The Burden of Caring

The Burden of Caring

In her new book, The Caregivers: A Support Group’s Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love (Scribner), Northampton journalist Nell Lake chronicles the two years she spent observing the members of a caregivers’ support group at Cooley Dickinson Hospital....
Raunchy Radio and Geeky Burlesque

Raunchy Radio and Geeky Burlesque

Northampton’s Academy of Music is currently developing an original play set in the 1940s, based on a steamy episode in the city’s history. Anticipating its debut next fall, the theater is setting the stage with an evening of even steamier entertainment...
Morgan Unfiltered

Morgan Unfiltered

Tracy Morgan has been a fixture on television and in film since the mid-1990s, but is best known as a star of NBC’s 30 Rock, winner of 16 Emmy awards over its seven-season run, and for his time as a cast member on Saturday Night Live. Morgan comes to Chicopee...
Splash Page

Splash Page

Seen This Painting? Drop a Dime Agatha Christie could have written this one, except she didn’t. It’s a real-life mystery centering on the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College—a cold case file involving a stolen work of art, Interior With Figures...
Northampton vs Casino

Northampton vs Casino

The magnet of the Upper Valley is Northampton, home to Smith College, whose stately brick architecture, perched on a low rise, crowns the bend where Main Street turns to Elm Street. On Main Street, historic buildings with eye-catching architecture—the...