Editorial: Battling ALS, David Kaynor continues to inspire
Kaynor’s is a rare achievement — to master both calling and playing, and be known across the country for both.
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.
Cinemadope: Women Rockers in Film
When I opened Instagram over my morning coffee one recent morning, the first face staring back at me was that of a blue-haired Alice Bag, the fifty-nine year old punk icon and activist.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Your Election 2018 Wine Ballot
I’ve spent almost as much time thinking about this election as I have thinking about wine.
Amherst’s Andrea Dezsö works across different media, public art spaces — and the world
Dezsö, who was born in 1968, says she began drawing and painting as a child and never stopped, in part because growing up in then-communist Romania, there wasn’t the same focus on entrepreneurial success or professional careers with big incomes as there is in the United States.
Monte Belmonte Wines: Bonjour, Monsieur Touton
I’ll make no claim that I will review it, or review it kindly, but I promise you it will be consumed.
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Saturday: Talk by Punk Photographer Cynthia Connolly
Connolly’s talk in Easthampton comes with something special: a quick-paced slide show about the D.C. punk scene of the 1980s.
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Cinemadope: Cracking the Enigma
As a young and nerdish boy, I was obsessed with words. I collected them the way a lepidopterist might collect moths, catching them on the wing and pinning them down to puzzle out their origins, oddities, and family ties to other words. It all felt like a marvelously...
