What's in a Photograph?

by | Oct 13, 2011 | The Public Humanist

I visited Mary Beth Meehan’s City of Champions, a display of large-scale images of Brockton residents on the walls of buildings in downtown Brockton. Meehan photographs people she gets to know and comes across in Brockton, a town that is struggling with economic...
StageStruck: Flirting With Temptation

StageStruck: Flirting With Temptation

by | Oct 13, 2011 | Stage

Matt, the title character in Birthday Boy, is turning 40, a milestone that, as far as I could tell, every member of last Friday’s audience had long since left behind. The discrepancy made me think, and not for the first time, about the generational divide that...

Imperium Watch: Koch, The Real Thing

by | Oct 13, 2011 | News

Koch Industries, the financial power behind the Tea Party, is a protean multinational that makes a lot of things you may be using, from Lycra to Brawny paper towels. It’s in forest products, fibers for fabrics, ranching, chemicals, petroleum refining,...
Looking for a Fair Fight

Looking for a Fair Fight

by | Oct 13, 2011 | News

A proposed $40 million redevelopment of the Three County Fairgrounds in Northampton is at the center of a battle brewing between abutters and state and city officials who have supported and promoted the project. That battle, in which some city residents claim to be...

A Hundred and Two and What Do You Do?

by | Oct 13, 2011 | News

More than a dozen years ago, the nonprofit MotherWoman got off to a deceptively modest start, with a drop-in support group for mothers in Amherst. Annette Cycon, who founded the organization with a friend, told the Advocate a couple of years ago that they started the...