by Northampton Redoubt | Feb 20, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt
On behalf of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College, I write to share with you information on two upcoming public events featuring visionary activist and global educator Naomi Tutu. She will deliver the first spring lecture in...
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | Feb 20, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
This was passed on to my wife with the note: "reminds me of Dan." Not very flattering, but the video’s funny.p.s . the book cover in the upper left of the screen (the Sexy one) was designed by Jamie’s wifey Anja. Very cool, no? (Jamie, I...
by Sarah Feldberg | Feb 20, 2008 | Stage
Cultural nostalgia and myopia tend to make family psychodramas seem like a symptom of modern malaise as “discovered” by Mr. Freud and dramatized by Mr. Allen. Tony Kushner reminds us that intergenerational conflicts are timeless in his adaptation of Pierre...
by Kendra Thurlow | Feb 20, 2008 | Leisure
Hoppity the grasshopper returns from a sojourn in the big city only to find his neighborhood in peril in Hoppity Goes to Town (originally released as A Bug Goes to Town), a 1941 cartoon by brothers David and Max Fleischer. The humans who live nearby have trampled bug...
by Sarah Gibbons | Feb 20, 2008 | Arts
Almost seven years ago, Richard Jozan Treston (whose work is pictured), like many, was rattled by the events of September 11, 2001, and decided to respond—with art. He rallied many Amherst area artists in the hope of responding to the event with creativity, and...