by Amanda Drane and Hunter Styles | Apr 8, 2015 | Articles, Featured, MGM Springfield Casino coverage, News
Try as they might, MGM won’t be able to replicate downtown Northampton. Northampton mayor David Narkewicz says representatives of the MGM Springfield casino are attempting to recruit Northampton businesses to open up shop within the walls of their future gambling...
by Amanda Drane | Apr 1, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Madame Barfly
A cocktail revolution that’s been percolating in major cities has finally made its way to Northampton in earnest: craft cocktails. A craft cocktail is exactly what it sounds like — a craft unto itself. It’s more than expensive alcoholic liquids poured into a glass....
by Amanda Drane | Apr 1, 2015 | Articles, Blogs, Featured, Free Sport, Leisure, News, Wellness
His players say Winston Lee’s life revolved around baseball and softball. When he died in 2011, the players in his Spanish American Softball League were devastated. Hundreds of the inner-city players not only missed the man, but the community he’d built around him....
by Amanda Drane | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
Pandora has gotten a little too intuitive. Recently, I was running at the gym, earbuds in, Pandora streaming Kelly Clarkson’s upbeat “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” when the song was interrupted by an ad inviting me to become a certified personal trainer....
by Amanda Drane | Mar 24, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Leisure, News, Scene Here
I’m at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and there are more plastic cups whipping down High Street in the wind than there are people waiting for the parade to turn the corner. I’m beginning to think the parade has been delayed by the 30-plus mph wind gusts, when I spy some...