‘We are still here’: Cancer Connection offers phone, online support during difficult time
As deadly as it has been, COVID-19 doesn’t have the historical track record of what has consistently been America’s second leading cause of death: cancer. Yet the novel coronavirus has certainly made matters more difficult for people struggling with cancer and for...
Staff Picks: Lookstock, Have a Seat Cabrito, Ashfield Lakehouse, and The Waifs
The True Jacqueline, Hot Dirt, and Brief Irmen // SATURDAY Some of the Valley’s best local bands are set to play the Ashfield Lakehouse this Saturday. There’s alternative/ noise rock band The True Jacqueline as well as Hot Dirt, which combines progressive and math...
Basemental: P.U.M.K.S. Is Not Dead
Jesus Vio’s new album Dutch Science kicks off with the mother of all questions: “Do You Believe?”: The vamping, minimalist, proto-acoustic track wryly asks “Do you believe in Halloween?” before declaring that “P.U.M.K.S. is not dead,” introducing the irreverently...
Can Small Business Survive in the World of Big Cannabis?
“We carried rent for six months, without any licensing, on a building we couldn’t do anything with as a small company.”
Bizarro Briefs Podcast: Falling bears, dumb beverages, and a septic tank lightning strike
The week in weird news.
Editorial: Conspiracy theories or not, prison reform is needed
The suicide death in jail of billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked confusion and outrage across the nation.
‘I hope I’m never satisfied’: UMass rapper Chris Focus on finding hip-hop by accident
“One of the things I’m focused upon in my growth is humanizing myself a bit more and giving people something to invest in.”
Bizarro Briefs: Ketchup Karma
Someone stole a bottle of ketchup from a New Jersey restaurant, and claims to have been immediately wracked by guilt — and bad karma.
Monte Belmonte Wines: A Case for a Mixed Case
And due to my ingrained Italian-American upbringing, it is always MUCH preferred to have way too much than to run out. So I opted for 12 bottles. And 12 bottles, my dear Watson, is a case of wine.
Stagestruck: In Company with Shakespeare + a truly Bazaar production
Shakespeare & Company’s name has threefold associations. It’s a theater that works in the company, as it were, of its eponym. It shares the name of the legendary bookshop on Paris’s Left Bank, lending an air of bohemian audacity and camaraderie to the enterprise in Lenox. And the two-part moniker signals that here, Shakespeare keeps company with other playwrights.
Podcast: Shutesbury rapper Chris Focus on finding hip-hop by accident
Chris Focus on his start as an artist, his evolution, Rosebud Creatives, and more.
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Basemental: Attention to detail sets new Taxidermists’ record ‘Tax’ apart
Where Honesty Box leaned into the loud quiet loud formula (which, no doubt, has a local lineage), Tax’s transitions feel more dynamic and mature.
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Cinemadope: In Plain Sight
This Sunday, the 2016 documentary There Are Jews Here comes to the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst for a 2 p.m. screening. The film focuses on those parts of the country where many may have assumed Jews never lived, and where the Jewish community is struggling to hold on.











