by Advocate staff | Jan 28, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured
Amherst Live is an every-so-often “live magazine show.” In it, host and executive director Oliver Broudy, an author and former Paris Review managing editor, presents a series of interviews, talks, and performances. The idea is to look more closely at the big ideas...
by Jack Brown | Jan 21, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
The people who run the show over at Amherst Cinema have never been content with the idea that their venue is a mere movie theater. From the start, the vision of the theater encompassed not just great film, but also community enrichment, education, and more. As the...
by Amanda Drane and Hunter Styles | Jan 7, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News
At the Amherst train station, one of the last waves of home-bound college students stood scattered across the small platform, many for the last time. Amtrak’s Vermonter line has pulled out of Amherst for good, rerouted now through Greenfield, Northampton, and Holyoke....
by Advocate Staff | Dec 18, 2014 | News
“Music,” Les Miserables author Victor Hugo once noted, “expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” The intersecting Venn diagram of music, visual art, and literature will be further explored this Thursday at Gallery A3 in Amherst...
by Advocate Staff | Dec 10, 2014 | Articles, Featured
Record labels’ raison d’etre used to be pretty clear: fund and promote records, and send bands on tour. In the MP3 era, the very concept of an album has gotten slippery, and some labels fill much different roles than the old model. Where many a newer effort has...