by Gina Beavers | Jul 3, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Film, Newsletter
Cool off with a little “Culture in the Cold War.” Amherst Cinema (yes, the movies are a great way to escape this hellish heat) is showing a FREE screening of The Naked Man on the Sports Field. It’s too hot to get bogged down in words, so I’ll...
by Gina Beavers | Jul 2, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter
Who doesn’t love Nick Offerman? The perennial curmudgeon, however, turns nice guy in the new film Hearts Beat Loud. Offerman plays Frank a single dad whose only child, a daughter named Sam (Kiersey Clemons), is going off to college. As if that wasn’t...
by Chris Goudreau | Jun 29, 2018 | Articles, Newsletter
Boston-based Klezperanto takes traditional klezmer music and adds its own twist, introducing a variety of genres to the mix such as Colombian big band music, funk, surf rock, and covers of TV theme songs from 1970s cop shows. I had the opportunity to speak with band...
by Gina Beavers | Jun 28, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Music, Newsletter
I saw Tuck and Patti at the Iron Horse in what seems like one hundred years ago. And one hundred years later, they’re in Northampton again. This dynamic duo is comprised of married couple guitarist William Charles “Tuck” Andress and singer Patricia...
by Gina Beavers | Jun 28, 2018 | Articles, Arts, Newsletter, Stage
Silverthorne Theater opens its production The Road to Mecca this evening. Helen is a South African widow and has been working on a sculpture garden, which is a dream trip to “Mecca.” Her pastor is urging her to move into a senior retirement home, but a...
