Nightcrawler: Sky?s the Limit

Nightcrawler: Sky?s the Limit

by | Nov 27, 2012 | Music

A sonic paleontologist studying the career and habits of the Valley’s own Dinosaur Jr. should find this week a fascinating case study. This Wednesday, Nov. 28, the Amherst-spawned alt-rock icons return to their old stomping grounds—Pearl Street in...
Public Records

Public Records

by | Nov 27, 2012 | Music

It’s been nearly two decades since Jim Olsen founded Signature Sounds, the Valley-based record label that’s grown from a DIY, spare-room labor of love into a successful business with two full-time and two part-time employees. Now, finally, it’s got...
Behind the Beat: Let It Ride

Behind the Beat: Let It Ride

by | Nov 27, 2012 | Music

Featuring members Cameron Moretti (vocals), James Scuderi (guitar), Sean Harrington (guitar), Josh Matte (guitar), Andy Tamulonis (bass) and Joey Barthlette (drums), the New England band Foreign Tongues has been on a tear since it formed in the fall of 2011. The group...

The Quest for the Holy O

by | Nov 27, 2012 | Leisure, The V-Spot

What’s up, Yana! I have many questions for you, but here’s my first: I am… sexually inexperienced. I’m assuming you didn’t grow up in an Irish Catholic family, but I did, and, boy! We don’t talk about sex. I’m really just...
Turkey Season

Turkey Season

by | Nov 27, 2012 | Film

  The holiday season is officially scratching at our door: this column will hit the streets just as Thanksgiving begins, and from there the last five weeks of the year will go by in an eggnog-soaked whirlwind of last-minute shopping, holiday parties and family...