Stagestruck: Summer Stages – The prospects for live performance
The images flashing behind the glass wall of your TV or computer just can’t replace the permeable fourth wall of live performance. As summer approaches, theater folks are longing for the proverbial smell of the actors’ greasepaint and the roar of the in-person crowd. And some theaters are delivering.
Bizarro Briefs: The wedding crasher
Betrothed beware.
Longmeadow voters say no to gas pipeline project in residential neighborhood
But this likely isn’t the end of the project.
Valley Show Girl: RPM FEST
I was able to catch up with Brian Westbrook, cofounder of RPM Fest and he gave me a little insight behind the scenes.
Clueless Parent: Making your kid feel helpful, even when they throw eggs
I thought about the incident all day, ashamedly turning the memory over in my head.
Stagestruck: Dancing While Black
It wasn’t intentional, but thinking back on the programs I’ve seen at Jacob’s Pillow this summer, and forward to one that’s on this week, I realized that every concert on my dance card this year is by African-American-led companies.
Podcast: Lauren Simonds on small business in the world of big cannabis
It is not easy.
Cinemadope: Ready or Not a cunning twist on The Most Dangerous Game
When she picks the rare “Hide and Seek” card, the game — a most dangerous game, one might say — begins.
Free Will Astrology: Let Frederick Douglass be your guide, Taurus
Frederick Douglass was one slave who managed to beat the literacy ban.
Activist leader Michaelann Bewsee would not stand for injustice
Bewsee died Thursday at age 71.
Among The Acres on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Among The Acres combine folk-rock, pop, and Americana with lush vocal harmonies.
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Pick of the Day 4/28: OroborO, John Trudeau, Rebel Base, and Joy on Fire
Chris Goudreau is a music aficionado; he thinks this show at Hawks and Reed is a must see. He says, “It’s a night of awe inspiring, shredding, progressive bands this Saturday at Hawks & Reed…
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Cinemadope: Banned in the U.S., Documentary about Massachusetts prison for criminally insane turns 50
Released in 1967, the film, which shined a harsh light on the conditions at a Massachusetts, prison for the criminally insane, was quickly caught up in a legal battle that resulted in a long-term ban; though the state claimed the film was a violation of inmate privacy, the consensus is that a much bigger concern was that Wiseman was revealing to the public just how horrid the conditions and treatment was at Bridgewater.
