Armory for the Future

Armory for the Future

by | Jul 16, 2014 | News

When Melvin Edwards was a student at Springfield’s Cathedral Grammar School, he recalls, the institutions near the school—the Central Library, the Quadrangle, the Springfield Armory—“were essentially my playground.” He and his friends...
Frank in the Bank

Frank in the Bank

by | Jul 16, 2014 | News

It’s not for want of a “proper” venue that Old Deerfield Productions’ re-exploration of Frankenstein is being performed in an abandoned building. The reason is twofold, the most important being that the skeletal, echoing marble-and-iron...
CD Shorts: Heldon

CD Shorts: Heldon

by | Jul 16, 2014 | Music

Allez-Teia (Superior Viaduct)   Guitarist Richard Pinhas has released a lot of albums, most of them solo, and several with bands. The prolific player is a widely known experimental musician in France, and his work from the early ’70s put him on the map as...
Easy Being Green

Easy Being Green

by | Jul 16, 2014 | Music

Easy Being Green   The twenty-eighth annual Green River Festival sets up shop in Greenfield this weekend as Northampton-based record label Signature Sounds presents 30 musical acts on three separate stages performing over two days. “We have several breakout...
World Cup Fever

World Cup Fever

by | Jul 16, 2014 | Leisure

When Thomas Muller scored to put Germany up 1-0 over the United States, the lunchtime crowd gathered around the outdoor beer garden bar at the Munich Haus in downtown Chicopee let out a long, audible sigh of disappointment. “Don’t worry,” a man said...