The Vegan-in-Chief

The Vegan-in-Chief

by | Dec 31, 2013 | Wellness

Food is a minefield. Socially, culturally, economically, we have made what we eat a lot more than just dinner. It is taste, status, power, profit, religion, ideology, politics. What we may have forgotten—and the evidence is all around us within our own bodies,...
It?s a Wonderful, Live

It?s a Wonderful, Live

by | Dec 31, 2013 | Stage

I t’s a Wonderful Life is as hardy a staple of Christmastime entertainment as A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. And recently the 1946 film has joined those two theatrical chestnuts on stage. Joe Landry’s adaptation of the Frank Capra classic is...
Splash Page

Splash Page

by | Dec 31, 2013 | News

Music in the ancient style: The Arcadia Players, the Valley’s own historic music ensemble, performed Handel’s Messiah on period instruments at Mount Holyoke College’s lofty Abbey Chapel Dec. 20. Started up here by nationally known harpsichord and...

From Our Readers

by | Dec 31, 2013 | News

For Shame And in this week’s “I can’t believe what I just read” is the piece by Maureen Turner (“Prison Politics,” December 17, 2013) in which she attempts to frame the argument against the prison-industrial complex by describing...

Between the Lines

by | Dec 31, 2013 | News

In the spring, members of Congress set off to fly home for a holiday—and ran into mammoth lines at the airports. Why were things so bad? Because of airport furloughs caused by the “sequester.” Critics warned that the sequester would cause hardship...