Scenes from tonight’s performance by The Tom Petty Projectt at the 46th season opener of Westport’s Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com

There was a full house tonight for the 46th summer season opener of the Westport Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. Featured was The Tom Petty Project, musicians celebrating the music of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, In his career, Pertty sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

The Tom Petty Project, musicians celebrating the music of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, entertained tonight at the 46th season opener of Westport’s Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

By James Lomuscio

From his beach chair, longtime resident Bob Fatherly stared at the wide, orange ribbon cordoning off the gathering crowd from the steps of the newly repurposed Westport Library today.

First Selectman Jim Marpe addresses guests today at the grand reopening of the Westport Library. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

“I brought these just in case Bill Harmer needed it,” Fatherly said, pulling out a huge pair of shears from his blazer side pocket.

Harmer, who took the helm as the library’s executive director four years ago, is credited with shepherding the more than $21 million project through completion.

Fatherly soon learned his blades wouldn’t be needed. Within a short while First Selectman Jim Marpe, brandishing a huge pair of scissors designed for ribbon cuttings, appeared on the front steps. He was accompanied by Gov. Ned Lamont and an array of state and local officials.

Scenes from today’s grand reopening of the Westport Library. Dave Matlow and Lynn U. Miller for WestportNow.com and WestportNow.com photos

Members of the Hartford Hot Several Brass Band escorted guests into the new Westport Library today following the ribbon cutting on the new main entrance steps. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

Gov. Ned Lamont (at podium), a former Westport resident, led dignitaries today at the grand reopening of the Westport Library after a two-year, $21 million transformation project. “It’s an amazing community resource,” he said. Lamont spoke on the new main entrance library steps before cutting a ribbon surrounded by local schoolchildren. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo

By Susan Granger

In “Late Night,” Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is an acerbic TV talk-show host who, when one of her beleaguered writers asks for a raise, citing a new baby/family responsibilities, fires him on the spot, noting that — for years — the male ‘good provider’ role was used as an excuse for underpaying women.

Reminiscent of Meryl Streep’s imperious Miranda Priestly in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Katherine unapologetically rides roughshod over her white/male staff until, suddenly, she demands that her producer (Denis O’Hare) hire a woman writer.

By pure coincidence, fresh-faced Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling), who is of Indian descent, is sitting in front of his desk, applying for a job.

Thanking her lucky stars, optimistic Molly, who previously worked in a Pennsylvania chemical plant, reports for work the next day — only to discover she’s surrounded by disdainful, misogynistic men, particularly Tom (Reid Scott), the entitled monologue writer who refers to her as a “diversity hire.”

One River School of Art & Design celebrated its opening today at 833 Post Road East, the former space of Bertucci’s. Director Alyson Luck, a Westport resident, said more than 100 prospective enrollees visited the facility today to seek information on its recreational art classes. She said the weekly classes offered are divided by age groups starting as young as 3 through all adult ages. She is pictured in the reception lobby where the walls are decorated with artwork created by artists who are One River resources. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

By Susan Granger

For his first feature film, writer/director/cinematographer Noble Jones concocts “The Tomorrow Man,” a quirky romance between two eccentric senior citizens, somewhere in rural America.

Retired Ed Hemsler (John Lithgow) believes every conspiracy theory and/or doomsday prophecy he hears or reads. Determined to be prepared for the inevitable apocalypse, he buys enough food and emergency supplies to survive a disaster for an indeterminate length of time.

One day, while stocking up on canned goods in the supermarket, he spies Ronnie Meisner (Blythe Danner) in the checkout line, paying for her groceries in cash, instead of using credit card. Thinking she might be a fellow survivalist, he’s eager to make her acquaintance.

Eventually, he manages to start a conversation in the parking lot. Then they meet for coffee. He’s “on the wrong side of 60,” divorced for many years, with a grown son, Brian (Derek Cecil), who has a family of his own and doesn’t visit often. She’s a lonely widow whose daughter recently died. And they’re both partial to the ‘70s pop song “Muskrat Love” by Captain & Tennille.