All in the Timing

All in the Timing

“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...
StageStruck: Crime on Campus

StageStruck: Crime on Campus

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...

IRS Cuts Babies a Break

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...

Sneakers for Sale, Size Extra Large

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...