Compass A&E

I bought a house last November. I love this house, and I want it to be my sanctuary: peaceful, harmonious, interesting. But I have always felt insecure about my home decorating skills; I sometimes think they haven’t evolved much beyond Dorm Room Chic, or Frazzled Parent Modern. 

The end of summer is coming, a time when we think of things we should have done while the weather was warm and we maybe had some time on our hands. This year of course the end-of-summer regrets are more profound as plans were impacted not just by COVID-19 but also by a week of power outages at the peak of vacation season. 

Jason Alexander (star of stage, screen and “Seinfeld”) and Patti Lupone (star of stage, screen and formerly of Kent, Conn.), Tony Award winner Santino Fontana (“Tootsie,” on Broadway) and Michael McKean (“This Is Spinal Tap!” and “Better Call Saul” among countless other favorites) are among the dozen actors who will do a staged reading to benefi

Call it Simon’s Rock and Roll for Labor Day weekend as the Great Barrington, Mass., college partners with the nearby Mahaiwe Theater for a weekend of music-themed films that can be viewed “drive-in style.” 

The screenings will be at Simon’s Rock, at 84 Alford Road, which is just around the corner and up the hill from the theater. 

Beloved historian Edward Kirby of Sharon, Conn., will give a Zoom talk in partnership with the Sharon Historical Society and the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon on Friday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m. 

This has been a year for the record books, certainly. One of the high points of 2020 is that it is the 55th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited.” 

Authors Honor Moore (formerly of Kent, Conn.) and Roxana Robinson (of Cornwall, Conn.) will talk about their new books in a Zoom talk sponsored by the House of Books in Kent, the Cornwall Library and the Kent Memorial Library. 

At a time when the nation is largely divided along partisan lines and when there is a great deal of anxiety about the upcoming presidential election, it’s a wonderful time to celebrate the success of the women’s suffrage movement, which secured the vote for women in August 1920.