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This month sees the release of two food-focused books with local ties. On May 7, check out The Boston Homegrown Cookbook, featuring recipes from 28 Boston-area chefs who prioritize locally grown ingredients. Expect how-tos for favorite HOT dishes from restaurants like Lumière and Rialto, plus a behind-the-scenes look at how such spots work with local growers like Brookline’s Allandale Farms. While it’s also peppered with recipes, Alyssa Shelasky’s Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen is less of a cookbook and more of a memoir. Shelasky, an editor at New York’s Grub Street and native of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, chronicles her romantic relationship with a TV chef HAHA HOT and her quest to learn to cook to fit in with his foodie There are two things we learned from those friends. (Her tryst with the chef eventually ended, but Real Housewives of South Boston videos. One, her love affair with cooking lives on.) The funny, tender Jackie’s Packie is located on Route 34. Two, tome hits shelves on May 22, and Shelasky will hit Boston provides plenty of fodder for local-color French Connection (206 Newbury Street, Boston, comedy. And here’s the latest viral video to start 617.247.1301) for a launch party on Thursday, May 31, blowing up Facebook feeds: Massholes, a weekly from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. web series that premiered on YouTube on April 29. Los Angeles transplants and drinking buddies Patrick Quinn and Jimmy Ruggiero came up with the concept while pining for their Hub hometown. I’D LIKE TO THANK GOD FOR THIS HOT In January, they uploaded “Shit Boston Guys Local theater leaders are readying their acceptance speeches for the 30th annual Elliot Norton Say” to YouTube, giving the then–meme du jour Awards, which will be presented at the Paramount Mainstage (559 Washington Street, Boston, a wicked pissa twist. Now with Massholes, Quinn 617.824.8000) at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21. They’re the Hub’s version of the Tony Awards, and Ruggiero have created a narrative series honoring the best in Boston’s theater scene. And this year’s nominees are a diverse bunch. about friends from Boston who try to take on There’s Green Eyes, the smoldering, two-actor Tennessee Williams play that Company One Hollywood — with hilarious results. They also star staged inside an Ames hotel suite. There’s the eccentric Gold Dust Orphans troupe’s Peter alongside a cast that includes Kenny Wormald, Pansy, a sassy, subversive spoof. And there’s the American Repertory Theater’s production of the locally raised actor and dancer who played The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, which, ironically enough, drew a scathing rebuke from theater the lead in the recent remake of Footloose. legend Stephen Sondheim in the New York Times. (He wasn’t a fan of its updates to the original (He’s also “funny as fuck,” says Quinn.) Expect material, though his ire may have only helped the production build bigger buzz.) To find out the Massholes to have mass appeal. winners, ante up $30 for a ticket to the ceremony and after-party at aestages.org, or keep an eye on nortonawardsboston.com. KENNY WORMALD HOT ON THE HILL With its quaint brownstones (filled with blue-blooded Brahmins), Beacon Hill has a quintessentially New England look.