by Kristin Palpini | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles, Arts
Though he calls Italy home, Francesco Clemente considers himself a “nomadic artist” who is inspired to create by the people and places he visits. In his installation for MASS MoCA, “Encampment,” Clemente recreates some of the places he’s been over the past three...
by Kristin Palpini | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Music
If you’re a member of Gen X, Sublime holds a special place in your heart. In the late ’90s, the band was playing the songs of your summer. Prozac for your ear is how I heard 99.3’s Leslie describe them, and that’s pretty accurate. Sublime released their megahit...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles, Between the Lines, News
We wish for: -Donald Trump to go the hell away before he ruins our country. -an additional bridge between Northampton and Hadley. Coolidge just can’t take it anymore. -a use for pennies. (New rule: if you can’t use it to pay a parking meter, get rid of it.) -more...
by Hunter Styles | Dec 21, 2015 | Articles
A Tale of Two Cabins by John Irving Clapp Levellers Press, Amherst; $17 Available for purchase online and at Collective Copies in Amherst and Northampton Henry David Thoreau was a thoughtful, curious citizen, but “my greatest skill in life,” he wrote, “has been to...
by Talbert W. Swan II | Dec 14, 2015 | Articles, Letters from our Readers, News
It is glaringly obvious that policymakers are going easier on today’s heroin users, because many are white and often affluent, than in previous years when the addicts were identified as largely black, disenfranchised, and economically bereft. Gov. Charlie Baker’s...
