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The Beerhunter: Vanished Valley Brewing Company in Ludlow

The Beerhunter: Vanished Valley Brewing Company in Ludlow

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food Booze and Beyond, Newsletter, The Beerhunter

Local homebrewer Josh Britton scales up with a low-key launch On quiet winter days between reports of Valley craft beer happenings, your friendly neighborhood Beerhunter has been wandering a bit further afield. Over the past few months, I’ve written articles about my...
We Have Questions About That ’West Mass’ Video

We Have Questions About That ’West Mass’ Video

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles, Featured, News, Newsletter

Early last month, the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts announced a new brand identity: West Mass. The groups spent $80,000 on the campaign, hiring Oklahoma-based agency Cubic Creative...
Thursday Film Screening: A Trailblazing Trans Elder and Activist

Thursday Film Screening: A Trailblazing Trans Elder and Activist

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Film, Newsletter

Miss Major Known to many simply as “mama,” Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a trans elder and activist who blazed the trail for other high-profile transgender women of color. Griffin-Gracy has been involved, up close and personal, in decades of fights for rights, including...
On Exhibit: It’s Me, Eloise — The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight

On Exhibit: It’s Me, Eloise — The Voice of Kay Thompson and the Art of Hilary Knight

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter

El on Wheels Before President 45 ruined our fantasies about living the carefree life atop a skyscraper, America had Eloise, the children’s book series from the 1950s written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. For someone living the cushy life —...
The Head and the Heart Plays Northampton

The Head and the Heart Plays Northampton

by Hunter Styles | Feb 27, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter

Signs of Light Seattle indie folk band The Head and the Heart formed in 2009, and their third album Signs of Light, released this past fall, captures a radio-friendly pop rhythm that Rolling Stone described as “cozy and stylish at the same time.”That album was...
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