by Kristin Palpini | Jul 28, 2015 | Arts, News
Soon a flood of cash will be available to artists around Massachusetts in the form of grants from local cultural councils. This year, the Massachusetts Cultural Council has $8.8 million to dole out in the form of grants and subsidies. Last year, $2.7 million of the...
by Jack Brown | Jul 22, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
It’s long been a cliché that film buffs love foreign film. As a stereotype, it’s up there with the Frenchman’s baguette or a private detective’s desk-drawer bottle of scotch. (I defy anyone to show me a scene where a hard-boiled P.I. pulls anything else out of that...
by Amanda Drane | Jul 14, 2015 | Blogs, News, The Uncanny Valley
My curiosity is piqued by a recent Facebook post by fellow Advocate writer Yana Tallon-Hicks in which she documented a creepy, abandoned house complete with a puzzling sign that read, “This is my happy place.” So, I head past the rolling greens of the Amherst Golf...
by Chris Rohmann | Jul 8, 2015 | Stagestruck
There are people in other parts of the country, reports Sabrina Hamilton, who still think New England is an all-white enclave of Mayflower descendants. “Not my Valley!” she cries, and to prove it, she cites hearing nine languages spoken in a recent visit to Puffer’s...
by Jack Brown | Jun 16, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
If you go online to track down recordings of musician Arthur Russell, you’ll quickly realize that the late composer is a divisive figure. An avant-garde artist whose cello-and-voice works still seem like something from the near future (despite the fact that their...
