Charlie King and Karen Brandow

It’s hard not to agree with the positions espoused in the lyrics of HIGHER ground by Charlie King and Karen Brandow with Tex LaMountain. This is a crew full of snarky commentary about the political and cultural morass of America under King George W. It’s...
Wellness: When Sleep  Plays Hard to Get

Wellness: When Sleep Plays Hard to Get

Browse amazon.com results for "insomnia" and amidst all the self-help books is a slim, seductively titled volume: Insomnia: A Cultural History by Eluned Summers-Bremner. Summers-Bremner, like any good cultural studies major, draws on the teachings of Freud...

Nothing Left to Prove

I think if you ask most professional athletes, they would tell you that they'd rather end their careers hoisting a championship trophy than they would on an operating room gurney. Oddly enough, Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling may do both.Schilling this week...
Ring In the Old

Ring In the Old

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute has expanded with the help of Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The Stone Hill Center sits on a wooded hillside on the Clark campus and houses intimate galleries, a classroom and the Williamstown Art Conservation Center. The...