Stage Struck: Magic and Mischief

Stage Struck: Magic and Mischief

Hampshire Shakespeare Company opened its season last month with a tight, taut Hamlet that featured a thrilling, pyrotechnic performance in the title role. PJ Adzima is still in high school, but he brought not only an adolescent vigor that made the prince’s...

Between the Lines: Sooner or Later

America’s nuclear power plants are more incontinent than a nonagenarian with an enlarged prostate. Given the industry’s long record of leaks, fires, rust-outs and lax oversight, catastrophic failure at one of the aging nuclear power plants is a real...

ImperiumWatch: Why, Charlie, Why?

God, don’t you wish some liberal Democrat would check in with a vice that isn’t commonplace, trite and predictable? Money and women. Women and money. People who have the opportunity to influence history, to boost the welfare of millions, will put it all on...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Construction Unions Don’t Jump at Every Building Project The presumption in “Short-Term Jobs vs. Open Land” [July 29, 2010] is that building trade unions blindly support any project regardless of the consequences for the environment. Nothing could be...
Zippity-Do-Car

Zippity-Do-Car

I don’t know many people who would opt to be carless in Northampton. As one friend so eloquently put it upon my move back to Northampton from acceptable-to-be-carless San Francisco, “You aren’t gonna buy a car? I’d kill myself if I didn’t...