by Gina Beavers | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Review
Barb Hadden walks about the white walled Oxbow Gallery on Pleasant Street, contemplating the placements in her show at the Northampton artist collective. With two galleries, artist-members have a show in the large front gallery and a show in the back gallery. Hadden’s...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
“I’m trying to represent who I am and the way I’m trying to be, making sure my art and my life are one,” says jazz saxophonist Matali Shaka Banda. “I think a lot of artists preach a certain way but don’t live that way. Or attempt to live a certain way, but their...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
Fatai is a big deal. She’s sold-out multiple headline tours in North America, Australia, and New Zealand, and is touring again internationally. She’s making stops at SXSW and The Parlor Room in Northampton! Check out this young phenom up close and personal tonight at...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 13, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Film
It’s Friday the 13th and if you were a big humdrum, you’d watch Friday the 13th. But because you like to think outside the box, your best bet for horror tonight is Brain Damage! Here’s how Amherst Cinema describes this…uh…film. ...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 12, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Ìrìn Àjò is a world premiere opera by Bode Omojola. It’s about Káyò̩dé, a Nigerian engineer who immigrates to the United States in search of a better life. His parents in Nigeria now look up to him to take care of them and other members of his family back home....