Fred Cracklin’s ‘Anxiety Kinship’ — A Mad Science Experiment Gone Right
Anxiety Kinship is a mad science experiment of an album that creates its Frankenstein’s monster with equal parts horror, humor, and humanity.
Bizarro Briefs: Hair farms for the super rich
It’s all about stem cells and 3-D printing.
Stagestruck: Getting Sticky
In the final week of this year’s Ko Festival of Performance, Sabrina Hamilton is looking forward to this weekend’s performance by the Ugandan musician-humanitarian Samite (see below) while musing on the season-so-far. Attendance is high and season subscriptions are...
‘Resisting a Culture that Says I Don’t Belong’: Local joins group of large-bodied women to hike Kilimanjaro
A Franklin County native along with 19 other plus-size women known as the “Curvy Kili Crew” recently hiked one of the largest mountains in the world: Mount Kilimanjaro.
Monte Belmonte Wines: The Wines Traveling Musicians Want For Free
I wondered, what do the rock stars at the festival want to drink? I went to the source and asked Lynne Bertrand, artist relations for Signature Sounds and the Green River Festival.
Stagestruck: Ripped from the Headlines
Three plays now on area stages were inspired by real-life events: a superpower scrimmage, a mass shooting, and a nuclear disaster. These timely dramas humanize the headlines and highlight the power of theater to hold a mirror up to our best and worst natures.
Podcast: Easthampton artisan Michael Poole on gun violence and potholes
Poole has works on display at Mt Toms Ice Cream and will be featured at Art in the Orchard.
Cinemadope: Musical journeys small and large
The Strange Sound of Happiness and Bring the Soul are playing locally this week.
Free Will Astrology: Let Scott Hamilton inspire you, Virgo
When you fall down, get up.
Kimaya Diggs on the Valley Advocate Sessions stage
Folk and soulful jazz with pull-on-your-heartstrings melodies
Best of V-Spot: Help! My boyfriend hates my vagina
He doesn’t seem to have much of an interest in my vagina — and my vagina, in my mind, is kinda the main thing that makes me a female sexual being.
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Maurice Soulfighter Taylor on the Valley Advocate Sessions Stage
Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor’s performances are slam poetry meets socially conscious hip hop.
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Stagestruck: Turning the Screw
Sarah Waters’ 2002 novel Fingersmith is a gothic mystery-romance set in Victorian England. It’s a tale of devious crime, illicit love and cascading betrayals, with as many hairpin plot turns as a, well, as a Victorian novel. Alexa Junge’s stage adaptation, developed...
