by Gina Beavers | Apr 4, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
SVETLANA BOYM: EXILE AND IMAGINATION Celebrating the legacy of literary and cultural critic Svetlana Boym who passed away in 2015, Exile and Imagination traces Boym’s life from when she left the USSR for the US in 1980. After her graduate studies, she became...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 4, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Daily Calendar, Newsletter
WEDNESDAY 4/4 MUSIC All Ages Open Mic Night With Host F. Alex Johnson: 7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Award winning guitarist F Alex Johnson hosts this weekly open mic featuring some of the best talent in the valley. All ages, free and open to all. Brew Practitioners, 36 Main...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Apr 3, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter
Longtime broadcast journalist and news anchor Dave Madsen, of Western Mass News, is criticizing his former boss, Sinclair Broadcast Group, following its decision to require its anchors to read promos decrying “fake stories” from national news outlets, a...
by Rob Brezsny | Apr 3, 2018 | Articles, Astrology, Newsletter, Wellness
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Eighty-three-year-old author Harlan Ellison has had a long and successful career. In the course of publishing hundreds of literary works in seven different genres, he has won numerous awards. But when he was in his thirties, there was an...
by Gina Beavers | Apr 3, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Film, Newsletter
Catch the tail end of Holyoke Community College’s 2018 French Film Festival. Bring your escargot and beret to watch Panique, a 1947 adaptation of Mr. Hire’s Engagement by Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon. It’s a “bleak picture of human nature at its vilest...