Cover story: Live at Last – Area theaters step back onstage
It’s been over a year since COVID-19 shut down theaters across the world, and performing artists are aching to get back onstage with a live audience. Now, a few theaters in the Valley and Berkshires are planning in-person summer performances, indoors and out.
Staff Picks: Mill River Rounders, Skate or Paint 2019, Indian classical music, and a ‘Diversity in Art’ exhibit
The Mill River Rounders will be bringing its blend of banjo, washtub bass, and guitar old-timey/bluegrass stylings to Easthampton’s Mill 180 Park this Friday night.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Elsa Petit, the Bordeaux-born prof teaching vine science at UMass
I asked Dr. Petit if I could audit one of her classes. She invited me out to Cold Springs Orchard, the UMass fruit research facility and farm store overlooking the Holyoke Range in Belchertown. I
Could it happen here?: Gas explosion in Merrimack Valley hangs over new pipeline efforts
Across Massachusetts people rely on natural gas to heat their homes and businesses, provide their electricity, cook meals every day, and for their hot water supply. Most of the time, natural gas, which is delivered to residents via local distribution lines, is...
Bizarro Briefs: Frostbitten toe used as ice in drink
The kicker: the toe belonged to the drinker.
Sessions Podcast – Ali Kat and the Revelators
Rocking funk and soul with sax, guitars, and high energy vocals
Valley Show Girl: Life of Brian
I recently met up with Valley country frontman Brian Chicoine to chat about some cool future projects he’s been working on.
Cinemadope: Wild Card
But one thing that nobody can take away from DC is their most iconic villain: the Joker. Known mostly as Batman’s archenemy, the Joker, with his white greasepaint and permanent grin.
Stagestruck: Forced to the Border
Two Latinx plays, in Holyoke and Hartford, revolve around themes of dislocation — displaced neighborhoods, populations, and minds.
Locals take advantage of snubbing out marijuana offenses
Meanwhile, leaders like Alex Morse don’t think the law goes far enough in expunging past convictions.
Podcast: Truck Stop Troubadours front-man Brian Chicoine on his music and a recent health scare
An interview with Valley Show Girl Jennifer Levesque
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Pick of the Day 6/8: Northampton Arts Night Out
How can two people be wrong? Both Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau chose Northampton Arts Night Out as their Staff Picks this week.
Our Boobs, Ourselves
I'm still waiting for my boobs. At fourteen, my female classmates were starting to bounce around the lacrosse field, and I was in my room with my breast—I mean best—friend, agonizing over a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves. (For those of you born post-'80s,...
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Stagestruck: Old-Fashioned Fun
The Fitzpatrick Mainstage on the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Stockbridge campus is the site of what I'm told is the country’s oldest continuously operating summer theater. For 89 years the building, converted from a former casino in 1928 by Broadway star Eva Le...
