StageStruck: Shared Aesthetics

StageStruck: Shared Aesthetics

Jessica Litwak says she loves New York, but recently moved to the Valley because “I wanted more of a collaborative community feeling. I fell in love with this area and felt I could grow old in a cultural, intellectual, left-wing artistic community.” Litwak...

Big Brother Watches Your Twitter Feed

Spying on the citizenry used to be a lot harder. Sifting through the patriots to find the radicals required elbow grease and Senate subcommittee hearings. Sometimes you actually had to have personal contact with the suspect and do some legwork. Put a tail on the...
A New Neighborhood Farm

A New Neighborhood Farm

Sitting at a large table in the front hall of her well-preserved Victorian home in Northampton, Lilly Lombard faces a sea of pamphlets, maps and illustrations. They all depict an empty stretch of floodplain land across town that is fertile with possibility. Lombard is...

Between the Lines: Deval's Second Chance

For much of the year, Deval Patrick’s chances at re-election looked iffy at best. For one thing, Patrick had suffered a number of obvious political setbacks almost from the very instant he was sworn in as governor in 2007. For another, he was facing some tall,...