Nightcrawler: Good For What Ales Ya

Nightcrawler: Good For What Ales Ya

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Music

Not surprisingly, Valley Classics Concert Series founder Dr. Rebecca Hartka takes her charge seriously. According to the mission statement, her annual concerts at Greenfield’s Arts Block should “make classical music—old and new—accessible to...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Music

Various Artists The Rising Cost of Livin’ High and Lovin’ Hard: A Tribute to Kris Kristofferson (PIAPTK) Though perhaps not as celebrated as his fellow “Highwaymen” Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson has led the...
Behind the Beat: Cosmic Improvisation

Behind the Beat: Cosmic Improvisation

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Music

Sometimes, when a member of a band is asked to describe his group’s sound, he answers by citing a specific genre like rock, pop, folk or jazz. Other times, if the band member is like percussionist Andy Mathey of the Greenfield group Something Else, the answer...

Use Your Words

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Leisure, The V-Spot

Kicking and screaming in the candy aisle never landed you those lollipops when you were a toddler, and it certainly won’t get you the sugar you crave in the adult candyland of sex, either. Use your words, dear, and maybe you’ll actually get the Jolly...
CinemaDope: Failing Grades

CinemaDope: Failing Grades

by | Mar 18, 2013 | Film

For all the wonders of our modern educational age—a time that makes my own not-so-ancient schooling seem ridiculously outdated—there remains a troubling lump of something dark and nasty within it. Sometimes living under the surface, unnoticed by older eyes...