Rise of an animal planet: indie rockers Grass Widow play concert for apes at Boston zoo
Science-fiction fans rejoice! After 43 years and despite a critically-maligned 2001 Tim Burton remake starring Mark Wahlberg, the Planet of the Apes franchise gets a long-awaited reboot on Friday. In the new film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, starring James...
StageStruck: Masters and Enemies
“I think there’s something inside us, every one of us, that freezes up when we see anyone different. It’s like a gate that slams down so we can feel safe behind it.” Two world-premiere plays in the Berkshires this week grasp both sides of that...
Grand Old Picnic
The driveway leading from the main road out to the Elks Pavilion in West Springfield is long, patchy, and potholed, and as I motored over it on my way to the Western Mass Republican Picnic on July 15, my car bounced up and down like a moon buggy. I passed a row of...Why I Voted No on the Deficit Deal
A $2.5 trillion deficit-reduction deal brokered by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner, and President Barack Obama is grotesquely unfair. It also is bad economic policy. In the midst of a terrible recession, it will cost hundreds of...E-Edition
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