by Gina Beavers | Apr 18, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Check out Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona. Amherst Cinema has been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Swedish master’s birth. Hooray! Persona is another trippy Bergmanian piece wrought with WTFs. Liv Ullmann plays Elisabet, an actress who, without reason, has gone...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage
Hawktail, an exciting acoustic group, describes themselves this way: “Haas Kowert Tice brought on mandolinist Dominick Leslie to form Hawktail. Music fans will recognize them from their various other outfits (Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, A...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 16, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Review
Going into Denise Beaudet’s exhibit Roots to Resistance at the New England Visionary Artists Museum, requires a bit of preparation. Beaudet, after all, has amassed a master’s course in global female activism. In her bountiful literature, her writings concerning...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 16, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Film, Newsletter
This PBS Frontline documentary is based on Atul Gawande’s best seller. The documentary explores the hopes of patients and families facing terminal illness and the physicians who treat them. There will be a discussion following the screening of the film. Being...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 16, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Daily Calendar, Newsletter
MONDAY 4/16 MUSIC Amherst Jazz Orchestra: 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Free. With vocalist Ethel Lee. No cover, free parking and great food. Union Station Grand Ballroom, 125A Pleasant St., Northampton. 413 253 1607. info@amherstjazzorchestra.com. Julien Baker: 7:30 p.m....
