by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
Brass on the Tracks It seems Bob Dylan has a real pair of rolling stones on him. The guy wins this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature (dubious), then doesn’t plan on picking up the award in person at the prize ceremony the Swedish Academy is hosting in Stockholm on...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
The Angel’s in the Details The only thing more astounding than writer and illustrator Ruth Sanderson’s young adult and children’s books — which are painstakingly rendered in watercolor and oil paints — is the fact that she’s published more than 75 of them. Or is it...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
Them, Verses, Us The Center for New Americans is a non-profit adult education center for the Valley’s immigrant, refugee, and migrant communities, with sites in Northampton, Amherst, Greenfield, and Turners Falls. Those resources are invaluable to many, which is why...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 5, 2016 | Articles, Arts
First Aid Knit To stare at the weavings by Jen Simms is to be drawn into a thicket of interpretations where color, texture, and landcape pull at each other, even as those forces work together to shape these little worlds. It’s part serene escape, part visual puzzle,...
by Hunter Styles | Nov 28, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter
After kids, cancer, and commercial success, the band strips their tour down to two The Weepies: Completely Acoustic and Alone Thursday, Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. Calvin Theatre, Northampton $25-$35 Do you know the feeling of coming in from the cold, kicking off your snow-caked...