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Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

Resist Like It’s 1786: Modern protest movements have echoes of Shays’ Rebellion

by Hunter Styles | Mar 6, 2019 | Articles, Featured, News

The Daily Hampshire Gazette, one of the oldest newspapers in America, printed its first pages in the summer of 1786. From the start, things were tense in the Western Mass communities it covered. The front page of the earliest surviving issue of the Gazette reports...
Cinemadope: CatVideoFest at Amherst Cinema

Cinemadope: CatVideoFest at Amherst Cinema

by Jack Brown | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film

If you’ve been around the interwebs for a bit, you’ve almost certainly run across Henri. Henri — or, to use his full title, Henri, le Chat Noir — is an ennui-soaked cat whose subtitled French musings call to mind old arthouse imports. “If my tail wags, it is a reflex...
Monte Belmonte Wines: Wine with The Brothers Narkewicz

Monte Belmonte Wines: Wine with The Brothers Narkewicz

by Monte Belmonte | Feb 28, 2019 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Food Booze and Beyond, Monte Belmonte Wines

MNARK: I’m so proud of him. I actually have his bumper sticker on my car in San Francisco, which was interesting because we just had an election for mayor. DNARK: Did I get any votes? Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz may have made headlines when he was the first...
Editorial: The ABCs of the #FakeNationalEmergency

Editorial: The ABCs of the #FakeNationalEmergency

by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles, Between the Lines, Featured, News

It was, to put it mildly, an act of moral turpitude and callous disregard for the suffering of separated families and victims of violence when President Donald Trump announced he would be circumventing Congress to declare a national emergency that, by his own...
Bizarro Briefs: No Bananas Stolen

Bizarro Briefs: No Bananas Stolen

by Chris Goudreau | Feb 26, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News

No bananas stolen Police in Sulphur, Louisiana, arrested a man wearing a gorilla suit, who allegedly broke into a home and hid underneath a mattress before his arrest. According to local news outlets in Louisiana, officers saw the costumed man walking through yards...
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