by Amanda Drane and Hunter Styles | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
At the Amherst train station, one of the last waves of home-bound college students stood scattered across the small platform, many for the last time. Amtrak’s Vermonter line has pulled out of Amherst for good, rerouted now through Greenfield, Northampton, and Holyoke....
by Jack Brown | Jan 7, 2015 | Cinemadope, Columns, Film
For all its sun, California has never lacked for shadows. Before their books were made into genre-defining films, writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett — authors who essentially invented hard-boiled detective fiction with books like The Big Sleep and The...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
S c ulptor Marilyn Andrews began making and selling stoneware in 1976, but something changed when she started to work seriously with clay. “I like clay because working with a material that undergoes such radical changes, and working in three dimensions, helps me...
by Kristin Palpini | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News
After 60-plus years pumping out energy and radioactive waste, the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is in the process of decommissioning. Protesters have been advocating for the plant’s shutdown since before it opened in the ‘70s, citing the environmental threat...
by James Heflin | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
Lost on the River (Electromagnetic Recordings/ Harvest Records) What could go wrong? Take a passel of unfinished Bob Dylan songs from the mid-’60s, pass ’em on, put T-Bone Burnett in charge of producing an album, and — best of all — let other folks sing them. Be...