Can Music Pay?

Can Music Pay?

by | Jun 18, 2014 | Music

Down at Theodores’ Blues & BBQ, someone’s wearing a porkpie and running a slide up and down acoustic guitar strings. At the Clarion in Northampton, someone else is working the reed on her saxophone. At the Rendezvous in Turners Falls, a drummer is...
Disney?s Metaphorical Rape

Disney?s Metaphorical Rape

by | Jun 18, 2014 | Film

I would love to report that Maleficent is a great movie. Unfortunately, it’s a muddled, inconsistent junk heap of a movie at best. Its bad scenes are abysmally terrible, and even its good scenes (which can be very good) suffer from taking place within a bad...

Northampton Brewery Discovered

by | Jun 18, 2014 | Food + Booze

“How about we meet up at the Brewery?” “…the brewery?” “Yeah, the Northampton Brewery….” “Oh, heh, of course, the Brewery. How silly of me.” I’ll be straightforward about this: yesterday afternoon, I...
Summer Arts Preview

Summer Arts Preview

by | Jun 18, 2014 | Arts

Les Doigts Every June for a decade-plus, Northampton has filled up with musicians, most in Hawaiian shirts and toting funny-looking guitars. They migrate in for the annual homage to “jazz manouche” called Django in June. That festival is one of only a...