Museum of Indelible Things

Museum of Indelible Things

by | Mar 10, 2011 | Arts

In 1999, Valley author Mira Bartok suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car crash, and the injury primarily affected her short-term memory. Her take on writing a memoir: “It’s not a picnic.” In a recent interview, I asked Bartok about the details...
Lesbian Heroines

Lesbian Heroines

by | Mar 18, 2011 | Arts

The gay and lesbian section of your local bookstore is probably packed with histories of LGBT activism, advice books and, more likely than not, some of the witty volumes of Erin McHugh. Her Portable Queer series presented a humorous history of LGBT people throughout...
Art in Paradise: In the Trees

Art in Paradise: In the Trees

by | Dec 23, 2010 | Arts

It’s easy to think of December’s in-between season, when the leaves are gone, the grass is dead, and cold winds scour the Valley, as a drab time that proves it’s darkest before it’s even darker. As I write this, I look out at a sky whose blue...

Art in Paradise: Tunneling

by | Dec 16, 2010 | Arts

Inside China Mieville’s shaven pate, strange machinery must clack away. Those environs must, if his fiction is a guide, be full of Hieronymous Bosch grotesqueries winding a letterpress, conspiring to craft worlds of narrative complexity and half-imaginable...
Fall Arts Preview

Fall Arts Preview

by | Oct 21, 2010 | Arts

Quilting the Duchess The Out! For Reel LGBT Film Festival kicks off its third season with a Victorian bang this autumn at Northampton’s Academy of Music Theater. This season’s opener is the BBC-produced film The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, about an...