Stella and Beryl

Stella and Beryl

After the old Amherst movie house closed its doors 10 years ago, the civic group that revived it intended to create an arts center in which films would share the space with live performance. For various reasons, that didn't happen, but this week live theater comes...

Letters: What Do You Think?

Cooperation, Please!Eesha Williams' "Lessons in Cooperation" [April 9, 2009] gave a perspective on the Brattleboro Food Coop which rarely if ever gets discussed on the official BFC venues. The responses quoted in Williams' report to legitimate...

Labor Events Promote EFCA

Congress will vote soon on the Employee Free Choice Act, federal legislation designed to give workers a fair, direct path to forming unions.Studies show that unionized workers get better pay and benefits than their non-unionized counterparts. If you care about the gap...

Between the Lines: Overrun by Overrides

I don't know exactly what I think about the prospect of an override battle in Northampton, but this much is clear: whatever city officials have or have not done to contribute to Northampton's fiscal woes, the need for an override is first and foremost a...

The World This Week: American Terrorists

Terrorism begins at home. Long before 9/11 occurred, America was rocked by the occasional wave of domestic terrorist violence, from Columbine High School to the Oklahoma City bombing. Our history—like that of all countries—is littered with the bodies of...