Sounds Local: Cloudbelly to release new album at The Drake
Indie folk band Cloudbelly is set to release its new album “Throwing the Game” on Nov. 13, with a celebratory double-album release show featuring Jake Klar & Blue Ranger scheduled for Nov. 21 at The Drake in Amherst.
UMass professor Harley Erdman to present illuminated lecture on ‘Queen Esther’
Four centuries ago, a Spanish play about a famous Bible story got its author thrown in jail for heresy. Later this month, a local playwright will help give the play justice by telling it in an uncommon form of theater. Harley Erdman, a playwright, translator, dramaturg and professor of theater at the University of Massachusetts…
Monte Belmonte Wines: Port in a storm
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