Show Me the Money and Nobody Gets Hurt

by | Sep 3, 2008 | The Public Humanist

What do you think is the first thing aspiring filmmakers want to talk about when they take workshops on producing documentaries? The process of self-discovery? How the observer affects the subject matter? The influence of the internet on editing style? Of course not....

mushrooms can save the world

by | Sep 3, 2008 | Northampton Redoubt

Quite an amazing talk. "Why you should listen to him: Entrepreneurial mycologist Paul Stamets seeks to rescue the study of mushrooms from forest gourmets and psychedelic warlords. The focus of Stamets’ research is the Northwest’s native fungal genome,...
Cinema Dope: Teacher's Pet

Cinema Dope: Teacher's Pet

by | Sep 3, 2008 | Arts

ElegyDirected by Isabel Coixet. Written by Nicholas Meyer, based on the novel The Dying Animal by Philip Roth. With Ben Kingsley, Pen?lope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, and Peter Sarsgaard. (R) The novels of Philip Roth have long had a troubled history...
Fortunes

Fortunes

by | Sep 3, 2008 | Arts

Amherst’s Gallery A3 offers two shows this September. Gloria Kegeles’ Chrome Dreams looks dreamily into the distortions of the world as reflected in chrome and metal on vintage cars. Kegeles travels to vintage auto shows to find just the right reflections...