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WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT FREDA LOVE SMITH’S DELICIOUS MEMOIR?
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I had with an editor a couple of years ago. At the time, I’d started he folks who live on the same drafting the book and it was really street in Evanston as Freda built around the frame of doing Love Smith don’t realize it cooking lessons with my son but they have a modern rock Jonah. There wasn’t a lot of music legend living in their midst. Smith, in it; there wasn’t a lot about me whose tasty memoir Red Velvet and my background. It was about Underground (Agate Books, 2015) this year (of lessons), it was much has just been published, made her simpler. An editor was interested name as the drummer in the in- in it, but she said, “I really want to fluential Boston rock band Blake hear more about you. I really think Babies alongside Juliana Hatfield you need to break this frame open (of Lemonheads fame). She also a little bit and allow for your past went on to perform in bands such to come in.” I got really excited as The Mysteries of Life and Some about that. I thought it sounded Girls. Smith writes about her fun. I started experimenting with music career, as well as mother- it and it unfolded really naturally. hood, marriage and life, in the When I started playing music, memoir. I spoke with Smith when I moved to Boston and shortly before the publication of started the Blake Babies, I was the book. really close in age to the age of my Gregg Shapiro: Freda, Red son when I was doing these Velvet Underground, the title of cooking lessons with him. It was your “rock memoir with recipes,” really easy to connect those dots is truly inspired. Was the title and to start to find the patterns of your invention or was it a group connection. It made it so much effort? more fun to allow my whole self Freda Love Smith: The title actually came from a conversation Continued on PG 12 BY GREGG SHAPIRO
ILMETTE – Wilmette residents turned out in large numbers to a Plan Commission meeting concerning a proposed 20-unit affordable housing development on the site of the former American Legion Post at 1925 Wilmette Avenue. The standing-room only crowd listened to Richard Koenig, executive director of the nonprofit Housing Opportunity Development Corporation (HODC) present his case to the Plan Commission. The proposed development would be constructed and managed by HODC and includes a three-story building containing 20 affordable studio and one-bedroom rental units and 20 parking spaces. The apartments would be on the second and third stories of the building, with a common area on the first floor. Rents range from $335 to $615/month, targeting households in the lowincome range of $30,000-$35,000/ annually.
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