Staff Picks: Munio Makuuch, Elmer’s open mic, From the Woods, Lonesome Brothers
The Smith College Museum of Art has just opened a new exhibit on the late Japanese-Amercan poet and printmaker Munio Makuuch, who with his family spent much of World War II in an internment camp in Idaho for Japanese Americans.
The Beerhunter: Turnpike Two-Stop
Two worthwhile breweries off exit 9 The naturalist John Muir once observed that “when one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” I’m no bearded environmental philosopher, but I do like to kick back with a pint sometimes and...
Calling All New Bands!
We’re still a few months out from July’s annual Green River Festival in Greenfield, but we’re right on time to share a special early announcement from producers Signature Sounds. This year, the festival will add a new stage called the Next Wave Stage, which will host...
Film Screening: Holding Hands with Ilse
Strangers No More In the 1950s, Hampshire College professor Abraham Ravett relocated with his Polish Jewish family from Eastern Europe to the United States. Ravett was just three at the time of the move, but he carried with him a memory — and a single black-and-white...
April 13: Noam Chomsky at UMass Amherst
Close to Noam Leftist hero Noam Chomsky, now 88, has been around the block a few times, picking up new fields of expertise like normal people pick up groceries. He’s a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, author, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,...
Spring Arts Preview: Top Valley Events (April-June 2017)
Check out our 12 top picks for the biggest and best shows coming through the area over the next three months!
Stream Queen: From Low-Budget Dreams to Indie Esteem
While indie filmmaking means working on a shoestring budget, it also often means the cast and crew are creating a passion project, working to make something cinephiles have never seen before.
Valley Show Girl: Thao Nguyen Goes Solo at Gateway City Arts
Nguyen performed a handful of songs off “A Man Alive,” and when she started belting out the lyrics from the song “Departure,” I realized that this could easily be the anthem of a new generation.
On Stage: Where War Meets Food and Music
In this stage drama, Iraq war veteran Elliott is in Jordan to film a war movie and finds himself connecting with his co-star Shar against the backdrop of the Arab Spring.
Between the Lines: Western Mass Needs More Rattlesnakes
“The Timber Rattlesnake population will not explode if given a few extra chances to survive. We’re coming close to wiping them out now and we’re not even trying.”
Back Talk: Weighing in on Boston’s Racism; and a Dumpty Trumpty poem
“That Trumpty,” they said, “was Never!” their Friend, and “Alternative Facts” are “Like Real, but Pretend.”
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Nightcrawler: Noho’s Betsy-Dawn Williams releases international rockabilly record; free, family concerts kick off in West Springfield
By Gary Carra Forget about the unemployment rates and bleak economic forecasts from the usual cast of politicos and pundits. Northampton's Betsy-Dawn Williams says she has proof positive it's a bull market out there. "I've just been signed for the second time to El...
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