Tacos and tequila with a spin at Mex
Part of the Main Street eatery portfolio that includes high-end Italian spots Sulmona and Amelia’s Trattoria, Mex can be different things depending when you arrive and what you’re looking for: Come late for a club ambiance, come early for the casual taco cafe or chill tequila bar aura.
‘Maidan’ illuminates Ukraine, more LGBTQ+ fest and repertory hits from ‘Cabaret’ to ‘Pulp Fiction’
These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include some more LGBTQ+ Film Festival selections, repertory hits, must-sees such as the revolutionary Ukrainian “Maidan” documentary at the Harvard Film Archive and reviews of “All the Old Knives,” “Death on the Nile” and more.
Everything there is to know about the alewife, fishes that fed and fertilized in early America
There are no longer alewives in the brook named after them, and populations have declined throughout much of the Eastern Seaboard due to overfishing in the ocean, dams, drought and habitat loss. But with good management practices, we may once again return to days they’re seen “in such multitudes as is almost incredible.”
Turkish fare at Lavash Bar & Grille
The family-run Turkish eatery Lavash Bar & Grille is in a soft opening on New Street with dishes from a classic shish kebabs, islak burger and iskender to mezes such as manti dumplings, sigara borek cheese snacks and kibbeh of ground lamb so perfect and neat it feels like a crime to bite into one.
It’s the Wicked Queer LGBTQ+ fest time of year; ‘Morbius,’ ‘Banyan Tree’ and ‘Apollo’ reviewed
These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include some LGBTQ+ Film Festival selections and reviews of releases including Marvel’s “Morbius,” the Covid-infected “The Bubble,” and watch-worthy streamers “Beneath the Banyan Tree” and “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood” from Richard Linklater.