by James Heflin | Jun 14, 2012 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Being a poet is basically absurd. (I first typed “absurb,” which is probably also true.) People are apparently reading the stuff, good, bad and middling. But trying to get your book published? A very good poet of my acquaintance shopped his manuscript for...
by Michael Cimaomo | Jun 14, 2012 | Northeast Underground
For those of us who couldn’t make the trip down to Manchester, Tenn. this past weekend for the 2012 edition of the Bonnaroo Music Festival, don’t worry, relief can still be found online. Video-sharing giant YouTube broadcast the entire festival live June...
by Free Sport | Jun 14, 2012 | Free Sport
As the dust settles on this past Celtics season, and likely on the era of the new-look Big 3, Bay State hoops fans seem likely to put their rooting muster behind the NBA’s newest franchise: the Oklahoma City Thunder. After all, OKC is centered by former Celtic...
by Chris Rohmann | Jun 14, 2012 | Stage
The summer theater season has just begun, and I’ve already seen what I hope will be the most exasperating play of the year. Lungs is the inaugural production in the newly renamed Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Art Center—Barrington Stage Company’s...
by Maureen Turner | Jun 14, 2012 | News
Six thousand police officers from around the Northeast and Canada joined hundreds of Springfield officers to pay their respects last Friday to Kevin Ambrose, the city police officer who was shot and killed responding to a domestic disturbance earlier in the week....