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How free speech is won: Former NHS teacher, others turn book-banning case into documentary ‘Banned Together’ at Bombyx
11-01-2024 5:18 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

When director Kate Way, a current UMass Lowell assistant professor and former Northampton High School teacher, had just finished teaching a course on book banning in the fall of 2022, the very subject she was teaching became, to her surprise, the...

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Summit featuring former NFL star explores paths to healthy school cultures
10-30-2024 4:24 PM

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Educators from more than 24 schools and districts throughout the region gathered at Greenfield Community College Wednesday morning as keynote speaker Gaelin Elmore, a former NFL player, spoke of his tumultuous childhood and how community...


Highlands operetta: Valley Light Opera staging Gilbert and Sullivan classic ‘Mikado,’ Scottish-style
10-30-2024 2:12 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta “The Mikado” is coming to the Academy of Music — this time, with a Scottish twist.Amherst-based Valley Light Opera will present “The McAdo,” an adaptation of “The Mikado,” on the weekends of Nov. 1-3 and 8-10....


Drag, puppetry and politics meet in ‘Project 2069’
10-30-2024 2:09 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

What if Project 2025 were a puppet/drag show?Goldenrod Country Inn, a B&B and tavern in Worthington, will host its original production “Project 2069: A Dragged-Out Political Satire” on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m in its Cabaret Room...


Arts Briefs: Eastworks Open Studios, a celebration of Japanese culture, and more
10-30-2024 2:08 PM

Eastworks Open Studios More than 40 resident artists, businesses and nonprofits who use space at Eastworks will showcase their art and workspaces to the public during Eastworks Open Studios on Saturday, Nov. 2, and Sunday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to 5...


Healthy Incentives Program sees $10 million shortfall in state budget; benefits to be cut to $20 a month
10-27-2024 3:04 PM

By CHRIS LARABEE

A big change will be coming to families who take advantage of the Healthy Incentives Program (HIP).Beginning in December, all families using HIP benefits, regardless of their household size, will see their monthly incentives reduced to $20, which is,...


UMass basketball: Minutemen to get a taste of live action this weekend in exhibition game at Providence
10-25-2024 6:30 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Unlike a lot of Division 1 men’s basketball players in 2024, UMass senior guard Rahsool Diggins didn’t demand anything from his head coach when making his decision on whether or not he would stay put in Amherst or test the waters of the...


Scary and true: Half-hanged Mary and the real women behind the area’s most compelling ghost stories
10-25-2024 10:22 AM

By Melissa Karen Sances

“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich NietzscheI have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound. Not that long ago, and not that far from here, a...


Easthampton firefighters douse car fire
10-21-2024 10:35 AM

STAFF REPORT

EASTHAMPTON — Two cars collided near 77 Northampton St. on Sunday night with one of the vehicles catching fire. No injuries were reported.According to the Easthampton Fire Department, firefighters responded to the crash at about 7 p.m. and found that...


Unity Basketball League coming to Northampton
10-17-2024 8:34 PM

The Northampton Parks & Recreation Department (NPRD) is collaborating with the Northampton Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police to bring the Unity Basketball League to Northampton. The NPRD will host two Unity Basketball Community Days...


Step into a ‘Secret Garden’ full of monsters: Inside Monster Arts Project in Eastworks, ‘the fear factor is upstaged by fun’
10-16-2024 1:18 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

Imaginary creatures large and small lurk among the leaves as visitors wander through the secret garden that has sprouted in Eastworks. Standing within the Monster Arts Project, it’s easy to forget that the mystical paintings, sculptures, oddities and...


What can you expect from a Cuddle Party? Conversations about consent happen before anything else
10-11-2024 10:07 AM

By MELISSA KAREN SANCES

As the sun sets over the Hidden Temple in Florence, 14 adults in their comfiest pajamas sprawl on a generous bed of quilts. Outside on this crisp October Saturday, the foliage is just starting to turn, its pops of color complementing the painted...


Illustrating a classic: Smith professor’s artworks featured in an exhibition honoring the centennial of Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd’
10-09-2024 3:11 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Barry Moser, an illustrator and professor of art at Smith College, has works featured in a New York City exhibition honoring the centennial of Herman Melville’s novel “Billy Budd.” Moser’s work will be shown as part of the “Melville’s Billy Budd at...


Arts Briefs: Poetry reading, pickleball, Mount Holyoke’s first musical in five years, and more
10-09-2024 12:54 PM

Perugia Press Prize winnerPerugia Press, a Florence-based feminist poetry micro press, recently announced that the book “Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms” by Joan Kwon Glass is the winner of their Perugia Press Prize, which honors poetry books written...


Turning chaos into art: New documentary tracing life of acclaimed painter Gregory Gillespie previews at Academy of Music
10-04-2024 2:27 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

A New England filmmaker will make his directorial debut later this month with a film about a local painter known for his unique style.Evan Goodchild, a Connecticut-based director originally from Springfield, will hold a sneak preview of “The Painted...


Earth Matters: By any other name: Finding the fun in Latin taxonomy
10-04-2024 2:25 PM

By RACHEL QUIMBY

Shortly after we moved into our new (old) house in Holyoke, I noticed a shrub in our neighbor’s yard. It was covered in purpley-red fruits that looked like big blueberries, but attached by much longer stems. “Serviceberry,” said our neighbor, “because...


A cartoonist’s cartoonist: Florence’s Hilary Price won the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society
10-04-2024 2:05 PM

By CAROLYN BROWN

Cartoonist Hilary Price, who lives in Florence, won the 2023 Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year, the highest honor awarded by the National Cartoonists Society, in August of this year.Price draws the comic “Rhymes with Orange,” which is syndicated...


Arts Briefs: Arts fest, toy fest and classical music on the horizon
10-03-2024 4:15 PM

Live classical musicOn Sunday, Oct. 20, members of the Israeli Chamber Project (pianist Assaff Weisman, violinist Carmen Zori, and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan) will perform three works: “Duos for Violin and Cello” by Jörg Widdman, “Violin Sonata in D...


Around and About with Richard McCarthy: AI and I, part two: Can you guess which column was written by McCarthy and which was written by AI?
10-03-2024 4:04 PM

By RICHARD MCCARTHY

Last year I challenged Artificial Intelligence to produce a column in my style of writing, and the results were published in this newspaper. This year I repeated the experiment to see what advances AI had made.Working with Matthew Berube, head of...


Live music comes to Easthampton neighborhoods: Porchfest to return for second year on Saturday
10-02-2024 3:04 PM

By ALEXA LEWIS

EASTHAMPTON — Like many who move to Easthampton, Felicia Jadczak and Steve Collicelli were struck by the small city’s vibrant arts scene, and how the creativity and vibrancy it fostered brought community members together. It was reminiscent of one of...


The long march to minority rule: David Daley’s new book, ‘Antidemocratic,’ says the Republican Party has fundamentally undermined free elections in the US
09-27-2024 2:01 PM

By STEVE PFARRER

In 2016, David Daley published his first book, “Ratf**ked,” an eye-opening account of how numerous Republican-dominated states, beginning in 2010, had dramatically redrawn their voting districts to lock in control of state legislatures and U.S. House...

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