Cinemadope: Home Theater
It might seem silly to have a local film column this week. As I write, public schools are shutting down for a three-week hiatus, restaurants are shifting strictly to takeout service, and we’re all avoiding crowds.
Editorial: It’s So Hot that Iceland Lost a Glacier
Researchers from Rice University in Houston will join the Icelandic Hiking Society to unveil a plaque in the former glacier’s honor.
Bizarro Briefs: Come Back With My Dog!
Come back with my dog! Many of us have had the experience of getting a slice of pizza or food item snatched from us by a greedy seagull while minding our own business near the beach. Few, however, can say that their pet dog was snatched by the grabby birds. But that’s...
Stagestruck: Past, Present and Prologue
Two timely dramas are playing in the Valley this week and next, and a timeless tragedy is prequelled in the Berkshires, all of them grappling with vital questions of life and death.
Clueless Parent: Kicked Out a Few Minutes In
Local classical music community: you need to do better.
Cinemadope: The gift of gifts
See “Gift” at Amherst Cinema or the Academy of Music this week.
Stagestruck: The Shrew Problem
The Taming of the Shrew is Shakespeare’s trickiest play to perform these days – a thoroughly misogynistic tale in which daughters are auctioned to the highest bidder and the “shrew” of the title is “tamed” by a cunning fortune hunter. He (of course, he) is Petruchio,...
Podcast: Michael Kusek talks about his new marijuana magazine, Different Leaf
Former Advocate marketing manager starts another magazine, this time covering cannabis.
That’s One Small Step for a Band: Bandella, a musical group including astronauts, will play Hawks & Reed on July 27
Three of its members have lived in space.
Free Will Astrology: Prepare for a ‘lovequake,’ Aries
Brainstorm about adventures and breakthroughs that will boost exciting togetherness.
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse to Challenge Richard Neal for Congress
Neal has been a target both of progressive groups and of rural members of his district, who have long complained that he has been absent from their communities.
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Pick of the Day 3/21: Smiles of A Summer Night at Amherst Cinema
It took Ingmar Bergman fifteen films to attract an international following, and it was his 1955 erotic comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens Leende) that did it.
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Stagestruck: Song and Dance
In this time of national division and upheaval, we can be forgiven for craving a little feelgood. And what feels better than a good musical? As if on cue, two good’uns are coming to this area.
