Cinemadope: Remembering Toni Morrison
If you’re a fan of Morrison’s books, “The Pieces I Am” offers a chance to hear a eulogy for the woman who created those worlds.
Like Guthrie Meets MacGyver: The Suitcase Junket Rocks Out
One-man band plays blues, rock, and folk on improvised instruments Some of us spend our days sitting at computers in nondescript rooms. In the new, handmade music video for his love song “Beta Star,” Matt Lorenz gives that a shot. He wakes up in the morning, washes...
Music Review: “15 Sunrise” by Calico Blue
Amherst-based psychedelic dream-pop and surf-blues infused band Calico Blue released its second album early this month, 15 Sunrise, which presents songs that could be best described as meditations on life. They confront the ghosts that live in the corridors of the...
On Exhibit: Unseen Ruins Near Pompeii
From Italy With Ash Featuring works seen for the first time outside Italy, this exhibit contains pieces from the ancient town of Oplontis. When Mount Vesuvius blew in 79 CE it buried more than just Pompeii. Pieces excavated from Oplontis reveal a life of luxury and...
Saturday: Nasty Women Take the Stage
Nasty Jazz The Ladies of Jazz music series is dedicating its Saturday, March 25, concert to all the “nasty” (aka “strong”) women fighting for female and reproductive rights. And all proceeds are going to benefit Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in...
President of the NAACP in Amherst
The NAACP members advocate for civil rights, fight against police brutality, and conduct voter mobilization campaigns in their communities — rights that seem to be under attack right now. Hearing him speak on any of these topics would be fascinating.
Between the Lines: No Man is an Island; It Takes a Village to Raise a Hero
The “power of one” isn’t a real thing.
It takes a village to raise a hero … or a jerk. What I’m saying is, the people, places, and opportunities around a person shapes who he becomes. Outside of Willy Loman’s sketchy brother in “Death of a Salesman,” no one has ever walked into the “dark” jungle by himself and emerged with handfuls of diamonds.
Stream Queen: Women’s Work, rediscovering female directors
Though the film industry still has a long way to go, these four films each demonstrate a female director’s significant artistic contribution. These works are wildly varied in terms of genre and style, so they’ll give you a nice taste of what’s possible when artists take a chance. This spring, put on an old T-shirt, grab your Windex, and wipe the dust off of these important cinematic works.
Dance VIP Raja Feather Kelly Comes to Town
“Brooklyn-based Raja Feather Kelly brings a vivid boundlessness to all he does. Whether dancing for the likes of Reggie Wilson or cooking up his own darkly entertaining dance-theater productions, he seems insatiably curious.”
Stagestruck: Shenanigans and the Sexual Revolution
Cloud 9’s is a savagely hilarious parody of 1870s colonial Africa and Victorian hanky-panky that jumps 100 years into the future to check out how all that sexuality has evolved.
Glasstastic! at the Brattleboro Museum
Last fall, the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center invited kids in kindergarten through sixth grade to create drawings and descriptions of imaginary creatures, with the promise that some of those creatures would be featured in the upcoming “Glasstastic” exhibit at the musem.
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Nightcrawler: Mercury Rising Queen For A Night in Springfield; Foxwoods’ Battle Of The Bands Seeks Combatants
By Gary Carra There’s been a growing trend in tribute circles over the past decade. While the songs remain the same for bands like Zep-licators Get The Led Out (coming to Holyoke’s Mountain Park Aug. 5) and Billy Joel recreators Big Shot, the need to physically look...
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