Stagestruck: Campus Cornucopia
This weekend and next, Valley colleges present a fall cornucopia of performances – a culture clash at Amherst, a gamer fantasy at Mount Holyoke, and the Valley premiere of a national dance piece at Smith.
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.
The V-Spot: Help My Partner Help Me
You help your partner help you, Empath to Love, by helping your partner help you.
Cinemadope: Art and the business of art
Set as a stylish thriller with a Parisian backdrop, it tells the story of journalist Esther Stegmann (Anna Sigalevitch), whose appraiser husband brings home a painting that unlocks long closed doors in her family’s history.
Valley Show Girl: Reliving childhood punk nostalgia with Blondie at MassMoCA
Blondie has always been one of those bands that I can never get sick of. They were one of the first punks bands to indulge in more than one specific genre. They added some pop, reggae, funk and disco to the mix and even rap.
Bizarro Briefs
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Basemental: Umbral Made Real
How did a fictional psychdrone collective from Berlin take form in Greenfield?
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Cinemadope: Don’t Mess with Dad
Any career that lasts long enough is sure to have its share of ups, downs, and surprises. Sometimes we come out on top, sometimes we fall flat on our face. Most of us, though, have the blessing of soaring or falling with a bit more privacy than the actors and...
