Art in Paradise: Unruly

by | Jun 10, 2011 | Arts

Carole DeSanti is a longtime book editor, currently a vice president and editor-at-large at Penguin. She had, apparently, quite a secret for a decade or so: while shepherding voices like those of Terry McMillan, Tracy Chevalier, Penelope Lively and others to print,...

Art in Paradise: Out in Style

by | Jun 24, 2011 | Arts

When you descend into the basement of Pleasant Street Video, there’s a sense of entering a lair. The floor creaks here and there, and the ceiling is oppressively low. But if a mythic being lurks somewhere in the building’s bowels, it must be...

Real Local History

by | Jun 24, 2011 | Arts

I recently plunged into one of those books that’s perfect for late-night reading in bed. It’s called Weird History 101. It’s not particularly weird history, for the most part, but apparently a marketer thought more copies would move if it was so...
A B C D Easthampton

A B C D Easthampton

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Arts

Burns Maxey is in the middle of a long-scale project of impressive scope. For a lot of artists, “impressive scope” might mean an entire exhibition of artworks. Maxey, on the other hand, has undertaken a project that sprawls over a lot of literal and...

Art in Paradise: Getting Sketchy

by | Jul 7, 2011 | Arts

Not long ago, I found myself sitting in an Adirondack chair beside Hadley’s Esselon Cafe, enjoying a coffee and a chat with an artist friend. It was a buggy evening, humid and hot. Swatting mosquitos soon become part of the ambiance. My friend, who’s quite...