Bt

by | Sep 10, 2014 | Talk Dirt to Me

The boss loves Brussels sprouts. Her father bakes them with olive oil and salt (he has a heavy hand with both) and she pops them like candy. So I always grow a few plants. I’ve never had overwhelming success. Sure we’ll eat Brussels sprouts a few times a...
Cultural Fusion

Cultural Fusion

by | Sep 10, 2014 | Stage

Sheng Dong is a Taiwan-based troupe whose name means “A Moving Sound”—a fitting moniker for a company that not only blends music and movement, but moves, so to speak, between the worlds of Chinese and other Asian traditions and modern Western forms....
Stagestruck: Bound for Glory

Stagestruck: Bound for Glory

by | Sep 10, 2014 | Stage

In another life, another world, I was a folkie—a singer/songwriter plying the folk clubs in the wake of the folk revival and protest-song movement, one of Woody Guthrie’s multitude of musical progeny. Woody’s work, his example and his...
UCash

UCash

by | Sep 10, 2014 | News

Robert MacWright brings an enthusiasm for the nexus between gee whiz technology, legal logic, and the history of American entrepreneurship to his job as director of commercial ventures and intellectual property at UMass-Amherst. Yes, his office works hard to make...
Between the Lines: The Birth of Ajax Montoya

Between the Lines: The Birth of Ajax Montoya

by | Sep 10, 2014 | News

If anyone has the stomach for covering a major news story in a place where not even journalists are safe, it’s Joe Gannon. Gannon worked as a freelance journalist in Nicaragua and El Salvador from 1984 until 1990. He wrote for the Christian Science Monitor and...