Weekend - January 27, 2022

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At left, a bustling model community on display at the 52nd annual Railroad Hobby Show in 2020. Below, vintage lanterns and signs on display at a previous show. The show this year runs Saturday and Sunday and will feature more than 60 operating layouts, commercial vendors and hobbyists, clinics, and a live steam engine outdoors with all the sights and sounds accompanying it.

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Railroad Hobby Show rolls into Big E grounds

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By Keith O’Connor

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t’s “all aboard” this year for the Railroad Hobby Show, which opens its doors on Saturday and Sunday on the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds after being shut down by COVID-19 last year.

“We got our last show in West Springfield in just under the wire before everything shut down in March 2020. What is interesting is that our show was the last major national show that year, and this weekend we are the first to be held in the country after almost two years,” said John Sacerdote, Railroad Hobby Show director.

Spread over four buildings, the Railroad Hobby Show is organized by the Amherst Railway Society.

“We’ve had some cancellations by exhibitors, while on the other hand we have 31 new exhibitors with us this year. What is also interesting is that our advance sales are triple what they have been in the past. There’s a lot of pent-up demand,” he added.

Sacerdote noted a major Canadian

IF YOU GO Event: Railroad Hobby Show When: Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Where: Better Living Center, Young & Stroh Buildings, Mallary Complex on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition, 1305 Memorial Ave., West Springfield Tickets: $15 adults; free for children under 15. Advance tickets available online.

For tickets and more information: railroadhobbyshow.com

• Two days of pre-show clinics — see more information at railroad hobbyshow.com — held for a price at the Sheraton Springfield today and Kevin VanChance rings the bell of Maine Narrow Gauge Railway’s engine as his Friday, as well as clinics for all ages grandfather, John VanChance, looks on at the 2020 Railroad Hobby Show at the offered by manufacturers, exhibitors Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield. The show returns this weekend and experts during the show. after being shut down by the COVID pandemic last year. (STEVEN E. NANTON PHOTO) • Special appearances by Maggie the Clown. The Ringling Bros. and contingency will not be participating • Over 60 operating layouts, some Barnum & Bailey-trained clown lived in this year’s show due to the difficulty of which children can actually get for years on their circus train and has of travel during the pandemic. behind the controls and become the many stories to tell.

“I really feel for them, many of engineer.

• A live steam engine outdoors with whom count on us for revenue. So, I’m • Commercial vendors and hobby- all the sights and sounds accompanygoing to try to do a virtual show for ists selling model railroad equipment, ing it. them highlighting what they have to photos, slides, video tapes, books and Sacerdote noted that many major offer,” he said. other railroad memorabilia. There national manufacturers will be on Among some of the highlights of will also be new and antique railroad hand at the show, many of whom this year’s show are: items on display and for sale.

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bring new products with them for sale.

“Shane Wilson, who is president of ScaleTrains.com, is planning on a big announcement Saturday morning around 11 a.m. about a major new product, which he believes to be his largest product release since the model train manufacturer was founded,” Sacerdote said.

“They are really keeping it under wraps. He wanted to tell me, but couldn’t,” he added.

“We’ve had some cancellations by exhibitors, while on the other hand we have 31 new exhibitors with us this year. What is also interesting is that our advance sales are triple what they have been in the past.

There’s a lot of pent-up demand.”

John Sacerdote, Railroad Hobby Show director

Train show hours are Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets are priced at $15 per day for adults and free to children 15 and under accompanied by a paying adult. Visit rail roadhobbyshow.com to purchase tickets in advance.

To keep lines to a minimum, tickets will be sold on the grounds beginning one hour before the doors open.

“We are offering free admission to children as a way to promote the hobby, which is getting older, and to get more youngsters involved,” Sacerdote said.

Due to COVID, the Amherst Railway Society is recommending that all visitors wear masks inside the buildings.

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TELEVISION REVIEW

‘The Gilded Age’ all surface, no shine Lavish period drama comes from creator of ‘Downton Abbey’

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By Inkoo Kang

The Washington Post

t takes a certain amount of willful cluelessness to pilfer a designation meant to underscore the extreme inequality of a historical epoch – one in which the rich got obscenely richer and the poor got desperately poorer — and reappropriate it as the name of a vehicle for wealth porn. And yet here we are with the escapist new period drama “The Gilded Age,” which takes as its chief concern the pearl-clutching clash between old and new money in 19th-century New York high society.

Marian (Louisa Jacobson, left) and Peggy (Denée Benton) walk the streets of New York City in “The Gilded Age.” (ALISON COHEN ROSA/HBO)

younger child, Gladys (Taissa short on details, is testament Farmiga), moving into their to the fact that the moldiness newly built, architecturally of a fortune has no bearing on Where to watch: HBO, defiant manor on 61st Street. the morality of its owner. You Mondays 9 p.m.

Their haughty neighbors might expect Fellowes to do across the street, the widowed something compelling or laystar is Carrie Coon, who’s Agnes van Rhijn (Christine ered with this naked hypocritrapped in an iciness from Baranski) and her spinster sy, but you’d be mistaken. which Fellowes barely lets her sister Ada Brook (Cynthia The younger generation stir. (She’s hardly alone; the Nixon), won’t deign to step isn’t so tangled up in the prejsprawling cast is chockablock foot in the Russells’ home in udices of their parents. Agnes’ with beloved actors, nearly the 80-minute pilot, nor in the son, Oscar (Blake Ritson), all saddled with frustratingly four episodes after that. (The who inherited his mother’s underwritten characters.) first season consists of nine sharp tongue, would like Coon plays Bertha Russell, a installments.) But as we learn nothing more than Gladys’ relentless and monomaniacal from the get-go, the tighthand — and the purse strings Creator Julian Fellowes, social climber who, a cenlipped Agnes, a native of rural that come with it. (He plans who delivers his long awaited tury later, could’ve been an Pennsylvania, only married out an entire lifetime with his follow-up to “Downton Abespecially coldblooded CEO into old money herself, and would-be wife, an innocent SEE ‘GILDED’, PAGE E6 bey” here, is naturally taken of a Fortune 500 firm. But as a her unhappy union, though by the surface, rather than woman of the 1880s, Bertha the rot underneath. And so must channel her energies his cameras sweep and gawk into raising the standing of over all that an HBO budget her family. With her railcan buy: homes that could be road-tycoon husband George mistaken for a royal palace; (Morgan Spector), she 74 Pleasant Street, Granby • 413-467-9545 jewels that would induce mass schemes to carve out, with a www.granbylegionpost266.com hysteria in magpies; a beaded bejeweled shiv if necessary, a Open 7 days a week noon to 1am cape, worn to the symphony, place for the Russells among Friday... 1/28 The Side Effects that makes the fairy-tale train the fading but still venomFriday... 2/4 Rock 201 of Princess Diana’s wedding ously snobby Upper East Side Friday... 2/11 Moose & The High Tops gown look like wrinkled aristocracy.

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MUSIC | CLUBBING

Daniel Radcliffe to portray ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

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ROM HARRY POTter to “Weird Al”?

That seems to be the current trajectory of Daniel Radcliffe’s career, as the actor who made Harry Potter famous on the silver screen is set to portray “Weird Al” Yankovic in an upcoming biopic.

Yankovic recently announced the project, for which he will serve as writer and producer.

“Weird: The ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Story” will be directed by co-writer Eric Appel and will air on Roku Channel. The film will be co-produced by Funny or Die and Tango.

“When my last movie ‘UHF’ came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule,” Yankovic said in a statement. “And I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.”

Liner notes • Kid Rock will bring his “Bad Reputation Tour” to the Xfinity Center in Mansfield on Aug. 24 with special guest Foreigner.

Tickets go on sale Friday at livenation.com.

The Michigan rocker’s newest album, “Bad Reputation,” will be released in conjunction with the tour.

The “Bad Reputation Tour” will kick off on April 6 in Evansville, Indiana, and run through Sept. 17 in Clarkston, Michigan.

Nightclubs THURSDAY Buccaneer Lounge: DJ with rock and Top 40. 86 Maple St., Agawam Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee Mardi Gras: Nude female dancing. 91 Taylor St., Springfield Shadow Lounge: DJ with classics. 278 Worthington St., Springfield Southwick Inn: Open mic hosted

by Steve Piper of Roadhouse Band. 479 College Highway, Southwick

Daniel Radcliffe, left, will portray “Weird Al” Yankovic, right, in the Roku film “Weird: The ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Story.” (BUSINESS WIRE)

for revisiting this past work.”

The reunion tour was originally announced in September and was supposed to kick off in November in Chicago.

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of The Summer Hotel.” The new record is the follow-up to Mann’s acclaimed 2017 album “Mental Illness,” which won best folk album at the 60th annual Grammy Awards.

Tickets, priced between $38.50 and $48.50, are available at aomtheatre.com.

• Citing the ongoing pandemic, The Fugees have canceled their 25th anniversary tour.

Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel announced the cancellation on Instagram, posting “We anticipate and understand disappointment but our anniversary tour will not be able to happen.

“The continued COVID • Aimee Mann will play the Academy of Music Theatre in pandemic has made touring Northampton on April 22 at 8 conditions difficult, and we p.m. want to make sure we keep The former ’Til Tuesday our fans and ourselves healthy singer and songwriter, who and safe,” the statement read. launched her solo career in “An idea sparked to honor and 1993 with the album “Whatcelebrate this 25th anniversary ever,” is touring in support of ‘The Score’ but we see now it may not currently be our time of her new album, “Queens

• “And the winner is …” going to have to wait until April 3.

The 64th annual Grammy Awards will be postponed until then (from its original date of Jan. 31) due to concerns about the omicron variant of COVID-19. The ceremonies also will be held at a different venue: the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be broadcast on CBS as well as being available as a livestream.

It will be the first time the awards will be held in Las Vegas. Trevor Noah is scheduled to return as host and the broadcast is slated to run from 8 to 11:30 p.m.

• A recent report in The Sun revealed that Katy Perry is working on a new track with DJ Zedd.

A number of collaborations have been set up, including a track with Zedd, the newspaper reported.

Perry is currently completing a residency in Las Vegas, “Katy Perry: PLAY,” which is running at the Resorts World Theatre.

The 37-year-old pop star recently dropped a new track, “When I’m Gone,” which she made with electronic music artist Alesso.

The Magic Lantern: Nude female dancers. 399 Wilbraham St., Palmer The Still: Drink specials. 63 Springfield St., Agawam West Springfield Fish and Game Club: CD jukebox, pool table. 329 Garden St., Feeding Hills Whip City Brew: DJ with dance.

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SUNDAY Doc’s Place: Karaoke. 1264 Granby Road, Chicopee Mardi Gras: Nude female dancing. 91 Taylor St., Springfield The Magic Lantern: Nude female dancers. 399 Wilbraham St., Palmer The Republican is not responsible for unannounced schedule changes.

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TELEVISION | MOVIES DVD RELEASES

Small town turned upside down in ‘American Rust’ Tribune News Service

A murder mystery set in a fictional Rust Belt town tops the DVD releases for this week.

“American Rust”: Showtime series adapted from the 2009 novel by Philipp Meyer stars Jeff Daniels as the police chief of an economically depressed community in Pennsylvania who becomes conflicted after his lover’s son is accused of murder.

“Comparison with ‘Mare of Easttown’ feels unavoidable, if for no other reason than

that show is set in the eastern end of the same state, in a similarly if not so extremely distressed small town, with a generous complement of bad and broken marriages, troublesome children, drug problems, a sad and exhausted citizenry and a cop more or less at the center of it,” writes Los Angeles Times critic Robert Lloyd in his review. “But ‘Mare’ could also be funny (Jean Smart hiding ice cream in a bag of frozen vegetables, for example), where ‘American Rust’ almost never aims to be.”

With a story dominated by two families, “there aren’t any antiheroes in ‘American Rust,’” Lloyd writes. “Just people making bad choices, who might or might not make better ones. (The door is not closed on hope.)”

Also new on DVD “Birds Like Us”: Animated family film about a group of birds who must spread their wings after suddenly finding themselves far from home.

With voices by Alicia VikanJeff Daniels plays a police chief in a decaying small town in the der, Jeremy Irons, Jim SEE DVD, PAGE E6 Showtime series “American Rust.” (DENNIS MONG / SHOWTIME / TNS)

REVIEW

Oscar contender ‘Drive My Car’ is subtle, gorgeous

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BY Chris Hewitt

Star Tribune

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rive My Car” viewers need to be patient, but that patience is rewarded.

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Rated: Not Rated Running time: 179 min.

Playing at: Amherst Cinema

thing that happens when you realize that a story, written long ago and by someone who is nothing like you, has The Japanese finalist for this year’s captured a feeling or situation that hits best international feature Oscar is three you where you live. not-exactly-action-packed hours long, Hamaguchi, adapting three stories but it makes every second count. By the by acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakaend, having spent all that time in the mi, obviously cares deeply about the rhythms of the life of actor/director Yûexchange that happens among a play, suke (Hidetoshi Nishijima), you feel like its interpreters and its audiences. But you’ve been through the wringer with you don’t need to love theater to love him. He’s grieving the death of his wife “Drive My Car.” Many of its mysteries and trying to put his life back together, are wrapped up in the unusual bond with the words of Anton Chekhov there Hidetoshi Nishijima, left, and Tôko Miura in “Drive My Car.” (JANUS FILMS) between resentful Yûsuke and diffito help him, if he can figure out how to dent Misaki, who reluctantly open up listen. to each other because they’re jammed Throughout its running time, “Drive the play and dancing around another mysteries of human behavior. It’s a in a small car and there’s nothing else My Car” sets up little mysteries that re- company member who seems to have a movie where you’ll often think, “Wait. to do. mind us how complicated other humans hidden agenda? What is the significance Why would anyone do that?” but then, As they drive and chat, those two are and that keep us guessing about the he attaches to his car? Why is it so hard when a few details emerge, realize the lonely people eventually address elusive behavior of its characters. for him to relinquish it when the theater behavior not only rings true but that questions that have been troubling Why does Yûsuke say nothing when forces him to let a taciturn woman you’ve done the same thing. Strangers, them. They don’t necessarily solve he happens upon his wife having an named Misaki (Tôko Miura) chauffeur the movie says, don’t make sense. Then, their problems but they do get a bracing affair with a stranger, shortly before her him everywhere? suddenly, they do. reminder of something Chekhov, death? Why does he behave so oddly, These are not world-shaking quesTheater fans will thrill to how the Murakami, Hamaguchi and pretty much many months later, when he agrees tions, obviously, but the stakes feel huge “Vanya” rehearsal scenes offer a priveveryone who views this gorgeous movto direct a production of Chekhov’s in “Drive My Car” because director/ ileged peek at Yûsuke’s unorthodox ie can agree on: Sometimes, the thing “Uncle Vanya,” choosing one actor co-writer Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is methods, which baffle even his actors. we need most is to be reminded that who’s clearly not up to the demands of keenly attuned to the delicate, shifting Those scenes also capture the beautiful we are not alone.

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rael after the fall of the Soviet Union, where they must find new work.

Out on Digital HD “The Great Postal Heist”: “Golden Voices”: Israeli Documentary film about feature about the married toxic culture and the push couple who were the Soviet to downsize that chronicles Union’s go-to film dubbers, the effort of a 30-year post voicing all the Western mov- office clerk to stand up for his ies that penetrated the Iron colleagues.

Curtain, and their move to Is“Salt in My Soul”: Based

on the bestselling posthumously published memoir, this documentary follows the journey of a young woman diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of 3.

“Two Deaths of Henry Baker”: Modern-day Western about an outlaw and a family feud for possession of a bag of gold coins.

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There’s no doubt that years CONTINUES FROM PAGE E3 of research went into crafting he presumes would be easily “The Gilded Age,” and yet kept in the dark about his unthere’s a certain American conventional sexual pursuits.) je ne sais quoi, as well as a Even bolder are the transsense of historical specificity, gressions of Agnes and Ada’s that’s conspicuously lacking. orphaned niece Marian (Louisa The divisions between old Jacobson, the youngest of Merand new money that drive yl Streep’s daughters), a recent the show, for instance, were arrival to New York stuck in an surely informed by ethnic, impossible situation: having to denominational and ideologmarry among her aunts’ upper ical differences. (Discriminacrust without the deep pockets The widowed Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski, right) and tion against newer waves of to make her a desirable candi- her spinster sister Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon, center) in “The European immigration helped date for the merger of assets fuel the inequities of the actual Gilded Age.”(ALISON COHEN ROSA / HBO) that such suitors would seek.

Gilded Age, a reality hardly Marian comes to New York the latter a symptom of our anyone to root for or invest in. alluded to in the series.) But with a vague goal of pursuing own gilded era, in which the And that’s crucial not because Fellowes is quick to resort a profession. She’s quickly most consistent protest we we always need shows with to pablum about New York outpaced in ambition and can seemingly muster up is characters worth championing being a “collection of villagachievement by Peggy (Denée to make TV shows about how – “Succession,” for example, is es” without exploring why so Benton), a fellow passenger miserable our overlords must a fantastically acidic show with many invisible walls have been on the train from Pennsylvabe on their private planes. no redeemable people in it – erected within one city; he’d nia who, by happenstance, Fellowes chronicles his charbut because Fellowes doesn’t rather focus on the womends up working as Agnes’s acters’ myopia, but he doesn’t seem to understand how en’s cattiness. Meanwhile, secretary while chasing her quite critique it; he wants us literary dreams. Like so many to care about whether Bertha on “The Gilded Age,” Peggy will get a chance to meet and harbors a secret – one that curry the favor of fabled Mrs. explains why she prefers the Astor, the grande dame of the servants’ quarters at the van antique elite. (In its worst moRhijn-Brooks estate, where ments, “The Gilded Age” just the maids bristle that a Black feels like an old-timey version woman like herself holds a of “Mean Girls.”)

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too-modern touches, like the power coupling of the Russells, distract like Pollock-esque paint splotches on a John Singer Sargent portrait.

But if “The Gilded Age” isn’t a serious show, it’s not a reliably entertaining one, either.

Sure, the sets and costumes and gewgaws are fun to look at. But it’s also dispiriting to watch so many talented stars get so little meat to chew on.

Of particular disappointment is Baranski, whose Agnes is meant to take over from Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess role. She’s given a couple of fun lines – her deadpan delivery of “I haven’t been thrilled since 1865” is especially great – but the show is packed with so many characters and story lines that hardly anyone gets to breathe or make an impact.

In the end, Fellowes can only offer what he’s most fascinated by: the gleaming gilt.

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“Moffie”: Set in 1981 South Africa, this brutal coming-ofage story follows a gay teenager during his compulsory military service in the South

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DINE & WINE

A to Zs of wine: Letter A

T Beer’d Dogs and Boats is a double IPA brew.

(GEORGE LENKER PHOTO)

What beer themes grab your attention?

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FEW WEEKS AGO, I wrote about beer marketing awards.

Two weeks ago, I mentioned White Lion’s latest collaboration, one with former UMass and NBA star Marcus Camby — which in itself is a great piece of marketing genius.

Today I want to confess my own weaknesses when it comes to marketing.

Whether we admit it or not, marketing people and advertisers — at least good ones — know what they’re doing. And I recently fell prey to a beer name (and label), which, of course, are often parts of a beer’s market identity.

I was looking over a store’s beer selection last week and I spied Beer’d Dogs and Boats brew. I had never heard of it before, and quickly grabbed it to see what it was. It turns out it’s a double IPA (so right up my alley) and a quick iPhone search revealed that it was pretty well-regarded. So I snagged a four-pack.

Now, my love for dogs is well known by anyone who has read this column for a decent stretch of time, but is having a dog on the label and the word “dogs” in the name enough to make me

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The point is the use of dogs in the name and on the label caught my attention. And since dogs are extremely popular (as they should be), I would imagine it’s rarely a bad idea to employ them in getting consumers’ attention. buy a beer? No, of course not.

I may be a sucker, but I’m not that big of one. If the beer had been a sour, for example, I would have passed because sours are not my thing.

But the point is the use of dogs in the name and on the

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HE WORDS WINE lovers use can seem strange to many people.

Terroir.

Appellation.

Tannin.

Many of them sound like distant planets or obscure scientific terms or medical conditions you’ve never heard of before.

But don’t be intimidated.

They’re just words.

And if you know a few of them, you can talk about wine in the language many wine people use to communicate with each other.

And before some of you roll your eyes and go on about wine snobs speaking in secret code, think of it this way. It’s no different than baseball or football or other favorite pastimes.

Each one has its own distinct terminology, whether it’s a Texas Leaguer (baseball), an audible (football) or a hat trick (hockey or soccer, otherwise known as football in the rest of the world).

That’s why I thought it might be helpful to put together a series of columns about the ABCs of wine. Or rather, the A to Zs of wine.

This week, you can learn more about wine terms that start with the letter A. Throughout the year, we’ll get to the rest of the alphabet one letter (or a few letters) at a time.

Hope you enjoy.

A is for Amarone, an Italian wine pictured here. (KEN ROSS PHOTO)

Volume. In general, the higher the sugar levels in the grapes, the higher the alcohol levels.

Usually, low-alcohol wines have less than 10% alcohol.

Most wines on average have 12% alcohol. High-alcohol wines generally have at least 14% alcohol.

Amarone: A particular type of red wine made using Ken Ross certain grapes (corvina, rondWine Press inella and several other grape varieties) from Italy’s Valpolicella region near Venice. acidity levels include many Appellation: This word wines from France’s Burgun- simply refers to where the dy region and Italy’s Chianti wine is from geographically. region.

Many countries throughout Aging: Most wines undergo the world have legally protectsome form of aging. After ed wine regions. This simply the grapes have been picked means that Champagne can and fermented and before only come from France’s being placed into bottles, they Champagne region since it’s are often aged in oak barrels a legally designated appella(French or American) for tion. The same is true for wine several months or sometimes from Italy’s Tuscany region or The A to Zs of wine: several years. Certain wines Spain’s Rioja region. They’re Letter A in bottles also often benefit both wine appellations or wine regions.

Acidity: Acid levels in wine from aging for several years in a cool (around 50 degrees), Aroma: You can spend a influence how a wine tastes. dark place. This is especially lifetime talking about how a Soil conditions and weather wine smells. Before tasting a influence the acid levels of the true for red wines with high acidity levels. wine, many people pay close wine. In general, the longer Alcohol: This might seem attention to a wine’s aroma. the grapes stay on the vine, the lower the acid levels. like a no-brainer. Of course Is it floral? Mineral-like?

Soft and subtle? Musty and Usually the colder the climate, wine has alcohol in it. But when many wine lovers talk powerful? There’s no shortage the higher the acidity of the of words to describe a wine’s wine. Wines with high acidity about alcohol levels, they’re talking about the difference aroma. Have fun. levels often include white between low-alcohol and Astringent: Remember wines, especially ones from high-alcohol wines. Or rather, how some wines have higher New Zealand and France’s acid levels than others? That Champagne and Loire Valley they’re talking about the SEE WINE, PAGE E9 regions. Red wines with high ABV, which means Alcohol By

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can also affect how they taste. And the higher the acid level in the wine, the more astringent (tart) the wine will taste.

Auslese: A particular type of German wine made with late-harvested grapes.

Because the wines are picked later than usual, the sugar levels in the grapes are higher, resulting in sweeter, dessert-like wines.

AVA: Remember the word appellation up above?

AVA is similar but only applies to specific geographic wine regions in the United States. AVA stands for American Viticultural Area and there are literally hundreds of them in this country.

Popular wine grapes that start with A • Albarino (white wine grape popular in Portugal) • Aligote (white wine grape popular in France’s southern Burgundy region) • Assyrtiko (white wine grape popular in Greece) Popular wine regions that start with A • Aconcagua (wine region located in Chile and famous for cabernet sauvignon and syrah red wines) • Alba (located in Italy’s Piedmont region and famous for its dry red wines) • Alsace (located in eastern France and famous for its crisp, dry white wines) • Alto Adige (located in northern Italy and famous for its dry, aromatic red and white wines) • Anjou (located in France’s Loire Valley and famous for chenin blanc white wines) (The countries of Argentina and Austria also produce many outstanding wines.)

Cheers!

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

Creating dishes from invasive species

Hugh Robert Off The Menu

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HETHER YOU call it farm-tofork or just eating local, the idea of creating restaurant experiences from at-hand sources isn’t a particularly radical idea. Instead it’s become a popular culinary conceit, with chefs forging connections with nearby farmers — or even maintaining their own gardens — in their efforts to incorporate locally sourced foods into an eatery’s menu.

One Vermont chef has, however, taken the concept in a new direction, wedding local sourcing to the ongoing battle against invasive species.

The latter are those plants, insects, and animals brought in from other regions of the world and, having no indigenous predators to control their spread, crowd out native species and often overwhelm ecosystems.

Doug Paine, the executive chef of the Juniper Bar and Restaurant in Burlington, Vermont, has embraced the idea of invasivorism, a concept developed by a University of Vermont biologist, Joseph

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label caught my attention.

And since dogs are extremely popular (as they should be), I would imagine it’s rarely a bad idea to employ them in getting consumers’ attention. (The same is probably somewhat true of cats, although in my

Munich Haus German Restaurant in Chicopee has put together a Valentine’s Dinner Dance for Feb. 12. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

Roman. Roman’s idea was to control invasive species by turning them into food sources for animals and people.

Chef Paine, whose approach to invasivorism is profiled in the winter 2021 issue of Popular Science magazine, has created a menu for the Juniper Bar and Restaurant that uses invasive plant species such as garlic mustard in salads and Japanese knotweed as a sorbet base.

Paine is one of a small but growing cadre of culinarians who take their inspiration from Professor Roman’s work and create menu specialties from plants and animals that are making pests of themselves.

For more information on invasive species and how they might be “eaten out of existence,” go to Dr. Roman’s website, eattheinvaders. org.

Planned offerings include Munich Haus favorites such as chicken francaise, jager schnitzel, house-made sausages, and much more. The meal will conclude with a Vienna-style pastry table.

Side dishes After-dinner dancing will • Though pandemic conbegin at 6:30 p.m. and contincerns might cast somewhat ue to 9:30 p.m. of a shadow over this year’s The cost to attend is $26 Valentine’s Day celebrations, per person, not including tax a number of area restaurants and gratuity. Tickets must be are nonetheless offering ways purchased in advance and can to share an evening out with a be ordered online at munich special someone. haus.com.

The Munich Haus German The restaurant also answers Restaurant in Chicopee has at 413-594-8788. put together a Valentine’s The three Delaney’s Dinner Dance for Feb. 12.

Market locations in greater The evening will begin with Springfield are promoting SEE MENU, PAGE E10 a dinner buffet at 5:30 p.m.

mind, dogs go better with beer than cats do. Felines seem more suited to the wine or cocktail crowd.)

As it turned out, Dogs and Boats is a very good beer, and one I will buy again.

There aren’t many themes that attract my attention like dogs do, but I’m sure other beers use popular ones to attract consumers’ eyeballs. For

one example, I’ve seen a few baseball-themed brews, such as Blue Point’s Pinstripe Pils (with the New York Yankees insignia) and Wachusett Green Monsta IPA in honor of Fenway Park’s massive left-field wall.

Of course, some people may see Dogs and Boats and be attracted by the boating aspect. There are brews that use

boating/nautical themes, such as Great Lakes Brewing Co.’s Edmund Fitzgerald Porter, Leinenkugel’s Canoe Paddler (a kohlsch) and of course any beer by Shipyard Brewing Co. What themes or words or images grab your attention when you’re perusing beer shelves?

Send me a note at geolenker@ yahoo.com to let me know.

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gies and a tangerine-soy-ginger dressing. Seared chicken thigh meat is the salad’s protein topping.

Both dishes are slated to have long-term menu status.

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what they are calling “a sweetheart of a deal” for Valentine’s Day. They are offering a pair of “Valentine’s Dinner For 2″ options that come ready to heat and enjoy at home.

One dinner pack features shrimp scampi and Gorgonzola sirloin sauced by a Merlot demiglace; the second is a filet mignon with Madeira sauce.

Each meal also includes a full suite of sides and accompaniments ranging from cheese and crackers to cheesecake with strawberry sauce.

Orders need to be placed by Feb. 8 for weekend pickup on Feb. 12 or 13.

Contact a Delaney’s Market location in Longmeadow, Westfield, or Wilbraham to reserve a dinner order.

The Delaney House Restaurant in Holyoke is also offering two evenings dedicated to Valentine’s Day dining.

On Feb. 12 and again on Feb. 14 the restaurant is hosting a fixed-price Valentine’s Day dining experience in its ballroom.

Both evenings are slated to begin at 6:30 p.m. with a four-course meal in which a “Lover’s Duo” of sirloin steak and salmon en croute is the star attraction. Popovers, a crab cake first course, salad, dessert, and a champagne toast are included in the $59 dinner price. Tax and gratuity are additional.

Reservations may be made online at delaneyhouse. com/valentines-daydinner.

The MAX Restaurant Group has also put together Valentine’s Day Dinner Packs that will be available out of two of the group’s central Connecticut locations.

The dinner options range from Surf & Turf to baked vegetarian lasagna; an a la carte selection of sides, appetizers, and desserts is also being offered as are wines and cocktails to go.

Orders should be placed online by Feb. 9 at maxrestau rantgroup.com/maxtogo/ index.php/store/.

For more information, call

Max Burger in Longmeadow will be presenting another in its ongoing series of local beer and food pairing dinners on Monday beginning at 6:30 p.m. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO)

413-746-3003.

One school district has found it necessary to ra• This winter’s omicron tion milk. The action was a “surge” has further comresponse to supply problems pounded the labor woes that that could be traced back to a many major restaurant chains shortage of the iconic Purehave been experiencing.

Pak coated paper containers Starbucks recently anused for individual milk nounced that due to staffing portions. shortfalls some of its locaAnother major school tions would be operating on a district has had to increase reduced hours basis. the number of “finger food” Chicago-based McDonmenu items it is serving, a ald’s Corp. also announced change necessitated by the that it may resort to shortened inability to reliably source restaurant hours as a way of disposable eating utensils. coping with hourly employee shortages. The chain’s CEO, • Entertainment and lifeChris Kempczinski, said store style doyen Martha Stewart hours in some markets are has taken the plunge and enbeing cut by an average of tered the restaurant business 10% in order to focus availin partnership with Caesars able labor on peak business Entertainment of Las Vegas. hours. Reductions are most Stewart’s restaurant, to often showing up as curtailed be called The Bedford in late-night operations. tribute to her country home Several chains have also in Bedford, New York, will be quietly been slowing down located in the Paris Las Vegas delivery orders or shutting Resort. off mobile ordering as ways Preliminary publicity deof conserving and redirecting scribes the planned restaurant labor to essential in-store pro- as an “immersive experience” duction and customer service. designed to replicate that of dining at Stewart’s New York • Food service supply chain state farmhouse. The Bedwoes aren’t limited to the ford, which will serve dinner restaurant business. School and brunch, will focus on lunch programs across the Stewart recipes, with foods country have found themsupplied by purveyors that are selves facing challenges in among her personal favorites. getting what they need to A specific 2022 opening operate. date has yet to be announced.

• The Eastside Grill in Northampton continues to feature Date Night specials that are available either for on-premises enjoyment or for car-side pickup. The Date Night menu offers 10 different main course options that range from a petit strip steak and chicken pignoli to jambalaya and butternut squash ravioli. Dinners also include a choice of soup or salad as well as one of four different dessert possibilities.

Two “package” alternatives are available. One is built around full-sized entrees, the second incorporates halfsized entrees that are ideal for smaller appetites. Both alternatives include a bottle of wine.

For more detail go to the Eastside Grill web location, eastsidegrill.com. For information or to place an order call 413-586-3347.

• Panera Bread locations are adding two menu items.

The first, a Thai chicken soup that features chicken, vegetables, and a coconut curry broth flavored with lemongrass, ginger, and lime, is supposedly one of several new soups the chain plans to introduce.

The other new item is a citrus Asian salad made with romaine lettuce, assorted veg-

• As they have throughout the rest of the economy, prices at restaurants have continued to rise over the last several months as chains and independent operators passed along the operating cost increases with which they were being hit.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that full-service restaurant menu prices increased at a 6.6% annual rate in December, while at the same time limited-service menu prices ticked upward at an 8% annual pace.

Most restaurant chains are reporting that they are experiencing little customer resistance to these price increases.

• On Monday, Max Burger in Longmeadow will be presenting another in its ongoing series of local beer and food pairing dinners.

The Jan. 31 event, which will begin at 6:30 p.m., will showcase the brews of Exhibit ‘A’ Brewery Co. of Framingham.

Chef Gabe Vancil of Max Burger has created a fourcourse menu for the evening that will be paired with four Exhibit ‘A’ beers.

The meal begins with blue crab deviled eggs, then proceeds to confit chicken focaccia. Pork shank osso buco will be featured as the main course, while a warm butterscotch pecan scone is being served for dessert.

Tickets for the Exhibit ‘A’ Beer Dinner are $65, tax and gratuity additional. Call Max Burger at 413-798-0101 for reservations.

Hugh Robert is a faculty member in Holyoke Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program and has more than 45 years of restaurant and educational experience. Robert can be reached online at OffTheMenuGuy@ aol.com.

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day. Hours: Wed.-Sun, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 1 Armory Square, Springfield or nps.gov/spar.

THURSDAY Make a St. Brigid’s Cross: Thu, 5-7 p.m., Irish Cultural Center; Families are welcome.The event will feature educator Mary Ellen Russell and Fulbright Irish scholar Réaltín McElhinney guiding participants through a session of making crosses with straw. Reservations are required; please call the ICC at 413-342-4358.

This event is open to the public; families are welcome. The Irish House Restaurant and Trinity Pub will be open with a light fare menu. Free.

Morgan Road, West Springfield.

FRIDAY Get Down with your Hometown: Fri.-Sat, 6-10 p.m., online. Annual online music festival to benefit three Pioneer Valley organizations: North Star, the Institute for the Musical Arts, and the Shea Theater. Featuring Lake Street Dive, Rhiannon Giddens, Martin Sexton, Sarah Jarosz and more; donations welcome.

The New England Air Museum, located on the grounds of Bradley International Airport, has been showcasing aviation history at its present location since 1981. This is a view of the Military Hangar. (DON TREEGER / THE REPUBLICAN FILE PHOTO) surrounded by some of his most beloved characters including Horton the Elephant, the Grinch, the Lorax and others, free on the green.

George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum: Permanent exhibit: “Ancient Treasures,” a display of artifacts from ancient China, Greece, Rome and Egypt. Hands-on making activities in the Hasbro Games Art Discovery Center.

Lyman and Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History: More than two dozen Indian motorcycles and related memorabilia.

Museums Amelia Park Children’s Museum: Sign up online for a play session at ameliaparkmuseum.org. Hours: Thurs-Mon., 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m. Open for groups Tues.-Wed. Admission: Children and adults $8; Seniors (62+) $5; Children under 1 year of age and members are free.

29 South Broad St., Westfield.

Connecticut Science Center: Hands-on, interactive experiences with over 150 exhibits in ten galleries and a range of topics, including space and earth sciences plus more.

Hours: Tues.-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Admission: adults $24.90; seniors (65+) $22.95; children ages 3-17 $16.95; free for members. 250 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford or ctsciencecenter.org.

$19 youth (5-15); $23 students with valid high school or college ID. free for ages under 5, 1000 West Columbus Ave., Springfield or hoophall.com.

New England Air Museum: Permanent exhibit includes the restored F-104 Starfighter, vintage planes, gift shop, hands-on activities. Hours: Tues-Sun, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $12.50, $7 children 4-11, free for children 3 and under free, and $11.50 seniors 65+, 36 Perimeter Road, Windsor Locks or neam.org.

The Clark Art Institute: “Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate Over Colors.” Through March 6.

Permanent exhibit: European and American paintings and sculpture, extensive collections of master prints and drawings, English silver and early photography. Hours: Tues.-Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission: Free year round for members, children 18 and younger, and students with valid ID; $20 general. “Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints.” Through Sunday. 225 South St., Williamstown or clarkart.edu.

Titanic Museum: Exhibits from the collection of the International Titanic Historical Society. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Admission: $4, $2 children and students, 208 Main St., Indian Orchard or titanic1.org.

University Museum of Contemporary Art - Fine Arts Center: Exhibits are available online, visit fac.umass. edu/UMCA/Online/. 151 Presidents Drive, Amherst.

Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum: Permanent exhibit: guided tours of the first and second floors. Hours: Weekdays, 11 a.m.-3 Michele and Donald D’Amour Mup.m.; weekends, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. seum of Fine Arts: “Capturing Our Self-guided tours are on the hour Worlds,” works by the Springfield with the last self-guided tour Photographic Society, through June weekdays at 2 p.m. and weekends 26. “The Body Adorned: Artistry and at 3 p.m. Masks are required. Call to Legacy of the Ancient Americas,” reserve at 413-637-3206. Admission: through Feb. 27. Museum a la Carte, $18 adults, $17 seniors (65+), $10 Old Sturbridge Village: “New today at 12:15 p.m.: “Houses Tell Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: Hours: students with ID and $7 children England on Parade” exhibit runs Stories: Historic Homes in MasSat.-Sun. noon-4 p.m. Cost: $3.50 5-17. Ghost Tours at Ventfort Hall through July 2023 and examines sachusetts.” The architecture and with Robert Oakes: Jan. 28, Feb. 12 furnishings of historic houses can tell ride or 4/$10. 221 Appleton St., Holy- parades and parade traditions in New England from 1776 to 1940. Per- and 26, March 12 and 18, all at 7 p.m. us about the families who lived there, oke or holyokemerrygoround.org.

Admission: $27. Minimum age to manent exhibits: Kidstory, an indoor join author Beth Luey as she explores Mark Twain House and Museum: attend is age 12. Reservations are reexamples of these storytelling homes Permanent exhibit. To reserve timed learning gallery in the Visitor’s CenSATURDAY quired, call 413-637-3206. Payment ter where kids ages 3-10 can try on including The Salisbury Mansion in tickets visit marktwainhouse.org. is required to make a reservation for period costumes and imagine life in Worcester and the General Artemas Hours: Mon.–Sun.: 10 a.m. to 4:30 Chili and Cornbread To-Go: Sat, an event. Proof of vaccination, ID the 1830’s; “Neat and Tasty: Getting Ward House in Shrewsbury. $4, p.m. The first tour of the day will noon-1 p.m., South Congregational Dressed in Early New England”; and and masks are required. 104 Walker begin at 10:30 a.m and the last at Church. Chili and cornbread available members are free. Takes place in St., Lenox or gildedage.org. person or online. To register for the 3:30 p.m. Tickets must be purchased apparel in portraiture. Hours: Wed.fully-cooked, frozen, ready to heat Sun. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: Zoom presentation, visit springfield ahead of time. Tickets: $19 seniors and serve. Chili: $8/pint and cornVolleyball Hall of Fame: Hours; $24, $22 seniors, $8 children 3-17, museums.org. (ages 65+); $21 adults (ages 17-64); bread $2/serving. Curbside pick-up; Sat.-Sun.,10 a.m.-3 p.m. Docent-led free for children under 3. Route 20, 1066 South East St., Amherst. tours are not available; a maximum Springfield Science Museum: “Cut $13 children (ages 6-16); free for children under 6. Parking is free. Mu- Sturbridge or osv.org. of 50 visitors will be permitted in‘N’ Rough Collection,” through June Get Down with your Hometown: seum Only: $6 ($4 for children 6-16), Polish Center of Discovery and side at a time. Online ticket purchasin Mineral Hall. “Under the Arctic: See Friday listing 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford. ing strongly recommended. Visitors Learning: Living monument Digging into Permafrost,” Through “She Kills Monsters” (An EHS Proare required to wear masks. Admissafeguarding historical objects May 1.

Mead Art Museum: Various duction): See Friday listing representative of the material culture sion: $2.50-$3.50. 444 Dwight St., American and European paintings, The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss of the Polish people in America. Gal- Holyoke or volleyhall.org.

Museum: The first floor features in- Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll leries include “Coming to America”; SUNDAY paintings and more.

Museum hours: Windsor Historical Society: “100 teractive three-dimensional exhibits.

“At Home in America”; “Folk Art”; Tues.-Thurs. and Sun. 9 a.m.-midYears of Windsor Historical Society” The second floor contains Geis“She Kills Monsters” (An EHS Pronight; Fri. 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sat. 9 a.m.-5 “History.” Hours: Mon.-Fri, 1-5 p.m., exhibit runs through the summer. 96 el’s personal memorabilia.

Timed duction): See Friday listing except for inclement weather and Palisade Ave., Windsor or windsor tickets required, for reservations visit p.m. free, 220 South Pleasant St., holidays. Other times may be sched- historicalsociety.org.

Amherst or amherst.edu. springfieldmuseums.org. uled by appointment. Admission: $5 Wistariahurst Museum: “Wisteria Quadrangle admission: $25 for adults, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall donation, 33 South St., Chicopee or of Fame: Permanent exhibit: three Vines in Full Bloom,” Carriage House $16.50 for seniors (60+) and college polishcenter.net. and Gift shop open Sat.-Sun, Mon. students with ID, $13 for children ages floors with dozens of hands-on exhibDr. Seuss Sculpture Garden: Dr. its, a regulation sized basketball court Springfield Armory National Hisnoon-4 p.m. Historic house tours are 3-17; free to children under age 3 and Seuss National Memorial, an outdoor members, Springfield residents are toric Site: Ranger-led interpretive and more than 900 artifacts on dis$7, and $5 for students and seniors. sculpture garden of larger-than-life programs offered in the museum 238 Cabot St., Holyoke or wistaria free with proof of residency. Welcome play. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; bronze statues of Springfield native in the afternoon. Junior Ranger hurst.org.

Center and Museum store. Tues.-Sat. Sat.-Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: Dr. Seuss at his drawing board $28 adults (16-24); $23 seniors (63+); programs conducted frequently each 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

SEE CALENDAR, PAGE E12 “She Kills Monsters” (An EHS Production): Fri.-Sat, 7 p.m.; Sun, 2 p.m., Cultural Center at Eagle Hill.

“She Kills Monsters” tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister. When Agnes finds Tilly’s Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she finds herself catapulted into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was her sister’s refuge. Tickets: $10. 242 Old Petersham Road, Hardwick; 413-477-6746 or thecenterateaglehill.org.

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Norman Rockwell Museum: Hours: Thurs.-Mon. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Advance tickets purchase required; Closed Tuesday and Wed.. Admission: $20 adults; $18 seniors, AAA, retire military; $10 college students, free children ages 18 and under, members and active military, 9 Route 183, Stockbridge or nrm.org.

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Calendar CONTINUES FROM PAGE E11 Yiddish Book Center: Permanent exhibit, “A Velt mit veltelekh: The Worlds of Jewish Culture.” Hours: Thurs, Fri, Sun, and Mon. from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission: $8 adults, $6 seniors, free for members, students and children, 1021 West St., Amherst or yiddishbook center.org.

Galleries A.P.E. Gallery: Permanent exhibit hours: Tues.-Thurs. noon-5 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. noon-8 p.m.; Sun. noon-5 p.m.; 126 Main St., Northampton or apearts.org.

Amy H. Carberry Fine Arts Gallery: Hours: Tues.-Fri. 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. First floor of building 28. 1 Armory Square, Springfield 413-755-5258.

Forbes Library: “The Svalbard Archipelago,” photography by Rhea Banker; “Nature’s Palette” photography by Paul Hetzel. Through Sunday. 20 West St., Northampton or forbeslibrary.org.

Gallery A3 Amherst Art Alliance: “At the Precipice” by Gloria Kegeles; “Back & Forth” by John Krifka.

Through Saturday. Hours: Thurs.Sun. 3-7 p.m. 28 Amity St., Amherst, 413-256-4250.

Hope and Feathers Framing and Gallery: “Songs of the Sacred Harp” paintings by Mairead Clifford Dambruch, through Feb. 28.Gallery hours: Mon.- Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sat. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 319 Main St., Amherst or hopeandfeathersframing.com.

Indian Orchard Mills Dane Gallery: Hours: Sat. noon-4 p.m. or by appointment. 34 Front St., Indian Orchard, 413-543-3321.

J. H. Miller Custom Framing and Gallery: Hours Mon.-Fri. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thurs. 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 86 Elm St., West Springfield, 413-732-9128.

Jasper Rand Art Museum: Hours: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. 6 Elm St., Westfield or westath.org.

Vault Gallery: Prints by Marilyn Kalish and other artist available for purchase. 322 Main St., Great Barrington 413-644-0221.

Outdoors Berkshire Botanical Garden:

“Face Nature - The Art of Madeline Schwartzman,” through Feb. 25. Hours: Tues.-Sun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Humans appearing in close proximity to plants in a unique experimental art practice featuring installations on the human body that form uncanny hybrids and present a vehicle for mutual subjectivity. Free; 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge or berkshire botanical.org.

Great Falls Discovery Center: Great Hall Exhibit: “The Northfield Chateau-Remembered, Revisited.”

Through Feb. 27. Hours: Wed.Sun. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 2 Avenue A, Turners Falls or greatfallsma.org.

Mass Audubon-Connecticut River Valley Wildlife Sanctuaries: “Changes to Life and Landscape in Winter,” Jan. 29, Feb. 26, March 5. In this three-part series, explore both the science and crystalline beauty of ice, find evidence of active animals, and learn about some of the incredible survival techniques of critters both seen and unseen in winter. Join for one, two, or all three programs in this series at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary. “Tracks, Trees, and and Tunnels” at Graves Farm. Adults.

Registration is required. Member: $50, Nonmember: $60. “Ice and the Land,” Saturday, 10 a.m. In this two-hour program discover the beauty and science of ice as we hike along Arcadia’s trails.

This hike will be approximately 1.5 miles over easy trails.Trails will be icy, so ice-walkers or micro-spikes are highly recommended. Adults.

Registration is required. Member: $20, Nonmember: $25. More info at massaudubon.org/get-out doors/program-catalog#search.

127 Combs Road, Easthampton, 413-584-3009.

Natural Bridge State Park: Visitors Center Exhibits open daily 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; explore the park story through displays, artifacts and scavenger hunts. $2 parking fee; programs are free. 107 McAuley Road, North Adams.

Markets Winters Farmers Market at Hampshire Mall: In the Target hallway, Saturdays through April 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 367 Russell St., Hadley.

The Republican is not responsible for unannounced schedule changes.

Listings must be received two weeks before the date of the event. Items should be mailed to: Entertainment Guide, The Republican, P.O. Box 1329, Springfield, MA 01102-1329, emailed to pmastriano@repub.com, or submitted to masslive.com/ myevents

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- Dozen of Chicken Wings (BBQ of Buffalo) - Dozen of Philly Steak and Cheese Egg Rolls - Dozen Mozzarella Sticks w Marinara Sauce - Dozen Chicken Buffalo Bites

- 3 Foot Grinder - 2 Dozen Chicken Wings (BBQ or Buffalo) - 10 lbs of Potato Salad

- Chicken Wings (BBQ or Buffalo) | 17.99 Dozen - Mozzarella Stick with Marinara | 1.50ea - Dolo Breads (Steak, Sausage, or Spinach) | 14.00ea - Spinach Artichoke Dip 6 Small, 12 Large - Antipasto Platters | 4.50 per person - Frigo’s Homemade Chips | 3.99 - Sweet Chili Chicken Bites | 13.99lb - Mini Bourbon Meatballs | 8.99lb - Philly Steak Egg Rolls | 2.50ea - Buffalo Chicken Bites | 1.50ea - BBQ Kielbasa | 9.99lb - Sausage & Peppers | 9.99lb - Coconut Shrimp | 1.50ea

www.frigosfoods.com 90 William Street, Springfield • 732-5428 159 Shaker Rd, East Longmeadow • 525-9400

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William Baczek Fine Arts: Winter Show 2021-2022 runs through Saturday, highlights the work of gallery artists. See more information at wbfinearts.com/index.php. 36 Main St., Northampton or wbfinearts.com.

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