by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2011 | Stage
“We should auction off backstage passes for this show so people can watch what’s going on behind the scenes,” Kara Midlam joked. She’s the costume designer for Shakespeare & Company’s current production, The Mystery of Irma Vep, a...
by Chris Rohmann | Feb 24, 2011 | Stage
Two crime stories take the stage next week at area colleges. Both are new works by student playwrights who are interested in the nature of guilt and the mechanisms of deceit. Neither play is a whodunit; one is not even a whydunit. One looks back to the early 1960s, a...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 24, 2011 | News
Who says the IRS is a bastion of heartless, out-of-touch bureaucrats? Not us. At least, not this week. Earlier this month, the IRS announced that it was reversing an earlier decision not to include breast milk pumps on the list of items eligible for reimbursement...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 24, 2011 | News
It’s about four months later than originally planned, but the long-awaited auction of pieces from Springfield’s “Art & Soles” public art project will finally take place, on Tuesday, March 1. On the block are 19 six-foot tall fiberglass...
by Maureen Turner | Feb 24, 2011 | News
Last week, parishioners at three closed Western Mass. Catholic churches got some limited good news: in a rather surprising development, the Vatican has overturned the decision by the Diocese of Springfield to close their churches, St. George and St. Patrick, both in...