StageStruck: When Reality Nibbles

StageStruck: When Reality Nibbles

You don’t often catch the Theater Project dabbling in fantasy. Anthropomorphic animals are a distinct rarity onstage at the troupe’s Majestic Theater. But Harvey, the six-and-a-half-foot rabbit currently residing there, is no Disneyfied fuzzy bunny....
The Other John Hodgman

The Other John Hodgman

As a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, John Hodgman plays the Deranged Millionaire and the Resident Expert, the latter of which grew as an extension of his first book, The Areas of My Expertise. On Bored To Death he plays Louis Greene, the nemesis to...
The Blight Fight

The Blight Fight

The officers in the parking lot make a circle when Sergeant John Delaney pulls up in his cruiser. “There he is,” one says. “The gatekeeper of the Orchard.” Delaney didn’t choose this nickname, but his roots in Indian Orchard run deep. He...
Scene Here: A Cup of Tomorrow?s Coffee

Scene Here: A Cup of Tomorrow?s Coffee

Walk into Northampton Coffee these days, and you’re greeted by a weird sight. Beside the expected contraptions—espresso machine, big grinder, vast coffee urns—something new and strange lurks. It’s a vision that could make Dr. Frankenstein take...
Sidewalk Stories

Sidewalk Stories

The handwritten sign at Christina Weibel’s feet reads: “Please help this stereotyped sober soul survivor with daily struggle.” “People ask me what that means,” she says. “I tell them that drugs and alcohol tried to suck up my soul,...