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A collaboration by the Lenox Chamber of Commerce, Town Hall, the library and the Community Center, partnering with several other venues, offers a schedule of pre-Christmas events.
Historic Downtown Long Grove Business Association
All about chocolate
Long Grove’s annual homage to the cocoa bean returns with
“For the Love of Chocolate.” The event May 14-16 may be on a smaller scale to comply with COVID-19 health and safety guidelines but it won’t skimp on everything chocolate. Included are food vendors, live entertainment and kid’s activities. Opening night includes an artist hand carving a sculpture of Frank Sinatra while singer Tony Ocean performs. Advance online registration is required to attend. Downtown Long Grove, 308 Old McHenry Rd. Tickets: $10-$45. Visit longgrove.org.
Playing it live
Robert Falls (center) directs John Drea and Mary Beth Fisher in a rehearsal for “The Sound Inside.”
Letter to the Editor: Maine schools should make menstrual products available
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As a high school teacher, I encourage my elected officials to pass L.D. 452, which would require certain schools in Maine to provide menstrual products to students. Studies, along with common sense, continue to demonstrate that students cannot learn when they do not have their basic needs met.
We often think of basic needs as food and shelter but for people who menstruate, access to products is also a basic need. Beyond the potential physical discomfort that can distract students, the emotional toll of not knowing if they will be able to keep blood from staining their clothes and furniture is more than distracting, as I’m sure you can imagine. This can be debilitating.
Bandcamp
In October, Austin s brooding balladeer Bill Callahan teamed with equally enigmatic auteur Bonnie Prince Billy to release a surprise cover of Cat Stevens Blackness of the Night, with arrangements by Drag City labelmate Azita Youssefi. The singles have continued weekly since, each a new cover and collaboration, ranging from pop busters (Steely Dan s Deacon Blues with Bill MacKay; Billie Eilish s Wish You Were Gay with Sean O Hagan) to more obscure (Johnnie Frierson s Miracles filtered through Ty Segall; Lowell George s I ve Been the One with Meg Baird). Amid Lou Reed s Rooftop Garden and Hank Williams Jr. s OD d in Denver, the duo also rolls out a deep Jerry Jeff Walker fascination with takes on Little Bird, Letter Sung to Friends, I Love You, and Night Rider s Lament. The arrangements spiral eclectic and provocative, hung across the balancing act of Callahan s low, methodical intonations and Oldham s creaking high lonesome. –