StageStruck: Death by Machine

StageStruck: Death by Machine

This year, the UMass Department of Theater celebrates its 40th anniversary. The season is dedicated to one of the department’s founding faculty, Doris Abramson, who taught there from 1973 until her retirement in 1987 (she died in 2008). In her honor, this is a...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Iran: “War Is Failure” War is no answer to the present conflict between the U.S. and Iran. While I was glad to hear in the presidential debate talk about peaceful resolution of the conflict, I’m concerned that our feckless Congress and some of its...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Subsidies Enrich Landlords While reading the excellent article “No Place to Live” in the Oct.18th Advocate, I asked myself, Why are we allowing the 1 percent to impose so much suffering on our most vulnerable residents? We now live in a state where it is...
No Rest for ARISE

No Rest for ARISE

Recently, I had the chance to ask Michaelann Bewsee if she could imagine what her life would be like if she weren’t part of Arise of Social Justice, the poor people’s rights organization she helped found more than a quarter-century ago. She paused for a...

Imperium Watch: Storm Warning

It’s a pity the old Greeks, who loved monumental visual ironies—cruel sight gags on the grand scale, like the living Antigone sealed in a cave while her dead brother moldered unburied—couldn’t watch what was happening in America during the last...