by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Jun 25, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
I just saw a flash–lightning bolt bright, it would seem–of sun. Put another way, we've had a lot of rain here in our Valley this month. Some of it has been really impressive rain, conjuring images of arks or words like monsoonish. Lots of days...
by Northampton Redoubt | Jun 25, 2009 | Northampton Redoubt
The following are excerpts from a June 9 budget briefing. It appears that Northampton mayor Mary Clare Higgins has no long range plan to fund her proposal to spin off from the Office of Planning and Development (OPD) a new department of Community and Economic...
by Cherchez La Femme | Jun 25, 2009 | Cherchez La Femme
In 2006, BBC reported that female students were overtaking men in the populations of Iranian universities. The country's relatively progressive attitude towards women is perhaps a remnant of a more "Western" Iran, the one written about at the beginning...
by Jennifer Burwell | Jun 25, 2009 | Stage
These girls just want to have fun, but they also cry and sing. Part chick flick and all girl-power, Girls' Night: The Musical is the story of five female 30-something friends on a girls' night out at a karaoke bar. First produced in 2000 at a community...
by Alan Bisbort | Jun 25, 2009 | News
On September 26, 1983, the world came close to nuclear annihilation. On that date, Col. Stanislav Petrov was the ranking officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, a facility housing the command center for the Soviet Early Warning System.Petrov's job was to...