Secretive Bamboo

Secretive Bamboo

by | May 7, 2014 | Stage

For a lot of people, spring’s arrival calls for dancing. This week, the Lisa Leizman Dance Company, a resident company of the Northampton Center for the Arts, celebrates the long-awaited breakout of an apparently reluctant spring. What’s more, the company...
Laugh Lines

Laugh Lines

by | May 7, 2014 | Stage

Three comedy acts in a row are lining up for performances in Springfield this week and next. First up is Etta May, “the Queen of Southern Sass,” headliner of the Southern Fried Chicks comedy tour, appearing solo at CityStage on Friday, May 2. Her act, she...
Out-of-Pocket Pols

Out-of-Pocket Pols

by | May 7, 2014 | News

How badly do the candidates running to be Massachusetts’ next governor want the job? For some, badly enough to sink serious amounts of their own money into their campaigns—in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Massachusetts campaign finance law...

Between the Lines: Customarily Defiant

by | May 7, 2014 | News

Deval Patrick’s public statements about the troubled state Department of Children and Families on balance strike me as not only defensive, but defiant. When he said last week, for example, that the agency’s failures stem from a lack of computer...

From Our Readers

by | May 7, 2014 | News

Berwick’s Progressive, Not “Dangerous” I object to the headline of your recent profile of gubernatorial candidate Don Berwick (The “Dangerous” Democrat, April 24). What an irresponsible title for this article! Don Berwick is a progressive...