by Hunter Styles | Feb 6, 2017 | Arts, Featured, Film, Newsletter
Quick Flicks February is typically rather bleak, and this year – once again – even Punxsutawney Phil can’t hack it. We don’t blame him. We’d be headed back to the burrow too, if not for a concerted effort up and down the Valley this year to make the coldest...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Newsletter, The Beerhunter
Local brewers share their predictions and plans Last year, the Beerhunter offered some “brew year’s resolutions” to serve as a checklist for craft beer enthusiasts on a year-long quest to try new things. This year, it seemed prudent to put the question to the brewers...
by Hunter Styles | Feb 6, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Film, Newsletter
Horror auteur M. Night Shyamalan returns to what he does best Spoilers ahead! A pumpkin won the presidency, the Power Rangers are returning to theaters, and the Pats came back from 19 points behind in the fourth quarter to win the Super Bowl. To this list of bizarre...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 30, 2017 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage
Beyond the Burger If you knew only that Eugene Boris Mirman was born in the Soviet Union in the mid 1970s, you might be skeptical of the quality of his stand-up comedy. If you knew Mirman only from the animated FOX show Bob’s Burgers, where he portrays an 11-year-old...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 23, 2017 | Arts, Featured, Film, Music, Newsletter, Stage
Reflective Collective What happens when eight talented women — all of whom are involved in creative communities across Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties — meet to make poetry and art together? In the case of Exploded View, they create multimedia exhibits and...