Imperium Watch, Issue 31

by | Aug 2, 2007 | News

Bush and Cheney and their ilk derive their power from us. At least they used to. But now they are declaring themselves independent of the people of the United States, and independent of even the legislative branch,which exists to oversee the executive precisely in...
The Finer Portion

The Finer Portion

by | Aug 2, 2007 | Arts

Arriving at Irene's house on a beautiful spring day, I found her husband, Gábor Lukács, busy sifting her ashes, sorting the smaller dust particles from larger ones clearly recognizable as bone fragments and placing them in separate bowls. I had come...
A Monumental Problem

A Monumental Problem

by | Aug 2, 2007 | Arts

Not just any artist can fill the considerable spaces of MASS MoCA, but Spencer Finch is an artist whose work commands a presence only containable by the vaulting rooms of such a large museum. His exhibit, What Time Is It On the Sun? begins humbly enough, in an...
Nightcrawler: Jimi Jam '07

Nightcrawler: Jimi Jam '07

by | Aug 2, 2007 | Arts

The majority of musicians performing at Holyoke's Waterfront Friday, Aug. 3, had yet to "experience" life outside the womb when the man they will honor that evening—James Marshall Hendrix, best known for fronting the Jimi Hendrix...
Film: Post-Cold War Kids

Film: Post-Cold War Kids

by | Aug 2, 2007 | Arts

???½ The Bourne UltimatumDirected by Paul Greengrass. Screenplay by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi, from the novel by Robert Ludlum. With Matt Damon, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Julia Stiles, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney and Scott Glenn....