by From Our Readers | Jun 9, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
It’s time for baseball in Springfield I have been following the debate surrounding the Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA affiliate of Boston Red Sox) and the efforts to build a new $85 million dollar baseball stadium in Providence. Rhode Island House Speaker Nicolas Mattiello...
by James Heflin | Jun 2, 2015 | Arts
If you need a bestiary in order to catalogue your animals, who better to make one than a disparate group of artists? Curator Rob Kimmel gathered just such a group for the exhibition/bestiary called Horns to Tale. The artists include, among others, Sophie Argetsinger,...
by Kristin Palpini | Jun 2, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, Music
Like anyone who loves going to music festivals, I cannot tell you how many I’ve attended: 50, 75, 10 — After a while they all run together into a single hot, soggy time dancing under open skies marked by torrential downpours, mind-blowing sets, and epic antics. Make...
by Kristin Palpini | May 27, 2015 | Letters from our Readers, News
Four-year degree in Marxism When the college administration posts a notice on campus to “report hate crimes” the idea, it would seem, is to take the focus off the college administration as being the culprit in one of the slickest crimes that slowly progressed...
by Kristin Palpini | May 27, 2015 | Arts, Blogs, News, The Uncanny Valley
Behind the scenes at the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke in the 1990s, Stephen Petegorsky made a delightful discovery: “hundreds of taxidermed animal specimens — most of them really ratty — stuffed in a storage closet.” He borrowed some stuffed animals for photo...
