Beerhunter: A conversation with the ‘bros’ keeping tabs on all of Massachusetts’ 200 breweries
It’ll probably be 201 by the time you finish reading.
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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Out of the Box in the Hill Towns: Inspiration strikes in out-of-the-way places
Western Massachusetts is well known as fertile ground for farming, but also for ideas. Sometimes these ideas come from the many classrooms and laboratories of our institutions of higher learning, but if you look carefully, you can find them in some pretty unexpected...
Editorial: Vote for Chelsea Kline for State Senate on Sept. 4
Kline has shown courage and will that is so often lacking from our state Legislature.
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Music Spotlight: Jason Vieaux Plays UMass Amherst
On his latest album, Vieaux and bandoneonist Julian Labro perform Piazzolla’s Escalo, Brouwer’s Tres Danzas Concertantes, Gnattali’s Suite Retratos, Pat Metheny’s Antonia, and Vieaux’s own arrangement of iconic 1980s British rock band Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.”
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Stagestruck: Sunshine and Shadow
As the year has drawn to a close, I’ve been looking back over the hundred-plus shows I’ve seen in 2014. And as the seasons begin to turn from the dark back into the light, I’ve been thinking about some of those theater moments when a dark theme was...












