by Chuck Shepherd | Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, Featured, News, News of the Weird
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, declared an emergency on Oct. 30, when one of its soldiers had the bright idea to arrive for a Halloween party on base dressed as a suicide bomber, with realistic-looking canisters in a wired vest. Gates to the post, headquarters of Army...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, Arts
Hail to the Chief Jazz and hip-hop go together like the sun and moon; working together in their distinct methods to make something vast and great. Khalif “Big Chief” Neville and the DefrenAstrators work this musical relationship into a cohesive melody that blends an...
by Hunter Styles | Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, Featured, MGM Springfield Casino coverage, News
Here are our greatest hits on the casino playlist this week: Writing’s on the Wall: If you drive fast down I-91 and squint, you can see construction crews hard at work at the casino site. Take a second look, though, and you’ll notice that the giant workers, posed...
by Kristin Palpini | Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, Arts
Sarah Sousa The Diary of Esther Small (Small Batch Books) The poem “Independence Day, 1886” is about the life of a woman Sarah Sousa first met in a faded 1886 pocket diary in an antiques store. Sousa — an award-winning poet and writing teacher, who has received...
by Hunter Styles | Nov 16, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, News, The Beerhunter
As the Advocate’s resident Beerhunter, my reportage on the art of the local craft brew has taken me up and down the Pioneer Valley, with the occasional stop in Brattleboro, Boston, and beyond. But there’s one big region on the Western Mass beer map that I’d been...
