Summer Wish List

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Standing In The Shadows

Last summer, inspired by Damaris, I copied her. She’d written a summer wish list. I wrote a summer wish list. Given that it was pretty fun to dream about things I hoped to do and that are fun to do, I decided to do it again. One nice thing about this year is...

Protecting Springfield's History

by | Jun 30, 2011 | On Springfield

As City Hall moves forward with rebuilding efforts after the June tornado, a group of volunteers is focusing specifically on preserving significant parts of the city’s past. The non-profit Springfield Preservation Trust, working with Preservation Massachusetts,...
StageStruck: Song and Dance

StageStruck: Song and Dance

by | Jun 30, 2011 | Stage

Two landmarks of the golden age of Broadway musicals are currently on stage in the region. One is probably the most perfectly constructed and unerringly tuneful musical comedy ever. The other is a cheeky homage to probably the most beloved, heart-warming (insert your...

Waste not

by | Jun 30, 2011 | News

In 2002, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed an ambitious resolution to address the increasingly sticky problem of how to handle the city’s waste. The resolution called for the city to divert 75 percent of its solid waste from its landfill by 2010....

ImperiumWatch: Foreign Radwaste Coming

by | Jun 30, 2011 | News

The fear that poor towns, regions or countries could become dumping areas for toxic material, including nuclear waste, was what led to protests against so-called “environmental injustice”—practices that embody the worst effects of the intrusion of...