by From Our Readers | Jan 22, 2009 | News
Climate change is the most pressing issue our country faces today. It is tied directly to every challenge we face, from our struggling economy to health care to our national security.We are in an economic recession. It is clear that the unsustainable business...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 22, 2009 | News
On a late June evening last year, staff and supporters of the YWCA of Western Massachusetts gathered at Springfield's Symphony Hall for a celebration marking the 140th anniversary of the organization, which defines its laudable mission as "the empowerment of...
by Natalia Munoz | Jan 22, 2009 | News
He's 71 now and his legs can't carry him anywhere near the long distances he regularly marched for civil rights in his younger days. For this presidential inauguration, Rance O'Quinn sat down and watched on television the embodiment of one of the civil...
by Alan Bisbort | Jan 22, 2009 | News
On June 12, 2007, a missile fired from a U.S. jet landed in a neighborhood in Baqouba, Iraq. Among its victims was two-year-old Mustafa Ghazwan, whose hearing was destroyed by the blast. Through the efforts of No More Victims (www.nomorevictims.org), Mustafa—a...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 22, 2009 | Music
Animal CollectiveMerriweather Post Pavilion(Domino)Rippling patterns, dizzying reverberations, shimmering echoes, and spectral loops take shape and develop their own contours, rhythmic weight and emphasis on Animal Collective's hypnotic new release. Singers Avey...