Community Corner
5 Things All About Westport: July 22
DNR at Levitt Pavilion tonight, "Lips Together, Teeth Apart" continues at Playhouse and more.
- These doctors use a different type of “instrument” to perform intricate musical surgeries on people’s psyches: Fairfield County’s almost all-physician rock’n’roll band DNR will bring its infectious mix of heart-stoppingly danceable music to the , 40 Jesup Road, at 8 p.m. The band’s musical “experience” ranges from oldies and Motown, to funk, rock’n’roll, country and contemporary. The concert is free and is being sponsored by Matsu Sushi.
- Westport continues to bake today: The National Weather Service is predicting a high of 96 degrees (F) with humidity at a steamy 79 percent, and a heat index of 105 degrees (that’s what it will feel like). Other forecasts are predicting a high of 97 degrees (F). Brutal. To help people deal with the heat, Westport Patch recently put together . Another good approach, of course, is to simply where you can relax.
- Speaking of dealing with the heat, can you imagine what it would have been like dealing with a heat wave like this if you were a farmer in 18th Century Westport? You can get an idea of what Westport was like during pastoral times through the exhibit “Westport Farming: Then & Now” currently on display at the Westport Historical Society, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. The exhibit, which opened in May and runs through September, is being presented as part of the Society’s “Back to Our Roots” festival. It features local farming artifacts, including a special section focused on Wakeman Town Farm, and chronicles “evolving local farming practices, from the Pre-Contact era/indigenous tribes, through the Colonial Puritans and Connecticut Yankees, to today’s return to local produce,” according to the Society.
- An exhibit featuring the massive-scale works of environmental artists Christo and the late Jeanne-Claude, featuring two works in progress, “Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado” and “The Mastaba, Project for the United Arab Emirates,” continues this week at the Westport Arts Center, 51 Riverside Avenue. "Over the River” is “a proposed site-specific installation of 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric suspended high above the Arkansas River along a 42-mile stretch in south-central Colorado,” while “The Mastaba” will be made of “approximately 410,000 horizontally stacked oil barrels secured to an inner structure.” The exhibit runs through Sept. 4. Gallery Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 12 noon to 4 p.m., Sunday.
- The Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” by Terrence McNally and directed by Mark Lamos, continues Two couples gather at a Fire Island beach house to celebrate the Fourth of July and end up revealing their anxieties about impending middle age and the world's hidden threats. “This hilarious account of people struggling against their limitations is as perceptive about the way we live today as any comedy the American theater has produced in years,” the Playhouse’s website states. The production .
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