Waterlogged

Waterlogged

by | Oct 4, 2007 | News

The proposed Northampton wetlands ordinance passed its first reading in the City Council on Thursday, September 20 amidst much opposition, and is slated for a second reading before the council on Thursday, October 4. If it is codified, will the city’s wetlands...

Imperium Watch 10.3.07

by | Oct 4, 2007 | News

Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s choice to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, was the judge presiding over the terrorism trial of blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman in 1995. The New York Times lauded Mukasey for sentencing the sheikh to life in...
The Ace on Bass

The Ace on Bass

by | Oct 4, 2007 | Music

Full House, bassist Danny Klein's tribute to the J. Geils Band—a band that Klein, a member of the original J. Geils Blues Band (the band before Peter Wolf and Steven Jo Bladd got into the act) helped to start in the 1960s—is not like any cover band...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Oct 4, 2007 | Music

Richard ThompsonSweet Warrior(Shout Factory)After four years of side projects (a film score, cover albums and an acoustic album), Thompson returns with his strongest band-backed album since Rumor & Sigh. The sabbatical helped him deliver an album that’s one...

FreeSport: Pep Rally Politics

by | Oct 4, 2007 | Leisure

A thick but not uncomfortable haze hung in the air as the sun gradually set behind the tree-lined splendor that is Greenfield's Veterans Field. The Commerce and Greenfield high football teams were running through their warmups as the crowd began to file in,...