by Jack Brown | Aug 24, 2018 | Cinemadope, Columns, Featured
When I opened Instagram over my morning coffee one recent morning, the first face staring back at me was that of a blue-haired Alice Bag, the fifty-nine year old punk icon and activist. Still a force after some four decades in the game, Bag and her band had played a...
by Gina Beavers and Chris Goudreau | Aug 21, 2018 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, News
A usually calm herd of cows became vigilantes when they began chasing a fleeing suspect in Sanford, Florida. The Sanford Police Department said officers attempted to make a traffic stop on a stolen vehicle. The driver took off and crashed into a ditch. The passenger...
by Chris Goudreau | Jul 26, 2018 | Columns, Featured, News, Newsletter, O Cannabis!
The Great New England Marijuana Accessories Swap Meet will be “like an Antique’s Roadshow for bongs.” According to Jeff Bianchine, director of the Holyoke Creative Arts Center, which will benefit from the fundraiser event, potentially hundreds of...
by Gina Beavers, Dave Eisenstadter, and Chris Goudreau | Jul 25, 2018 | Arts, Featured, Newsletter, Staff Picks
Greenfield Psych Fest at Hawks & Reed // SUNDAY, July 29 It’s going to be two floors of psychedelic rock music from noon until 9 p.m. at Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center in Greenfield on Sunday, July 29. On the lineup are surf meets Latin-influenced psych...
by Chris Goudreau | Jul 19, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Tonight at Eastworks in Easthampton is Gina Kaufmann’s intimate adaptation of a comedy from 1728. The production is a retelling of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, which satirizes operatic conventions, gender, and class with a three-woman cast. The...