by Connolly Ryan | Apr 12, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Featured
Some moss and meltwater flashing in the placid gulch. The delicate theatrics of any flower’s mouth. All the tranquil angles quilted into a female face. The hand that was made to touch the saddest parts of trees. Where does gentleness go when softness shuts...
by Will Meyer | Apr 12, 2019 | Articles, Basemental, Columns, Featured, Music
The Flywheel celebrates its 20th birthday this month. In 1999, the Flywheel launched in a former cabinet shop in Easthampton — hosting shows and rousing rabble. The thought that the all-volunteer collective show space would enter a second decade, let alone a third,...
by Dave Eisenstadter and Chris Goudreau | Apr 11, 2019 | Articles, Bizarro Briefs, Featured, News
Don’t rob cars in jail parking lots After spending time in jail on grand theft charges, a Florida man found himself again in lockup only 15 minutes after being released. The 37-year-old man was seen “acting suspicious and checking vehicle doors” in the parking lot of...
by From Our Readers | Apr 11, 2019 | Articles, Featured, Letters from our Readers, News
A message best received through music “The Okee Dokee Brothers” wrote and perform the song: Somos Amigos (we’re friends). The video accompanying the tune showcases the duo joined by four other Mexican musicians standing on a bridge in which one might assume that...
by Chris Rohmann | Apr 10, 2019 | Articles, Arts, Columns, Featured, Review, Stage, Stagestruck
Two plays coming to area campuses this week and next have starkly different, but equally pessimistic takes on life and death. Death of a Salesman, at Springfield College, finds tragedy in an ordinary life, while The Tattooed Man Tells All, at Smith College, draws...
