Valley Show Girl: Connecting the Living with the Dead
Shyu is a multilingual vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and has a background in ballet.
Stagestruck: Eight Shows for the Price of Two
This weekend and next, two theater companies demonstrate, once again, the breadth and variety of Valley stages. In Greenfield, Silverthorne Theater Company opens a two-week run of “six unruly comedies” by America’s cheekiest stage satirist, Christopher Durang. In...
Stagestruck: Hometown Tales & Terrors
Walk down Main Street in any small American town and look around. There are the unassuming shopfronts and placid homes, holding private, ordinary lives. But behind the doors lie extraordinary secrets and dreams. Three plays this weekend in our not-so-ordinary Valley...
Basemental: Pussyvision Debuts Self-Release, Replicate
Replicate sounds like a Disney movie put through a meat-grinder — juxtaposing electronic pop with barren experimental noise.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Day Drinking – Solving The Problems of the World
Is day drinking wine advisable for everyone? Of course not. If you are under 21, if you are taking it one day at a time, if don’t have the kind of job that affords you the flexibility to be gone from it for two to three hours at a time for lunch, or if your ideas to solve the problems of the world are terrible ideas, day drinking is not for you.
The V-Spot: Is a Good Lay The ONE?
Whoa now, let’s not go confusing great sex with great relationship potential. Easy to do? Oh yeah. Fun to do? You betchya. Going to end well? Notttt likely.
Cinemadope: Hollywood Hilltown — A small town with a big festival
The town has always been the sort of tight-knit place that makes its own fun. But for the last eleven years, one event has brought the townspeople together like no other: the annual Ashfield Film Festival.
Basemental: The swampy grunge anthems of Owen Manure
Manure’s swampy, grunge anthems recall a different time: when grunge was king, punk was fun, and I was probably barely a baby.
Patty Schemel — drummer of Hole — is coming to the Valley, thanks to Women Of Rock Oral History Project and Amherst Cinema
The documentary is full of ‘90s gems. All the members of Hole are interviewed and there are shots of them on tour back in the mid-90s. Members of Veruca Salt, Faith No More, Luscious Jackson, The Go-Go’s and of course, Kurt Cobain are all featured, along with Patty’s family.
Student-led group SALT brings alternative music to UMass Amherst
For the past four years, students at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst have been bringing alternative DIY local and regional music to the college through a student organization called Students For Alternative Music (SALT)
The Beerhunter: New neighboring breweries find homes in old industry buildings
This month’s local craft beer update highlights a pair of new Valley breweries that are opening soon. If your first thought is ‘Oh man, not again,’ this probably isn’t the column for you.
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Saturday Live: Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective
The group’s 2015 release, “Breathless,” is “the album I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while,” Blanchard says.
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Cinemadope: Beg, Borrow, and Steal; movies and adaption
It’s no secret that, more than just about any other medium, cinema has relied on — and thrived on — adapting material from other art forms. Whether it is as traditional as a new production of an old classic (see any number of period piece dramas) or as unusual as...
