by Hunter Styles | Aug 25, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Food + Booze, Leisure, News
The saloon doors swing open, and Emily Pichette steps into the small kitchen of the Foundry in Northampton. A wave of sound follows her from the dining room: murmuring, laughter, and clinking glasses. “Are we ready for the first course?” she asks. The staff turns to...
by Hunter Styles | Aug 19, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, News
“N o matter what you might do,” Ben Folds once sang, “there’s always someone out there cooler than you.” How true. Every week I scrap together a sense of my own hipness, and every week the world lobs a curveball that busts right through my armor. It happened this past...
by James Heflin | Aug 19, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Featured, Leisure, News
A singular event in Bingen, Washington marked Chris Hubbard’s transformation from glassblowing hobbyist to professional: “On Aug. 3, 2005, a SWAT team kicked in my door. They thought the studio was a meth lab,” Hubbard says. He had his medical marijuana card, and was...
by Amanda Drane | Aug 19, 2015 | Articles, Featured, Leisure, News, Wellness
For cancer patient Valerie, marijuana makes the difference between walking and not walking. “I’ve totally outlived my expiration date,” she says, laughing. Valerie, 61 — a long time Western Mass resident who asked to be identified only by her first name — has fought...
by Amanda Drane | Aug 19, 2015 | Articles, Columns, Featured, Food + Booze, Madame Barfly
Jim Zaccara says his bar is an appletini-free zone. Zaccara, 45, grew up working in restaurants, and bartending was always his forte. When he began making his own style of cocktail at his first full-bar restaurant — Hope and Olive in Greenfield — eight years ago, he...
