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If you’re a woman of a certain age, you either owned Liv Tyler’s outfit in “Empire Records” or wished you owned it. See the film and hear from the costume designer in a May 1 Boondocks Film Society screening.
I can’t tell from the IMDb how old costume designer Susan Lyall is but I will say that she’s more or less captured my life on film, so she must be about my age.
In the Before Times, I used to enjoy traveling abroad. Seeing new places and finding new ways that folks do everyday things is extremely satisfying to me.
Area land trusts will do presentations and walks in the coming weeks to showcase some of their hiking trails, such as this one on the Sharon Land Trust’s D’Alton Preserve, which is expected to open to the public on June 5. Photo by Jonathan Doster
Tristate region land trusts and nature conservancies are coming back to life, and offering outdoor experiences.
In Cornwall, Conn., the Cornwall Conservation Trust is hosting a bike and hike on Sunday, April 25, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Cornwall Library, 30 Pine St.
There’s more than one Litchfield County connection to the award-winning film, “Patton,” starring George C. Scott. Journalist Jurgen Kalwa of Sharon, Conn., shares the origin story of the film and its link to his home in a Zoom talk on Sunday, May 2.
What happens when a Sharon journalist discovers that a famous movie has a significant connection to his own house? He digs a little and turns his finding into a story.
Join the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon, Conn., on Zoom for a discussion with Jürgen Kalwa on Sunday, May 2, at 4 p.m.
Nasturtiums are lovely, easy to grow and delicious on a salad — but don’t eat them unless you’re certain they are nasturtiums and not a toxic twin. Photo courtesy University of Connecticut
In spring 2020, as COVID-19 was sending city folks up here full-time to live in the country, The Lakeville Journal published its annual short article talking about the delights of finding, cooking and eating the wild leeks that are also known as “ramps.”
Heat, beach, summer, freedom all glow from the canvas in Sophie Treppendahl’s “Swimming in the Yuba,” featured in the Kenise Barns Fine Art gallery show in Kent, Conn., called “We’ve all gone to look for America.” Courtesy of Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, Conn.
Kenise Barns, director of Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, Conn., describes the inspiration for a show at her gallery until May 1: “The exhibition title is taken from the well-loved Simon and Garfunkel ballad recounting a bus trip across America, and the hours spent looking out the window as the landscapes slide by.
Found poetry has always fascinated me. The first poem I published was “Three Pages Found in a Bureau for Auction,” sourced from three pages of stationery I discovered in a bureau I didn’t buy — but I did take the pages, which made me feel guilty, although not enough to keep me from writing the poem.
April is National Poetry Month, a time to learn more about the work of Massachusetts’ own Emily Dickinson. Photo from openculture.com
This poem is an excellent entrance point into Emily Dickinson’s work; it shows off the two things she does best. First, the slow realization that life is both utterly fulfilling AND sad, somehow all at once.
“Dragnet” is one of several classic American police shows that deserve a second look.
I will go out on a not-so-perilous limb and opine that most American police procedural TV shows owe their essential form to the 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain.
A new show of work by Glenn Kaino at MASS MoCA talks about conflict, struggle and activism. One part of the exhibit shows the breakup of the Shadow V, destroyed by the IRA, with “debris” from the bombing reimagined as small ships. Photo courtesy MASS MoCA
Often, art work that has a social message is so abstract that it’s hard to find a place in.
The work of Glenn Kaino, which is featured in a new show at MASS MoCA that opened April 3, is concrete and accessible while also commenting on the world and the hopes, struggles, dreams, successes and failures of the humans who inhabit it.
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