by Andrea Assaf | Dec 15, 2009 | The Public Humanist
1. Festival OverviewUNESCO declared 2009 “The Year of Grotowski” in honor of the 10th anniversary of the death of Jerzy Grotowski, whom many consider to have been the most important theater director of the 20th century. The legacy of Grotowski´s work...
by James Heflin | Dec 15, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
We've had a Wicker Man before, but the comment section below clearly occasions a new award: BACK FROM BOSPORUSTurns out it was a wrong number from Istanbul–just some dude wondering if the special was still on with the two shirts for the price of one...
by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Dec 15, 2009 | Standing In The Shadows
A week after announcing that he’s committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, President Obama flew to Geneva to accept the Nobel Peace Prize where he had to acknowledge the irony up front. Then, he went on to defend his decision to have our country...
by Northampton Redoubt | Dec 15, 2009 | Northampton Redoubt
Riveting I tell you. At at the behest of State officials the Northampton City Council recently moved to expand the Tax Increment Financing program for Kollmorgen. This will cost local taxpayers a little more than $10.6 thousand a year over a thirteen year period or...
by Tom Vannah | Dec 15, 2009 | News
From the highway, Springfield looked OK. The highway construction that seems a permanent condition on this stretch of Interstate 91 notwithstanding, the city seemed to doing its best to put a good foot forward: the Basketball Hall of Fame gleamed bright against the...