CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Sep 11, 2008 | Music

The Verve Forth(Megaforce/Sony)The Verve are tenacious. After having the royalties from their biggest hit siphoned off by the Rolling Stones' lawyers, the band nearly imploded, but they're back and as willful as ever, welding unsettling textures on songs that...
Soundcheck: Black Moon on the Rise

Soundcheck: Black Moon on the Rise

by | Sep 11, 2008 | Music

As of this writing, the Black Moon is just an open room with the makings of a bar in one corner and a bare stage in another. There are no guitarists tuning up or customers shouting orders over a din—only the whirring of power tools. But by October, the space...
Get A Horse

Get A Horse

by | Sep 11, 2008 | Leisure

Sick and tired of being enslaved to big oil? Well, friends, you can fight back. In conjunction with Northampton’s Arts Night Out, there looms a parade featuring cyclists, skateboarders, dancers, hula hoopers and more, all capering to the theme of the day: Death...
Jailhouse Schlock

Jailhouse Schlock

by | Sep 11, 2008 | Film

Death Race HHWritten and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. With Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson, and Natalie Martinez. (R)There's something about British actor and Death Race star Jason Statham that's hard not to like. There's also much...
At Table: Flavors of Late Summer

At Table: Flavors of Late Summer

by | Sep 11, 2008 | Food + Booze

Blue Heron112 North Main St., Rte. 47,Sunderland(413) 665- 2102Tue.-Sun. 5-9 p.m., Fri. and Sat. 5-10 p.m.Entries $16-36. After passing the lovely front porch and walking through the brilliant flower garden, visitors enter Blue Heron through a stately foyer. The...