by Hunter Styles | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter
The Valley’s cheeriest new festival doubles in size for its second year The hip cats that comprise Lake Street Dive must be halfway through their nine lives by now. Since the four members met at Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music in 2004, their sound has...
by Hunter Styles and Peter Vancini | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter
CHRISTINA COURTIN Saturday, 3:00 – 3:40 The Brooklyn-based Courtin may not be the only Juilliard-trained classical violinist and composer on hand this weekend, but she is definitely the most colorful, bending genres as exuberantly as she can switch between...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Music, Newsletter
Shake the Trees The woods of Western Mass promise to be rather loud this weekend for RPM Fest, which brings three days of rock, punk, and metal to Greenfield. As usual, this will be a totally awesome time: vendors, games, raffles, BYOB camping, and live sets by Lich...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Newsletter
Well-Groomed Do our canine companions understand what they’re playing for and whom they’re up against at dog shows? Hard to say. But surely they sense that all of the training, baths, treats, and commands imparted by adrenaline-scented humans mark a special occasion....
by Hunter Styles | Aug 22, 2016 | Articles, Arts
Positivity As an artist, physician, and gay man, Dr. Eric Avery found himself at the epicenter of the AIDS public health crisis beginning in the early 1980s. At first, Avery focused on his personal experience with the disease. Over the next three decades, his artwork...