Concert Friday: Sister Sparrow’s Sweet, Gritty Soul
A Songbird’s Soul Singer and songwriter Arleigh Kinchelo’s hard soul collective, Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds, plays guitar, bass, trumpet, saxophone, and drums — plus harmonica, thanks to her brother Jackson. They’ve released three full-length studio albums,...
This Weekend: Northampton’s Newest Dance Troupe Debuts
Company Time Before her days as the head of Northampton’s School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Jen Polins directed the Catalyst dancers at South Hadley’s Pioneer Valley Performing Arts charter school for 17 years. In September, craving a return to that rewarding...
The World’s First Sci-Fi Novel, Reborn
In “The Chemical Wedding,” local talent melds 400-year-old text with modern illustrations If the long book title, inked in faux-medieval Blackletter, didn’t give it away — let alone the robotic sheep on the back cover — The Chemical Wedding is one of the...
Run. Hide. It’s Ugly Sweater Season.
Wow, Congrats — That’s Bad The past decade has seen a rise in fascination with that dumbest of American cultural artifacts: the ugly knit holiday sweater. The stray relative still cranks out a genuine one from time to time, but companies now mass produce them, and...E-Edition
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