Rain fell tonight about a half hour into the Levitt Pavilion performance by the popular Mill River Band. But most peopled stayed, huddling under umbrellas, on the stage, and under cover in the back. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com
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Rain Doesn’t Stop Mill River Band
Despite rain that fell soon after they began, the Mill River Band stayed in place tonight to entertain an enthusiastic Levitt Pavilion audience. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com
Rain Clouds Threaten
Rain clouds threatened at the Levitt Pavilion tonight as fans gathered to hear the local favorite Mill River Band. Rain fell later, but many stayed as the performance continued of acoustic rock, country blues, and western swing. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com
Granger at the Movies: ‘Mission Impossible: Fallout,’ ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’
By Susan Granger
Special to WestportNowAfter 22 years, the sixth installment of the escapist spy fantasy “Mission Impossible: Fallout” continues to deliver sheer fun, thanks to charming, charismatic Tom Cruise.
It begins as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Cruise) receives an assignment to take out the Apostles, an evil syndicate of international anarchists who are determined to terrorize the world, causing chaos by detonating three nuclear bombs in Jerusalem, Mecca and the Vatican.
At Hunt’s side are his loyal teammates, Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg). They’re joined by IMF boss Alex Hunley (Alec Baldwin), CIA director Erika Sloan (Angela Bassett) and her henchman, August Walker (Henry Cavill).
After capturing radical Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), their challenge is to obtain the plutonium cores from an arms dealer, the White Widow (Vanessa Kirby), and find mysterious John Lark, who wrote the nihilistic manifesto, claiming “the greater the suffering, the greater the peace.”
Afro Bop Alliance at Levitt
The Levitt Pavilion tonight hosted Latin Grammy Award-winning Afro Bop Alliance (ABA), a 17-piece Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble based in New York City and Washington, D.C. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com
Afro-Cuban Sound at Levitt
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The Afro Bop Alliance (ABA), a 17-piece Afro-Cuban jazz ensemble, performed at the Levitt Pavilion tonight. ABA received Latin Jazz Album of the Year at the ninth annual Latin Grammy Awards in 2008 for the recording “Afro Bop Alliance, featuring Dave Samuels,” which was released on the Heads-Up label. This recording was also nominated for a Grammy in the same category that same year. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) J.C. Martin for WestportNow.com
Bayou Sounds at Levitt
River City Slim & The Zydeco Hogs brought the exuberant sounds of the steamy bayous of southwestern Louisiana to Westport’s Levitt Pavilion tonight. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo
Zydeco Hogs Provide Dinner Music at the Levitt
The rain threatened but stayed away tonight as River City Slim & The Zydeco Hogs provided the dinner music for this couple at the Levitt Pavilion. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com photo
Touring Westport’s Gatsby Land
Documentary filmmakers Richard “Deej” Webb Jr. and Robert Steven Williams today led a group of 20 persons on a Westport Historical Society walking tour, “In Gatsby’s Shoes,” at the Compo Road South one-time residence of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Webb is author of “Boats Against the Current: The Honeymoon Summer of Scott and Zelda: Westport, Connecticut 1920.” The book is a companion to “Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story,” a documentary he and Williams (both Westporters) have been working on for more than six years, which will air on public television in the fall. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Granger at the Movies: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ ‘Skyscraper,’ ‘Puzzle’
By Susan Granger
Special to WestportNowInsofar as villains go in our modern world, persistent telemarketers rank alongside unscrupulous real estate developers. So hip-hop recording artist Boots Riley, frontman of the Coup, makes an ambitious debut as writer/director with “Sorry to Bother You,” his confrontational, absurdist, corporate satire.
Set in Oakland, California, it’s about Cassius “Cash” Green (Lakeith Stanfield), who gets caught faking credentials for a telemarketing position at RegalView but lands the job anyway.
Eager to move out of Uncle Sergio’s (Terry Crews) garage and into an apartment with his artsy, activist girlfriend Detroit (Tessa Thompson), Cash struggles on the phone, respecting RegalView’s edict: “Stick to the script.”
But then, heeding the advice of his cubicle-mate Langston (Danny Glover), African-American Cash adopts a “white voice” (dubbed by David Cross), utilizing certain verbal tones, common phrases, and cultural references.
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