“War has a long reach”

I write this in the margin of my packet of readings for the Literature & Medicine session on the theme of memories. The packet includes poems by U.S. veterans and an Iraqi poet, a short story by a Vietnamese writer, and a piece from the Massachusetts Review...

Last Chances

The summer is barely half over, it seems, and already two Valley theaters are wrapping up their seasons. This weekend sees the year’s final performances at the Ko Festival of Performance in Amherst and New Century Theater in Northampton.NCT’s wide-ranging,...
Trans-scendent

Trans-scendent

Stranger-than-fiction category: Robert Eads was a self-described “hillbilly and proud of it,” living in “Bubba-land” among good ol’ boys who never guessed he was transgendered. Kate Davis’ 2001 film documented his life and the...
Splash Page

Splash Page

Frollywood: Cameras to Roll AgainFranklin County has been, as they used to say, discovered. The fourth film in three years to be partially shot there will find its setting in Charlemont in September, when veteran movie and TV actor Jordan Marder produces his first...
News Briefs

News Briefs

Valley Lawyer Speaks on Gitmo Hunger Strike By Maureen Turner Next week, Valley attorney Buz Eisenberg will speak in Northampton about the situation at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba—although what news he’ll have to report remains to be seen....