by Hunter Styles | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Newsletter, Stage
Our Voices Our new president has committed to limiting access to legal abortions, and explicitly said on the campaign trail that there “has to be some form of punishment” for woman who seek them illegally. Vice President Mike Pence, who signed a bill in his home state...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Moving On Up The works on paper in this exhibition represent “my desire and hope for a place called ‘home,’” says Jeanette Cole, a professor in the art department at UMass. The collection, she says, is based on imagery from a West African robe given to her father by...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 20, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
The Katz and the Fiddle Click Workspace, downtown Northampton’s coworking HQ, drew a big enough crowd at a January concert to warrant a brand-new live music series. This month’s concert at Click features accomplished local stringster Zoë Darrow on fiddle and Stephen...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Film, Newsletter
The Fire This Time The writer and social critic James Baldwin died 30 years ago, but his powerful critiques of authority, ignorance, and racial injustice in America are still cited by poets, parents, protestors, and many others who feel, now more than ever, the need...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 13, 2017 | Articles, Between the Lines, News, Newsletter
At the bottom of the stairwell behind my apartment building, a baby stroller sat for weeks. Every time I carried a laundry basket down the back steps, I had an opportunity to read the cardboard sign strapped to the side of the stroller. In rigid capital letters...