AT LARGE

Ah, February. The month of love. Flowers and candy and jewelry sales hoping to boost engagement proposals.

You may have noticed. The proliferation of so-called “celebrity biopics” continues both in a movie theater near you or, more conveniently, on a streaming service inviting your homebound blitzing evenings and weekends. When, a few years ago, Timothée Chalamet emerged as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, theaters were filled and song downloads of “Tangled Up in Blue” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” skyrocketed. The Nobel Prize-winning poet moved into the spotlight once again, decades after Robert Zimmerman emerged from Hibbing, MN, and became Bob Dylan.

JUNE RECIPE

There’s a wind coming off the Hudson. Frankly, it’s got a real bite to it. After all, it’s autumn in the tri-state area and along with leaves flaming into brilliant color, busloads of appreciative “leaf peepers” and end-of-season sales at local stores, it’s time to stand on the sidelines of a soccer game, a football game, or a field hockey game and cheer for our [...]