Wellness: Fishing for the Truth

by | Jul 1, 2010 | Wellness

By now, almost everyone has heard about the omega-3 fatty acids in fish and how important they are for your health. But some people don’t care for fish, and even those who like fish often don’t eat it every day. That probably explains why fish oil is now...
StageStruck: Summer Britcom

StageStruck: Summer Britcom

by | Jul 1, 2010 | Stage

Two fall-out-of-your-seat-laughing British comedies kick off summer in the Valley. New Century Theatre opens its 20th anniversary season with a revival of one of its all-time hits, Noises Off. And the Royal National Theatre’s production of the 19th-century sex...
Beware the Bottle

Beware the Bottle

by | Jul 1, 2010 | News

If you happened to notice a 20-foot-tall baby bottle hanging around the streets of Northampton last week, don’t panic—the city has not been overtaken by a band of giant marauding infants. The oversized, inflatable bottle was brought to the city by...

Between the Lines: The Fall of Stanley McChrystal

by | Jul 1, 2010 | News

General Stanley McChrystal deserved to be fired as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan because he and his staff were openly contemptuous of their civilian superiors. It’s a popular attitude among the dimmer sort of military officers, but for a theater commander to...

Letters: What Do You Think?

by | Jul 1, 2010 | News

Dog’s Life—or Death In a town populated by people as supposedly progressive and well educated as Northampton’s, I’m daily shocked to see the treatment meted out to Northampton’s dogs! Tied to parking meters on Main Street, unattended, in...