say tle-hardened Navy SEAL motivated by the that I didn’t leave anything on the table.” murder of his pregnant wife as he works to “Without Remorse,” which came out last solve a deep-rooted global conspiracy.

Friday on Amazon Prime Video, marks the The role felt like a full-circle opportunity latest major franchise role for Jordan, who for Jordan, a longtime fan of Clancy’s books also stars as the title boxer in the “Creed” who grew up playing the “Rainbow Six” video movies and who played the nuanced antagogames based on a 1988 novel by the author. nist Killmonger in Marvel’s “Black Panther.”

“A franchise of this magnitude, in this type The action-packed new movie serves as an SEE JORDAN, PAGE E11 of genre — something that I’ve always wanted New York Daily News

Jamie Bell , left, and Michael B. Jordan in a scene from “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse.” (NADJA KLIER / AMAZON VIA AP)

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given the economics of the business and the other pandemic-driven cost increases in food and supplies operators are currently facing.

The challenge, at least for the foreseeable future, will not be just getting customers back in the door. Restaurant managers and owners will also have to find — and keep — the employees needed to serve those returning diners.

T’S ALWAYS GREAT when a beer brewed to benefit a good cause is actually a really good beer. I always want to support good causes, but I also don’t want to tell readers to buy a less-than-tasty brew.

This is especially true for me this week, as the good cause is one that is close to my heart.

Leadfoot Brewing in my old hometown of Chicopee just finished brewing a batch of a new beer named Summer Setter. The name comes from the volleyball position that basically functions as the point guard of the team. And even though volleyball is a year-round sport, many people associate it with summer (and beach volleyball, etc.).

The beer was brewed to benefit the Fore Justin cam-

from 1 to 5 p.m. and a portion of all sales of the beer will be donated to the Fore Justin fund.

The beer will be on tap and also be available in cans.

“I know what it’s like to suddenly have to stay in a hotel for weeks at a time to be near your child who’s getting treatment in Boston,” Justin’s George Lenker dad (and my nephew), Tom Beer Nut Lingenberg, said. “Costs can add up quickly, even beyond paign, which helps families the medical bills.” with their financial burdens Tom’s brother, Bob, has during cancer treatment. It’s been the engine behind the named after my great-neph- Fore Justin fund, first organizew, Justin Lingenberg, who ing golf tournaments (thus, died of cancer in 2019 at age the “Fore” spelling) and now 18. So, yes, this is very pergetting his favorite brewery sonal for me and my family. involved.

Justin was a great volleyball “I was looking for another player, thus the name. Lead- way to raise money for the foot will be having a release fund,” he said. “I became SEE BEER, PAGE E12 party for the beer on Saturday

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HE “HELP WANTed” signs are hard to miss. They’re everywhere — in restaurant windows, on parking lot signs, and embedded in social media posts.

As restaurants reopen and expand their operating hours, most find themselves with a new crisis on their hands in the form of a staff shortage.

Even though it is estimated that some 2 million former restaurant workers remain unemployed, food service outlets, whether chain-operated or independent, are finding themselves unable to attract enough candidates to fill the jobs they have available.

The current restaurant employment crunch is thought by many in the industry as having multiple causes.

First of all, many who had restaurant jobs and lost them during shutdowns in March 2020 have moved on, taking positions in warehouse operations, delivery, food retail, and e-commerce, all of which have enjoyed rapid employment growth as a result of the pandemic.

Some former restaurant employees are undoubtedly remaining on the sidelines, willing for now to rely on enhanced unemployment benefits. Those benefits can, under the right circumstances, produce as much income as a full-time restaurant job might pay.

Others, it’s assumed, are shying away from restaurant jobs, especially front-of-thehouse work, out of fear. Being around a dining room full of customers with their masks off might not come across to an unvaccinated 20-something as an entirely safe working environment.

Some restaurant owners have dealt with their recruiting problems by bumping up the hourly rate they’re willing to pay, but that solution isn’t an easy one to implement,

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from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday through Friday. The telephone number is 508-8672345.

• Sustainability is reemerging as an operating agenda at major restaurant chains, and as part of an effort to reduce its environmental impact, the Dunkin’ coffee shop chain recently announced several initiatives to cut down on its waste stream.

An end-of-day food donation program is one of the sustainability options now available to franchisees. Dunkin’ operators can elect to donate bakery items and unclaimed catering orders to local food banks rather than trashing those leftovers.

Dunkin’ is additionally setting up programs to handle coffee grounds and the other compostable organics the brand’s donut shops generate. The chain has also switched the coffee stirrers it gives out from plastic to wooden.

More details on Dunkin’s program of sustainability initiatives can be found at dunkindonuts. com/en/sustainability.

Eastside Grill, 19 Strong Ave. in Northampton, will be open Mother’s Day, from 2 until 8 p.m. offering several specials in addition to its regular menu. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

selection of specialties from the region. The sampling from each course will be paired with an appropriate wine selection.

Cost to participate is $55 per person (or $45 without wine).

Tax and gratuity are additional.

Reservations can be made by calling Avellino in Sturbridge at 508-347-2321.

engagement, the Dreamsicle Dipped cone will feature DQ vanilla soft serve dipped in an orange and vanilla-flavor coating.

• The Eastside Grill in Northampton will be open Mother’s Day, Sunday, from 2 until 8 p.m. offering several specials in addition to its regular • Spoleto Restaurant in menu.

Northampton reopened last The grill’s created-just-formonth offering indoor dining the-day options are an appeand outdoor patio service as tizer of blackened shrimp with well as takeout. Operating hours lime butter; the two Mother’s are Tuesday through Saturday Day entree specials are roasted from 4 to 10 p.m. nightly. duck breast and pan-seared Spoleto’s spring menu features Gochujang tuna with wasabi several brick oven pizzas as well aioli.

• The Steaming Tender as pasta entrees such as shrimp The day’s dessert is to be a Restaurant in Palmer is prescampi, sausage and beef lasaspring-season specialty, strawparing to introduce a uniquely gna, crazy alfredo, and chicken berry rhubarb pie. “crummy” lodging experience. parmesan. Those looking for a Call 413-586-3347 for details.

The Lamothe family, which more casual meal experience runs Steaming Tender, has can opt for a caprese panni or • Six Flags New England acquired an authentic railroad tuna tacos. in Agawam has announced “crummy” (caboose) and comThe restaurant answers at 413- that it is opening on May 14 fortably refitted it to accommo- 586-0313. and 15. date from one to four overnight In addition to a full compleguests.

• Ice cream season is almost ment of rides and attractions, Bookings are scheduled to upon us, and with warm the theme park will be offering begin July 1, and reservations weather’s return Dairy Queen an assortment of food experican be made by calling 413-531- locations are introducing some ences, all of which have been 3281. new frozen confections as well reworked to maximize guest as bringing back a traditional safety. Modified menus will • Table 3 Restaurant Group favorite or two. help make touchless transacin Sturbridge has announced A new Tropical Lemonade tions possible, and all self-serthat its executive chef, Enrico “Twisty Misty” slush drink will vice buffets and salad bars are Giovanello, will be presenting a be on the DQ menu this spring; being reconfigured to eliminate “Cooking with Rico” session on the drink’s layered with mango, potential contamination of May 20 at 6:30 p.m. lemon-lime, and lemonade food displays.

The topic for the evening will slush.

Condiments, cutlery, and be the cuisine of Abruzzo, a reA Raspberry Chip shake made napkins will also be provided in gion of Italy where the cookery with real raspberries is available, a COVID-safe manner. draws its character from ingreand it will be joined soon by a Visits to the park will be by dients such as hot chili peppers, Choco Hazelnut Chip shake that reservation only in order to saffron, and olive oils with fruity will feature the flavor profile ensure proper adherence to caflavor profiles. made popular by a well-known pacity limits. Guests can make In this particular session, chocolate-hazelnut spread. those reservations at sixflags.

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• Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar locations have introduced four new “Irresist-A-Bowl” creations as a limited-time-only offering.

The bowl variations include a Homestyle Chicken Bowl that’s served over garlic mashed potatoes, a Crispy Orange Chicken bowl that features stir-fried veggies and a tangy orange sauce, a Tex-Mex Shrimp bowl garnished with black bean-corn salsa and guacamole, and a similarly-structured Southwest Steak bowl.

• Returning from a winter shutdown, Sylvester’s Restaurant in Northampton will be open for breakfast and lunch on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays starting today. A new spring menu will be featured.

Contact Sylvester’s at 413586-5343 for additional information.

• Boston Market has upped its dessert game, with participating locations introducing new sweet finales to its menu.

These include Triple Chocolate Chip cookies, Lemon Blueberry cookies, and Chocolate Brownies with chocolate chips baked in. A classic Chocolate cake is now available, as is a Lemon Italian Cräme cake.

Several of the new dessert options are designed to be enjoyed by two. These include a Vanilla Bean Caramel cheesecake and a Salted Caramel Lava cake.

There is a Boston Market location on Boston Road at Parker Street in Springfield; it answers at 413-271-3808 Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program and has nearly 45 years of restaurant and educational experience.

Robert can be reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@aol.com.

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Favorite wine memories involving my mom

OR MANY REASONS, this wine column would not even exist if it weren’t for my mom, Gloria Ross.

First, there’s the obvious reason why.

I wouldn’t even exist without my mom.

Second, my family’s obsession with wine started with my mom.

In the past, I’ve written here about my mom’s favorite wines.

In honor of Mother’s Day this year, I thought I might write about some of the favorite wine memories involving my mom, who still loves wine and loves life with gusto at 84 years old. I hope you enjoy.

About my mom My mom was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. The daughter of a train conductor and a milliner, my mom loved to do a wide range of things as a kid, from playing baseball to learning how to play the piano, reading or riding her bike around her neighborhood with her two, small dogs in a basket perched on her handlebars.

My mom went to college in Iowa at 16 and studied to be a dietitian. And that’s exactly what she did after she graduated and moved to New York City. But there’s more to my mom than what she did for work.

My mom was — and remains — passionate about the arts.

And that love flourished in Manhattan in the 1950s and ’60s. She saw numerous plays working as an usher and still has hundreds of theater programs to prove it. She used to live above the Thalia movie theater on the Upper West Side and would go several nights week to see movies by Bergmann, Fellini or whatever else was playing. She regularly went to art museums and spent hours looking at the paintings, something my mom still loves to do.

Living in Manhattan in the early ’60s, my mom also

experience was exhilarating.

One winery I remember my mom enjoying in particular was Robert Biale Vineyards in Napa Valley. The winery is famous for its Black Chicken Zinfandel, which has long been a family favorite. My parents first had this dry, red wine at one of their favorite restaurants (Bayard’s) in New York City, which sadly is no longer open. (I still dream about its souffles.) The sommelier at the restaurant, who now handles the wine list at Harry’s Cafe & Steakhouse as well as at several other restaurants in the city, raved about this wine. It remains one of my mom’s favorite wines and its great to be able to taste this wine together at the actual winery.

Gloria Ross, mother of columnist Ken Ross, outside Lincoln Center in New York City in June 2019. (KEN ROSS PHOTO)

Wine at intermission I can’t even count how many operas, ballets or classical muOne special wine in particular that always sic concerts I’ve been to over makes me think of my mom is Chateau the years with my mom. It’s probably one of the reasons Gloria. My mom and the winery in France’s why I’ve also written so much Bordeaux region share the same name. It’s about dance and classical one of the reasons why my dad sometimes music. We were always going as a family to performances in serves this wine on special occasions.

Scranton, New York or some literary novels. (When she great taste in wine. other city. It’s also one of my once broke her leg, she read Bone-dry Champagnes. favorite things to do with my James Joyce’s “Ulysses” just Lighter-than-air German wife.

Ken Ross for fun.) She used to regularly white wines.

And each time I go with my Wine Press play tennis up into her early Velvety-smooth red wines mom to a performance, we 70s. Since then, she’s replaced from France’s Bordeaux always have a glass of wine at picked up another favorite tennis with yoga, which she region. intermission. In recent years, hobby — downhill skiing. does several times a week.

Full-throttled California it’s often been a glass of sparShe used to go on ski weekzinfandels. kling wine from Italy or Spain.

Our family’s love of wine ends with friends to Stowe, True classics that never go (Champagne’s great but Vermont.

Regular readers of this out of style. costs way too much in most And when my parents column might recall reading theaters, especially when you Visiting Napa & Sonoma moved to Scranton, Pennsyl- about my father or my late often only have a few minutes vania, my mom was active for grandfather, who are or were The first time I spent more to drink the wine.) many years in helping to bring both obsessed with wine. than a few hours in any wine I especially remember the different, world-renowned But years before either one region was a weeklong trip I last two performances I went classical music groups to of them knew anything about took to California’s Napa and to with my mom at Lincoln Scranton through her work wine, my mom was the one Sonoma region with my mom, Center in New York City. One with different concert first interested in wine. When father and grandfather in the in May 2019 was Wagner’s organizations there, includmy dad met my mom in the early 2000s. None of us had epic, six-hour-long opera “Goting Scranton Community early ’60s, my dad didn’t even ever spent several days in a terdammerung” performed Concerts. drink much alcohol at all. But row tasting different wines by the Metropolitan Opera.

And that’s just the bemy mom knew a fair bit about at one winery after another.

That opera had two intermisginning. My mom studied wine, thanks to traveling Suddenly, we all realized just sions. The other one in June archeology and went on digs around Europe one summer how different wine from one 2019 was the American Ballet in Greece and England in her with several friends from New winery could taste compared Theatre’s performance of “Le 50s. She’s a voracious reader, York. to another winery a few hun- Corsaire.” Let me add we especially when it comes to Even now, my mom still has dred yards away. The entire SEE WINE, PAGE E12

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adaptation of the 1993 “Without Remorse” book, which provided an origin story for Clark in a series that also features the popular Jack Ryan character.

In addition to channeling the dark emotions experienced by Clark in the film, Jordan performed his own stunts, which were “pretty wild,” the actor said.

“The stunts in it were just very specific to what I was doing,” Jordan, 34, explained.

“When you do ‘Creed’ and projects like ‘Black Panther,’ the choreography is specific to the action as well, but when you throw in elements like vehicles and planes and a lot of guns, and you deal with underwater things and explosions, there are so many other elements that you have to think about, and prep of what you’re getting ready to do. I think out of the sheer scope of how many, I would say probably ‘Without Remorse’ is in a class on its own.”

Jordan also produced “Without Remorse,” which

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of the 19th-century South, where a literal subterranean railway helps slaves escape from plantations, carrying them through a succession of strange and inhospitable lands. Director Barry Jenkins has adapted the book into a 10-part series, starring Thuso Mbedu as Cora, who flees her captors in Georgia and embarks on a winding journey through multiple states, encountering different cultures that are each oppressive in their own way. Streaming May 14 on Amazon Prime Video.

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“I sincerely believe that it’s really important that a movie reflects the society we are living in.”

Stefano Sollima

was directed by Italian filmmaker Stefano Sollima.

Sollima enjoyed providing a modernized take on the franchise. He notes Clark — who was played in previous movies by Willem Dafoe and Liev Schrieber — is white in the novels, while the supporting character of Greer, portrayed

by Jodie Turner-Smith in his film, was formerly depicted as a man.

“I sincerely believe that it’s really important that a movie reflects the society we are living in,” Sollima told The News. “To me, it was absolutely necessary to update the story (while) of course trying to be respectful of the story, of Tom Clancy.”

Jordan also relished the chance to do something “fresh” with the series.

“The universal stems from the specific,” Jordan said.

“Telling it through a lens like myself, I feel like it changes the intensity and scope of

the situations that John finds himself in.”

One reason Jordan was able to thrive in his depiction of Clark is that he has “this humanity that you can read through his eyes,” Sollima said.

“Even when he’s doing something that’s really gritty, brutal and violent in search of his revenge ... we wanted to be able to know that he’s still a good guy, and what he’s doing is right,” Sollima explained.

For Jordan, Clark is a character eager to defend what matters most to him.

“John is somebody with a strong belief and faith in this country, in this system, in his family, and would do anything for them,” Jordan said. “I would say that’s the best way to describe him. He’s loyal and dedicated to the things that he loves, and he’s also a guy that you don’t want to cross.”

police don’t agree. The film is based on an A.J. Finn novel, adapted to the screen by director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tracy Letts, who plays the woman’s therapist. “The Woman in the Window” features multiple surprise twists, played out by a cast including Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Wyatt Russell. Streaming May 14 on Netflix.

dig deep into the archives of various musicians and news organizations, transporting viewers back to an era when Marvin Gaye and John Lennon were recording masterpieces while war and protests were raging around the world. Streaming May 21 on Apple TV+.

‘Army of the Dead’ One of Netflix’s most expensive and ambitious projects to date, this horror-comedy is ‘1971: The Year That Music the first film from writer-diChanged Everything’ rector Zack Snyder since his In David Hepworth’s 2016 troubled and divisive “Justice book, “Never a Dull Moment: League.” The particulars of 1971 — The Year That Rock this new picture are being kept Exploded,” the veteran music under wraps for now, but it is journalist contended that a heist movie of sorts, set in a the intense stresses in global crumbling Las Vegas overrun ‘The Woman in the Window’ politics combined with the un- by unusually intelligent and Amy Adams stars in this fettered creativity of several of organized zombies. The movie Alfred Hitchcock-influenced our greatest rock, pop and R&B is the first piece of what’s thriller, about an alcoholic artists to produce some of the intended to be a long-running agoraphobe who believes she most vital music ever recorded. franchise, with a prequel and witnessed a murder in the In this eight-part docuseries, an animated series already in building across from her New director Asif Kapadia and his production. Streaming May 21 York brownstone — but the team of editors and producers on Netflix.

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Films

the military coup of 1964.

Despite being “strangely light on political or moral CONTINUES FROM PAGE E7 complexity,” according to Walsh-Peelo) whose celebra- the Hollywood Reporter, the tory bender is interrupted by film “works fine as an excita fatal accident. According ing and highly assured deto Paste magazine, “When it but, with a terrific ensemble comes to the art of adaptacast at its heart.” Unrated. tion and interpretation, the Available at afisilver.afi.com. film’s actors are fairly gifted In Portuguese with subtitles. at conveying the emotional 155 minutes. intricacies that come with facing impending adult“The Outside Story” is a hood — a fact that comes as drama about a New Yorker no surprise considering the (Brian Tyree Henry) who young yet seasoned cast” has become a recluse after a — which also features Anya breakup. When he accidenTaylor-Joy. Unrated. Availtally locks himself out of his able on various streaming apartment, he embarks on platforms. 96 minutes. a transformational journey of discovery through his The documentary “In own, previously unexplored Silico” tells the backstory of neighborhood. According the Human Brain Project, to Film Pulse, “This film a multiyear effort to build is special, and part of its a computer simulation of a charm is to want some of the brain. The film, according simplicity it captures, which to Nature, “is a fascinating hopefully isn’t gone for window into the trouble good.” Unrated. Available on grandiose research projects various streaming platforms. and grandiose personalities 85 minutes. can generate, even if it fails to get to the heart of what The documentary “Unspecifically went wrong with marked” explores the untold the HBP.” Unrated. Availstories of forgotten African able at virtualavalon.org. 83 American gravesites, while minutes. highlighting efforts of preservationists to save them.

A Danish father and son The Guardian writes: “Their part ways in “Into the Darkefforts are a reclamation of ness,” a historical drama the histories that have been about a compliant business buried and neglected by a man (Jesper Christensen) dominant society keener on and his resistance-fighter commemorating the slavers son (Mads Reuther), set instead of the enslaved.” during the Nazi occupation Unrated. Available on iTunes, of Denmark. “If you have Amazon and Apple TV. 40 152 minutes to sink into this minutes. morass of moral complexity and finely observed period Set during Singapore’s detail,” the Guardian writes, monsoon season, writer-di“then it may well be worth rector Anthony Chen’s “Wet it, although the ending Season” is a drama about is bizarrely, perplexingly the relationship between a abrupt.” Unrated. Available teacher (Yeo Yann Yann) and at afisilver.afi.com. In Danish, a student (Koh Jia Ler). “Yeo German and Swedish with delivers a layered, heartsubtitles. 152 minutes. breaking performance,” according to the San Francisco The directorial debut Chronicle. “But she is ultiof journalist, musician mately ill-served by both the and actor Wagner Moura, inertness of the story and “Marighella” is a biopic Chen’s awkward approach about Afro-Brazilian poet to the material in the final and revolutionary folk hero half-hour.” Unrated. AvailCarlos Marighella (Seu able at afisilver.afi.com and Jorge), set in Brazil during virtualavalon.org. In English, the brutal, right-wing Mandarin and Hokkien with dictatorship that followed subtitles. 103 minutes.

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Wine

Wine on the back porch While it’s great sharing a glass of wine with my mom CONTINUES FROM PAGE E10 at a winery in California or in were supposed to go to two bal- some glamorous concert hall, lets last June in New York. Here’s I also really enjoy the times hoping we can share a drink at we have spent together on my intermission somewhere soon parents’ back porch sipping later this year or next year. a glass of wine or two and talking for hours, especially Wine on the holidays after a long lunch or early My family loves sharing dinner just before sunset. The great wine together on the wine doesn’t have to be anyholidays. This tradition dates thing spectacular, but it often back to something my grandis. It’s simply about spending father started doing in the time together. early 1990s. Often, it’s a great I will admit I probably used red wine from from France’s to take some of these seemBordeaux region or a dry, white ingly ordinary moments for wine from Germany. My mom granted. Now, after not seeing especially loves both wines and my parents in Pennsylvania I often think of her wherever or for more than a year due to the whenever I’m lucky enough to worldwide pandemic, I long ‘ enjoy these wines. for these precious moments ‘ at FrigosOne special wine in particular with my mom and dad. that always makesOF me think So here’s hopingENTREES: my parents, CHOSE FROM ONE THE FOLLOWING of my mom is Chateau Glomy wife and I can safely share served w/ in Marsala sauce. ria.mushrooms My mom and the winery a bottle of wine together soon in France’s Bordeaux region on their back porch or in our • share the same name. It’s one backyard. It’s been way too in our house-made bourbon glaze. of the reasons why my dad long since all of us have been • sometimes serves this wine on together for Mother’s Day – or special occasions.

But that’s not any day for that matter. w/ prosciutto, spinach & Italian the only reason why. Chateau Cheers! cheeses,Gloria’s served in lemon beurre blanc. wines are consistently SIDES/DESSERT: great. They’re often smooth Wine Press by Ken Ross full-bodied, dry yet slightly &appears on Masslive.com every  FRESHyet SPRING ASPARGUS ROASTED fruity, elegant and understated. Monday and in The RepubTOMATOES The same can easily be said lican’s weekend section every  LOBSTER N’ CHEESE Thursday. aboutMAC my mom.

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Beer

dall from Leadfoot and figured I would ask if he would be willing to help; he jumped right in and came to us with beer and has been nothing but helpful.”

The other good news was that Bob got me a can of the brew, and it’s great.

It’s a Belgian-style Witbier that uses a blend of wheat and European malts. It’s a perfect summer wheat beer. It’s incredibly thirst-quenching because it kicks off with the classic “bubblegum” (or banana/clove) flavors that you often find in great Hefeweizens, but this aspect is not overwhelming like it can be some wheat beers.

The flavor also immediately dries out a bit, bringing forth a nice tart note. There’s a citrus

clean and makes you want more.

One amusing side note for regular readers: Tom was incredibly grateful that Leadfoot was doing this and while he would have been happy with anything it brewed, he did have one request: Make it anything but an IPA. Of course, readers know that IPAs are my favorite style, so now I have to wonder if Tom and I are even really related!

Anyway, this beer will go down incredibly easy on any day where it’s even slightly warm. But it’s especially made for hot days, in my opinion.

A great beer for a great cause: Can’t ask for a better combination.

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