by Jack Cheng | May 8, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Whenever I teach an art history survey (as I have for a decade in at least five Boston area institutions), I begin by asking my students for definitions of art. Invariably, someone will note that art can be defined as anything found in a museum gallery. Fair...
by Northampton Redoubt | May 8, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt
A staff writer at one of the local papers of record, the Daily Hampshire Gazette, finally picked up the story of a former long-time Northampton cafeteria worker who was told by Northampton Mayor Higgins that she had lost her health insurance eligibility retroactively....
by Masculinity and Its Discontents | May 8, 2008 | Masculinity and Its Discontents
To follow up on Martha’s post, and revisit the who’s-got-it-tougher-Hil-or-Barack? issue that Gloria Steinem brought up in her “Women Are Never Front-Runners Times Op-ed back in January, I thought I’d give a brief update from the...
by Sarah Feldberg | May 8, 2008 | Stage
The myth of Medea has been a profound source of inspiration for 20th- and 21st-century artists with drastically different aesthetics: everyone from Leonard Baskin to Margaret Atwood has been inspired by the tale of the mother who murdered her children to avenge her...
by Stephanie Kraft | May 8, 2008 | News
A plan to build a Lowe's Home Improvement store in Hadley on a parcel adjoining Long Hollow Bison Farm has hit an obstacle. The developer, Paradigm Development of Colden, N.Y., has been informed by the state that it must start all over again proving that a stream...