Water Politics: What Are You Drinking?

Water Politics: What Are You Drinking?

by | Nov 6, 2008 | News

During the past year or two, various sources—from special interest groups and green-living guides to ads for water filter manufacturers—have vocally criticized North American consumers' reliance on bottled water. Initiatives like the Food and Water...

The Theft of Memory

by | Nov 6, 2008 | News

Part of the Citizens Advisory Committee's stated mission in redeveloping Hospital Hill has been to provide a memorial commemorating the Northampton State Hospital and its 150-year history on the site. To this end a subcommittee was formed, and in May, 2007, it...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Nov 6, 2008 | Music

The JimeRockabilly Beat(Rockabilly Music)Rockabilly may seem like just another half-dead genre, a relic of the age of pompadours and Bel Airs. In the right hands, of course, old genres stay vibrant and manage to sound contemporary and old-fashioned at the same time....
Black and White

Black and White

by | Nov 6, 2008 | Music

Jim White has eyebrows for days. Dark, soulful, brooding eyebrows. So it makes sense that from him comes a mixture of deep, plunking strings, drippy harmonica and easy steel guitar. He sounds like a mix between David Byrne and Neil Young, and White's Southern...
Nightcrawler: Slow Pop

Nightcrawler: Slow Pop

by | Nov 6, 2008 | Music

They've got more hooks than your dad's tacklebox. More harmonies than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Set your stop watches to three minutes and 30 seconds, because the Poppies are coming, the Poppies.No, not those poppies. In fact, the opium-bearing poppy plant...