Scenes from today’s Play With Your Food play reading at Westport’s Toquet Hall. Matsu Sushi provided the food to an enthusiastic audience undeterred by the cold and snow. Phyllis Groner for WestportNow.com

Scenes from today’s Jazz Jam at the Westport Arts Center. Phyllis Grioner for WestportNow.com

Westport artist Miggs Burroughs today provided a bit of Time Magazine history he says has not been told before -– the last minute switch of a 1973 Watergate cover he did depicting Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.

The original July 30, 1973 cover is at left and its replacement is on the right.  Contributed photos

“It was to be the fifth cover I did for Time Magazine in the early 70s, most of which portrayed aspects of the Watergate scandal,” he wrote in a Facebook posting.

“My assignment was to portray Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s personal counsel in the White House, who were complicit in the ‘coverup’ of Nixon’s impeachable crimes. I put their heads together, sharing an ear, to further convey the media’s and public’s perception of them as one inseparable and evil force in the Oval Office.

“I was told to leave room for the headline but had no clue what it would be. The cover was printed and wrapped around a few hundred thousand issues of the magazine, ready to be distributed, before cooler heads at Time prevailed and had the entire issue pulled and destroyed for its offensive headline. A first in Time’s history, and never revealed until today. This may be the only remaining copy of that cover.”

There is advance praise for Westport award-winning photographer Lynsey Addario’s new book to be published next week, “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War” (The Penguin Press, HC, $29.95).

Lynsey Addario’s book will be published next week.  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

The New York Times Magazine this Sunday publishes excerpts from the book, which Kirkus Reviews called “A remarkable journalistic achievement from a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Fellowship winner that crystalizes the last 10 years of global war and strife while candidly portraying the intimate life of a female photojournalist. “

Dexter Filkins, a former New York Times colleague and author of “The Forever War,” said: “Lynsey Addario’s book is like her life: big, beautiful, and utterly singular. With the whole world as her backdrop, Addario embarks on an extraordinary adventure whose overriding effect is to remind of us what unites us all.”

Addario, a 1991 Staples High School graduate, is a frequent visitor to her hometown. A year ago, the Westport Arts Center presented an exhibit of 34 of her photographs, “On The Wire: Veiled Rebellion,” which depicted the plight of women in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. (See WestportNow Jan. 25, 2014)

Helen Clark, U.N. Development Program head and former prime minister of New Zealand, was a drop in visitor today at the Westport Arts Center. She was greeted by Helen Klisser During, fellow New Zealander, artistic director, and curator of the Center’s current exhibit, “Coney Island: Side Show,” which runs until March 14. They are pictured in front of Westport photographer Stephen Wilkes’s shot “Coney Island Boardwalk, NY, Day to Night 2011.” Clark is just back from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where, among other events, she was honored at a reception for Forbes Magazine’s “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” Clark is often mentioned as a possible future U.N. secretary-general. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo

By Susan Granger

Set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically the most dangerous year in the city’s history, J.C. Chandor’s intense noir-thriller “A Most Violent Year” combines political intrigue with industrial corruption.

Ambitious, idealistic Hispanic immigrant Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) started as a fuel truck driver for a heating oil distributor. When he married the mob-connected boss’s daughter Anna (Jessica Chastain), taking over the family business, he discovers it’s not easy being honest in the crime-riddled city.

After making a deal to purchase a waterfront storage facility, Morales is faced with a series of brutal anonymous attacks.  His drivers are hijacked and his fuel is stolen.

Egged on by Anna and his lawyer (Albert Brooks), he turns to desperate measures to protect his property, his family and his chunk of the American Dream.

The Suzanne Sheridan Band played to a sold-out crowd at the Unitarian Church Voices Cafe in Westport tonight, performing the music of Carole King, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell. In addition to Sheridan, musicians included Westporter Bob Cooper on keyboard, Marshall Rosenberg on percussion, and Ruth Ahlers of Norwalk on saxophone. Two back-up vocalists rounded out the group that had people dancing in the aisles and singing along to the popular songs of the 1970s. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Jane Sherman for WestportNow.com

Guests tonight watch a time-lapse video at the Westport Arts Center showing how Westport photographer Stephen Wilkes shot “Coney Island Boardwalk, NY, Day to Night 2011.” The wide-frame overhead image, which took 15 hours to shoot and months to compose, shows Coney Island gradually morphing from blinding sunshine on the right to midnight darkness on the left. (See video here) It is one of more than 70 works by 14 photographers in “Coney Island: Side Show,” curated by Helen Klisser During, WAC artistic director, which runs until March 14. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com