by Hunter Styles | Dec 12, 2016 | Articles, Newsletter
Let Us Now Praise Longer Days We can probably all agree that 2016 was an exhausting year. But it’s not too late to turn this planet around. Next Wednesday marks the winter solstice — the shortest day and the longest night of the year, at least in the northern...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 12, 2016 | Articles, Arts
The New Country The Yiddish Book Center’s newest visiting exhibit captures the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the Lower East Side of New York City, which hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants called home. It’s an urban landscape that tried,...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Newsletter, The Beerhunter
Filling a glass where Connecticut meets Mass Most night owls are easy when it comes to shifts in ambience, but I can’t say that many of us thrive under fluorescent light. That might have been why, on Wednesday afternoon, my editor found me sighing heavily at my desk....
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
Musical Dinosaurs As much as we first loved the music of screamy, crunchy, blissfully tormented alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr. — an act formed in Amherst in 1984 that quickly made it huge on the national grunge scene — we kind of thought, circa the turn of the millennium,...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter, Stage
Visions of Sugarplums Why mess with a good thing? The Albany Berkshire Ballet presents its annual tour of the holiday classic The Nutcracker with an eye toward elegant design, great music, and heartfelt performances. Artistic director Madeline Cantarella Culpo...