by Tom Sturm | Mar 9, 2012 | Arts
Diversity abounds this month at the Forbes Library’s Hosmer Gallery in Northampton, which features the work of three distinctly different artists. Carand Burnett’s miniature cityscapes have both a sterile quality (they’re enclosed in glass domes or...
by James Heflin | Jun 7, 2012 | Arts
There’s something unavoidably silly about a haiku battle. It’s like lobbing pinecone hand grenades, like playing McNugget dodgeball. Too often, a haiku is a tight little poetic nothing, a moment of faux profundity, nicely enclosed in its syllabic cage but...
by James Heflin | Apr 28, 2012 | Arts
“Welcome to Pity City!” Colonial Theatre assistant artistic director Noah Weiss says with a smile. He’s standing in the spacious lobby, and there’s a definite load of irony in his words. Beyond the usual ticket windows and the like, that...
by Mark Roessler | May 5, 2012 | Arts
On Friday, May 4, John Sendelbach of Metal Stone Arts Gallery hosts an exhibition of work by Greenfield artists Laura Castano and David Drew Longey. The couple has been married nearly 30 years and has spent much of that living and raising a daughter in locations...
by James Heflin | May 5, 2012 | Arts
Trends that make otherwise average people wear clothes backwards, say, or pierce unusual outcroppings of flesh, often, of course, become cringe-worthy years later. Perhaps it was coming to terms with the embrace of pastel colors and technologically advanced hairspray;...