by Hunter Styles | Jan 15, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
Not much is known publicly about Charlie DiRosa. He’s 27 years old. He lives in Chicopee. He has a tattoo of the word TABOO across his throat in thick, rainbow-colored block letters. And no one but DiRosa knows what he was thinking on Dec. 21 when he posted “Put Wings...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 15, 2015 | Arts, News, Scene Here
Tonight’s soundtrack — a bright string of poppy club songs — has many of the bar-goers at The Quarters in Hadley nodding their heads. Those who aren’t bopping along to the beat have their eyes fixed on whatever vintage arcade game they’ve decided to drop a few coins...
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Carol Lollis | Jan 15, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, News, Taste-Off!
Schermerhorn’s Seafood Restaurant clam chowder, Holyoke Score: 4.5 Price: cup, $3.99; bowl, $4.99 The judges found this chowder deliciously creamy and well-balanced. Amanda: Everything a clam chowder should be. You could actually smell the clams. Kristin: The clams...
by Hunter Styles | Jan 7, 2015 | Arts, News, Scene Here
It’s a cold evening on Worthington Street in Springfield, but the Resource Center has filled with warmth. In the last minutes before dinner, visitors keep busy by playing cards, writing, reading, braiding hair, and swapping stories. The Resource Center is run by...
by Amanda Drane and Hunter Styles | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
At the Amherst train station, one of the last waves of home-bound college students stood scattered across the small platform, many for the last time. Amtrak’s Vermonter line has pulled out of Amherst for good, rerouted now through Greenfield, Northampton, and Holyoke....
