Stagestruck: Ah, Wilderness! – race-blind or race-conscious?
Hartford Stage, like so many other theaters across the country, is having a reckoning with the upheavals of the past year-plus and has come to a tardy recognition that Black lives matter, on the stage as on the street.
Letters to the Editor: Is an interrupted crime still a crime?
“Thank you for your good coverage of this issue, and your ongoing good coverage of Greenfield.”
Bizarro Briefs: Crappy Booze
The botanical digestive stew results in a flavor that’s described as “lovely, wooded, almost spicy, earthy,” and one that changes with the seasons.
Staff Picks: Leafies, Lucy Wainwright Roche, farm stories, and Kimaya Diggs
They are poised to release their first album, Off Off Off Broadway, this weekend on the Flex Stage at 33 Hawley St. in Northampton.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Trying to Love Italian Wine
Excuse me as I open this bottle of Givry from Burgundy in France and contemplate my identity crisis.
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Dung made into booze, a terrible anti-meth campaign, and a 43-year-old Twinkie
Weird news of the week, in audio form.
The Return Trip: Psychedelics may come back from the abyss of illegality
LSD, psilocybin (found in certain mushroom species), and mescaline (from the peyote cactus) are undergoing a resurgence being described as a renaissance.
Editorial: Use your billions on something other than running for president
Unfortunately, as Steyer has shown, someone with deep financial resources is able to game the system.
Cinemadope: Hit Parade
The mob movie is the shadowy reflection of the American Dream.
Best Mann’s Debut Album is a Layered Tower of Sound
Thematically it’s a rich vein to mine and a damn good debut for Best Mann.
Stagestruck: Eye of the Storm
Nilaja Sun is, quite simply, the most exciting solo performer I’ve ever seen. She’s a small, wiry woman whose expansive presence fills a stage. Drawing on an astonishing talent for physical and vocal mimicry, her pieces are fully formed plays that bring to life a multitude of vibrant, funny, flawed human beings. She’s bringing her latest, Pike St., to the Academy of Music.
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Pick of the Day 7/14: Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival
The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA is a week of innovative music making dedicated entirely to “adventurous” contemporary music.
Orgasmic Organics
It was over a year ago that I wrote one of the first V-Spot columns about how much K-Y personal lubricant sucked. This continues to be true, even if they did debut a commercial last month featuring a rather boring lesbian couple talking about how much they heart K-Y...
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Cinemadope: KidsBestFest a February Tradition
We parents of the Pioneer Valley have a pretty sweet deal. You might not realize it if you don’t have kids in your life, but once you’re clued into it you begin to discover that there is a near-endless list of things to do with your little ones. Hayrides, science...











