by Chris Rohmann | May 6, 2015 | Stagestruck
They call it a play, but it’s hard work. While staging a theater production is by definition a cooperative enterprise in a shared space, the script that provides its foundation is most often a solo undertaking created in a private room. Playwrights are the loners in...
by Amanda Drane | May 12, 2015 | Articles, Blogs, Featured, News, The Uncanny Valley
On the evening of March 17, a driver in South Hadley reported seeing a strange triangular craft in the sky with lights on each of its three visible points. After following the craft for a couple of miles, the driver pulled into the Village Commons parking lot and...
by Amanda Drane | Apr 28, 2015 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Madame Barfly
After getting laid off, 32-year printing press veteran Scott Santaniello decided to move into an industry that always seems to stand the test of time: booze, baby. Two years ago, Santaniello, a 51-year-old life-long resident of Springfield, got a distiller’s license,...
by Gary Carra | Apr 28, 2015 | Columns, Music, Nightcrawler
Normally, when looking to tinker with the formula on a time-tested venture, feasibility studies are conducted. Will the target population support the change? Do current trends indicate the potential for growth? In the case of the 29th annual Green River Festival and...
by Hunter Styles | Apr 21, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, News
Kamil Peters steps away from his metal shop to lead me on a walk through 17,000 square feet of new working space. He saunters from room to room in a cavernous old industrial mill building along the canal in Holyoke, pointing out the work spaces for artists: an oil...
